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Alice Sullivan

Biographical note: Alice Sullivan is a Research Officer at the Bedford Group for Lifecourse and Statistical Studies, Institute of Education, University of London. Current projects include a study of co-educational and single-sex schooling. Acknowledgements: Many thanks to John Bynner, Anthony Heath, Geoffrey Walford and two referees. This work was funded by an ESRC studentship.

Aligning component upgrades

Modern software systems, like GNU/Linux distributions or Eclipse-based development environment, are often deployed by selecting components out of large component repositories. Maintaining such software systems by performing component upgrades is a complex task, and the users need to have an expressive preferences language at their disposal to specify the kind of upgrades they are interested in....

Transgenesis upgrades for Drosophila melanogaster.

Drosophila melanogaster is a highly attractive model system for the study of numerous biological questions pertaining to development, genetics, cell biology, neuroscience and disease. Until recently, our ability to manipulate flies genetically relied heavily on the transposon-mediated integration of DNA into fly embryos. However, in recent years significant improvements have been made to the tr...

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Product Upgrades and Posted Prices

We consider the dynamic pricing problem of a durable good monopolist with full commitment power, when a new version of the good is expected at some point in the future. The new version of the good is superior to the existing one, bringing a higher flow utility. If the arrival is a stationary stochastic process, then the corresponding optimal price path is shown to be constant for both versions ...