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Almost all real assets trade in decentralized markets, where trading frictions could inhibit the efficiency of asset allocations and depress asset prices. In this paper, I investigate how trading frictions vary as asset markets get thicker, and what implications market thickness has for asset allocations and prices. Intuitively, it is easier to sell assets that have a thicker market. As a resul...

Like a rolling stone: the dynamic world of animal ecology publishing Kenneth Wilson*, Ben C. Sheldon, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Nathan J. Sanders, Simon P. G. Hoggart and Erika Newton Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK; Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK; CNRS, UMR 5558 “Biom etrie et Biologie Evolutive”, U...

The clinical manifestations of Wilson's disease are believed to be due to the accumulation of toxic amounts of copper within the body. The primary aim of treatment is to remove these, usually by giving chelating agents that will combine with the copper and be excreted in the urine. The most effective of these therapeutic agents is penicillamine (Walshe, 1960), and clinical improvement follows i...

* » by BARBARA WILSON W. H. Auden's For the Time Being is "A Christmas Oratorio," combining elements of the traditional Christmas pageant and the medieval miracle play with the oratorio form. It uses contemporary language and popular 6ong techniques to present a story of great scope that is uniquely historical as well as modern. Varying verse forms and meters are employed as the equivalent to m...

The Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center has for the last several years been involved in the development of an assessment system, which we call the BEAR Assessment System. The system consists of four principles, each associated with a practical “building block” [Wilson 2005] as well as an activity that helps integrate the four parts together (see the section starting on p. ...

Early institution of prophylactic therapy of asymptomatic Wilson disease patients can prevent the expression of the disease. Zinc is currently preferred therapy for presymptomatic patients. We report onset of symptomatic disease in a presymptomatic patient and deterioration of biochemical parameters in another, despite appropriate zinc therapy.

The clinical course of 18 patients with Wilson's disease is reported. There were 13 males and five females of whom one is Malay. The prevalence of Wilson's disease in Malaysia is probably the same as elsewhere. Being a genetic syndrome, the genetic carrier rate for Wilson's disease is probably lower amongst the Malays. At diagnosis, the clinical signs were predominantly hepatic in 10 patients, ...

In a recent Animal Behaviour review, Daly & Wilson (1999, hereafter D&W) present a stimulating, but in important ways misleading, account of the history and present state of evolutionary analyses of human behaviour. Concerned that those not familiar with this research will be misled by D&W’s account, we offer the following commentary. We wish to make three main points: (1) D&W’s account is heav...

Methods for determining patterns of migratory connectivity in animal ecology have historically been limited due to logistical challenges. Recent progress in studying migratory bird connectivity has been made using genetic and stable-isotope markers to assign migratory individuals to their breeding grounds. Here, we present a novel Bayesian approach to jointly leverage genetic and isotopic marke...