Biographical Information for Bernard Suits

Predicting Elections from Biographical Information about Candidates

Traditional election forecasting models are estimated from time-series data on relevant variables and that limits the type and number of variables that can be used. Index models do not suffer from the same restrictions. We used as many as 60 biographical variables to create an index model for forecasting U.S. Presidential Elections. For each candidate, we simply counted the number of variables ...

Shell suits

It’s a problem not widely faced amongst animals: but, for those such as beetles and turtles with hard, round shells, it is serious. Ending upside down presents a major, lifethreatening problem if they are unable to right themselves pretty quickly. A new study of this convex problem is reported by Gabor Domokos at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Peter Varkonyi at Princeto...

Optimal use of information in litigation: should regulatory information be withheld to deter frivolous suits?

We examine the value of incorporating regulatory information into the court liability decision and making it publicly available, when the causality of harm is uncertain. Public access to regulatory information, coupled with its use in a liability decision, not only improves the accuracy of court adjudication but also guides victims to more informed decisions about their lawsuits, when victims' ...

Biographical Sketches

Some notable names in renal medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Abercrombie moved from successful general practice into the Royal Public Dispensary as a consultant and was appointed physician to the King in Scotland. President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and a contemporary of Sir Robert Christison both ...

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