The ability to identify the behavior of people in a home is at the core of Smart Home functionality. Such environments are equipped with sensors that unobtrusively capture information about the occupants. Reasoning mechanisms ...
Hyde, Abbey(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009-02-13)
A range of disciplines, including those in health sciences, have witnessed an increasing emphasis on the discourse of 'evidence-based' practice in professional learning settings, which has a tendency to be viewed as ...
Extreme price movements associated with market crashes and booms have catastrophic repercussions for all investors and it is necessary to make accurate predictions of the frequency and severity of these events. This paper ...
In this paper we investigate the effect of increased foreign competition on home employment. The interaction of both product and labour market responses to foreign competition will be of key importance to understanding the ...
We explicitly model the vertical spillovers that result from imperfections in both labour and product markets. We model the vertical spillovers from wage determination in an upstream labour market to market share performance ...
The canonical inflation specification in sticky-price rational expectations models (the new-Keynesian Phillips curve) is often criticized for failing to account for the dependence of inflation on its own lags. In response, ...
Industrial output in Central and Eastern Europe evolved in a U-shape during the first seven years of transition. The literature explains the initial collapse of industrial output as an inefficient outcome driven by supply ...
This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data
for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge. Estimating a measure of mobility as movement and an index of mobility ...
This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge. Estimating a measure of mobility as movement and an index of mobility ...