CONSTANT TEMPERATURE AND TIME PERIOD EFFECTS ON ANOPHELES GAMBIAE EGG HATCHING

We investigate if earnings forecast accuracy matters to security analysts by examining its association with analyst turnover. Controlling for firm- and time-period effects, forecast horizon and industry forecasting experience, we find that an analyst is more likely to turn over if his forecast accuracy is lower than his peers. We find no association between an analyst's probability of turnover and his absolute forecast accuracy. We also investigate another observable measure of the analyst's performance, the profitability of his stock recommendations. There is no statistical relation between the absolute or relative profitability of an analyst's stock recommendations and his probability of turnover. We interpret our findings as indicating that forecast accuracy is important to analysts.

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“Cogent Religious Instruction”: A Response to the Phenomenon of Radical Islamist Terrorism in Australia

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel10040246 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 246 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Halim Rane

Keyword(s):

Thinking Skills ◽

Critical Thinking Skills ◽

Military Interventions ◽

Religious Instruction ◽

Early 21St Century ◽

Period Effects ◽

Religious Extremism ◽

Time Period ◽

Islamic Jurisprudence ◽

Islamist Terrorism

Over the past 15 years, 47 Muslim Australians have been convicted for terrorism offences. Australian courts have determined that these acts were motivated by the offenders’ “Islamic” religious beliefs and that interpretations of Quranic verses concerning jihad, in relation to shariah, caliphate, will of God and religious duty contributed to the commission of these crimes. This paper argues that these ideas, derived from certain classical-era Islamic jurisprudence and modern Islamist thought, contradict other classical-era interpretations and, arguably, the original teachings of Islam in the time of the Prophet Muhammad. In response to the call for “cogent religious instruction” to combat the phenomenon of radical Islamist terrorism, this paper outlines a deradicalization program that addresses late 20th- and early 21st-century time-period effects: (1) ideological politicization associated with Islamist jihadism; (2) religious extremism associated with Salafism; and (3) radicalization associated with grievances arising from Western military interventions in Muslim-majority countries. The paper offers a counter narrative, based on a contextualized reading of the Quran and recent research on the authentication of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad. It further contends that cogent religious instruction must enhance critical-thinking skills and provide evidence-based knowledge in order to undermine radical Islamist extremism and promote peaceful coexistence.

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Are Aging OECD Welfare States on the Path to Gerontocracy?

Journal of Public Policy ◽

10.1017/s0143814x0900097x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 1-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 88

Author(s):

MARKUS TEPE ◽

PIETER VANHUYSSE

Keyword(s):

Median Voter ◽

Population Aging ◽

Welfare States ◽

Public Pension ◽

Public Pensions ◽

Distributive Politics ◽

Regime Type ◽

Welfare Regime ◽

Period Effects ◽

Time Period

ABSTRACTSince 1990 the age of the average OECD median voter has increased three times faster than in the preceding 30 years. We use panel data from 1980–2002 to investigate the effects of population aging on both the program size and the benefit generosity of public pensions in 18 OECD countries. Population aging is accompanied by cutting smaller slices out of larger cakes: it increases aggregate spending on pensions but freezes or decreases the generosity of individual benefits. Controlling for political, institutional and time-period effects, we find that public pension efforts are significantly mediated by welfare regime type. Moreover, since the late 1980s pension effort has more fully adopted a retrenchment logic. It is the politics of fiscal and electoral straitjackets, not gerontocracy, which shape public pension spending today. While population aging is accelerating, contrary to alarmist political economy predictions democracies are not yet dominated by a new distributive politics of elderly power.

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Meter for the measurement heat of combustion

International Symposium on Microelectronics ◽

10.4071/isom-2011-tha2-paper4 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2011 (1) ◽

pp. 000938-000946

Author(s):

Zbigniew Magonski

Keyword(s):

Electric Power ◽

Constant Temperature ◽

Combustion Zone ◽

Good Alternative ◽

Heat Energy ◽

Heat Of Combustion ◽

Direct Evaluation ◽

Bomb Calorimeter ◽

Time Period ◽

Power Change

This paper presents a proposal of a thermal instrument intended for the evaluation of heat energy of fluid fuels. Two thermal devices the flowmeter and the combustor are the basic components of the instrument. The meter maintains a constant temperature in the vicinity of the combustion zone. The amount of heat energy in the fuel is calculated as the ratio of the electric power change expressed in Watts to the change of fuel supply delivered to the combustor within a time period of 1sek. The method enables a direct evaluation of fuel energy expressed in Jules per unit of mass or volume. For some applications, the meter may be a good alternative for a bulky bomb calorimeter.

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Correlates of Attitudes about “The Right to Die” among 1973 and 1976 High School and College Students

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/v8u8-ta0m-8dj2-l275 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 355-368 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Marion Steininger ◽

Sandra Colsher

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

High School ◽

Birth Control ◽

Self Determination ◽

Right To Die ◽

Life And Death ◽

Life After Death ◽

Period Effects ◽

Time Period ◽

The Right

Attitudes about “the right to die” were studied among high school and college students at three recent points in time. A general item about the right to decide between life and death, and a specific one about that right for the terminally ill were accepted by more than half the students; both were more accepted than an item rejecting life after death. All three items were related to beliefs about religion, abortion, teenage birth control, and the worth of current ideas. The “right to die” items were positively correlated in all groups; the more conservative the students, the likelier they were to disagree with them. Agreement was related to belief in self-determination in moral/social matters. The item rejecting life after death was generally unrelated to the “right to die” items and to liberalism-conservatism, but its acceptance was greater among the more dogmatic college students, and among those derogating ideas and people. Possible reasons for the combined personality and time period effects were discussed; they suggest a potential backlash after more legislation such as the California law is passed, as is currently happening in the area of abortion.

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Race Differences in Trajectories of Hopelessness Among U.S. Older Adults: Do Social Conditions Matter?

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.989 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 257-258

Author(s):

Uchechi Mitchell ◽

Elena Graetz ◽

Jing Wang

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Mixed Models ◽

Race Differences ◽

Period Effects ◽

Time Period ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Cubic Function ◽

Retirement Study ◽

Over Time

Abstract Despite being a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, suicidal ideation, and mortality among U.S. older adults, research on hopelessness and how it changes over time are lacking. Although hopelessness generally increases with age, levels of hopelessness may be influenced by race/ethnicity and social or economic factors. This study uses longitudinal data from 8,359 individuals from the Health and Retirement Study to examine race differences in trajectories of hopelessness from 2006 to 2018. We used linear mixed models to estimate trajectories of hopelessness for blacks, whites and Hispanics age 51 and older. The model was fit with a natural spline cubic function to model changes in time trends of hopelessness and the interaction between time and race. Models controlled for demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, health status, and psychosocial factors that influence hopelessness. We found that older Hispanics have the highest levels of hopelessness, followed by non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic whites. Trajectories of hopelessness were non-linear and differed by race. For older whites, hopelessness increased from 2006-2010 and then decreased until 2018. For older blacks, it decreased the entire time period but did so at a decreasing rate; and, for older Hispanics, hopelessness decreased from 2006-2012 and then increased thereafter. Our study shows that hopelessness generally decreased over time among older adults between 2006 and 2018 in race-specific ways, despite generally increasing with age. These findings suggest that race, age and period effects differentially influence trajectories of hopelessness. Factors contributing to these differences may be related to concurrent social and economic conditions.

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