Patrick Anthony Merton. 8 October 1920 — 13 June 2000

In Memoriam: Edmund Pellegrino (June 22, 1920-June 13, 2013)

October 2000

Introducing a concept of real, as opposed to nominal, inequality of income or wealth suggests some historical reinterpretations, buttressed by a closer look at consumption by the rich. The purchasing powers of different income classes depend on how relative prices move. The influence of relative prices on real inequality was greater in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries than in the twen...

The European Metropolis 1920-2000

Comparative studies of urbanisation can be characterized by their emphasis on the quantitative and visual aspects of urban growth, which is amongst other things reflected in the analysis of spatial patterns and rates of urban population growth. The visual aspects relate both to the spatial realisation of the demand for urban land use and its functional variation. This emphasis can be understood...

A memorial tribute to Anthony E. Cawkell, 1920-2003

On 5 August 2003, our beloved colleague Anthony E. Cawkell passed away from cancer. Tony was a longtime member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Science as well as Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, now the Chartered Institute for Librarians and Information Professionals (CILIP). Before ‘retiring’ to a private consultancy, CITECH Ltd, he had been ISI’...

ICC ' 2000 , June , 2000 , New Orleans , Louisiana

Source traac streams as well as aggre-gated traac ows often exhibit long-range-dependent (LRD) properties. In this paper, we model each traac stream component through the multiplicative multi-fractal counting process traac model. We prove that the superposition of a nite number of multiplicative multifractal traac streams results in another multi-fractal stream. This property makes the multifra...