Education through dramatic play in the secondary schools

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University, 1931. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

The Housing Wealth Effect: The Crucial Roles of Demographics, Wealth Distribution and Wealth Shares

Current estimates of housing wealth effects vary widely. We consider the role of omitted variables suggested by economic theory that have been absent in a number of prior studies. Our estimates take into account age composition and wealth distribution (using poverty rates as a proxy), as well as wealth shares (how much of total wealth is comprised of housing vs. stock wealth). We exploit cross-state variation in housing, stock wealth and other variables in a newly assembled panel data set and find that the impact of housing on consumer spending depends crucially on age composition, poverty rates, and the housing wealth share. In particular, young people who are more likely to be credit-constrained, and older homeowners, likely to be “trading down” on their housing stock, experience the largest housing wealth effects, as suggested by theory. Also, as suggested by theory, housing wealth effects are higher in state-years with higher housing wealth shares, and in state-years with higher poverty rates (likely reflecting the greater importance of credit constraints for those observations). Taking these various factors into account implies huge variation over time and across states in the size of housing wealth effects.

A purposeful psychology for religious education

This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universityhttps://archive.org/details/apurposefulpsych00kno

Alien Registration- Stanley, Charles A. (Houlton, Aroostook County)

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Mandated benefits, welfare, and heterogeneous firms

The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers? insurance, and may also redistribute in favor of more "deserving" workers. The risk is that it may also reduce output. The more diverse are free market contracts - separating the various worker types - the more likely it is that such output effects will on balance serve to reduce welfare. It is shown that adverse effects can be mitigated by restricting mandates to "large" firms. An alternative to a mandate is direct government provision. We demonstrate that direct government provision may be superior to mandates by virtue of preserving separations. --

Interactive agent generated architecture

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55).The thesis explores architectural form generation through two behavior based artificial intelligence approaches: the communication of agents in an unpredictable simulation system, and the codification of information within an evolutionary process. Both concepts stem from the evaluation of potentially definable mental constructions involving the process of translation and generation through base-level procedural methods. The experiments look towards the implementation of alternative computational processes regarding knowledge encapsulation, process recording, simulation environments, agent communication and interpretation from bottom up design approaches. The experiment explores alternative approaches to design theory within the discipline of architectural computation.by Jeffrey Charles Stanley Krause.M.S

Teresa Grinage and Charles Stanley in a Joint Senior Voice Recital

This is the program for the joint senior recital of mezzo-soprano Teresa Grinage and baritone Charles Stanley. Ms. Grinage was accompanied on the piano by Camille Brown, and Mr. Stanley was accompanied by Cindy Fuller. This recital took place on April 5, 2002, in the McBeth Recital Hall in the Mabee Fine Arts Center

The Use of Crystal Ball within a Spreadsheet to Analyze Capital-Budgeting Decisions in the Hospitality Industry

The object of the paper is to show how Crystal Ball, an add-inn to a spreadsheet, can be used to provide better answers to capital-budgeting questions. While capital budgeting is not a new tool to analyze the uncertainty inherent in long-range investment decisions, recent technological developments now allow complex Monte Carlo simulations to be run on a personal computer within a familiar spreadsheet in a fraction of the time that was required just a few years ago. This paper shows how it is now possible to explicitly model uncertainty within the point-and-click environment that is within the grasp of most of today\u27s spreadsheet users. The difficulty in the capital-budgeting process stems from the uncertainties surrounding the estimation of the amount and timing of future cash flows. Unlike most traditional approaches that ignore uncertainty and rely instead on single, best-guess point estimates, we suggest that we need to explore ways to grapple with the probabilistic nature of capital-budgeting calculations. The paper first presents a deterministic model using single point estimates to analyze a typical capital-budgeting problem - which machine should the company buy? The deterministic model assumes that all of the inputs are known with certainty and each input is represented by a single point estimate. Next, simulation software is used to replace the single point estimate in each cell of the model with the appropriate probability density function, or a distribution of most likely values. The probability density function defined the range of values that the cell may take on during the simulation. The results of the simulation provide much more robust information than would a single most likely outcome showing the range of possible answers and the probability of their occurrence. Hopefully this paper demonstrates how we can provide our students with another tool before they enter the work force so they can better serve their companies as they look into the future