An important recent development has been the emergence o f a body o f literature by Harva rd economists emphasizing a collective voice/insti tutional response (CV/IR) view of unionism, t Possibly the most controversial aspect o f this literature (hereafter, the Harva rd studies) concerns the effects o f unions on labor productivity. Utilizing a product ion function approach, Brown and Medof f (...

I t all started when Nathan Allen was stuck in the lab, babysitting his experiments for hours at a time. The 10or 15-minute blocks between checking on his reactions weren’t long enough to dig into anything substantial. Instead, he recalls, “I posted snarky comments on the internet, which you can do in 5 minutes.” Soon, Allen was answering science questions on the Web site Reddit, where he saw p...

In 1995, Allen Fisher published a poem entitled ‘Mummers’ Strut’ in an issue of the magazine West Coast Line,[1] accompanied by a statement of poetics. The poem is organised into twentyseven short numbered sections, mostly in couplets, ranging from two to twenty lines in length. The predominant impression is of a fragmented discourse that is hard to read as constructing a consistent speaking vo...

www.biosciencemag.org February 2006 / Vol. 56 No. 2 • BioScience 159 N faculty face challenges significantly different from those of their predecessors, including working with students who represent increasingly diverse ages, ethnicities, capabilities, and levels of interest and commitment (Golde and Dore 2001, Austin 2002). Science graduates who become faculty commonly find themselves underpre...

Maturing distributed generation (DG) technologies have promoted interest in alternative sources of energy for commercial building applications due to their potential to supply on-site heat and power at a lower cost and emissions rate compared to centralized generation. Accordingly, we present an optimization model that determines the mix, capacity, and operational schedule of DG technologies th...

The Allen Human Brain Atlas is a publicly available online resource of gene expression information in human brain comprising multiple datasets from several projects. Colorimetric in situ hybridization (ISH) methods were used in several of these projects to provide gene expression data at cellular level resolution in specific brain regions. The data are publicly accessible via a Web-based applic...

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Let Xt be any additive process in R d. There are finite indices δi, βi, i = 1, 2 and a function u, all of which are defined in terms of the characteristics of Xt, such that lim inf t→0 u(t) −1/η X * t = 0, if η > δ1, ∞, if η < δ2, lim sup t→0 u(t) −1/η X * t = 0, if η > β2, ∞, if η < β1, a.s., where X * t = sup 0≤s≤t |Xs|. When Xt is a Lévy process with X0 = 0, δ1 = δ2, β1 = β2 and u(t) = t. Th...

We use the recently-developed multiparameter theory of additive Lévy processes to establish novel connections between an arbitrary Lévy process X in R, and a new class of energy forms and their corresponding capacities. We then apply these connections to solve two long-standing problems in the folklore of the theory of Lévy processes. First, we compute the Hausdorff dimension of the image X(G) ...