This paper shows, using data from both the US and the UK, that average establishment size is larger in denser market areas. However, canonical versions of theories of agglomeration – spill-overs, cost advantages and improved match quality – all predict that establishments should be smaller in cities. The paper proposes a theory based on monopsony in labour markets that can explain the stylized ...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we develop a multi-period dynamic multi-process network DEA (data envelopment analysis) model. Second, we apply this methodology to Japanese prefectural time series data. In this framework, we specify that prefectural technology consists of two sectors, called the human capital generating sector and the physical capital formation sector. Each sector ...

We investigate the feasibility and demonstrate merits of using Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) profiles to retrieve seasonal height variations CO2 snow/ice cap in Mars' polar areas by applying a co-registration strategy. present prototype analysis on research region [85.75{\deg}S, 86.25{\deg}S, 300{\deg}E, 330{\deg}E] that is located residual south cap. Our method comprises recomputation MO...

This paper considers the problem of establishing Lp-improving inequalities for Radon-like operators in intermediate dimensions (i.e., averages overs submanifolds which are neither curves nor hypersurfaces). Due to limitations existing approaches, previous results this regime comparatively sparse and tend require special numerical relationships between dimension n ambient space k submanifolds. d...

Aim: We report the distribution of, and characteristics associated with, unintentional machinery injury on farms in Victoria to identify research issues and potential intervention strategies. Method: Machinery was defined as items classifiable to the external cause of injury code E919 from the International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision Clinical Modification, which includes agricult...

An economic downturn coincided with the start of epidemic but recession was short and moderate, compared that 1920/21. Cross-sectional high-frequency data indicate affected labor supply sharply briefly no ensuing spill-overs; most recession, brief as it was, due to end war. I analyze weekly city-level mortality indicators time series methods structural estimation an economic-epidemiological mod...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of roll-over protection structures (ROPS) as an engineering control for prevention of fatalities from farm tractor roll-overs. METHODS Using a systematic approach to literature searching, relevant studies from peer-reviewed journals, technical and government reports, and unpublished reports were retrieved. Studi...

The last decade has seen a surge of driving simulator research on automation-to-manual take-overs. In this commentary, we argue that most within the take-over paradigm bears little resemblance to real automated driving. Furthermore, claim results could already be known based published from previous century. It is concluded studies have characteristics self-sustaining convenience. We end with re...

Short experimental films by the German female director duo Lina Sieckmann und Miriam Gossing put domestic environments on cinematic display in new and challenging ways. The essay discusses links between films’ documentary agendas, surreal visual montages, poetic feminine voice-overs. Selected are placed into dialogues with Michael Renov’s concept of aesthetics film Timothy Morton’s notion “hype...

The ambivalence implicit in the two versions of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982; "Director's Cut," 1992) echoes the diverse and divided critical responses to the film(s). Indeed, this film about authenticity and simulation has been so thoroughly interpreted and rewritten—by even its director—that a naive return to the "original" is, perhaps fittingly, untenable. This essay does not advance a ...