Shailer Mathews (1863-1941) was the leading member of what is known as the Chicago School of Theol~gy.~ He was reared in a strict Puritan environment but when he went to college (1880-1884) he was influenced by Darwin, Huxley, and Spencer. Although some of his contemporaries were abandoning their evangelical affiliations, Mathews remained within the evangelical group; but "it led to an attitude...

Case-based reasoning (CBR) simplifies knowledge acquisition and is suitable for researching complex geographical problems. However, CBR analyses of land-use changes are difficult to apply in the study urban growth due shortcomings case structure model algorithms. In response, this proposes a three-step urban-growth simulation based on (UGSCBR). First, adapt an process, characteristics regional ...

I study how strategic alliances and their impact on future competitive incentives can motivate interfirm equity sales. In the model, an alliance between an entrepreneurial firm and an established firm improves efficiency for both. However, the requisite knowledge transfer heightens the established firm’s incentive to enter one of its partner’s markets. I show that equity can eliminate the entry...

Chlamydial Persistence: beyond the Biphasic Paradigm Richard J. Hogan, Sarah A. Mathews, Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay, James T. Summersgill, and Peter Timms* Infectious Diseases Program and Cooperative Research Centre for Diagnostics, School of Life Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Louisvil...