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HighWire Press: ten years of publisher-driven innovation

An account is given of the beginnings and development of HighWire Press at Stanford University and the philosophy that sustains it. Learned Publishing (2005)18, 131–142 John Sack HighWire Press: ten years of publisher-driven innovation 131 L E A R N E D P U B L I S H I N G V O L . 1 8 N O . 2 A P R I L 2 0 0 5 still being discovered in concepts like mass digitization, publication on acceptance,...

The University of Chicago Record

11 Report of the Student Ombudsperson for Winter and Spring Quarters 1995—Andrew Varcoe 14 The 439th Convocation Address: “The Use and Misuse of Personal Information in a Technological Age” —Dr. Kenneth S. Polonsky Remarks—Joseph Neubauer Bachelor’s Degree Candidates’ Remarks— Rebecca Lee Feldman, Andrew James Spellman, Andrea Robin Wood Honorary Degrees Quantrell Awards Faculty Awards for Exce...

University Press, 2005.

Constructions of Intersubjectivity (CoI) is an important addition to the growing body of work on ‘cognitive’ and construction-based grammars, which CoI links to evolutionary issues in interesting ways. CoI also touches upon a number of fundamental (indeed philosophical) issues in the study of linguistic communication, meaning, and human cognition; it should be applauded for the explicitness wit...

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The University of Chicago Department of Statistics

It is well known that the number of modes of a kernel density estimator is monotone nonincreasing in the bandwidth if the kernel is a Gaussian density. There is numerical evidence of nonmonotonicity in the case of some non-Gaussian kernels, but little additional information is available. The present paper provides theoretical and numerical descriptions of the extent to which the number of modes...