A “brer rabbit” case for reverse mandated benefits

Reverse mandated benefits is a government-mandated policy that requires employees to provide their employers with benefits that workers would not provide otherwise. Of course, only those benefits would be mandated that are worth more to employers than they cost, as determined by political authorities. My case for such a policy argues that it is at least as sensible as policies mandating that employers provide benefits to their employees that would not be provided otherwise.     

Intertemporal choice under timing risk: An experimental approach

This paper investigates how individuals evaluate delayed outcomes with risky realization times. Under the discounted expected utility (DEU) model, such evaluations depend only on intertemporal preferences. We obtain several testable hypotheses using the DEU model as a benchmark and test these hypotheses in three experiments. In general, our results show that the DEU model is a poor predictor of intertemporal choice behavior under timing risk. We found that individuals are averse to timing risk and that they evaluate timing lotteries in a rank-dependent fashion. The main driver of timing risk aversion is nothing but probabilistic risk aversion that stems from the nonlinear treatment of probabilities.     

Eu（3－PYA）_3·2H_2O配合物荧光光谱的研究

合成了Ｅｕ（３－ＰＹＡ）３·２Ｈ２Ｏ配合物，通过元素分析和化学分析确定了配合物的组成，测定了标题配合物的激光拉曼光谱．结果表明，标题配合物的羧基具有两种配位方式，分别为双齿和桥式．经与同构配合物Ｓｍ２（３－ＰＹＡ）６·４Ｈ２Ｏ的晶体结构测定结果对照，知标题配合物中有一种Ｅｕ（Ⅲ）格位，中心离子的配位数为８     

不同添加剂预混料对哺乳仔猪生产性能的影响

以窝为单位将 70窝哺乳仔猪随机分为 7组 ,设 1个对照组 (试验I组 ) ,6个试验组。试验组分别添加 2 0 0mg/kg派富 (含芽胞杆菌等复合微生态制剂 ) (Ⅱ )、1%的甲酸吡啶铬 2 0 0mg/kg(Ⅲ )、2 0mg/kg泰乐菌素 (Ⅳ )、1%中药免疫增强剂 (黄芪、远智等复合中草药 ) (Ⅴ )、1%的益康XP(酵母培养物 ) (Ⅵ )以及 2 0mg/kg的硝呋烯宗 (Ⅶ )。经过 15d的试验 ,其结果表明 :试验组较对照组提高日增重 11.37% - 34.12 % ,其中Ⅴ、Ⅵ组达到显著水平 (p <0 .0 5 ) ;提高采食量 1.5 9% - 12 .30 % ;降低饲料增重比 8.4 % - 2 0 .2 0 % ;降低仔猪腹泻频次 10 .34- 31.0 3%。经无菌粪样检验 ,试验各组大肠杆菌、沙门氏菌、葡萄球菌数均低于对照组 ,差异不显著 (p >0 .0 5 ) ;而乳酸杆菌、双岐杆菌均高于对照组 ,差异不显著 (p >0 .0 5 )。经部分血液指标分析 ,试验各组的血液各项理化指标均在正常范围内 ,且各组间差异不显著 (p >0 .0 5 )。     

Beheimatungsprozesse begleiten — ein Werkstattbericht

Supporting processes of belonging in supervision and coachingThe contemporary employee has to cope with frequent changes. Not only does he lose his familiar environment, he also has to find ways to familiarize himself with new places and to develop a fresh sense of belonging. This process can be understood and facilitated by interpreting the German concept of “Heimat“ as something we have to create ourselves. First experiences demonstrate the usefulness of this approach in coaching processes.     

Expected sample moments of concomitants of selected order statistics

In this paper, the task of determining expected values of sample moments, where the sample members have been selected based on noisy information, is considered. This task is a recurring problem in the theory of evolution strategies. Exact expressions for expected values of sums of products of concomitants of selected order statistics are derived. Then, using Edgeworth and Cornish-Fisher approximations, explicit results that depend on coefficients that can be determined numerically are obtained. While the results are exact only for normal populations, it is shown experimentally that including skewness and kurtosis in the calculations can yield greatly improved results for other distributions.     

二茂铁的合成方法

本文总结了二茂铁从发现至今的七种合成方法,并简单评述了各种合成方法的优缺点。     

Going to Pieces: Paul Monette and the Fragments of the Tribe

Author of the highly acclaimed Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988) and winner of the 1992 National Book Award for his autobiography Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Paul Monette died of complications from AIDS in Los Angeles on February 12, 1995. His most recent work, Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise (1994), is his third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical writing on growing up gay, coming-out, and living with AIDS. A graduate of Phillips Academy and Yale University, Monette received a number of awards for his writing and his work as an outspoken voice in the battle against AIDS, including the National Book Award, three Lambda Literary awards, the PEN Center West Freedom to Write Award, and three honorary doctorate degrees, from Wesleyan University, the City University of New York, and the State University of New York at Oswego. A memorial service was held for Monette on Sunday, February 19, 1995, at the Directors Guild of America on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Paul Monette was 49.     

Sensitivity of the Optimum to Perturbations of the Profit or Weight of an Item in the Binary Knapsack Problem

In the binary single constraint Knapsack Problem, denoted KP, we are given a knapsack of fixed capacity c and a set of n items. Each item j, j = 1,...,n, has an associated size or weight w_j and a profit p_j. The goal is to determine whether or not item j, j = 1,...,n, should be included in the knapsack. The objective is to maximize the total profit without exceeding the capacity c of the knapsack. In this paper, we study the sensitivity of the optimum of the KP to perturbations of either the profit or the weight of an item. We give approximate and exact interval limits for both cases (profit and weight) and propose several polynomial time algorithms able to reach these interval limits. The performance of the proposed algorithms are evaluated on a large number of problem instances.     

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