This paper projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) matched to Social Security records of annual earnings from 1951 through 1993. We first develop, estimate and test gender-specific multiple regression models of ten-year earnings intervals using the matched 1984 SIPP panel. We find strong relationships pred...

Hansen et al. (1) demonstrated that the probability of extremely hot summers has markedly increased because the mean of the distribution of seasonally averaged temperatures has increased. However, the authors also implied that the variance of the distribution has increased, a result that differs from regional studies that show changes in the extremes are consistent with a simple shift in the me...

This paper projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) matched to Social Security records of annual earnings from 1951 through 1993. We first develop, estimate and test gender-specific multiple regression models of ten-year earnings intervals using the matched 1984 SIPP panel. We find strong relationships pred...

Arid- and semi-arid Central Asia is particularly sensitive to climate change. The changes in extreme precipitation stemming from warming are the subject of intense debate within scientific community. This study employed a Morlet wavelet analysis examine annual occurrence number May September during period 1951–2005. Their modulating planetary-scale modes were identified by using linear regressi...

some time. The compilation of a book of this type requires that the author have considerable experience in teaching and close contact with current literature. Since Rugh has been active in research and teaching of experimental embryology for some years, it was anticipated that he would produce a text that would be satisfactory to both student and instructor. The author opens with an historical ...

The news is so full of lives cut short that one might worry that we have become inured to the experience. But cold reality asserts itself when a premature death strikes within our own community, and the full tragedy and the wasted opportunity are exposed. We then pause to mark the singularity of human existence and the personal nature of science itself. John Newport, distinguished professor of ...

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale meteorological model is used to dynamically downscale data from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) atmospheric general circulation (GCM) CMIP5 version (Model E2-R) over Europe at a 0.25° grid size resolution, period of 1951 2010. configuration single nested with resolutions 0.75° 0.25°. Two 30-year datasets are produced periods 19...

In the early years of the present century the French school of haematologists appreciated that acute acquired haemolytic anaemia was dependent upon the presence of abnormal antibodies in the blood (Chauffard, Troisier and Vincent, 1908; Hayem, 1908; Widal, Abrami and Brule, 1907). During the first world war this important work was largely forgotten. Although Lederer (1925, 1930) gave his first ...