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Now showing items 704-723 of 1996

The Forward Premium Anomaly is Not as Bad as You Think

Bollerslev, Tim; Baillie, R.T. (Journal of International Money and Finance, 2000)

The forward premium anomaly refers to the widespread empirical finding that the slope coefficient in the regression of the change in the logarithm of the spot exchange rate on the forward premium is invariably less than ...
Founding a Sarapeum

Rigsby, Kent J. (2001)
Four-decade responses of soil trace elements to an aggrading old-field forest: B, Mn, Zn, Cu, and Fe.

Li, J; Richter, Daniel D.; Mendoza, A; Heine, Paul (2008-10)

In the ancient and acidic Ultisol soils of the Southern Piedmont, USA, we studied changes in trace element biogeochemistry over four decades, a period during which formerly cultivated cotton fields were planted with pine ...
Fractal consistency: Architecting the memory system to facilitate verification

Lebeck, Alvin; Meng Zhang; Sorin, D.J (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010)
A Framework for Exploring the Macroeconomic Determinants of Systematic Risk

Bollerslev, Tim; Andersen, T.G.; Diebold, F.X. (American Economic Review, 2005)

The increasing availability of high-frequency asset return data has had a fundamental impact on empirical financial economics, focusing attention on asset return volatility and correlation dynamics, with key applications ...
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions

Matory, JL (Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., 2008)
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions

Matory, JL (2007)
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions

Matory, James Lorand (BRILL, 2007-01-01)

Scholars tend to regard enslavement as a form of disability inflicted upon the enslaved. This paper confronts the irony that not all black Atlantic peoples and religions conceive of slavery as an equally deficient condition ...
Frequency of Occult High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Invasive Cancer within Anal Condylomata in Men Who Have Sex with Men

Proper, JoAnn (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2010)

Human papillomavirus causes anal condylomata, high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia, and anal squamous cell cancer. We found high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia or squamous cell cancer in 75 (47%) of 159 HIV-seropositive ...
‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design

Gennifer Weisenfeld (2004-09)
From divots to swales: Hillslope sediment transport across divers length scales

Haff, Peter (AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 2010)

In soil-mantled steeplands, soil motions associated with creep, ravel, rain splash, soil slips, tree throw, and rodent activity are patchy and intermittent and involve widely varying travel distances. To describe the ...
From genes to ecosystems: an emerging synthesis of eco-evolutionary dynamics

Bailey, JK; Hendry, AP; Kinnison, MT; Post, DM; Palkovacs, Eric; Pelletier, F; Harmon, LJ; Schweitzer, JA (2009)
From Offshore to Onshore: Multiple Origins of Shallow-Water Corals from Deep-Sea Ancestors

Cunningham, Clifford (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2008)

Shallow-water tropical reefs and the deep sea represent the two most diverse marine environments. Understanding the origin and diversification of this biodiversity is a major quest in ecology and evolution. The most prominent ...
From the Suites to the Streets of Seattle: The Unexpected Re-emergence of the 'Labor Question,' 1994-1999

French, John D. (2002)
Frontiers of financial econometrics and financial engineering

Ghysels, Eric; Tauchen, George (Journal of Econometrics, 2003)

The papers in this volume represent the most recent advances in the intersection of the fields of financial econometrics and financial engineering. A collection of papers presented at a conference organized by the Guest ...
THE FROST-MELVILLE CONNECTION

Strandberg, Victor (Rodopi, 1987)
FSBS resonances observed in a standard highly nonlinear fiber

Wang, Jing; Zhu, Yunhui; Zhang, Rui; Gauthier, Daniel J. (Optics Express, 2011-03-14)

Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) is observed in a standard 2-km-long highly nonlinear fiber. The frequency of FSBS arising from multiple radially guided acoustic resonances is observed up to gigahertz ...
A Full-Frontal History of the Romanov Dynasty: Pictorial 'Political Pornography' in Pre-Reform Russia

Zitser, Ernest (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-10)

This profusely illustrated article expands the chronological and evidentiary basis of Boris Kolonitskii's argument about the role of scurrilous rumors and sexual innuendo in the desacralization of the Russian monarchy and ...
Full-Time Schooling in Life-Cycle Models of Human Capital Accumulation

Wallace, Dudley; Ihnen, L. A. (The Journal of Political Economy, 1975)

A reduced-form equation relating length of "formal schooling" to market, endowment, and ability parameters was derived for a life-cycle human capital accumulation model with alternative assumptions: (a) equal borrowing and ...
Functional imaging of numerical processing in adults and 4-y-old children

Cantlon, JF; Brannon, Elizabeth M.; Carter, EJ; Pelphrey, KA (2006)

Adult humans, infants, pre-school children, and non-human animals appear to share a system of approximate numerical processing for non-symbolic stimuli such as arrays of dots or sequences of tones. Behavioral studies of ...