Academic research is increasingly cross-disciplinary and collaborative around the globe and within institutions. In this context, what is the role and relevance of the campus? I examine the scholarly output and collaboration patterns of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as they pertain to its interrelated organizational structures, including institutional affiliation and spatial configu...

According to leading sociological theorists we have now entered a „late modern‟ epoch of „de-traditionalisation‟ and „individualisation‟. Families are crucial in this vision, where the social ties of kinship and marriage are weakened, increasingly replaced by the project of self. In this paper we take three geographical indices of central elements of the individualisation thesis, examining the ...

Age estimation methods are often based on the age-related morphological changes of the auricular surface and the pubic bone. In this study a mathematical approach to quantify these changes has been tested analyzing the curvature variation on 3D models from CT and laser scans. The sample consisted of the 24 Suchey-Brooks (SB) pubic bone casts, 19 auricular surfaces from the Buckberry and Chamber...

The goal of this project is to argue for ethics as a necessary component the institutional health. authors offer an epidemiology large, metropolitan, very-high-research-activity (R1) university in U.S. Where pandemic looks at quantifiable data on infection and exposure rates, control, broad implications public health, parallel those same themes. Their hypothesis that knowing more about how unde...

Does information asymmetry among traders of a firm’s stock increase its cost of capital? We first show that institutional traders in the Shanghai Stock Exchange have a strong information advantage. We then show that past aggressiveness of institutional trading in a stock is a good predictor of institutions’ current and future information advantage in this stock. Sorting stocks on this predictor...

This study examined longitudinal changes in coping and defense mechanisms in an ageand genderstratified sample of 392 European-American adults. Nonlinear age-related changes were found for the coping mechanisms of sublimation and suppression and the defense mechanisms of intellectualization, doubt, displacement, and regression. The change trajectories for sublimation and suppression showed that...

Female hooded-Lister rats received either sub-chronic phencyclidine (PCP) (2 mg/kg, n=20) or vehicle (1 ml/kg, n=20) i.p. twice daily for seven days, followed by a sevenday washout period. Rats were challenged with acute PCP or vehicle and tested for locomotor activity to ensure hyperactivity was observed in the sub-chronic PCP treated rats. Rats were then tested on the elevated plus maze and i...

The approach presented in this article represents a generalizable and adaptable methodology for identifying complex interactions in educational systems and for investigating how manipulation of these systems may affect educational outcomes of interest. Multilayer Minimum Spanning Tree and Monte-Carlo methods are used. A virtual Sandbox University is created in order to facilitate effective iden...

Controller failures degrade a control system pedormance. In this paper, a novel main fenonce approach for controllerfailures is proposed f o restore fhe degraded peformance of the controller. The method is fo equivolenfly shifr any foulf occurring in a controller to the plant. Eased on the assumed process model, a compensafor with a serial link is designed to nlainfain the faulty controller in ...