This study aims at exploring ink spreading, which causes significant colour deviations in ink-jet printing. We present a method for investigating this phenomenon by considering only a limited number of cases. Using a combinatorial approach based on Pólya’s counting theory, we determine a small set of ink drop configurations which allows to deduce the ink spreading in all other cases. This impro...

[Abstract] Is tax evasion beneficial or harmful to growth? We approach this question by extending Persson and Tabellini’s (1994) growth model to a plausible world where individuals differ not only in terms of their skill in earning income but also in terms of their skill in concealing income from the tax authority. The Persson-Tabellini model identifies a fundamental tradeoff for redistribution...

A new species of the genus Paravillersia Kuznetsov, 1978 (Acari: Stigmaeidae), P. jamaliensis Khaustov sp. nov. is described from mosses on fen in Western Siberia, Russia. The supplementary description of Paravillersia grata Kuznetsov, 1978 is provided based on the type material. 

We report the kinetic study of the substitution reaction of a cationic platinum(II) complex [Pt(dpma)Cl](+) (dpma identical with di(2-picolyl)amine) with thioacetate in room temperature ionic liquids {[C(4)C(1)im][NTf(2)], [C(4)C(1)py][NTf(2)], [C(4)C(1)py][OTf] and [(C(3)O)C(1)im][NTf(2)]} and molecular solvents (water, methanol and DMSO). The reaction was studied as a function of the nucleoph...

Hyungjun Im, M.D., Jeong Don Chae, M.D., Minseok Yoo, M.D., So-Young Lee, M.D., Eun Ju Song, M.D., Su-Ah Sung, M.D., Young Hwan Hwang, M.D., Jeong Hwan Shin, M.D., and Young-Uk Cho, M.D. Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, and Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Eulji General Hospital, College of Medicine, Eulji University, Seoul; Department of Laboratory Medicin...

We consider insurance markets with adverse selection and propose a mechanism under which a separating Nash equilibrium always exists (even when a Rothschild-Stiglizt equilibrium does not). This equilibrium is unique and always (interim) incentive efficient. In our setting, the Rothschild-Stiglizt equilibrium exists and coincides with ours only if the former is incentive efficient. Otherwise, ou...

single crystals Xiaohang Zhang, Shanta R. Saha, Nicholas P. Butch, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Johnpierre Paglione, Richard L. Greene, Yong Liu, Liqin Yan, Yoon Seok Oh, Kee Hoon Kim, and Ichiro Takeuchi Department of Physics and CNAM, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, CSCMR & FPRD, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Republic of Korea D...

Background:Femoral shaft fractures account for 1.6% of all pediatric bony injuries..Fixation of femur fractures in children by ender's nailing is becoming widely accepted because of the lower chance of iatrogenic infection and cost .The objective of the study was to study the functional outcome,duration of union and the complications following the use of ender's nail for femoral shaft fractures...

Matching of feature vectors extracted from speech sample of an unknown speaker, with models of registered speakers is the most time consuming component of real-time speaker identification systems. Time controlling parameters are size and count of extracted test feature vectors as well as size, complexity and count of models of registered speakers. We studied vector quantization (VQ) for acceler...