The prevailing labor market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labor supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects’ reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum wage leads to a rise in subjects’ reservation wages which persists even after the minimum wage has been ...

In this paper, several equations were employed to estimate global solar radiation from sunshine hours for a meteorological station in Nigde, Turkey, using only the relative duration of sunshine. These equations included the original Angstrom-Prescott linear regression and modified functions (quadratic, logarithmic and exponential functions). Estimated values were compared with measured values i...

This paper provides the performance analysis of multiuser Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) system receiver structures for Multiple-input Multiple-Output (MIMO) channel at a base station with assumption of perfect channel estimation and perfect timing delay estimation. In MIMO channels the receivers such as decorrelator, Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) and Multistage Para...

We design a robust and computationally efficient iterative implementation of the Linear Minimum Mean Square Error (LMMSE) receiver for Wyner’s model of a linear cellular array. An important property of the the iterative LMMSE receiver is that each base station requires only local information to estimate its user’s signal. Analysis of the convergence of the iterative algorithm reveals a converge...

space four inches square. On the right side, the occipital bone was also fractured and depressed, and the brain beneath was much injured and compressed. There was a hernia of a portion of the right lobe of the cerebrum at its posterior part. The left forearm was extensively fractured a little below the elbow joint. The man could not speak, but it was ascertained that he had been knocked down an...

The concept of hypo-Euclidean norm for an n−tuple of vectors in inner product spaces is introduced. Its fundamental properties are established. Upper bounds via the BoasBellman [1]-[3] and Bombieri [2] type inequalities are provided. Applications for n−tuples of bounded linear operators defined on Hilbert spaces are also given.

This panel discusses the decline in the information systems field and argues that an emphasis on the major transformations enabled by technology will help rekindle interest and excitement about the technology. We will discuss a documentary on IT-enabled transformations that the Smith School at the University of Maryland is co-producing with Maryland Public Television for viewing on public telev...

Bike sharing systems consist of a fleet of bikes placed in a network of docking stations. These bikes can then be rented and returned to any of the docking stations after usage. Predicting unrealized bike demand at locations currently without bike stations is important for effectively designing and expanding bike sharing systems. We predict pairwise bike demand for New York City’s Citi Bike sys...

The present paper is a five-week content analysis of crime stories reported on television news. The sample consists of three nightly newscasts available on a rural, midwestern cable system. Included are nightly newscasts from a national network, a big city television station, and a small town channel. Findings from this exploratory study show that these three sources of television news differ s...

This paper covers location determination in wireless cellular networks based on time difference of arrival (TDoA) measurements in a factor graphs framework. The resulting nonlinear estimation problem of the localization process for the mobile station cannot be solved analytically. The well-known iterative Gauss-Newton method as standard solution fails to converge for certain geometric constella...