Inequality and entrepreneurial thresholds

We explore the relationship between inequality and entrepreneurial activity. Drawing on cross-sectional data from a largescale survey of the economic conditions of individuals across India, we develop a number of dimensions of inequality to explore empirically how inequality interacts with entrepreneurship, operationalized as self-employment or as employing other people. We find compelling evidence that there are thresholds to becoming self-employed, and even more so to assembling the combinations of resources and personal attributes required to become an employer. Greater inequality leaves more people unable to make the transition to self-employment, leaving casual laboring as the occupation of necessity. At the same time, inequality increases the number of employers in a society, by concentrating resources - particularly land and finance - enough for significant numbers of people to be able to cross this higher threshold. Lastly, greater differentiation into social or religious groups curtails the ability to cross either entrepreneurial threshold, presumably by limiting the extent and benefits of social networks of value for entrepreneurship.     

仓储物流中UWB技术的应用

作为一种无线通信技术,UWB技术因其自身所具有的高速、低成本和低功耗等优势而成为未来无线定位技术的热点。基于UWB技术的Ubisense7000定位系统是Ubisense公司推出的第一个民用精密实时无线定位系统,其3D定位精度可达到15cm左右。文中简述了UWB技术的基本概念,给出了Ubisense7000定位系统在仓储物流中的应用实例,并预测了UWB技术在仓储物流中的发展趋势。     

Linear processing in a semantic network: An alternative view of consumer product evaluation

While the linear model has been very successful in explaining the product evaluation process of consumers, it is quite uncertain what the model actually means in terms of underlying cognitive processes. An alternative model is developed, based on semantic network models developed in the psychology of memory, and used to explain the product evaluation process. It is shown that in certain cases this model leads to an information integration process structurally similar to the lineat model.