New algorithms, based on a very efficient method to compute the A-range, have been used to extend known tables of the extremal /¡-range, to complete the solution in the case k = 3, and to find a lower bound for the extremal 2-range.

CERTAIN BASIC COST FACTORS must be continuously recognized in analysis of the costs of the old-age and survivors insurance program. These factors include: (a) population; (b) mortality; (c) family composition; (d) number of years of credited employment prior to qualification for benefits; (e) remarriage of widowed beneficiaries; (f) employment of widowed beneficiaries, older children, and aged;...

We investigate the effect of food stamp cashout on undernutrition using household data from cashout experiments in Alabama and San Diego, California. We apply dominance methods to test for differences in nutrient distributions at or below the recommended dietary allowances.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

The significant distance between growth and backward-ness, developed and underdeveloped is an inch away from good Physics and functioning software package. Using VB.NET forty-one

This article provides an overview of current work on university-level computerassisted instruction at Stanford University. Brief descriptions are given of the main areas of current interest. The main emphasis is on the courses now being used: Introduction to Logic, Axiomatic Set Theory, Old Church Slavonic, History of the Russian Literary Language, Introduction t o Bulgarian, Intrqduction to BA...

I. INTRODUcrION.......................................... 909 II. JUDICIAL RELUcrANCE TO ApPLY BASIC LEGAL CONCEPTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910 III. THE OIL AND GAS LEASE AND THE LAW OF IMPLIED COVENANTS............................................. 911 A. Professor Merrill's "Oil and Gas Law" Analysis. . . . 911 1. Implying Ob...

A BASIC DESCRIPTION OF PATENT CITATION cycles is provided for 1,100 major companies and organizations covered by the TECH-LINEsM database. The average U.S. patent has five to six “references citedU.S. patent documents.” The properties of these patent citations are shown to vary widely from one technology to another. For example, patents in Office Computing and Accounting, a relatively hot area,...

This paper studies the impact of global factors on patterns of basic research across countries and time. We rely on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global economic and historical trends. Specifically, we investigate the degree to which scale or threshold effects account for countries share of major prizes [Nobel, Fields, Kyoto and Wolf]. We construct a stylized ...