this paper reports on the results of a research carried out during 1993-94 aiming at studying street sellers as an informal sector activity and a source of socio-economic problems in shiraz, iran. this study makes use of two logit models in order to present a unified framework depiciting the factors that seem to affect the developmeht of informal sector activities. the first model looks at thos...

In this paper we prove that every proper convex and lower semicontinuous functional de ned on a real re exive Banach space X is semicoercive if and only if every small uniform perturbation of attains its minimum value on X.

In this paper we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual self-esteem and relative esteem for others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their productivities, and their behaviour and political views are influenced by moral standards concerning work. Agents determine what they take to be proper behaviour and they judge others, and themselves, accordi...

Let R be an o-minimal field with a proper convex subring V . We axiomatize the class of all structures (R, V ) such that kind, the corresponding residue field with structure induced from R via the residue map, is o-minimal. More precisely, in [8] it was shown that certain first order conditions on (R, V ) are sufficient for the o-minimality of kind. Here we prove that these conditions are also ...

The measurement perspective on decision usefulness implies greater usage of fair values in the financial statements proper. Following from our discussion in Section 2.5.1, greater use of fair values suggests a balance sheet approach to financial reporting, as opposed to the income statement approach which underlies the research described in Chapter 5. This, in turn, implies a larger role for th...

The progress in genomic research has led to increased sampling and storage of biological samples in biobanks. Most biobanks are located in high-income countries, but the landscape is rapidly changing as low- and middle-income countries develop their own. When establishing a biobank in any setting, researchers have to consider a series of ethical, legal and social issues beyond those in traditio...

Low-income immigrant Latinos are particularly vulnerable to disasters because they are both ill-prepared and disproportionately affected. Disaster preparedness programs that are culturally appropriate must be developed and tested. To develop such a program, we conducted 12 focus groups with low-income immigrant Latinos to understand their perceptions and understanding of disaster preparedness, ...

The proper orientation number χ→(G) of a graph G is the minimum k such that there exists an edges with all vertex-outdegrees at most and for any adjacent vertices, outdegrees are different. Two major conjectures about resolved. First it shown, planar 14. Secondly, shown every graph, , where r=χ(G) usual chromatic maximum average degree taken over subgraphs G. Several other related results deriv...