Naturally-occurring radionuclides (uranium, radium and radon), major dissolved constituents, and trace elements were investigated in fresh groundwater in 117 wells in fractured crystalline rocks from the Piedmont region ...

This paper studies common intraday jumps and relative contribution of these common jumps in realized correlation between individual stocks and market index, using high-frequency price data. We find that the common jumps ...

Limb, trunk, and body weight measurements were obtained for growth series of Milne-Edwards's diademed sifaka, Propithecus diadema edwardsi, and the golden-crowned sifaka, Propithecus tattersalli. Similar measures were ...

This paper first details the general academic theory behind leveraged buyouts and then explores the financial deregulation effort undertaken by Congress and the Federal Reserve Board throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The ...

To protect the confidentiality of survey respondents' identities and sensitive attributes, statistical agencies can release data in which confidential values are replaced with multiple imputations. These are called synthetic ...

A recently published transcriptional oscillator associated with the yeast cell cycle provides clues and raises questions about the mechanisms underlying autonomous cyclic processes in cells. Unlike other biological and ...

Many fishermen and fisheries managers in Eastern North Carolina hold strong Christian beliefs which influence their attitudes toward the fishery, and therefore affect how the fishery is managed. In public meetings on ...

<p>The principle of respect for other persons is commonly invoked in contemporary liberalism as justification for the claim that a conscientious citizen in a liberal democracy is morally obligated to refrain from supporting ...