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Does foreign direct investment encourage education?
No full textThere is a common misconception that globalization consists entirely of abusing cheap labor and putting children to work. Globalization includes foreign direct investment that encourages the population in developed and developing countries become more productive laborers. This thesis focuses on the benefits of globalization seen in education.It is not often easy for the population in developing countries to utilize new productivity enhancing physical capital. Schooling helps train the population, so the demand for schooling increases as foreign direct investment increases. There are also income and substitution effects to consider. If foreign direct investment increases income, then schooling is more affordable; however, if wages to child laborers increase, then a higher opportunity cost to attend school makes schooling less attractive. These contrasting effects are put to a test with global empirical data and panel regression analysis.Development, Education, Foreign, InvestmentCommittee members: Dang T Tran, Madhu S MohantyThesis (M.A.) California State University, Los Angeles, 201
An Optimal Degree Distribution Design and a Conditional Random Integer Generator For The Systematic Luby Transform Coded Wireless Internet
No full textRecently, the authors of this paper proposed Systematic Luby Transform (SLT) codes and their soft decoding using the classic loglikelihood message passing algorithm for transmission over hostile Wireless Internet channels, where the transmitted data is affected by both packet loss events and random Gaussian noise. This scheme is further improved here with the aid of a new degree distribution and a novel random integer generator, which are termed as the truncated degree distribution and the conditional random integer generator. The SLT code using the new design is capable of achieving BER ≤ 10-5 at low Eb/N0 values. For example, the SLT(1200,3600) code attains BER ≤ 10-5 in excess of an Eb/N0 value of 1.5dB for transmission over the AWGN channel and above 3.5dB over the uncorrelated Rayleigh channel if additionally a packet erasure probability Pe of 0.1 is inflicted, an Eb/N0 value above 2dB is required for transmission over the AWGN channel and in excess of 4dB over the uncorrelated Rayleigh channel, when using a maximum of Iter = 20 iterations and Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying
Does foreign direct investment encourage education?
No full textThesis (M.A.)
California State University, Los Angeles, 2012Committee members: Dang T Tran, Madhu S MohantyDevelopment, Education, Foreign, InvestmentThere is a common misconception that globalization consists entirely of abusing cheap labor and putting children to work. Globalization includes foreign direct investment that encourages the population in developed and developing countries become more productive laborers. This thesis focuses on the benefits of globalization seen in education.It is not often easy for the population in developing countries to utilize new productivity enhancing physical capital. Schooling helps train the population, so the demand for schooling increases as foreign direct investment increases. There are also income and substitution effects to consider. If foreign direct investment increases income, then schooling is more affordable; however, if wages to child laborers increase, then a higher opportunity cost to attend school makes schooling less attractive. These contrasting effects are put to a test with global empirical data and panel regression analysis
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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