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Alcohol consumption and body weight
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The number of Americans who are overweight or obese has reached epidemic proportions. Elevated weight is associated with health problems and increased medical expenditures. This paper analyzes Waves 1 and 2 of the National ...
DeviceNet reliability assessment using physical and data link layer parameters
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-11)
Since the 1990s, the increasing deployments of networked automation systems led to increased manufacturing productivity, improved interchangeability of devices from different vendors, facilitated flexibility and reconfigurability ...
Essays in Financial and Insurance Mathematics.
(2012)
This dissertation consists of the following three parts: (i) We find the minimum probability of lifetime ruin of an investor who can invest in a market with a risky and a riskless asset. The price of the risky asset is ...
Modeling the effect of the curing conversion on the dynamic viscosity of epoxy resins cured by an anhydride curing agent
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-02-05)
Published curing profiles of epoxy resins mixed with an anhydride curing agent and subsequently crosslinked were reanalyzed with a modified sigmoidal model to describe the dynamic viscosity accompanying resin curing. The ...
New Perspectives on Regression Adjustment in Causal Inference, with Applications to Educational Program Evaluation.
(2013)
Causal inference from observational data—that is, data that did not come from an experiment—is
notoriously difficult: because the probability distribution of the treatment variable Z is unknown,measured or unmeasured variables ...
Moving Targets: Managing Interinstitutional Relationships in Green Building Design and Construction.
(2013)
The act of building typically results in significant consumption of land and natural resources through both construction and building use, as well as the production of both indoor air pollution and landfill waste. Yet green ...