Profit Sharing and Training We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firmspecific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the returns to training, 3) a common payment for the whole workforce leads to p...

We formulate a Serre-type conjecture for n-dimensional Galois representations that are tamely ramified at p. The weights are predicted using a representation-theoretic recipe. For n = 3 some of these weights were not predicted by the previous conjecture of Ash, Doud, Pollack, and Sinnott. Computational evidence for these extra weights is provided by calculations of Doud and Pollack. We obtain t...

in models of data envelopment analysis (dea), an optimal set of input and output weights is generally as-sumed to represent the assessed decision making unit (dmu) in the best light in comparison to all the other dmus. these sets of weights are, typically, different for each of the participating dmus. thus, it is important to find a common set of weights (csw) across the set of dmus. in this pa...

Language models (LMs) are often constructed by building multiple component LMs that are combined using interpolation weights. By tuning these interpolation weights, using either perplexity or discriminative approaches, it is possible to adapt LMs to a particular task. In this work, improved LM adaptation is achieved by introducing context dependent interpolation weights. An important part of th...

Neuro-fuzzy systems have recently gained a lot of interest in research and application. These are approaches that learn fuzzy systems from data. Many of them use rule weights for this task. In this paper we discuss the innuence of rule weights on the interpretability of fuzzy systems. We show how rule weights can be equivalently replaced by modiications in the membership functions of a fuzzy sy...

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In the treatment of superficial lesions with 8-13 MeV electrons, lead shields are often used to protect the underlying tissue. Measurements were made with film and ion chamber to analyse various aspects of external and internal shielding in electron beam therapy. Data were obtained on the thickness of lead required for shielding, the effect of blocking on dose-rate, electron-backscattering from...