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- What's the Worst Night for Sleeping?
- Sunday night. In a study of 3,500 adults, conducted by hotel chain Travelodge, more than half reported restless Sunday nights, leading to sick days and otherwise unproductive Mondays. Here's an excerpt from the BBC News report on the study: Disrupted sleep has been blamed for a lack of concentration at...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Designing the Perfect Office
- The New York Times moved into a brand-new office building this week, and already rival news sources are jumping at the opportunity to point out the weaknesses, including mice and poor office design. Putting aside the thought that this is sour-grapes reporting from journalists who might be...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Thermal Gelation Properties Of Methylcellulose And Hypromellose
- Aqueous solutions of methyl and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose are known to gel upon heating. These gels are completely reversible in that they are formed upon heating yet will liquefy upon cooling. The precipitation temperature, gelation temperature, and gel strength of these methylcellulose solutions were determined as a function of molecular weight,...
- White papers 2005-05-10
- Time Management: Stop Procrastination Today
- We all know the feeling. We know something needs to be done but we just keep putting it off because it is something we don't enjoy or it just doesn't feel like the right time. However, this procrastination can be deceivingly counter-productive and can hang over us for the rest...
- White papers 2008-03-12
- Industry Consolidation And Price-Cost Margins
- The U.S. pulp and paper industry has experienced an increasing degree of consolidation through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Based upon a structure conduct-performance model and using panel data for the pulp, paper, and paperboard sectors from 1970 to 1997, this paper investigates the effect of industry structure on...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Pricing and Market Concentration in Oligopoly Markets
- This paper studies relationship between prices and market concentration in the Auto Rental Industry. An original database has been developed that includes the number of auto rental operating firms at every commercial airport in the country. The data is particularly interesting as a large variation has been observed in market...
- White papers 2006-03-08
- Fear Vs Courage: It's Your Choice
- Everyone moves Fear from the back of their minds to the front of their minds by shifting their concentration away from their own courage, and choosing instead to focus on that which frightens one. Not only does that action change Fear's location, but through the process of concentration, it means...
- White papers
- Monopoly, Monopsony, and Market Definition: An Antitrust Perspective on Market Concentration Among Health Insurers
- This paper uses the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index HHI to compute the concentration of commercial health insurance markets in most of the states during the past four years. Market concentration provides an important benchmark for antitrust analysis, but it does not, standing alone, indicate the presence of problematic anticompetitive behavior or a...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Taxation and the Evolution of Aggregate Corporate Ownership Concentration
- Legal rules, politics and behavioral factors have all been emphasized as explanatory factors in analyses of the determinants of the concentration of corporate ownership and stock market participation. An extension of standard tax clientele arguments demonstrates that changes in the progressivity of taxes can also significantly influence patterns of equity...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Trends in the Concentration of Bank Deposits: The Northwest
- Two major trends affecting the structure of the banking industry since the mid-1980s have been tremendous consolidation and the liberalization of interstate banking. Consolidation has unambiguously increased concentration at the national level. The effects on concentration in smaller geographic areas are more complicated. This article looks at how bank consolidation...
- White papers 2002-07-26
- Study of Conductance With Pericardium: Effect of Binding Site Asymmetry on Conductance of Ions
- The observed values of specific conductance of different uni-univalent and uni-bivalent electrolytes were measured with the uptake side, discharge side and across the pericardial membrane in an experimental setup developed in the laboratory. The values of specific conductance K were found to be increased with the increase in concentration of...
- White papers 2003-10-13
- Consolidation in the Distribution of Residential Building Products
- The United States Economic Census of Retail Trade provides evidence of the increase in concentration in the distribution sector of the building materials and supplies industry from 1972 to 1997. Between these years, the share of sales by the top 50 firms in the category increased from 18.5% to 58.4%....
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Post-Catalytic Combustion of Pre-Vaporized Liquid Fuel
- This study analyzes compositions of the reactive gas and its lean combustion limit. Kerosene was used as a test fuel and its spray was vaporized in a hot air stream. A mixture of air and kerosene vapor was introduced into a cordierite honeycomb monolith that was coated with palladium. Concentrations...
- White papers 2001-02-27
- Managing Milk Composition: Normal Sources of Variation
- This paper discusses, about the factors that influence the composition of milk, the major components of which are water, fat, protein, lactose, and minerals. Nutrition or dietary influences readily alter fat concentration and milk protein concentration. Fat concentration is the most sensitive to dietary changes and can vary over a...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Concentration, Mergers, And Antitrust
- Farmers and ranchers in many agricultural commodity markets have experienced prices that do not keep up with inflation, and occasional sharp drops in prices and income. This paper focuses on the increasing concentration in agribusiness, including evidence of its impact on prices. It reviews the current antitrust policy and several...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Knowledge Spillovers, Mergers And Public Policy In Economic Clusters
- This paper investigates how market concentration affects research activity in an economic cluster. The firms in the cluster play a two-stage game. In the first stage, the firms choose whether or not to engage in costly research that generates technological improvements that spills over to the other firms in the...
- White papers 2002-01-01
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- News Flash: 1945 Law Allows Concentration of Power in US Health Insurance
- Last week, some media reports noted that US Congressional Democrats countered an insurance industry study suggesting health care reform would cost much more than estimated by threatening a repeal of the McCarran-Ferguson Act's anti-trust exemption for health insurance. For example, in the New York Times Prescriptions Blog : ...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Text Messaging Actually Good for Concentration, Study Finds
- Text Messaging Actually Good for Concentration, Study FindsCHATIn multinational companies where teams are spread over the world and you work on a project with somebody sittng in US and somebody else sitting in INDIA for example. The CHAT is a real boost for prodcutivit.You can also use the CHAT to...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- On Industry Concentration of Actively Managed Mutual Funds
- The value of active fund management has recently become the central debate among researchers and practitioners in the area of money management. This paper talks about an investigation on whether the industry concentration of a mutual fund, a specific measure of active management, is related to fund performance...
- White papers 2003-01-31
- Bank Concentration and Fragility: Impact and Mechanics
- Public policy debates and theoretical disputes motivate this paper's examination of the relationship between bank concentration and banking system fragility and the mechanisms underlying this relationship. It finds no support for the view that concentration increases the fragility of banks. Rather, banking system concentration is associated with a lower probability...
- White papers 2005-06-01
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