Emergency and wilderness medicine expert. Born Jan 4, 1951, in Plainfield, NJ, USA, he died of brain cancer on June 23, 2021, Los Altos, CA, aged 70 years. As an early pioneer medicine, Paul Auerbach regularly encountered gaps the field, including insufficient academic resources or collaborating organisations. Yet “he was kind man who wasn’t just going to identify gaps”, said Andra Blomkalns, R...

By Mrs. Sylvia Anthony. Kegan Paul. lis. 6d. The writer of this book is to be congratulated ?n having undertaken an original piece of ^search, one which needed a most careful Planning of approach to the groups of children observed in order to get as spontaneous a resPonse as possible to the tests used, i.e. story completion test and an intelligence test with modifications. In addition, "home re...

We test the hypothesis that investment in actively managed mutual funds is linked to investor clienteles. We document that individual investors located in less affluent, less educated, and ethnic minority neighborhoods invest more in funds with expensive load fees. They also tend to invest a disproportionate amount in funds with no minimum-balance requirements, and find fewer funds and (fewer n...

PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE, PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION. Using a new dataset covering reverse convertible bonds, this paper nds evidence of retail consumers frequently buying unambiguously dominated nancial products. It is common practice for a bank to simultaneously issue identical reverse convertible bonds at the same price with di erent interest rates/coupons such that the payout o...

environmental health physician-scientist and NIEHS director from 1966 to 1971, passed away in Laguna Beach, California. A pathologist by training, Kotin received his MD in 1939 from the University of Illinois, and later served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II, followed by private practice and appointments at Los Angeles County Hospital and the University of Southern California...

Paul W. Sternberg was born on Long Island, New York. He was an undergraduate at Hampshire College, obtaining his B.A. in 1978. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from MIT in 1984 for work on nematode development with Robert Horvitz, and pursued postdoctoral research in yeast molecular genetics with Ira Herskowitz at UCSF. He joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, where he i...

Ubiquitous, high-bandwidth Internet and cellular connectivity is no longer a goal, but an expectation for modern-day users. Such connectivity is heavily dependent on infrastructure that is both costly and slow to deploy. As data consumption and demand increase at rates akin to Moore’s Law, traditional infrastructure models begin to break down. In my thesis work, I have studied problems surround...