What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers? Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand for temporary agency workers. The paper examines, first, whether the deregulation of temporary agency e...

Little is known about the effects of revealing information on relative performance during a dynamic tournament. We empirically study the impact of interim rank on risk taking and performance using data on professionals competing in tournaments for large rewards. As our data allows us to observe both the intended action and the performance of each participant, we can thus measure risk taking and...

In this work, single-stage and two-stage tubular solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)/gas turbine hybrid cycles are comparatively examined from the energy and exergy viewpoints. For this purpose, mass, energy and exergy balances are applied to all components of the cycles. The behavior of tubular solid oxide fuel cell modeled in this study is validated with the experimental test data of tubular SOFC de...

Discrete burnable poisons like the Wet Annular Burnable Absorber and Pyrex have been used in PWR core to improve power distribution provide more negative moderator temperature coefficient. The absorber poison rods burns fast is completely gone after one cycle exposure core. Traditionally, are designed be part of fuel assembly. They burned together with first loading discharged cycle. In recent ...

The Polish Growth Miracle: Outcome of Persistent Reform Efforts Since the beginning of transition in 1990 from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy, the performance of Poland’s economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this performance but the radical (“big bang”) reforms at the beginning of transition in conjuncti...

This report summarizes the CONALD meeting, which took place June 11-13, 1998, at Carnegie Mellon University. CONALD brought together an interdisciplinary group of scientists, concerned with decision making based on data. This report is organized in two parts. The first part (pages 1-6) summarizes the CONALD meeting and highlights its main outcomes, beyond the individual workshop level. The seco...

Westinghouse Electric Corporation Communication Division under NASA contract NAS3-25865 developed a proof-of-concept (POC) multichannel demultiplexer implemented as an acousto-optic radiofrequency (RF) spectrum analyzer. A detailed analysis of the experimental results indicate that the expected degradation caused by the acousto-optical channelizer is approximately 2.0-dB degradation at 10-5 bit...