This study is the first to simultaneously analyze the relation between aggregate stock market returns and cash flows of the various investor groups that constitute the entire stock market in the United States. We examine the relation between investor flows and stock market returns over a long time period from 1952 to 2004, and also examine the relation between investor flows and longer-term sto...

M. David Merrill makes his home in St. George, Utah. He is an instructional effectiveness consultant, a visiting professor at Florida State University, Brigham Young University – Hawaii, and professor emeritus at Utah State University. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1964 he has served on the faculty of George Peabody College, Brigham Young University Provo, Stanford ...

1 James K. Archibald, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, [email protected] Abstract  This paper describes a new approach to lab assignments in computer architecture courses. Using a tool suite for the target instruction-set architecture, students model the performance of a sequence of processor architectures running selected benchmark programs...

IMPORTANCE Quality and safety of eyedrop use for patients treated in a health care setting play a vital role in the delivery of health care. OBJECTIVE To describe the development of a policy and procedural approach to the use of multidose eyedrops in multiple patients, approved and accepted by The Joint Commission in compliance with preferred practice standards in ophthalmology, the safe hand...

Leatherside chub (Snyderichthyes copei Jordan & Gilbert) comprises two lineages (northern and southern) whose centres of geographical range differ by about 3 latitude corresponding to about 30% shorter growing season and about 2 C lower mean temperature during the growing season. We document patterns of variation in sizeat-age among populations of leatherside chub in nature, and we test for var...

— New synonymies and new data affecting North American Pityophthortis are proposed as follows: chalcoensis Hopkins { = herrerai Hopkins) and nigricans Blandford ( = chiapensis Bright). Neotypes are designated for the following species described by Eichhoff: concentralis, cribripennis, infans, puchellus, and tuberculatus. New species are: carinatus (Canada), cavatus (Manitoba, Saskatchewan), eut...

This experimental study demonstrates the usefulness of multi-group piece-wise latent growth curve models (LGCM) in clinical research, particularly for assessing and comparing treatment effects. Sixty-two female patients (M age = 28.1; SD = 8.00) with bulimia nervosa were randomly assigned to a) a guided self-change treatment (GSC) involving a self-care manual plus 8 bi-weekly sessions of cognit...

Fire suppression in the last century has resulted in forests with excessive amounts of biomass, leading to more severe wildfires, covering greater areas, requiring more resources for suppression and mitigation, and causing increased onsite and offsite damage to forests and watersheds. Forest managers are now attempting to reduce this accumulated biomass by thinning, prescribed fire, and other m...

Fire suppression in the last century has resulted in forests with excessive amounts of biomass, leading to more severe wildfires, covering greater areas, requiring more resources for suppression and mitigation, and causing increased onsite and offsite damage to forests and watersheds. Forest managers are now attempting to reduce this accumulated biomass by thinning, prescribed fire, and other m...

The current work sets forth a practical approach to numerically solve two-dimensional direct acoustic scattering problems from arbitrary shape obstacles that involve severe singularities, such as corners and cusps. First, boundary conforming coordinates are generated. This generation is performed through an elliptic grid generator algorithm, including control of the coordinate lines. The grid c...