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 ...

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

We consider very short sums of the divisor function in arithmetic progressions prime to a fixed modulus and show that "on average" these sums are close to the expected value. We also give applications of our result to sums ...

Accomodation of important sources of uncertainty in ecological models is essential to realistically predicting ecological processes. The purpose of this project is to develop a robust methodology for modeling natural ...

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 ...

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 ...

We develop a spatial modeling framework for count data that is efficient to implement in high-dimensional prediction problems. We consider spectral parameterizations for the spatially varying mean of the Poisson model. The ...

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, ...

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 ...