Abel and Eberly (1994, 1999) suggest that the relationship between uncertainty and investment is non-linear and can be represented by an inverted Ucurve: at low levels of uncertainty, investment and uncertainty show a positive relationship whereas at high levels of uncertainty the relationship is a negative one. We empirically test this hypothesis using panel data on 459 US manufacturing indust...

Few studies have been undertaken to develop cognitive functional improvement-focused exercise programs and determine their effect. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of a cognitive enhancement fitness program (CEFP) on short-term memory and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels according to the cognitive state in middle-aged women. A total of 30 healthy vo...

In a cross-sectional study of women in nursing team at university hospital southern Brazil, we studied DNA damage, salivary cortisol levels, and cognition. damage was measured blood leukocytes with the comet assay micronucleus test. Salivary levels were determined upon waking, 30 min later, bedtime. Cognition evaluated according to Stroop, Digit span Word tests. Cortisol on waking up associated...

This paper gives the digit-serial DSP libraries used to implement the digit-serial DSP architecture for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and compares schematic-based FPGA design with design based on logic synthesis for digit-serial DSP libraries. It describes the design of digit-serial addition/subtraction, multiplication and delay elements and indicates also how digit-serial FIR filter c...

Benford’s law predicts the frequency of the first digit of numbers met in a wide range of naturally occurring phenomena. In data sets, following Benford’s law, numbers are started with a small leading digit more often than those with a large leading digit. This law can be used as a tool for detecting fraud and abnormally in the number sets and any fabricated number sets. This can be used as an ...

Table 1 reports coe¢ cient estimates from systems of seemingly unrelated regressions, where each dependent variable is a dummy for working at baseline in a one-digit industry and the right hand side is a dummy for the father or mother being in that industry and a dummy for the parent working, in addition to race, age, and education …xed e¤ects1. So as to not multiple count individuals, I use th...

In this paper, we present one of the first direct microeconometric studies of the impact of trade protection on household income in Ghana. Tariff measures at the two-digit ISIC level are matched to Ghanaian household survey data for 1991/92 and 1998/99 to represent the tariff for the industry in which the household head is employed. We examine the possibility that the effect of protection on in...