A large ongoing debate centers on the costs and benefits of increasing the minimum wage in an economy. Supporters of minimum wage legislation highlight that it can shift the earnings distribution in favor of low-paid workers by shrinking the bottom tail of the distribution. Opponents highlight its disemployment effect and the fact that it might reduce the share of earnings going to low-paid wor...

Resulting in pervasive feelings of despair, the culture incarceration U.S. relies on punitive correctional strategies such as solitary confinement to control behavior incarcerated individuals. Inevitably, which focuses primarily punishment is dysfunctional, rife with gang violence, drug use, suicide, and violence perpetuated by against staff. Our dialogic essay voiced (a) a currently incarcerat...

Laser bending is an advanced process in sheet metal forming in which a laser heat source is used to shape the metal sheet. In this paper, temperature distribution in a mild steel sheet metal is investigated numerically and experimentally. Laser heat source is applied through curved paths in square sheet metal parts. Finite element (FE) simulation is performed with the ABAQUS/CAE standard softwa...

Background: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is high in non-obese adult individuals, but less research focusing on elderly group. We aimed to assess the prevalence rates of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its individual components in metabolic obese, non-obese elderly population in northern Taiwan (Body Mass Index [BMI] < 27 kg/m). Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among elderly...

ion: types and availability of abstraction mechanisms. Abstractions (redefinitions) change the underlying notation. Macros, data structures, global findand-replace commands, quick-dial telephone codes, and word-processor styles are all abstractions. Some are persistent, some are transient. Abstractions, if the user is allowed to modify them, always require an abstraction manager -a redefinition...

This article presents HopTeX, a new application for authoring HTML and LTEX documents. The content of the document is either be expressed in HTML or in a blending of HTML and a dedicated wiki syntax, for the sake of conciseness and readability. The rendering of the document is expressed by a set of CSS rules. The main originality of HOPTEX is to consider LTEX as a new media type for HTML and to...

When a girl is abused during childhood, she may not experience anger, only helplessness or numbness. Only later may the emotion of anger surface. Little is known about anger cognitions or behaviors as they occur across the years of the healing trajectory from childhood maltreatment. Data for the present secondary analysis were derived from a large narrative study of women thriving in adulthood ...

Excessive nutrient contents in water bodies renders eutrophication and causes undesired structural changes to the environment. One of the most straightforward strategies to address eutrophication issue is through the removal of nutrients such as phosphate ions from the water sources. A combination of membrane fltration and adsorption process is an attractive alternative...