Preface The work for this thesis has been carried out at Systems Analysis Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology. I want to express my warmest thanks to my thesis supervisor, professor Raimo P. Hämäläinen, for his dynamic way to supervise me. I learned a lot during these years. It was a great pleasure to collaborate with Dr. Ahti Salo and Dr. Hans C. Vrolijk. Ahti provided me a good st...

This paper investigates behavior in the Traveler’s Dilemma game and isolates deviations from textbook predictions caused by differences in welfare perceptions and strategic miscalculations. It presents the results of an experimental analysis based on a 2x2 design where the own and the other subject’s bonus-penalty parameters are changed independently. We find that the change in own bonus-penalt...

The ability to decompose agar has not hitherto been recorded for any member of the Actinomycetales, and consequently it seemed desirable to make a detailed study of a typical Actinomyces possessing this property, which was discovered fortuitously. The organism appeared on a discarded tapwater agar plate (used originally for the germination of myxomycete sclerotia) in the form of blue-black colo...

one proton on nitrogen, the other must be on oxygen. Acetylglycine shows the same behavior. It can also be concluded that the bisulfate ion is a poor base for exchanging the N-H proton of secondary amides in sulfuric acid. Primary Amides.-The N-H proton magnetic resonance absorption of acetamide has been observed in saturated aqueous solutions at pH 7 and in 100 per cent sulfuric acid. Here, al...

Much of the literature on care workers focuses on issues of retention and recruitment, which are especially important to those concerned with the long-term care industry. On the other hand, researchers who study low-wage workers emphasize the barriers these workers face in escaping low earnings by remaining in low-wage industries and firms that offer a low wage premium. Despite this tension, no...

s Fritz Senn noted four decades ago, translators of Ulysses embark upon “a veritable odyssey,” so they need “the skill, the resourcefulness of Odysseus himself, as well as his perseverance and, if possible, some help from a kindly disposed goddess of wisdom.”1 What Senn’s writings have amply demonstrated, however, is that no matter how endowed with the above mentioned merits translators are, th...

t Davis, B. D., Bact. Proc., 1952, 157. 1 Selbie, F. R., Brit. Med. Bull., 4, 267 (1946-1947). 2 Work, T. S., and Work, E., The Basis of Chemotherapy, Interscience, New York, 1948, Ch. VI. 3Davis, B. D., J. Exp. Med., 94, 243 (1951). 4Davis, B. D., and Mingioli, E. S., J. Bact., 60, 17 (1950). 6 N-(2-thiazolyl)-4-hydroxybenzene sulfonamide. This compound was kindly furnished by the American Cya...

The McFadden Act of 1927 was one of the most hotly contested pieces of legislation in U.S. banking history, and its influence was felt over half a century later. This paper studies the Congressional voting behavior surrounding the Act’s passage. We find congressmen in districts in which landholdings were concentrated, and credit costlier were significantly more likely to oppose the act. The evi...