∗This research was supported by funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Iain Cockburn, Rebecca Eisenberg, Bronwyn Hall, Mark Lemley, Douglas Lichtman, Jean Lanjouw, David Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Arti Rai, Mark Schankerman, Scott Stern, and Rosemarie Ziedonis provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. I also benefitted from feedback from participants at the 2004 NBE...

California, Berkeley; and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Stanford University. The authors thank Maite Careaga, Scott Gehlbach, John Litwack, Douglass North, Yingyi Qian, and Daniel Treisman for helpful comments. Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition Rui J. P. de ...

We show there exists a continuous compactly supported function ' de ned on the reals satsifying '(x) = c0'(2x) + c1'(2x 1) + c2'(2x 2) if and only if c1 = 1, c0 + c2 = 1, and jc0j; jc2j < 1. The functions ' are examples of scaling functions from the theory of wavelets. x

Monitoring System has been forthcoming (see March 1996 Colorado Dairy News). Although Colorado was not one of the states sampled. The results on a regional and national basis provide our producers with thoughtprovoking information. The Colorado Dairy News will feature topics from this study in this and future issues. We appreciate the assistance of Dr Scott Wells and his associates at NAHMS wit...

CHEST I 103 I 6 I JUNE, 1993 1887 Pulmonary actinomycosis usually occurs as a result of the aspiration of oropharyngeal material in the setting of poor dental hygiene or oral trauma. When pathogenic, it is invasive, often mimicking a malignancy in presentation and macroscopic appearance. Endobronchial disease due to this pathogen rarely is reported. Ariel et al recently described five patients ...

A sign pattern is a matrix with entries in {+, −, 0}. A full sign pattern has no zero entries. The refined inertia of a matrix pattern is defined and techniques are developed for constructing potentially nilpotent full sign patterns. Such patterns are spectrally arbitrary. These techniques can also be used to construct potentially nilpotent sign patterns that are not full, as well as potentiall...

Many graphics applications today have to cope with large amounts of data. A popular approach to reduce the amount of geometry to be rendered is to precompute visibility in order to render only objects that can be seen from the given viewpoint. This paper presents one technique to achieve this, potentially visible sets (PVS). These sets are used to avoid rendering hidden objects, especially geom...