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Organizational Structure and the Diversification Discount: Evidence from Commercial Banking
(Blackwell, 2008)
This paper provides evidence on organizational structure, geographic diversification, and performance at bank holding companies (BHCs). First, we show that a BHC's member banks benefit from access to the parent organization's ...
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
(2006-02)
Is entrepreneurship an innate ability or an acquired skill? Can entrepreneurial acumen be achieved and enhanced through education and training, or are certain people �born� to be entrepreneurs or to act entrepreneurially? ...
Electrochemical properties of carbon nanoparticles entrapped in silica matrix
(Electrochemical Society, 2008)
Carbon-based electrode materials have been widely used for many years for electrochemical charge storage, energy generation, and catalysis. We have developed an electrode material with high specific capacitance by entrapping ...
A Measure of Media Bias
(Department of Economics, 2005)
In this paper we estimate ADA (Americans for Democratic Action) scores for major media outlets such as the New York Times, USA Today, Fox News' Special Report, and all three network television news shows. Our estimates ...
Disseminated chlorellosis in a dog
(American College of Veterinary Pathologists, 2009)
An adult dog with ataxia and a lingual mass, previously diagnosed as protothecosis, was euthanized. At the postmortem examination, the lingual mass, regions of the lungs and hilar lymph nodes, liver, mesenteric and sublumbar ...
Analysis of point-to-point packet delay in an operational network, Computer Networks
(Elesevier, 2007-09-12)
In this paper, we perform a detailed analysis of point-to-point packet delay in an operational tier-1 network. The point-to-point delay is the time experienced by a packet from an ingress to an egress point in an ISP, and ...
QoS and channel aware packet bundling for VoIP traffic in cellular networks
(IEEE, 2009-09-16)
We study the problem of multiple packet bundling to improve spectral efficiency in cellular networks. The packet size of real-time data, such as VoIP, is often very small. However, the use of time division multiplexing ...
Adaptive Random Sampling for Traffic Volume Measurement
(Springer Science, 2007-02)
Traffic measurement and monitoring are an important component of network management and traffic engineering. With high-speed Internet backbone links, efficient and effective packet sampling techniques for traffic measurement ...
Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Predicting The Spread of Ecological Processes
(Ecological Society of America, 2003)
There is increasing interest in predicting ecological processes. Methods to accomplish such predictions must account for uncertainties in observation, sampling,
models, and parameters. Statistical methods for spatio-temporal ...
Values of the Euler Function in Various Sequences
(2005)
Let φ (n) and λ(n) denote the Euler and Carmichael functions, respectively. In this paper, we investigate the equation φ (n)r = λ(n)s, where r ≥ s ≥ 1 are fixed positive integers. We also study those positive integers n, ...
Shifts in the Spatio-Temporal Growth Dynamics of Shortleaf Pine
(Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2007)
Previous studies focusing on the growth history of pinus echinata at the edge of its geographical range have suggested that changes in growth correspond to climatic and non-climatic (e.g., anthropogenic) factors. We employ ...
Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Boundary Value Problems with Stochastic Boundary Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 2003)
Boundary value problems are ubiquitous in the atmospheric and ocean sciences. Typical settings include bounded, partially bounded, global and limited area domains, discretized for applications of numerical models of
the ...
A Kernel-Based Spectral Model for Non-Gaussian Spatio-Temporal Processes
(Statistical Modelling, 2002)
Spatio-temporal processes can often be written as hierarchical state-space processes. In situations with complicated dynamics such as wave propagation, it is difficult to parameterize state transition functions for ...
Multiresolution Models for Nonstationary Spatial Covariance Functions
(Statistical Modelling, 2002)
Many geophysical and environmental problems depend on estimating a spatial process that has nonstationary structure. A nonstationary model is proposed based on the spatial field being a linear combination of a multiresolution ...
A Hierarchical Bayesian Non-linear Spatio-temporal Model for the Spread of Invasive Species with Application to the Eurasian Collared-Dove
(Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2007)
Differential equation based advection-diffusion models have been used in atmospheric science to mimic complex processes such as weather and climate. Differential and partial-differential equations (PDE's) have become popular ...
Irrationality of Power Series for Various Number Theoretic Functions
(2005)
We study formal power series whose coefficients are taken to be a variety of number theoretic functions, such as the Euler, Möbius and divisor functions. We show that these power series are irrational over ℤ [X], and we ...
On the Value Set of n! Modulo a Prime
(2005)
We show that for infinitely many prime numbers p there are at least log log p/ log log log p distinct residue classes modulo p that are not congruent to n! for any integer n.
New examples of noncommutative Λ(p) sets
(2003)
In this paper, we introduce a certain combinatorial property Z*(k), which is defined for every integer k ≥ 2, and show that every set E ⊂ Z with the property Z*(k) is necessarily a noncommutative Λ (2k) set. In
particular, ...
Almost All Palindromes Are Composite
(2004)
We study the distribution of palindromic numbers (with respect to a fixed base g ≥ 2) over certain congruence classes, and we derive a nontrivial upper bound for the number of prime palindromes n ≤ x as x → ∞. Our results ...
Whittaker-Fourier Coefficients of Metaplectic Eisenstein Series
(2003)
It is shown that the Fourier-Whittaker coefficients of Eisenstein series on the n-fold cover of GL(n) are L-functions, improving prior results of T. Suzuki.