Special interests and political business cycles

In this paper we bridge the gap between special interest politics and political business cycle literature. We build a framework where the interplay between the lobby power of special interest groups and the voting power of the majority of the population leads to political business cycles. We apply our set up to explain electoral cycles in government expenditure composition, aggregate expenditures and real exchange rates.

Special subsets and optimum codes based on lattices and cosets

This paper introduces the concept of special subsets when applied to generator matrices based on lattices and cosets as presented by Calder-bank and Sloane. By using the special subsets we propose a non exhaustive code search for optimum codes. Although non exhaustive, the search always results in optimum codes for given (k1, V, Λ/Λ′). Tables with binary and ternary optimum codes to partitions of lattices with 8, 9 e 16 cosets, were obtained.

α-SiAION: Development and machining test on gray cast iron

The α-SiAlON ceramic cutting tool insert is developed. Silicon nitride and additives powders are pressed and sintered in the form of cutting tool inserts at temperature of 1900 °C. The physics and mechanical properties of the inserts like green density, weight loss, relative density, hardness and fracture toughness are evaluated. Machining studies are conducted on grey cast iron workpiece to evaluate the performance of α-SiAlON ceramic cutting tool. In the paper the cutting tool used in higher speed showed an improvement in the tribological interaction between the cutting tools and the grey cast iron workpiece resulted in a significant reduction of flank wear and roughness, because of better accommodation and the presence of the graphite in gray cast iron. The above results are discussed in terms of their affect at machining parameters on gray cast iron.

Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated in Germany and the United States. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.1, 13 December, 2004

Over the twentieth century, a growing group of students has been transferred into considerably expanded special education systems. These programs serve children with diagnosed impairments and disabilities and students with a variety of learning difficulties. Children and youth “with special educational needs” constitute a heterogeneous group with social, ethnic, linguistic, and physical disadvantages. An increasingly large percentage of those students at risk of leaving school without credentials participate in special education, a highly legitimated low status (and stigmatizing) school form. While most countries commit themselves to school integration or inclusive education to replace segregated schools and separate classes, cross-national and regional comparisons of special education’s diverse student bodies show considerable disparities in their (1) rates of classification, (2) provided learning opportunities, and (3) educational attainments. Analyzing special education demographics and organizational structures indicates which children and youth are most likely to grow up less educated and how educational systems distribute educational success and failure. Findings from a German-American comparison show that which students bear the greatest risk of becoming less educated depends largely on definitions of “special educational needs” and the institutionalization of special education systems.

No-passing zone treatments for special geometric and traffic operational situations. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Traffic Systems Division, Washington, D.C.

Special education and the Hispanic child : proceedings from the second annual Colloquium on Hispanic Issues /

"August 1981."

The year's entertainments ... a collection of recitations, dialogues, songs, exercises, etc., arranged as programs for special days and occasions, providing for each month of the school year,

Mode of access: Internet.

Nominations of Elaine D. Kaplan and Ruth Y. Goldway : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, March 30, 1998, nominations of Elaine D. Kaplan, to be Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel, and Ruth Y. Goldway, to be Commissioner of the Postal Rate Commission.

Shipping list no.: 98-0363-P.

An illustrated system of human anatomy, special, general and microscopic /

Mode of access: Internet.

Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals,

Translation of Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie der Haustiere.

Peace Corps in special education and rehabilitation /

"Prepared for the Peace Corps by Partners of the Americas under contract no. 80-043-1023"--T.p. verso.

Charter of the city of Rome : special acts and city ordinances.

Mode of access: Internet.