This paper characterizes the social-welfare maximizing equilibrium of a “stochastic partnership matching market”, in which players paired to play a stochastic game may quit to be costlessly and anonymously re-matched. Patterns of performance and turnover in this equilibrium are consistent with the well-known “survivorship bias” and, if partners form “meaningful first impressions”, with the “hon...

nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. the nigerian government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

ontology is the main infrastructure of the semantic web which provides facilities for integration, searching and sharing of information on the web. development of ontologies as the basis of semantic web and their heterogeneities have led to the existence of ontology matching. by emerging large-scale ontologies in real domain, the ontology matching systems faced with some problem like memory con...

Improving our understanding of the key drivers and implications of population change Re-evaluating the link between marriage and mental well-being: How do early life conditions attenuate differences between cohabitation and marriage? i ABSTRACT The decline in marriage and increase in cohabitation raises questions about whether marriage still provides benefits to well-being. Here we use the Brit...

Abstract Ageing population is one of the most fundamental socio-economic transformations twenty-first century, with significant policy implications. China, world’s populous nation, no exception. The necessity for cost-effective, culture-appropriate and sustainable eldercare services Government’s priorities, in both present future. This research uses a focus-group interviews methodology to explo...

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

Objective There is a growing interest in the customers’ innovation in the realm of tourism studies. In the new global business ecosystem where individuals, organizations, governments and economy work together as an integrated network, we need a new innovation model. The model should be set at a level in which internal, external, cooperative and co-creative ideas can converge to create organiza...

(54) POLYAMIDES FOR NUCLEICACID CI2N IS/II (2006.01) DELIVERY A 6LX 3L/705 (2006.01) C7H 2L/04 (2006.01) (76) Inventor: Theresa M. Reineke, Blacksburg, C08G 69/48 (2006.01) VA (US) C08G 63/9. (2006.01) C7H 2L/02 (2006.01) Correspondence Address: A63L/7II (2006.01) DINSMORE & SHOHL, LLP CI2N IS/00 (2006.01) 1900 CHEMED CENTER, 255 EAST FIFTH A63L/7088 (2006.01) STREET CINCINNATI, OH 45202 (US) (...