I replicate Donohue and Levitt’s results for violent and property crime arrest rates and then apply their data and specification to an analysis of age-specific homicide rates and murder arrest rates. The coefficients on the abortion rate have the wrong sign for two of the four measures of crime and none is statistically significant at conventional levels. In the second half of the paper, I pres...

A two-person infinite-horizon bargaining model where one of the players may have either of two discount factors, has a multiplicity of perfect Bayesian equilibria. Introducing the slightest possibility that either player may be one of a rich variety of stationary behavioral types singles out a particular solution and appears to support some axiomatic treatments in the early literature in their ...

v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to express my deep sense of respect and gratitude towards my advisor Dr. Philip Loizou, who has been the guiding force behind this work. I want to thank him for introducing me to the field of Signal Processing and giving me the opportunity to work on this research projects. I am greatly indebted to him for his constant encouragement and invaluable a...

Philip WJ Harvey and Omar Dary Public Health Nutrition / Volume 15 / Issue 10 / October 2012, pp 1791 ­ 1795 DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012003096, Published online: 27 June 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1368980012003096 How to cite this article: Philip WJ Harvey and Omar Dary (2012). Governments and academic institutions play vital roles in food fortification: iro...

1The particle ina follows gradable expressions and adds meanings such as ‘high in quantity/quality’ or ‘high in degree’ to the expression. Also, these meanings entail a degree of surprise, that is, quantity/quality/degree/extent is above expectation of the speaker. measure phrase such that the speaker entails that the height of Philip is way above the standard of comparison, i.e., Philip is ver...

Pedram Hassanzadeh, Philip S. Marcus and Patrice Le Gal Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 706 / September 2012, pp 46 ­ 57 DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.180, Published online: 24 May 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022112012001802 How to cite this article: Pedram Hassanzadeh, Philip S. Marcus and Patrice Le Gal (2012). The universal aspect ratio of vortices in rota...

Philip J. Bergman*, Jedd D. Wolchok 1 Bright Heart Veterinary Centers Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center __________________________________________________________________________________ *Correspondence: Philip J. Bergman DVM, MS, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM-Oncology, Chief Medical Officer, Bright Heart Veterinary Centers, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110,...

Almost ten years after the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade [5] (1973) the battle over abortion [6] was still being waged. The reproductive rights [7] of women in the United States were being challenged by the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 [8]. The act was comprised of four provisions that restricted the fundamental right a woman had to obtaining an abortion [6], as established in R...