P ersonal consumption expenditures grew by almost 2 percent during 1993 in real, per-capita terms. Real disposable income per capita, meanwhile, actually fell slightly. By definition, households draw down their savings when consumption grows faster than income. In fact, the figures for consumption and income just mentioned underlie a decline in the personal savings rate from over 6 percent in t...

Pakistan’s development predicament is emblematic of many countries that are undergoing rapid growth in energy demand from demographic pressures as well as more intense industrialization. While such growth can certainly be a sign of progress and potentially a means of poverty alleviation, it can also lead to errant euphoria and rash decision-making by policy-makers. At such times of ambition and...

Agricultural decision support systems (DSS) may be argued to have passed sequentially through phases of unbelief, euphoria and disappointment and to be passing into either a phase of maturity with realistic expectations of the technology or to abandonment. This paper proposes that agricultural DSS in their widest sense still have a significant role to play in shaping land use and management to ...

Methamphetamine is a stimulant drug that goes by many names, such as meth, crystal, chalk, ice, shabu, tik, yaba, pure, base, crank, tweak, and go-fast. It?s not a new one either. Japanese chemist Nagai Nagayoshi first isolated methamphetamine from ephedrine in 1893. It has been used in wartime to amp up soldiers, and made a brief foray as a diet pill in the 1950s. Eventually, it was taken off ...

SOCIAL CHANGE AND CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT IN MODEL CITIES Margie Kaminsky Submitted to the Department of City and Regional Planning on May 17, 1968 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of City Planning. The thesis examines citizen involvement and some of the possibilities for its operation within the framework of the national Model Cities program. "Social change" is u...

“When you are high, it is tremendous. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to seduce and captivate others a felt certainty. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence and euphoria now pervade one’s marrow. But somehow, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast and there are far too many, overwhelming confusion replaced by fear a...

We construct a two-tailed peak-over-threshold Hawkes model that captures asymmetric self- and cross-excitation in between left- right-tail extreme values within time series. demonstrate its applicability by investigating gains losses the daily log-returns of S&P 500 equity index. find arrivals are described common conditional intensity to which contribute twice as much gains. However, contribut...

Loperamide (Imodium) is a non-prescription opioid receptor agonist available over-the-counter for the treatment of diarrhea. When ingested in excessive doses, loperamide can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and is reported to produce euphoria, central nervous system and respiratory depression, and cardiotoxicity. There is an emerging trend in its use among drug abusers for its euphoric effects...

Cocaine leads to a strong euphoria, which is at the origin of its recreational use. Past the acute effects, the drug leaves traces in the brain that persist long after it has been cleared from the body. These traces eventually shape behavior such that drug use may become compulsive and addiction develops. Here we discuss cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity of glutamatergic transmission onto dopa...