Sexist attitudes do not exist in a limbo; they are embedded in larger belief systems associated with specific hierarchies of values. In particular, manifestations of benevolent sexism (Glick and Fiske 1996, 1997, 2001) can be perceived as a social boon, not a social ill, both because they are experienced as positive, and because they reward behaviors that maintain social stability. One of the s...

We provide a fully articulated theoretical foundation for the view that a central bank’s (CB) balance sheet concerns may hinder monetary policy “activism” needed to achieve macroeconomic stability. When the Taylor rule is constrained by the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate, there emerges a second steady state equilibrium which has the properties of a liquidity trap. CB’s balance sh...

In this paper we present a robust real-time optimization method for the online linear oil blending process. The blending process consists in determining the optimal mix of components so that the final product satisfies a set of specifications. We examine different sources of uncertainty inherent to the blending process and show how to address this uncertainty applying the Robust Optimization te...

Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psycho...

The quality of financial statements can be seen through the characteristics adopted, one which is conservatism. In addition to conservatism, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) also a form company's commitment all stakeholders. This study aims examine relationship between conservatism and CSR performance, moderated by concentration ownership macroeconomic conditions. research population busin...

With audiovisual and other sensory information in distributed multimedia applications, end-to-end quality of service guarantees are a major acceptance factor for these applications. We designed and implemented an end-point architecture, called OMEGA, for provision of end-to-end QoS guarantees. This architecture relies on a distributed QoS management entity, called the QoS Broker, to translate, ...