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Social insurance programs represent a large proportion of government expenditure in many countries, including the United States and members of the European Union. Two programs that represent the bulk of these expenditures are unemployment insurance (UI) and social security (SS). (Throughout this paper SS will refer to disability and retirement bene...ts paid as annuities.) The main purpose of U...

The generation effect is moderated by experimental design, affecting recall in within-subjects designs but typically not in between-subjects designs. However, N. W. Mulligan (2001) found that the generation effect emerged over repeated recall tests in a between-subjects design, calling into question the generality of this limiting condition. In addition, the generate condition but not the read ...

objects are objects which do not have a spatial nor a temporal location. They are included here just for completeness, but are in fact kept outside the current analysis. Notice however that I refer here to abstract particulars, such as Pitagora’s theorem or (maybe?) the empty set. Most entities usually called abstract objects are however universals (see section 5). Qualities are included here a...

We have constructed a perceptron type neural network for E. coli promoter prediction and improved its ability to generalize with a new technique for selecting the sequence features shown during training. We have also reconstructed five previous prediction methods and compared the effectiveness of those methods and our neural network. Surprisingly, the simple statistical method of Mulligan et al...

In the past 15 years there has been a substantial increase in the taxation of cigarettes in the United States. The federal government and most state governments have increased taxes on cigarettes in an effort to reduce smoking. In the period 1990-2003, the national average price of cigarettes increased by 85%. This paper will use data from 1990-2003 to examine the effect that these large price ...