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The relationship between truck accidents and geometric design of road sections: Poisson versus negative binomial regressions

Miaou, Shaw-Pin - 2008

This paper evaluates the performance of Poisson and negative binomial (NB) regression models in establishing the relationship between truck accidents and geometric design of road sections. Three types of models are considered. Poisson regression, zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression, and NB...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

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Risk Attitudes of Children and Adults : Choices over Small and Large Probability Gains and Losses

Harbaugh, William; Krause, Kate; Vesterlund, Lise - 2001

. Children’s choices are consistent with the underweighting of low-probability events and the overweighting of high …

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Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

Setel, P. W.; Sankoh, O.; Rao, C. P. V.; Velkoff, V. A.; … - 2005

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...

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The 'growth monitoring teaching aid' rapidly improves mothers' understanding of growth curves

Sohal, H.; Wilkinson, D.; Morley, D. - 1998

Most growth monitoring programmes in developing countries have not been successful in reducing malnutrition. This is due, at least in part, to the exclusion of mothers from the process of growth monitoring. An essential requisite for greater participation is for mothers to understand the meaning...

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The Mixed Economy of Child Care: An Institutional Analysis of Nonprofit, For-Profit, and Public Enterprises

Bushouse, Brenda K. - 1999

"Nonprofit theory predicts nonprofit enterprises will be more trustworthy than for-profit enterprises in the delivery of goods for which quality is difficult to determine because nonprofit enterprises are legally required to reinvest all profits back into the enterprise. Theoretically, consumers...

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Comparison of child body dimensions with rear seat geometry

Huang, S.; Reed, M. P. - 2006

Children who are too large for harness restraints but too small to obtain good restraint from a vehicle seatbelt alone … children to sit more comfortably without slouching. NHTSA recommends that children who do not use harness restraints use … children fit on rear seat cushions. Data from NASS-GES were analyzed to determine the age distribution of rear-seat occupants …

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Houston Street Looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas c. 1907

Smith Photo Co.

Photograph of Houston Street looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas. In the center of the street is a boy riding a bicycle between trolley tracks towards trolleys and horse-drawn buggies. On either side of the street are tall buildings with signs such as, "Lyric Theatre", "A.J. Anderson Co Gun Store"...

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Office of H.O. Company, 686 Main Street, Hartford.

J.C. Dexter Photo Co. - 1909

Men and women sit at desks and tables in an office interior. Most work at typewriters. A woman at the left operates a duplicating machine, possibly a mimeograph machine. A woman in the background talks on the telephone. A boy in the right background wears a uniform including a cap that reads:...

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