Hearing-aid volume control adjustment by deaf children

This paper examines hearing aid volume control adjustments by deaf children. Specifically the study looks at how accurately deaf children set the volume controls of their hearing aids, if deaf children are able to comprehend the effects of talker-microphone distance on stimulus intensity, and do deaf children use their hearing aids to monitor their own voices. Access to thesis is restricted. Contact Archives and Rare Books.

Motivaciones económicas en la manumisión de esclavas: una comparación entre ciudades de América Latina (Estudios)

La manumisión esclava fue una característica estructural de la sociedad colonial latinoamericana. Sin embargo, esto no quiere decir que todos, o que la mayoría,de los esclavos consiguieran salir del cautiverio. Solo un pequeño porcentaje logró terminar sus días como libre. En ese porcentaje la mayoría fueron mujeres. Desde las grandes regiones esclavistas hasta las periféricas, y desde el comienzo de la era colonial hasta la emancipación total, siempre las mujeres se manumitieron proporcionalmente más que los hombres. Este artículo propone como hipótesis parcial de tal fenómeno que las esclavas se manumitieron más porque contaban con una exención fiscal que no tenían los hombres. Para demostrar tal cosa, se enfatiza en que la familia esclava era la que tomaba la decisión de a quién manumitir y que la libertad era más una estrategia que un objetivo.

Productivity, labour cost and export adjustment: Detailed results for 24 EU countries. Bruegel Working Paper 2012/11, 12 July 2012

As a background document for Bruegel Policy Contribution 2012/11 ‘Compositional effects on productivity, labour cost and export adjustment’, this working paper presents detailed results for 24 EU countries on: • The sectoral changes in the economy; • The unit labour costs (ULC) based real effective exchange rate (REER) and its main components; • Export performance. • The ULC-REERs are calculated: • For the total economy, the business sector (excluding agriculture, construction and real estate activities), and some main sectors; • Using both actual aggregates and fixed-weight aggregates, as the latter are free from the impacts of compositional changes; • Against 30 trading partners and against three subsets of trading partners: euro-area, non-euro area EU, non-EU.

The policy mix and macroeconomic adjustment in the Euro area. CEPS Commentary, 15 October 2012

Against the background of the IMF’s latest global economic forecast, Jørgen Mortensen and Cinzia Alcidi raise questions in a new CEPS Commentary about the timing of the implementation and the effects of the three main categories of economic policy – fiscal, monetary and structural.