During the past two years, the UCAR Board of Trustees and other members of the UCAR university community have become increasingly concerned about the number of students applying for graduate school (Anthes, 2000a). A number of us have seen the pool of applicants shrink at our own Ph.D. programs in recent years. Furthermore, participants in the 1999 UCAR Forum on the future of the atmospheric sc...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2013 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part I,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 346–359. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The German librarian Julius Hanauer, primarily known for his support of decimal classification in the 1920s, was an important link between Germany and the international bibliographic m...

Virtual prototyping involves a synthesis of engineering methodology and immersive, three-dimensional vi-sualization technology. Ideally, this is a process in which computational models are used in place of physical models in the development of a new product or design concept. If used successfully, virtual prototyping can lead to more rapid product design and development. Software is currently b...

T h r e s h e r E d i t o r i a l S t a f f A Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Teaching has been c r e a t e d and charged with "promoting excellence in undergraduate teaching by any appropriate means," President Kenneth S. Pitzer announced last week. Chairman of the committee is Ronald Sass, Master of Hanszen College. The committee was formed to fulfill the conditions of a g i f t of $500,00...

In this paper we examine changes in dollar and relative bid-ask spreads of stocks following large price movements. We investigate large increases and decreases separately and link our results to current market microstructure theories on trading activities and spreads. We also look at changes in volume and selling pressure to interpret the changes in trading activity. Our results show that the m...

This paper implements an emerging data-driven method of directed acyclic graphs to study the contemporaneous causal structure among the federal funds rate and U.S. Treasury bond yields of various maturities. Using high frequency daily data from 1994 to 2009, we find that innovations in the two-year Treasury bond yield play a central role. They contemporaneously cause most other bond yields. The...

A broad range of economic assumptions are used to project the future income and outgo of the Social Security system. The assumptions adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Fund were rather consistently on the optimistic side of the actual experience that emerged. This article examines the experience of several key economic ...

This study focuses on the market reaction to information transfers from economically linked customers. I examine whether investors have limited attention with respect to the information contained in customer earnings announcements for suppliers. Using 1083 unique customer–supplier relationships for the period 1983–2011, I find that the cumulative abnormal returns of a supplier surrounding and f...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 234–260. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article examines a “glocal” community informatics project that is transforming villages in Western China. Funded and initiated by the U.S.-based Evergreen Education Foundation (EEF)—an organization that makes public com...

This study proposes simulation as a tool for transforming forecasted data into information that leaders can use to make strategic decisions. This study focuses on a health system’s strategic decision to meet future demand by either expanding an existing hospital or developing a new 700,000-square-foot, $500Mplus facility. The researcher extracted data from forecasting reports, translated the da...