Canada Jay

Jay Johnson

It is seldom possible to plausibly define and observe a pool of potential entrants to a market. This study overcomes that limitation by taking advantage of an opportunity to reasonably define the potential entrants into MTBE production, a rapidly growing environmental product from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s. Potential entrants are identified as those firms having access to specific assets tha...

Jay Cummings: Research Statement

My research has touched many areas of combinatorics, including enumerative, algebraic, spectral, extremal and probabilistic. The projects below include finding the stationary distribution of a random coloring procedure, pursuing new directions in the math of juggling, working with undergraduates on Ramsey theory, and studying a pair of topics from spectral graph theory. I have mentored undergra...

Laugh Track Jay

steven jay schneider

Over the past thirty years, a plethora of publications have argued in favor of a specific psychoanalytic approach to some dimension or convention of cinematic horror. Included among these are articles and books by such influential scholars as Robin Wood, Carol Clover, Stephen Neale, Linda Williams, Barbara Creed, even Noël Carroll in an earlier incarnation. These efforts have typically taken th...

Britta L . Anderson & Jay Schulkin

The research discussed in this volume stems, in part, from work on health literacy. Health literacy is “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (nnlm.gov). When people hear the term health literacy, they may think of a patient’s ability to read medical information and ...