Title of Document: MODELING CAR OWNERSHIP, TYPE AND USAGE FOR THE STATE OF MARYLAND Yangwen Liu, Master of Science, 2010 Directed By: Assistant Professor, Cinzia Cirillo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Over the last few decades there has been a great increase in the number of cars in the United States. Given the importance of vehicle ownership on both transport and landuse pl...

Clinical Document Architecture implementation guides (IGs) specify a standard format for electronic submission and are typically developed by a few standards specialists working in national committees that do not have the resources to address the range of use cases needed for community-wide document-based health information exchange. To accommodate the variation inherent in these use cases we m...

The growth in institutional holdings of public firms has led to increased interest the concept common ownership, which same investor owns stakes multiple within industry. Economic theory suggests that ownership could affect firm performance, but little empirical research examined nature this effect or how a firm’s extant marketing potentially relates effect. This paper addresses gap by proposin...

Using firm-, industry-, and country-level data, we document a link between family ownership and labor relations. Across countries, we find that family ownership is relatively more prevalent in countries in which labor relations are difficult, consistent with firm-level evidence suggesting that family firms are particularly effective at coping with difficult labor relations. Our cross-country re...

Three major aspects in the protection of digital documents have been pointed out, each of them with di erent requirements: rst copyright protection, protecting ownership and usage rights; secondly tamper-proo ng, aiming at checking document integrity; and thirdly authentication, the purpose of which is to check the authenticity of a document. While robust watermarks are typically used for copyr...

Object-based collaborative graphics editing systems allow multiple users to edit the same graphics document at the same time from multiple sites. This paper examines the use of locking to prevent the generation of conflicting operations in this type of systems. Two types of locks are examined: object and region. A locking scheme which preserves the intentions of all operations is proposed. Furt...

Patent application numbers grow exponentially in many industries, a phenomenon that has been linked to high fragmentation of patent ownership. Contradicting these findings and theoretical arguments, we show that such fragmentation is not a precondition for sudden and strong increases in patenting. We describe and analyze a patent portfolio race in an industry with highly concentrated patent own...

We present a new dataset that tracks changes in legal ownership regimes the petroleum sector between 1867 and 2008 for panel of countries. document foreign has been taken over by partnerships as leading regime, while domestic is on rise again recent years. use this to examine whether institutional change leads more oil gas exploration discoveries. On average, switching majority related up quart...

Human social life is structured by social norms creating both obligations and entitlements. Recent research has found that young children enforce simple obligations against norm violators by protesting. It is not known, however, whether they understand entitlements in the sense that they will actively object to a second party attempting to interfere in something that a third party is entitled t...

We describe the anatomy of electric car ownership in Norway, country with highest market share low-emission vehicles, using matched administrative micro data covering entire population private owners. Our results show that socioeconomic characteristics are strong predictors portfolio. Battery vehicle (BEV) is increasing wealth, income and education. While early BEV owners differed from other ow...