Our survey of private manufacturing firms finds the size of hidden ‘unofficial’ activity to be much larger in Russia and Ukraine than in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. A comparison of cross-country averages shows that managers in Russia and Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less faith in the court system. Our f...

We show that the addition of name induction to the theory EETJ + (LEM-IN) of explicit elementary types with join yields a theory proof-theoretically equivalent to ID1.

The increasing availability of enormous data about users online, along with availability of sophisticated tools and technology to store, aggregate, and analyze data for secondary use has raised concerns about how to balance the opportunity for secondary use of data with the need to protect the user privacy that may result from harmful use. To develop a privacy protection mechanism that is usefu...

Sequential Pattern Mining is a widely addressed problem in data mining, with applications such as analyzing Web usage, examining purchase behavior, and text mining, among others. Nevertheless, with the dramatic increase in data volume, the current approaches prove inefficient when dealing with large input datasets, a large number of different symbols and low minimum supports. In this paper, we ...

To Ed EEros, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. We prove a local nite dimensional approximation result for unital C*-algebras that are simple, have a trace, contain suuciently many projections and are quasidiagonal.

In this study, we analyzed whether parents' receipt of welfare affects children's educational attainment in early adulthood, independent of its effect through changing family income. We used data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with information on parents' welfare receipt over the first 15 years of childhood. Cross-sectional results show that greater exposure to welfare is significantly...

This study was partly presented as refresher course to the Congress of Euroanaesthesia 2012, 9-12 June 2012, Paris, France. Bu çalışma kısmen, Euroanaesthesia 2012 Paris Kongresinde tazeleme kursu olarak sunulmuştur, 9-12 Haziran 2012. Address for Correspondence/Yazışma Adresi: Dr. Zeynep Kayhan, Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 3...

Viewing vector/matrix multiplications as " projections onto linear subspaces " is one of the most useful ways to think about these operations. In this note, I'll put together necessary pieces to achieve this understanding.

We examine the relation between firms’ financial structures and their risky investment strategies in Taiwan’s banking industry. Regressions cover two subperiods: before the first financial reform (1996– 2000) and after the first financial reform (2001–2006), to address the impacts of the first financial reform on banking firms’ financial structures. Our first result demonstrates that the restri...

Let ϕ be a real-valued plurisubharmonic function on [Formula: see text] whose complex Hessian has uniformly comparable eigenvalues, and let [Formula: see text] be the Fock space induced by ϕ. In this paper, we conclude that the Bergman projection is bounded from the pth Lebesgue space [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text]. As a remark, we claim that Bergman projecti...