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What Do Quarterly Workforce Dynamics Tell Us About Wal-Mart? Evidence from New Stores in Pennsylvania
No full textIn this paper I seek to better inform debate regarding Wal-Mart’s local impact on wages, and employment dynamics by combining data on Wal-Mart stores with the recently release Quarterly Workforce Indicators provided by the US Census. Use a panel of Pennsylvania counties, who saw entrance of a Wal-Mart in 2002, I find a new store has no effect on existing employee wages in the retail sector. However, new retail sector hires experience a roughly 1,500 purchases of diapers annual since 1999 I have no financial relationship with Wal-Mart or any affiliate that I am aware of.Wal-Mart, Pennsylvania, Quarterly Workforce Indicators
A Critical Overview of Epistemology of Tanzimat Literature: Duality and Teacher-Author / Student-Reader Relationship
No full textGüngör, Bilgin, (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü)Tanzimat döneminin düşünsel yapısı ve edebi estetiği üzerine Ziya Gökalp’ten Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’a; Hilmi Ziya Ülken›den Mehmet Kaplan’a kadar pek çok aydın çeşitli yorumlar getirmişlerdir. Bu yorumlar, barındırdıkları çeşitli tezlerle birlikte, çoğunlukla “düalite” ekseninde yürür. Tanzimat dönemi -ve sonraki dönem- aydınlarının kaleme aldığı edebi ve edebiyat-dışı eserler göz önünde bulundurulduğunda bu “postula”nın somut bir temeli olduğunu söyleyebilmek mümkündür. Bununla birlikte Jale Parla, Babalar ve Oğullar (Tanzimat Romanının Epistemolojik Temelleri) adlı eserinde, Tanzimat döneminin düşünsel evreni üzerine farklı yorumlar getirmiş ve böyle bir evren için “düalite” kavramının yersiz olduğunu; bu dönemin aydınlarının ve romancılarının eserlerinde Doğulu değerlere evcilleştirilmiş Batılı değerlerin -en azından Beşir Fuad’a kadar- sorunsuzca eklemlendiğini ileri sürer. Ayrıca bu dönem romancıları ve roman kahramanları ile okur kitlesi arasında “baba-oğul” ilişkisine benzer bir ilişkinin somutlaştığını; Tanzimat Fermanı ile yetkileri kısıtlanan padişahın toplum karşısındaki “baba”lığını bu dönemde romancıların -ve genel Tanzimat aydınlarının- üstlendiğini belirtir. Şüphesiz Parla’nın söz konusu tezleri, kısmen somut bir zemine otursa da, çalışmamız sırasında da görüleceği gibi, bu dönem romancılarının -ve genel olarak Tanzimat aydınlarının- eserleri göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, oldukça “yanlışlanabilir” bir konumda belirir.Many intellectuals from Ziya Gökalp to Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and Hilmi Ziya Ülken to Mehmet Kaplan brought various interpretations on the intellectual structure and literary aesthetics of the Tanzimat period. These comments, along with the various theses they hold, often walk on the axis of “duality”. It is possible to say that this “postulat” is a concrete foundation when the literary and non-literary works received by the intellectuals of the Tanzimat period - and later periods - are taken into consideration. Jale Parla, in Babalar ve Oğullar (Tanzimat Romanının Epistemolojik Temelleri), however, brought different interpretations of the intellectual universe of the Tanzimat period and concluded that the concept of “duality” is unfounded for such a universe; argued that in the works of the intellectuals and novelists of this period, the domesticated Western values of Oriental values - at least to Beşir Fuad - were articulated without problems. In addition, this period embodies a similar relationship between the heroes of novels and novels and the readership of the “father-son” relationship, and indicates that the sultan, who was restricted by Tanzimat Fermanı and the authority of the sultan, assumed the “father” of the society in this period and the romans and generally Tanzimat intellectuals. Undoubtedly, even if Parla’s theses are partially tangible, this period can be seen as a “falsifiable” position when the works of the novelists - and generally Tanzimat intellectuals - are taken into consideration. In this review, we will focus on the disproportionate aspects of the theses, and some determinations will be made on the author-reader relationship of the period
Transportation and Infrastructure, Retail Clustering, and Local Public Finance: Evidence from Wal-Mart's Expansion
No full textThe author examines the role highway infrastructure and local property tax rate variability play in retail agglomeration in Indiana from 1988 through 2003. To account for data errors and the potential endogeneity of taxes and infrastructure on retail agglomeration, he introduces a unique identification strategy that exploits the entrance timing and location of Wal-Mart stores in Indiana. Using a time-series cross-sectional model of Indiana’s 92 counties from 1988 through 2003, he estimates the impact highway infrastructure, property taxes, and big-box competition have in creating regional agglomerations. Among two separate specifications and a full and rural-only set of the data, the author finds considerable agreement in the results. In the full sample, he finds no relationship between property tax rates or highway infrastructure and retail agglomeration. Within the non-metropolitan statistical area (MSA) counties, this relationship is very modest, though it possesses considerable statistical certainty. Highway impacts within the non-MSA counties are significant and positively related to retail agglomeration, with the presence of highways explaining about 10 percent of total agglomeration variability. (JEL R11, R53)Infrastructure; endogeneity; taxation; Wal-Mart
Athabasca Auction Mart - Inside View
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Athabasca Auction Mart - Front and Side View
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An efficient and accurate approach to MTE-MART for time-resolved tomographic PIV
No full textThe motion-tracking-enhanced MART (MTE-MART; Novara et al. in Meas Sci Technol 21:035401, 2010) has demonstrated the potential to increase the accuracy of tomographic PIV by the combined use of a short sequence of non-simultaneous recordings. A clear bottleneck of the MTE-MART technique has been its computational cost. For large datasets comprising time-resolved sequences, MTE-MART becomes unaffordable and has been barely applied even for the analysis of densely seeded tomographic PIV datasets. A novel implementation is proposed for tomographic PIV image sequences, which strongly reduces the computational burden of MTE-MART, possibly below that of regular MART. The method is a sequential algorithm that produces a time-marching estimation of the object intensity field based on an enhanced guess, which is built upon the object reconstructed at the previous time instant. As the method becomes effective after a number of snapshots (typically 5–10), the sequential MTE-MART (SMTE) is most suited for time-resolved sequences. The computational cost reduction due to SMTE simply stems from the fewer MART iterations required for each time instant. Moreover, the method yields superior reconstruction quality and higher velocity field measurement precision when compared with both MART and MTE-MART. The working principle is assessed in terms of computational effort, reconstruction quality and velocity field accuracy with both synthetic time-resolved tomographic images of a turbulent boundary layer and two experimental databases documented in the literature. The first is the time-resolved data of flow past an airfoil trailing edge used in the study of Novara and Scarano (Exp Fluids 52:1027–1041, 2012); the second is a swirling jet in a water flow. In both cases, the effective elimination of ghost particles is demonstrated in number and intensity within a short temporal transient of 5–10 frames, depending on the seeding density. The increased value of the velocity space–time correlation coefficient demonstrates the increased velocity field accuracy of SMTE compared with MART.Aerodynamics, Wind Energy & PropulsionAerospace Engineerin
Athabasca Auction Mart - Front and Side View - 02
No full textPhotograph - Athabasca Auction Mart building, Athabasca, Albert
Päikeselaul
No full textMart Kuldkepp has translated into Estonian an Old Icelandic alliterative poem of 83 verses “The Song of the Sun” (c.13th century) by anonymous author. The translation is complete with comments, revealing the origin and context of the poem
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