This paper analyzes child labor in a fully dynamic model with credit constraints. It considers the long-run and short-run effects of an array of policies like lump-sum subsidy, enrollment subsidy, improvement in primary education and variations in loan market parameters. It is shown that some policies that reduce child labor in the long run may lead to an increase in child labor in the short ru...

We describe a home lighting robot that uses directional spotlights to create complex lighting scenes. The robot senses its visual environment using a panoramic camera and attempts to maintain its target goal state by adjusting the positions and intensities of its lights. Users can communicate desired changes in the lighting environment through speech and gesture (e.g., "Make it brighter over th...

We provide an easy method to obtain the kinetic energy fraction in gravitational waves, generated during a cosmological first-order phase transition, as function of only wall velocity and quantities that can be determined from particle physics model at nucleation temperature. This generalizes recent work achieved this goal for detonations. Here we present corresponding results deflagrations hyb...

Assessing the trustworthiness of sensor data and transmitters of this data is critical for quality assurance. Trust evaluation frameworks utilize data provenance along with the sensed data values to compute the trustworthiness of each data item. However, in a sizeable multi-hop sensor network, provenance information requires a large and variable number of bits in each packet, resulting in high ...

1 Anindya Deb, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India [email protected] Abstract  An automobile is amongst the foremost of products ever designed contributing greatly to the progress of mankind. Although an automobile, in essence, is a collection of mechanical, structural, electrical and electronic sub-systems, it is judge...

I study the existence of Nash-stable and individually stable coalition structures in hedonic coalition formation games, where a coalition structure is a partition of the players, and players strictly rank the coalitions to which they belong. The hedonic coalition formation game in which all coalitions are feasible is viewed as a general model, and more specific models, such as the marriage and ...