Reading National Geographic, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993

Sarah Kay, Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017), $49.00, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 9780226436739 / 9780226436876.

works as Gyatso’s narrative strategy to capture her readers’ attention. She thus first places her main protagonist, Desi, and his medical legacy within the broader late seventeenthcentury political world in which he was a key player. She then disentangles the various ‘bones of contention’ and ‘roots of the profession’ that Desi inherited from his medical predecessors. The final chapter on the ‘...

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...

Catherine Collins

An integrative review of 121 recent studies on collecting and utilising local ecological knowledge (LEK) for fisheries science and management suggests that insufficient attention is given either to conceptualising LEK or to the critical issue of how LEK is defined. Elements from knowledge management guided the analysis. Résumé : Une revue intégrant 121 études récentes traitant de la collecte et...

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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...