DVD-based distance-learning program for university entrance exams -- RCT experiments in rural Bangladesh

In contrast to the remarkable progress in developing countries in improving primary education, access to higher education in many countries remains limited, especially in rural areas where the quality of education is inadequate. We evaluate a DVD-based distance-learning program in rural Bangladesh, targeted at students aiming to take university entrance tests. We conducted two experiments: one to evaluate the effect of the distance-learning program and the second to determine the demand and price sensitivity. Our first experiment shows that the DVD-based distance-learning program has a considerable positive effect on the number of students passing entrance exams. This effect does not depend on cognitive scores, but does depend on non-cognitive attributes, indicating the importance of commitment, which is imposed through our program. In the second experiment, we offered a random subsidy to interested participants. The uptake decision is price-sensitive, although the price sensitivity is not correlated with students' past academic performance or their socio-economic status, suggesting that increasing the price should not disproportionately exclude poor students.

Chronostratigraphy of eastern Mediterranen Sea sediment cores

An Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) 14C dated multiparameter event stratigraphy is developed for the Aegean Sea on the basis of highly resolved (centimeter to subcentimeter) multiproxy data collected from four late glacial to Holocene sediment cores. We quantify the degree of proportionality and synchroneity of sediment accumulation in these cores and use this framework to optimize the confidence levels in regional marine, radiocarbon-based chronostratigraphies. The applicability of the framework to published, lower-resolution records from the Aegean Sea is assessed. Next this is extended into the wider eastern Mediterranean, using new and previously published high-resolution data from the northern Levantine and Adriatic cores. We determine that the magnitude of uncertainties in the intercore comparison of AMS 14C datings based on planktonic foraminifera in the eastern Mediterranean is of the order of ±240 years (2 SE). These uncertainties are attributed to synsedimentary and postsedimentary processes that affect the materials dated. This study also offers a background age control that allows for vital refinements to radiocarbon-based chronostratigraphy in the eastern Mediterranean, with the potential for similar frameworks to be developed for any other well-studied region.

Egypt and Syria under the Circassian sultans, 1382-1468 A.D. : systematic notes to Ibn Taghrî Birdî's chronicles of Egypt /

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Improving the performance of virtual memory computers /

"UILU-ENG 78 1741."

Some results on the working set anomalies in numerical programs /

"UILU-ENG 80 1744"--Cover.

Program behavior under VAX/VMS /

"UILU-ENG 83 1727"--Cover.

Plate with figures around a pool, two bands of Naskhi inscription

Shamsuddin al-Hasani Abu Zayd; 1 29/64 in.x 1 ft. 1 55/64 in.x 9 59/64 in.; stone-paste painted over glaze with luster

Rectificacion de la mente : tratado de lógica /

Also issued as a dissertation of Ángel Gonzáles Palencia, Madrid, 1955.

Kitāb wāsiṭat al-sulūk fī siyāsat al-mulūk /

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Meidanii proverbiorum arabicorum pars /

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Abulfeda Tabula Syriae cum excerpto geographico ex Ibn ol Wardii Geographia et historia naturali, arabice nunc primum ed., latine vertit notis explanavit Io. Bernhardus Koehler, accessera io. Iacabi Reiskii Animadversiones ad abulfedam et Prodidagmata ad historiam et geographiam orientalem.

MTSD 7.

Anastasii sinaitae, Patriarcha Antiocheni Hodegos, seu Dux viae aduersus Acephalos : nunc primum ... graece [et] latine editus /

Acceserunt quadraginta duo opuscula Theodori Abucarae Episcopi Cariae ... : Nunc primum graece et latine ... in lucem prolata / interpretibus Francisco Turriano et Jacobo Gretsero ...