Beauty and the Bulls: The Investment Characteristics of Paintings . . . . . . . . . . 2 T h e rate of increase in fine paintings prices was large when compared with many other investments during the 1970s and was extraordinarily large from 1977 to 1980. One prominent explanation for the behavior of fine painting prices over this period is the ability of this asset to hedge against uncertain inf...

Margaret Goldwater advocated for birth control [3] and reproductive rights [4] in the United States during the twentieth century. Goldwater was a socialite and philanthropist and was married to Barry Goldwater, US Senator from Arizona. She spent much of her life working to further the women's reproductive rights movement, which sought to expand women's legal, social, and physical access to repr...

Richard M. Karp, of the University of California-Berkeley, received the 1985 ACM A. M. Taring Award for his fundamental contributions to complexity theory. Presented at the Association's Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, in October, the award is ACM's highest honor in computer science research. By 1972, Karp had established a reputation as one of the world's leading computer science theori...

This paper provides a literature review of the use of donor human milk by hospitals in Australia and elsewhere from the postwar period through to the early 1980s, and establishes the context for a small study of practices which happened in that period. The latter study will be reported elsewhere. The purpose of this paper is to provide a resource for future comparison when the history of the ne...

Alpine is a file system that supports atomic transactions and is designed to operate as a service on a computer network. Alpine’s primary purpose is to store files that represent databases. An important secondary goal is to store ordinary files representing documents, program modules, and the like. Unlike other file servers described in the literature, Alpine uses a log-based technique to imple...

The 'Thompson Memorial Home for Incurables', now Thompson House, was completed and ready for the admission of patients in February 1885. This very fine building in the Queen Anne style stands on the Magheralave Road, Lisburn, nearly opposite the Friends' School. It is a memorial to William Thompson Esq, MD, FRCSI, born 7th March, 1806. He had been surgeon to the County Antrim Infirmary, Seymour...

Computer entered 1985 with a new editor in chief (EIC), the second drawn from the IEEE Computer Society’s growing ranks of volunteers. In choosing an EIC, the Board of Governors wanted to see “a better mix of university and industry types” as well as “a better mix of universityand industrygenerated technical articles.” They appointed Michael Mulder, who had experience in both worlds—he had work...

Machine. An original goal for Cedar was to combine a compiled, strongly-typed language with the interpretive symbolic power of lnterlisp or Smalltalk. The Abstract Machine is a step in this direction. Its facilities are all ultimately based on the symbol tables and program graphs that the compiler, binder, and program loaders produce. Its primary use at present is in support of ordinary Cedar a...