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Borrowing from Yourself: The Determinants of 401(k) Loan Patterns
Get PDFThis paper explores the determinants of people’s decisions to take 401(k) loans. We argue that 401(k) plans do not simply represent retirement saving, but they also provide a means of saving for precautionary purposes. We model factors that rationally would induce people to borrow from their pension plans, and we explain why people do not often use 401(k) loans to replace their more expensive credit card debt. Next we test our hypotheses using a rich dataset and show that people who are liquidity-constrained are more likely to have plan loans, while the better-off take larger loans when they do borrow. Plan characteristics such as the number of loans allowed also influence borrowing and loan size in interesting ways, while loan interest rates have only a small impact.
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
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
Fascism in East Anglia : the British Union of Fascists in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1933-1940
Get PDFThis thesis examines five key issues relating to the emergence and development of the British Union of Fascists in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex between 1933 and 1940. Firstly, it provides an analytical account of the B. U. F.'s involvement in the East Anglian `tithe war' during 1933-1934, which pays particular attention to fascist motivation, the extent of Blackshirt anti-tithe activism, and the various constraints limiting the impact of the Mosleyite interventionist strategy. Secondly, the B. U. F. 's anti-war policy and the government's implementation of Defence Regulation 18B (IA) are discussed in a regional context. Evidence from the three counties is used to give qualified endorsement to revisionist arguments, which maintain that the Blackshirt Peace Campaign boosted recruitment and attracted disaffected pro-appeasement middle class Tories. Reasons are also put forward to explain why the 18B round-up of B. U. F. adherents in eastern England proceeded in such an inconsistent manner. Thirdly, the size and social characteristics of the local Blackshirt support base are investigated. Approximate recruitment levels for active and non-active members in Norfolk, Suffolk and provincial Essex between 1934 and late 1938 are calculated, and detailed analysis of a sample of 230 Mosleyites from the area affords a valuable insight into the social class and occupational structure of the local movement. Fourthly, this thesis considers the protean nature of the B. U. F. 's appeal from both a `regional ' and `national' perspective by consulting the oral and written testimonies of 22 `East Anglian' and 75
other Blackshirt adherents. Finally, the various external and internal factors hampering the B. U. F. 's progress in
the three counties are discussed within the framework of a
conjunctural model of fascist political success. A number of
key constraints, including unfavourable socio-economic conditions, a lack of `political space', internal
deficiencies and state management of domestic fascism, marginalised the local Blackshirt movement
Figures 206–207 in Species of Heterolepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) Found on some Remote Eastern Australian Islands
No full textFigures 206–207. Maritisma coralinium gen. nov., sp. nov. holotype ♂ K.261124 K.261125 unless otherwise noted by specimen number (206) coxites IX, penis and parameres; (207) sternite VII, coxites VII and IX of subadult female K.261253. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.Published as part of Smith, Graeme B. & Mitchell, Andrew, 2019, Species of Heterolepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) Found on some Remote Eastern Australian Islands, pp. 139-181 in Records of the Australian Museum 71 (4) on page 176, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1719, http://zenodo.org/record/465348
Scalar soliton quantization with generic moduli
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any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credArticle funded by SCOAP3. CP is
a Royal Society Research Fellow and partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
under grants DOE-SC0010008, DOE-ARRA-SC0003883 and DOE-DE-SC0007897. ABR
is supported by the Mitchell Family Foundation. We would like to thank the Mitchell
Institute at Texas A&M and the NHETC at Rutgers University respectively for hospitality
during the course of this work. We would also like to acknowledge the Aspen Center
for Physics and NSF grant 1066293 for a stimulating research environment which led to
questions addressed in this paper
Rationale and design of a trial to personalize risk assessment in familial coronary artery disease
No full textAbstract not availableThomas H Marwick, Kristyn Whitmore, Stephen J Nicholls, Tony Stanton, Geoffrey Mitchell, Andrew Tonkin, Christopher Blizzard, Amanda Neil, Catherine Jones and Gerald F Watts, on behalf of the CAUGHT-CAD investigator
Figures 181–192 in Species of Heterolepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) Found on some Remote Eastern Australian Islands
No full textFigures 181–192. Maritisma coralinium gen. nov., sp. nov. holotype ♂ K.261124 K.261125 (181) pronotum; (182) idem, right anterior trichobothrial area; (183) idem, right posterior trichobothrial area; (184) idem, left posterior comb; (185) mesonotum, right side; (186) idem, trichobothrial areas, right side; (187) metanotum, right side; (188) idem, trichobothrial areas, left side; (189) presternum, prothoracic sternum and PI; (190) mesothoracic sternum; (191 apex of tibia of PI; (192) PII. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.Published as part of Smith, Graeme B. & Mitchell, Andrew, 2019, Species of Heterolepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) Found on some Remote Eastern Australian Islands, pp. 139-181 in Records of the Australian Museum 71 (4) on page 174, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1719, http://zenodo.org/record/465348
Bella Visty
No full textfiddles; guitarsCollected by Merlin Mitchell
Transcribed by Kyle Perrin
Reel 9
Items 9-12
Jim Means (fiddle)
Goshen, Arkansas
November 9, 1949
Biographical Material
And Fiddle Pieces
The Eighth of January— Fiddle and guitar.
M That's mighty good. Say, what does that eighth of January refer to?
What does that title mean?
Means..Beats me.
M .....I've heard some people say that that referred to the victory of
Andrew Jackson down there at New Orleans.
Means..Might be.
M......Back in 1814. And that's where it got the title.
Means..I haven't knew it quite that long.
M......No, not quite.
Means..I play a tune that they call the Bella Visty that was played at
the battle of Bella Visty.
M .....Well, try that for a while, then.
Buena Vista— Fiddle and guitar.
The Waggoner— Fiddle and guitar.
M ..... O . K., Jim. Much a-blidged. Now that's about all our tape and
we've got to quit this. I just want to say that this has been
a fiddling sesston with fiddling Jim Means of Goshen, Arkansas,
about eight or ten miles from Fayetteville. And this was done for
the Ozark Folklore Society. This is November 9, 1949.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
The Inattentive Participant: Portfolio Trading Behavior in 401(k) Plans
Get PDFMost workers in defined contribution retirement plans are inattentive portfolio managers: only a few engage in any trading at all, and only a tiny minority trades actively. Using a rich new dataset on 1.2 million workers in over 1,500 plans, we find that most 401(k) plan participants are characterized by profound inertia. Almost all participants (80%) initiate no trades, and an additional 11% makes only a single trade, in a two-year period. Even among traders, portfolio turnover rates are one-third the rate of professional money managers. Those who trade in their 401(k) plans are more affluent older men, with higher incomes and longer job tenure. They tend to use the internet for 401(k) account access, hold a larger number of investment options, and are more likely to hold active equity funds rather than index or lifecycle funds. Some plan features, including offering own-employer stock, also raise trading levels.
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