Oklahoma Older Americans Act Nutrition Program participants' (n = 859) ability to shop, cook, and feed themselves was evaluated using factor analysis and logistic regression. Congregate participants who reported they were not able to shop, cook, and feed themselves had significantly lower "mobility," "financial management," and "financial security" factor scores; home-delivered participants had...

Economic integration reduces the costs of factor mobility, producing efficiency gains and contributing to equalization of net factor returns. This raises the cost of income-redistribution policy, thus threatening a basic function of the welfare state. A simple model of costly factor mobility under uncertainty shows that greater factor mobility enables factor owners to pool industry-specific, re...

We develop a quantitative spatial model that incorporates a rich geography of trade costs and labor mobility with heterogeneous worker preferences across locations. We provide comparative statics for the unique equilibrium with respect to the primitives of the model. We show how the model can be used to undertake counterfactuals using only data in an initial equilibrium. In these counterfactual...

This chapter presents a survey of the theoretical literature on tax competition. Specifically, it reviews recent work on the effect of factor mobility and the ensueing tax competition on the capacity of governments to raise revenue and redistribute income. It focuses on three issues: the relevance and limitations of the “raise against the bottom” result, the benefits and pitfalls of partial coo...

Ristocetin will induce the agglutination of platelets in the presence of von Willebrand factor. In previous studies, an electrostatic mechanism was proposed for this phenomenon wherein first the platelet's surface charge is reduced by the binding of ristocetin and then the von Willebrand factor acts as a bridge between platelets. To test this hypothesis, the effects of ristocetin and von Willeb...

the aim of this study was to examine the effect of new methods of management on creativity, self-efficiency and mobility of human resources in sport organizations. all top managers and heads of sport and youth office (sports bodies) in the province participated in this study. 37 top managers and 176 presidents and vice presidents of sports bodies were randomly selected as the sample. the multi-...

soil washing by mobilizing is one of in-situ techniques for soil decontamination. applying this technique to the contaminated soils could be followed by many environmental problems. therefore, it is important to study the effective factors on removal of heavy metals from different forms. in the present research, the forms of zn, pb, and cd in three contaminated soils from the zinc-lead smelting...

In the perfect off-lattice DLA model of the fractal growth the centre-attractive drift factor and mobility of particles are introduced. Simulation indicates variation of fractal patterns and their characteristics depending on these new factors. Noticeable effects of the drift factor upon fractal dimension, growth efficiency and frozen zone are shown. The mobility behaves in the competitive mann...