GODWIN JESCHAL, Politik und Wissenschaft deutscher Aerzte im Ersten Weltkrieg, (Wutrzburger Medizinhistorische Forschungen, Band 13), Pattensen/ Han., Horst Wellm Verlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. 169, DM. 26.00 (paperback). This doctoral thesis from Berlin tells the old and unedifying story of how the leaders of the German medical profession followed their imperialist government in supporting the 1914-18...

In many markets, consumers obtain price quotes before making purchases. This paper considers a fixed-sample size model of consumer search for price quotes when sellers must spend resources to learn the true cost of providing goods/services. It is found that (1) even with ex ante identical consumers and sellers, there is price dispersion in the equilibrium; (2) the expected equilibrium price can...

Power spectrum densities for the number of tick quotes per minute (market activity) on three currency markets (USD/JPY, EUR/USD, and JPY/EUR) for periods from January 1999 to December 2000 are analyzed. We find some peaks on the power spectrum densities at a few minutes. We develop the double-threshold agent model and confirm that stochastic resonance occurs for the market activity of this mode...

We describe a method for identifying the speakers of quoted speech in natural-language textual stories. We have assembled a corpus of more than 3,000 quotations, whose speakers (if any) are manually identified, from a collection of 19th and 20th century literature by six authors. Using rule-based and statistical learning, our method identifies candidate characters, determines their genders, and...

Douglas Bratthall was an inspirational cariologist known for his playful curiosity, thoughtful inquisitiveness, incisive scholarship, and energetic leadership. He became a time, mind, and global traveler who viewed his career path as an exotic safari. This 'Discovery!' report identifies where his era's burning issues have led and how they were shaped by his contributions.

iii DEDICATION Thanks to my wife Kelly, for without her I would not be here. Thanks to my father Larry, my mother Lovice, and my brothers Glenn and Paul, for their insight and encouragement. Antonio Palacios who have been at the same time helpful and inspirational in the research of the thesis. Special Thanks to Dr. Jose Castillo for his continued support.

BACKGROUND Research continues to present tenuous suggestions that social media is well suited to enhance management of chronic disease and improve health outcomes. Various studies have presented qualitative reports of health outcomes from social media use and have examined discourse and communication themes occurring through different social media. However, there is an absence of published stud...

Power spectrum densities for the number of tick quotes per minute (market activity) on three currency markets (USD/JPY, EUR/USD, and JPY/EUR) for periods from January 1999 to December 2000 are analyzed. We find some peaks on the power spectrum densities at a few minutes. We develop the double-threshold agent model and confirm that stochastic resonance occurs for the market activity of this mode...