We examine the effect of rainfall shocks on crimes against women using data from 583 Indian districts for 2002-2007. We find that a one standard deviation decline in annual rainfall from the local mean increases reported domestic violence by 4.4 percent and dowry deaths by 7.8 percent. Wet shocks have no apparent effect. These patterns are consistent with consumption smoothing by households rel...

This paper presents findings from 116 focus group discussions which took place in eleven districts in Bangladesh in mid-2006. It forms the first part of three phases of research in an integrated qualitative and quantitative study into poverty dynamics currently being undertaken by the author and partners from the CPRC, IFPRI and DATA Bangladesh. The central purpose of the focus group discussion...

In this paper, we evaluate Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models in English-Japanese translation task. Various network architectures with different recurrent units are tested. Additionally, we examine the effect of using pre-reordered data for the training. Our experiments show that even simple NMT models can produce better translations compared with all SMT baselines. For NMT models, recover...

We analyze the owner concept for PRAMs. In OROW-PRAMs each memory cell has one distinct processor that is the only one allowed to write into this memory cell and one distinct processor that is the only one allowed to read from it. By symmetric pointer doubling, a new proof technique for OROW-PRAMs, it is shown that list ranking can be done in O(log n) time by an OROWPRAM and that LOGSPACE OROW-...

The aim of this study was to investigate if an owner's adult attachment style (AAS) influences how their dog interacts and obtains support from them during challenging events. A person's AAS describes how they perceive their relationship to other people, but it may also reflect their caregiving behavior, and so their behavior toward the dog. We measured the AAS of 51 female Golden retriever own...

the paper attempts to study the efficiency of crop production and resource use effi-ciency on temple tenants and owner farms in tirunelveli district of tamil nadu. a sam-ple of 90 temple tenants and 50 owner farmers from two taluks of tirunelveli district, nawely, shencottah and tenkasi were selected for the study. the reference period of the study was 2002-2003. the efficiency analysis with th...

in this paper, installment options on the underlying assetwhich evolves according to black-scholes model and pays constant dividendto its owner will be considered. applying arbitrage pricing theory,the non-homogeneous parabolic partial differential equation governingthe value of installment option is derived. then, penalty method is usedto value the european continuous installment call option.