This paper tests various political business cycle theories in a New Keynesian model with a monetary and fiscal policy mix. All the policy coefficients, the target levels of inflation and the budget deficit, the firms’ frequency of price setting, and the standard deviations of the structural shocks are allowed to depend on ‘‘political’’ regimes: a preelection versus postelection regime, a regime...

Authors of scholarly publications state their affiliation in various forms. This kind of heterogeneity makes bibliographic analysis tasks on institutions impossible unless a comprehensive cleaning and consolidation of affiliation data is performed. We investigate automatic approaches to consolidate affiliation data to reduce manual work and support scalability of affiliation analysis. In partic...

There is a long-standing difference of approach between those who see ethnic groups as firmly bounded, durable communities inclined toward ethnocentrism, hostility to outsiders, and passionate conflict, and those who see them as social constructs, with a solidarity based on material rewards and conflict behavior based on calculation. This difference of approach ought to yield to a new synthesis...

the article entitled “accuracy of digital subtraction radiography in combination with a contrast media in assessment of proximal caries depth” which appeared in j dent res dent clin dent prospect 2008; 2(3):77-81 incorrectly listed the second author’s affiliation as department of oral and maxillofacial radiology, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences. the correct affiliation of sara eh...

The Medical Article Records System (MARS) developed by the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications uses scanning, OCR and automated recognition and reformatting algorithms to generate electronic bibliographic citation data from paper biomedical journal articles. The multi-engine OCR server incorporated in MARS performs well in general, but fares less well with text printed in ...

Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...

OBJECTIVE To assess the adequacy of the Primary Care Assessment Tool-Child Edition (PCAT-CE) for evaluating the attainment of the key characteristics of primary care services for children and youth. DESIGN Community-based telephone survey. SETTING Specific political subdivision in Washington, DC. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred fifty parents/guardians of offspring 18 years of age or less. MEA...