Short Studies in Holiness. John W. Diggle

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We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond to both affiliate and parent profitability. The elasticity of affiliate wages to parent profits per wo...

John W . Rudnicki

Holiness and Responsibility

English as well as French differentiates the term holy from the term sacred – in fact, Levinas' book "Du sacré au saint" is translated as "From the Sacred to the Holy". This is illustrative of the extent to which the meanings of the two words differ. God is called "The Holy One Blessed be He", but we would find it peculiar to refer to Him as "The Sacred One". By contrast, when referring to plac...

The Late Mr. John W. Davies

Studies on Milk Secretion the Influence of Inanition by John W. Gowen and Elmer R. Tobey

Milk secretion may be looked upon as a two-step process. The first step consists in the passage of the materials for the formation of milk from the blood stream into the gland cells. In the second step these materials are organized by the gland cells into the constituents of milk, when they are then passed into the alveolar spaces of the udder. The question arises as to what may be the motivati...