Illusions of immediacy: rediscovering Hall’s early work on media

Looking for Work in the Halls of Academe

for a faculty assignment at an institution of higher education. But very little, if any, of this training deals with the real life issue of finding an academic position in higher education. So it was a joy to discover this recent publication by Karen Sowers-Hoag, a professor of social work and dean of the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Dianne F. Harrison, ...

Early Work on Telomeres

The DNA sequence of Tetrahymena telomeres was the first to be determined among all telomeres by Elizabeth Blackburn and Joseph Gall in 1978. In 1982, Jack Szostak and Blackburn showed that the unique DNA sequence contained in the telomeres served to protect the chromosomes from degradation. In 1985, Carol Greider and Blackburn showed how the telomeres could be elongated by the enzyme telomerase...

Early Work on Insulin.

Architectural shape and early acoustic efficiency in concert halls (L).

Supplying sufficient early reflections to audience members is an important prerequisite to good acoustic quality in performing arts spaces. However, the relationship between the geometry of a room and its acoustic efficiency in terms of early energy has rarely been investigated using basic geometrical principles. The present study demonstrates the possibility of predicting the average value of ...

The Price of Immediacy

This paper models transaction costs as the rents that a monopolistic market maker extracts from impatient investors who trade via limit orders. We show that limit orders are American options. The limit prices inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker’s entire supply...