In this new economy talent, ideas, energy and decision making power to employees are key to ultimate success of business. Employee provides benefit to business in some manner as the other tangible and intangible resources. Every company extended handsome salary and different benefits to the employees to retain them in competitive world. Prosperous companies come out with innovative compensation...

Chewing gum producing companies have claimed publicly that their product helps fight oral diseases. But, these companies have not publicly shown what effect their product has on the oral flora. Specifically they do not mention the effect on Streptococcus mutans, bacteria known to cause some oral diseases. This study was an in vitro study on the effects of the chewing gums Trident® and Orbit® on...

In principle, a VAT should be neutral with regards to both the level and composition of exports. In practice, this may not be the case because exporters in many countries receive incomplete VAT refunds. When VAT refunds are incomplete, the exports of industries that rely heavily on intermediate goods are especially likely to be negatively a ected by a VAT. Motivated by these considerations, thi...

The annual U.S. News and World Report (USNWR) Guide to America’s Best Colleges is a much anticipated magazine among both high-ability prospective students and college and university administrators. In this paper we use a decade of Colgate University Admitted Student Questionnaire surveys to estimate the influence of changes in a school’s USNWR rank on the probability of matriculation of high-ab...

Commodity prices are important both as a source of shocks and for the propagation of shocks originating elsewhere in the economy. Many vector autoregression (VAR) studies estimate a gradual response of commodity prices to monetary policy shocks. Exploiting information in high-frequency financial market data, and using the methods of Rigobon and Sack (2004) I find that a 10 basis point surprise ...

If G is an embedded graph, a vertex-face r-coloring is a mapping that assigns a color from the set {1, . . . , r} to every vertex and every face of G such that different colors are assigned whenever two elements are either adjacent or incident. Let χvf (G) denote the minimum r such that G has a vertex-face r-coloring. Ringel conjectured that if G is planar, then χvf (G) ≤ 6. A graph G drawn on ...

To evaluate the stain removal efficacy of a novel dentifrice containing papain and bromelain extracts (Glodent) in comparison with a control dentifrice (Colgate regular). This was a randomized, positive-controlled, double-blinded, clinical study. Subjects were randomly divided into one of the two study groups. Pre-treatment and post treatment photographs of the 4 anterior teeth were recorded un...

In order to improve the performance of AUVs in terms of efficiency and maneuverability, researchers have proposed biomimetic propulsion systems that swim using flapping fins rather than rotary propellers. This calls for the exploration of unique locomotion characteristics found in a variety of fish for use in underwater robots. (Sfakiotakis et. al., 1999) present a good review of fish swimming ...

Background. To assess the clinical efficacy of a dentifrice containing fluoride and functionalised tricalcium phosphate (fTCP) in reducing dentine sensitivity. Methods. A 10-week parallel blind randomised control trial was conducted. Subjects were assigned to one of four groups and instructed to brush twice daily: A: Colgate Cavity Protection (1000 ppmF-MFP); B: Sensodyne Total Care (1000 ppmF-...

During 2001-2002 the optically violent variable (OVV) blazar 3C 279 underwent the most intense outburst seen during the entire fourteen year history that this quasar has been studied at Colgate University's Foggy Bottom Observatory (FBO). This study concentrates on ∼ 1600 R-filter images taken during this period of activity. This data set includes twenty-nine nights of microvari-ability coverag...