Publications

Observation of Weak Localization of Light in a Random Medium

We report the observation of weak localization of light in a random medium. In a sample consisting of a highly concentrated suspension of polystyrene particles in water, polariz...

Population density and body size in mammals

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

Organizational Responses to Crisis: The Centrality of Trust

Within this division, there is a real problem with the lower level people not trusting the people at the top, because the people feel that the management doesn't tell them the t...

In transaction cost economics, trust has been treated as redundant or even misleading.This study tested the effects of governance and trust on the risk perceived by agents of fi...

The proactive brain: using analogies and associations to generate predictions

Ecological Consequences of Recent Climate Change

Abstract: Global climate change is frequently considered a major conservation threat. The Earth's climate has already warmed by 0.5° C over the past century, and recent studies ...

Distributed Kalman Filter with Embedded Consensus Filters

The problem of distributed Kalman filtering (DKF) for sensor networks is one of the most fundamental distributed estimation problems for scalable sensor fusion. This paper addre...

The impact of antenna diversity on the capacity of wireless communication systems

For a broad class of interference-dominated wireless systems including mobile, personal communications, and wireless PBX/LAN networks, the authors show that a significant increa...

Integrating Variable Risk Preferences, Trust, and Transaction Cost Economics

Transaction cost economics (TCE) relies on three behavioral assumptions in predicting how firms choose governance structures—bounded rationality, opportunism, and risk neutralit...

Comparison of Bayesian and maximum-likelihood inference of population genetic parameters

Abstract Comparison of the performance and accuracy of different inference methods, such as maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference, is difficult because the inference me...

Grounded theory, ethnography and phenomenology

Purpose The paper aims to look at some of the problems commonly associated with qualitative methodologies, suggesting that there is a need for a more rigorous application in ord...