Publications

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

Susceptibility of methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> to the essential oil of <i>Melaleuca alternifolia</i>

All 66 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus tested were susceptible to the essential oil of Melaleuca alternifolia, or tea tree oil, in disc diffusion and modified broth microdilut...

Antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Melaleuca alternifolia

Melaleuca alternifolia has been used for medical purposes since Australia was colonized in 1788. Melaleuca alternifolia is commonly called tea tree, although this vernacular nam...

Evaluation of two competing methods for calculating Charlson's comorbidity index when analyzing short-term mortality using administrative data

Determinants of College Women's Intentions to Tell Their Partners to Use Condoms¹

In assessing college women's intentions to tell their partners to use condoms every time they have sexual intercourse, the present study examined the applicability of the theory...

Critical moments in qualitative research

1. Knowledge and practice: Researching critical moments 2. Lost in time and space: The fractured lens: methodology in perspective Being a methodological space cadet Charting sta...

Sharing or Piracy? An Exploration of Downloading Behavior

This exploratory study applies and extends a new model of media attendance to examine factors that determine current levels of sharing files through peer-to-peer networks among ...

Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular Risk Factors From Childhood and Midlife Cognitive Performance

Cumulative burden of cardiovascular risk factors from childhood/adolescence associate with worse midlife cognitive performance independent of adulthood exposure.

T cell receptor-dependent, antigen-specific stimulation of a murine T cell clone induces a transient, VLA protein-mediated binding to extracellular matrix

Abstract Upon Ag stimulation, an arsonate-specific murine T cell clone exhibited a rapid but transient increase in cell adhesion to collagen, fibronectin, and laminin. This incr...

Plasma Vitamin D and 25OHD Responses of Young and Old Men to Supplementation with Vitamin D₃

There appears to be no age-related impairment among men in the absorption or metabolism of 20 microg/day of vitamin D3 taken orally for at least eight weeks.

MOPED: A scalable and low latency object recognition and pose estimation system

The latency of a perception system is crucial for a robot performing interactive tasks in dynamic human environments. We present MOPED, a fast and scalable perception system for...