Prof. Lawrence Crawford

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Voices that ever reverberate-in memory of Dr. Prof. Lawrence Grouse.

I really hope that I had not written up this memorial article—never—just as we do not worry about missing the sight of sunlight when we wake up every morning, or we stretch out our hands for help and somebody would hold them. We are not concerned too much, as though we should enjoy endless plenty of friendship, love, and salvation in life. I was wrong… We first met in Rome, in a summer afternoo...

And Nicholas Crawford

Recently, a random current representation for transverse field Ising models has been introduced in [15]. This representation is a space-time version of the classical random current representation exploited by Aizenman et. al. [1, 3, 4]. In this paper we formulate and prove corresponding space-time versions of the classical switching lemma and show how they generate various correlation inequalit...

Crawford Williamson Long *

I do not propose this evening to delve into the age-old argument concerning the discoverer of anesthesia. It is doubtful if any here assembled have, to any very great extent, witnessed surgery without anesthesia, yet only 100 years ago the screams of agony issuing from the operating room would have chilled the blood of the hardiest among us. The important point of this contribution is not which...

Applying Crawford and Ostrom’s Grammar

In 1995, Crawford and Ostrom proposed a grammatical syntax for examining institutional statements (i.e., rules, norms, and strategies) as part of the institutional analysis and development framework. This article constitutes the first attempt at applying the grammatical syntax to code institutional statements using two pieces of U.S. legislation. The authors illustrate how the grammatical synta...