R ecent surveys in the U.S., Britain, Australia, and other OECD nations continue to report unacceptably high ,levels of adult illiteracy (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1997a, 1997b). In the present context of unprecedented growth in symbolic sophistication associated with the current technological revolution (Castells 1996, 1997), claims of widespread adult illiteracy in "advanced" societies...

With the exception of the mirrorlike surface of an absolutely calm body of water, all natural terrestrial surfaces and media reflect light diffusely. Clouds, aerosol layers, vegetation canopies, soils, snow fields—all scatter shortwave radiation into an angular reflectance pattern or Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) (Nicodemus et al. 1977) whose magnitude and angular shape...

During the last decade, supply chain management, collaboration, coordination, and integration have been a concern of the world of business as well as the academic community. Early efforts concentrated on improving the internal efficiency of an individual firm or a single entity in the supply network. Nowadays, managers seek ways to change, redesign, and re-engineer the entire supply chain netwo...

Sari & Piran 1997a have demonstrated that the time structure of gamma-ray bursts must reflect the time structure of their energy release. A model which satisfies this condition uses the electrodynamic emission of energy by the magnetized rotating ring of dense matter left by neutron star coalescence; GRB are essentially fast, high field, differentially rotating pulsars. The energy densities are...

The work of Levine and Renelt (1992) and Sala-i-Martin (1997a, b) which attempted to test the robustness of various determinants of growth rates of per capita GDP among countries using two variants of Edward Leamer’s extreme-bounds analysis is reexamined. In a realistic Monte Carlo experiment in which the universe of potential determinants is drawn from those in Levine and Renelt’s study, both ...

In this paper we describe a method for testing the null of no cointegration in dynamic panels with multiple regressors and compute approximate critical values for these tests. Methods for non-stationary panels, including panel unit root and panel cointegration tests, have been gaining increased acceptance in recent empirical research. To date, however, tests for the null of no cointegration in ...

Santiago, MacKay, Palma, and Rho (2000) report two picture naming experiments examining the role of syllable onset complexity and number of syllables in spoken word production. Experiment 1 showed that naming latencies are longer for words with two syllables (e.g., demon) than one syllable (e.g., duck), and longer for words beginning with a consonant cluster (e.g., drill) than a single consonan...

The radial array of cytoplasmic microtubules (MTs) provides routes for intracellular transport and defines spatial organization of cytoplasm through interaction with molecular motors bound to membrane organelles (Kellogg et al., 1994; Hirokawa, 1998). The array is believed to be organized by the centrosome, which is capable of nucleating MTs. Our recent studies of pigment transport (Rodionov an...

Among the distortions generated by inflation, those caused by its interaction with taxation are particularly important. Due to the non-indexation of the tax system, inflation exacerbates the inefficiencies generated by taxation. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the welfare effects of these distortions in New Zealand. By using a stylised model of the New Zealand tax system, the tax burden on...

The cactophilic Drosophila buzzatii (buzzatii complex ± repleta group, Ruiz & Wasserman, 1993) is native to South America and has attained a subcosmopolitan distribution by following passively its native host plants of the genus Opuntia. Studies in natural populations have shown that second chromosome polymorphic arrangements affect life history traits and morphometric traits associated with ®t...