James P. Lester

JALDA's Interview with Professor James P. Lantolf

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

James P. Ware, Principal

James P . HOBERT and Jorge

We begin by congratulating Professors Yu and Meng on an outstanding article, and thanking Professor Levine for giving us the opportunity to discuss their work. Our discussion focuses mainly on the GIS and ASIS algorithms. Section 1 concerns the relationship between the GIS and sandwich algorithms. In Section 2, we consider a family of toy GIS algorithms based on the bivariate normal distributio...

In honor of James P. LeSage

One can have an impact on a field in a variety of ways such as papers published in prestigious journals, through service to associations, and through students. Certainly, James LeSage has published extensively in a variety of fields including economics and econometrics, regional science, spatial econometrics and statistics. He has helped organize sessions and performed other conference-related ...

Lester Workshop

Superfi cial scald of apples and pears, which manifests as brown or black patches on the fruit skin, results from necrosis of the hypodermal cortical tissue (Bain and Mercer, 1963) and is thought to be induced by oxidation products of the sesquiterpene (E,E)-α-farnesene (Anet, 1972a; Huelin and Coggiola, 1970a, 1970b; Huelin and Murray, 1966). Synthesis of sesquiterpenes in plant tissues occurs...