Social-security retirement benefits distort the saving decisions of workers who are rational enough to save for their future. Since the implicit rate of return in an unfunded social-security program is less than the marginal ...

Proponents and opponents of ratification of the ICESCR‟s Optional Protocol have both exaggerated the consequences of giving individuals a “private right of standing” before the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural ...

RTL design complexity discouraged adoption of reconfigurable logic in general purpose systems, impeding opportunities for performance and energy improvements. Recent improvements to HLS compilers simplify RTL design and ...

We report Si-isotopic compositions of 75 sedimentologically and petrographically characterized chert samples with ages ranging from ~2600 to 750 Ma using multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. ...

The anomalous Hall effect and spin Hall effect originate due to spin-orbit coupling that in the Kohn-Luttinger k · p formalism is represented by anomalous terms in the coordinate and velocity operators. Relation of these ...

Virtuosi impress audiences with their musical expressivity and with their theatrical flair. How do listeners use this auditory and visual information to judge performance quality? Both musicians and laypeople report a ...

The traditional practice of worshipping heroes, commonly known as “hero cult,” is a basic historical fact of ancient Greek civilization, and the evidence for it goes back all the way to the “Geometric” period of the first ...

Task-free connectivity analyses have emerged as a powerful tool in functional neuroimaging. Because the cross-correlations that underlie connectivity measures are sensitive to distortion of time-series, here we used a novel ...