Publications

Impact of Reporting Delay and Reporting Error on Cancer Incidence Rates and Trends

Reporting-adjusted cancer incidence rates are valuable in precisely determining current cancer incidence rates and trends and in monitoring the timeliness of data collection. Ig...

On the Statistical Estimation of Parametric Frontier Production Functions

Direct and Cross Demand Elasticities in a Model with Many Sectors, Econometrica (Apr. 1959). Goldberger, A. S., Econometric Theory (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1964). Jor...

Shading 3D-Images from CT Using Gray-Level Gradients

For the 3D-reconstruction of organ surfaces from tomograms, a shading method based on the partial volume effect is presented. In contrast to methods based on the depth and/or th...

Test-Retest Reliability of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC 2.1)

Test-retest reliability findings were consistent with or superior to those reported in previous studies. Results support the usefulness of the DISC in further clinical and epide...

Regional response differences within the human auditory cortex when listening to words

The Phusion Assembler

The Phusion assembler has assembled the mouse genome from the whole-genome shotgun (WGS) dataset collected by the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, at ∼7.5× sequence coverage,...

An empirical examination of the amortized spread1Prior versions of this paper were entitled, `Bid–ask spreads, holding periods, and realized transaction costs.' We are grateful for many helpful comments from Yakov Amihud, Jennifer Conrad, Larry Dann, Diane Del Guercio, Dave Denis, Diane Denis, Craig Dunbar, Ed Dyl, Roger Edelen, Rob Hansen, Mark Huson, Raman Kumar, Chris Lamoureux, John McConnell, Wayne Mikkelson, Megan Partch, Henri Servaes, Vijay Singal, Mike Weisbach, Marc Zenner, and an anonymous referee. In addition, we appreciate the comments from seminar participants at the 1997 American Finance Association meetings, the University of Arizona, Kansas State University, the University of North Carolina, the 1996 Pacific Northwest Finance Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Wisconsin. This work has been partially supported by a summer research grant from the Pamplin College of Business.1

Minimal homology requirements for PCR primers

Journal Article Minimal homology requirements for PCR primers Get access Ralf Sommer, Ralf Sommer Institut für Genetik und Mikrobiologie der Univcrsiät MünchenMaria-Wardstrasse ...

The Theory of the Firm Revisited

Abstract From the birth of modern economics in 1776 to 1970, a span of almost 200 years, only two works seem to have been written about the theory of the firm that have altered ...

The effects of students' academic, financial, and demographic variables on time to the doctorate

A Comparison of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R and Clinical Diagnoses

The relationship between diagnoses generated by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (SCID) and by nonstructured psychiatric interviews was exam...

The Ecological Aspect of Institutions

HE ONLY idea common to all usages of the term institution is that of some sort of establishment or relative permanence of a distinctly social sort. On this point even those agre...