Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring’s economic status in post reform rural China by concentrating on the father-son relationship. We focus on two indicators of family background: family class origin (jiating chengfen) and occupational experience. The results of a fami...

Using data on cohabitation from the 1995-1997 March Current Population Survey, the first three years in which the survey included "unmarried partner" as a relationship category, I measure the relationship between earnings and cohabitation as well as other marital statuses across racial-ethnic groups for men and women. Results show that among 25-54 year-old workers, black women have the largest ...

We analyse an empirical case study of an inter-organizational information system (IOIS) in the Australian pharmaceutical distribution industry, using a theoretical data coding approach, to provide a concise grounded account of changes in the material, normative and ideational structures within the participating practices over a 25 year period as the IOIS evolved from a proprietary closed system...

Following the results of cite{Med}, regarding the Aluthge transform of polynomial matrices, the symbolic computation of the Duggal transform of a polynomial matrix $A$ is developed in this paper, using the polar decomposition and the singular value decomposition of $A$. Thereat, the polynomial singular value decomposition method is utilized, which is an iterative algorithm with numerical charac...

The general trend in the development of many video surveillance systems, traffic counting machines, security systems is the development of algorithms for tracking, which are very important in places with large numbers of people and vehicles, such as airports, city streets. In this paper we present an algorithm for multi-target tracking. Problem tracking is to build a trajectory of motion of tar...

All adults need to have a good level of basic skills. This is essential for people to be able to progress in their education, to participate in society and to gain employment. Actions to support the up-skilling of adults should be channeled through the European semester process, rather than in the form of a skills guarantee. The concept of a “guarantee” goes in the wrong direction. There is a h...

The ingredients to a Bayesian analysis comprise the sampling model {Pθ : θ ∈ Ω} for the response X, the prior Π for the parameter θ, and the observed value X = x. This is equivalent to specifying the joint model Pθ ×Π for (X, θ) and the observed value X = x. In many situations we may also have a loss function but we ignore this here as it is not material to our discussion. We refer to Pθ ×Π as ...

There is widespread agreement of the importance of information and communication technologies (ICT) in building equitable prosperity and globally competitive economies. Effective use of these technologies, however, requires building new capacities and skills, here referred to as eskills, not only in the working force but the entire population. These skills are in very short supply all over the ...

In this paper the heat transfer characteristics of a two-phase closed thermosyphon over a wide range of heat transfer rates, system pressure, aspect ratios and filling ratios were studied. The experiments focused on the boiling and condensation heat transfer characteristics of the thermosyphon. The experimental boiling and condensation heat transfer coefficients inside the thermosyphon were com...