Theophastus on Stones (Caley, Earle R.; Richards, John F. C.)

John F. Chant

Economists have directed attention to the role of corporate governance in determining the performance of business enterprises well before the issue was thrust into prominence by the troubles of Enron, WorldCom, and others. Much of this literature examines the consequences of different mechanisms for corporate control. An important part of this literature stresses the role of banks in corporate ...

In memory of Professor John R. Cameron (1922-2005)

C*-algebras on r-discrete Abelian Groupoids

We study certain function algebras and their operator algebra completions on r-discrete abelian groupoids, the corresponding conditional expectations, maximal abelian subalgebras (masa) and eigen-functionals. We give a semidirect product decomposition for an abelian groupoid. This is done through a matched pair and leads to a C*-diagonal (for a special case). We use this decomposition to study ...

John C

A persistent, but little researched, theme in demographic transition theory is that of transition, especially fertility transition, lagging for cultural reasons behind changes in material circumstances. A sub-theme is that of the lag time being shortened by social upheaval challenging the cultural retardants and thus causing demographic behaviour to catch up with economic reality. This paper ex...

John F. Fulton (1899-1960)

A Midsummer Reminiscence In June of 1957 word came to me in Zurich that Dr. Fulton was gravely ill. He had recently arrived in London to celebrate the Harvey Tercen-tenary and was to go on from there to Oxford to receive an honorary degree. He had rallied from critical illnesses before, but this time it seemed that the end had come. I boarded a plane for London. The muffled roar of the all-but-...