Abstract Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the United States but also Finland, which displays low inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45 M Finnish individuals their parents, we find following: (i) positive association between off‐spring probability of inventing greatly reduced when controlling for education; (ii) instrumenting pare...

The goal of anesthesia for the expremature infant having hernia repair is to provide a safe anesthetic that will minimize intraand postoperative cardiorespiratory complications and have minimal long lasting effects on the developing infant. General (GA) and regional anesthesia, spinal anesthesia (SA) and caudal anesthesia (CA) are options well described in the anesthesia literature. The choice ...

My primary research interest revolves around developing better information retrieval systems. I address this goal from three broad perspectives. First, I study techniques for enhancing the effectiveness of Information Retrieval (IR) systems leveraging machine learning algorithms. Second, I investigate methods for improving the efficacy of IR evaluation using statistical methods. Third, I make u...

In the current efforts to account for the failings of American education, the searchlight of attention has been turned to the quality of teaching. The implication seems to be that teaching, among all the variables that affect colleges and schools, is most susceptible to management and repair. The themes recur in state after state: career ladders, merit pay, teacher testing, job analysis, effect...

Our practice of disseminating, accessing and using information, especially scholarly information, is still largely informed by the nature of pre-electronic media. For example, journals still exist in their traditional forms partly because of the value of the peer review process, which thus far has not yielded to decentralized, distributed and timely alternatives. Similarly, information access i...

A Software-Process-Off-The-Shelf (SPOTS) is a software process which can be bought and used in a software developing organization. Choosing the SPOTS that fulfills the needs of an organization is a difficult task and errors may have serious and expensive consequences. This paper introduces the concept of SPOTS, discusses the problem of their choice and provides the requirements and the general ...

Tissue culture techniques can be beneficial for quick clonal propagation and production of disease-free plants of purple passion fruit as one of the most important medicinal and ornamental plants. These techniques are essential tools for the production of transgenic plants and high-value phytochemicals. The present study was planned to introduce an efficient in vitro propagation for pu...