The e ect of the magnetic breakdown on the dHvA oscillation is studied by full-quantum numerical calculation for a two-dimensional model. We demonstrate that the interference di erence oscillation, usually designated as , exists even in the thermodynamic quantity; this result is contrary to the conventional semi-classical picture. In addition, the dependencies of various oscillations of the mag...

Instrumental variable (IV) estimates a causal e ect if the instrument satis es a monotonicity condition. When this condition is not satis ed, we only know that IV estimates the di erence between the e ect of the treatment in two groups. This di erence could be a very misleading measure of the treatment e ect: it could be negative, even when the e ect is positive in both groups. There are a larg...

Software testability is a misunderstood technology by most of the software test ing community Most testing experts believe that software testability is either a measure of complexity or a subjective assessment of how much it will cost to gen erate test cases perform coverage testing write drivers and or stubs etc This perspective is incomplete In the late s an alternative perspective on testa b...

To test a hypothesized faster-than-global sea-level acceleration along the mid-Atlantic United States, I construct a Gaussian process model that decomposes tide gauge data into short-term variability and longer-term trends, and into globally-coherent, regionally-coherent and local components. While tide gauge records indicate a faster-than-global increase in the rate of mid-Atlantic U.S. sea-le...

This paper evaluates the e¤ects of Seguro Popular on household and individual level health-related consumption, health spending, health outcomes, and labor supply. First introduced in 2002, Seguro Popular provides free health care to the …fty percent of Mexican families that lack the social security protections granted to all formal sector workers in that country. The Seguro Popular program was...

In this paper we present a nite di erence scheme for the discretization of the nonlinear PoissonBoltzmann(PB) equation over irregular domains that is second-order accurate. The interface is represented by a zero level set of a signed distance function using Octree data structure, allowing a natural and systematic approach to generate non-graded adaptive grids. Such a method guaranties computati...

ÐThe unsteady ̄ow of blood in a straight, long, rigid pipe, driven by an oscillatory pressure gradient is studied. Three di€erent non±newtonian models for blood are considered and compared. One of them turns out to o€er the best ®t of experimental data, when the rheological parameters are suitably ®xed. Numerical results are obtained by a spectral collocation method in space and the implicit tr...

Shy and non!shy individuals| attributions of shyness!resembling behaviors in scenarios involving either themselves or other\ hypothetical\ people were studied through the use of a questionnaire[ The participants were Swedish high!school students who rated the extent to which a number of such behaviors could be explained by four di}erent causes\ two internal "shyness and lack of interest# and tw...

In these supplementary materials we provide some details on the implementation of the methods developed in the paper. In addition we apply the di¤erent DID approaches using the data analyzed by Meyer, Viscusi, and Durbin (1995). These authors used DID methods to analyze the e¤ects of an increase in disability bene…ts in the state of Kentucky, where the increase applied to high-earning but not l...

In order to compare results published in [2] to those obtained in our experiments, we then selected ↵ so as to approximate as well as possible. The approximation is denoted ̂ in the following. If no reasonable approximation was found (that is the di↵erence between and ̂ was greater than 20% of ), no comparison was made since the objectives were considered to di↵er too much from each other.1 The...