Devastation and Celebration: Digging into Culinary Roots, Race, and Place

Digging deeper into obesity.

The growing problem of obesity is associated with multiple morbidities, including increased risk of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, sleep apnea, and cancer. Obesity promotes disability, decreases productivity, and shortens life span. Although much attention has been focused on diet and exercise, these strategies alone are not effective in preventing obesity and maintaining weight loss. M...

Race, Place, and Information Technology

Race, Place and Poverty Revisited

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Digging into Commodities ∗

We investigate the determinants of aggregate commodity returns and establish the following findings. (1) Common predictors of bond and stock returns, such as the short rate and the yield spread, also predict commodity returns. A high yield spread predicts low commodity returns, consistent with commodities being a hedge for market fluctuations. (2) Even controlling for these common predictors, a...

Digging into Concurrency

The topic of this paper is the design and implementation of an interacting Lego digger and dumper truck through the use of Petri nets. The focus of this is primarily on the use of Petri nets in the developing of dependable systems, an area of particular concern in the full-size equivalent of our experiment. The content of this paper will discuss the progression of the Petri net model of these t...