Up and Away by Isobel Prescott (1935–2013)

Piling Up, or Floating Away

Up, Up and Away! The Economics of Vertical Farming

With rising population and purchasing power, demand for food and changing consumer preferences are building pressure on our resources. Vertical Farming, which means growing food in skyscrapers, might help to solve many of these problems. The purpose of this study was to construct a Vertical Farm and thereof investigate the economic feasibility of it. In a concurrent Engineering Study initiated ...

Endophthalmitis caused by Rhodococcus equi Prescott serotype 4.

Rhodococcus equi, an aerobic actinomycete primarily known as a livestock pathogen, was repeatedly isolated from the severely infected right eye of a 9-year-old boy.

Anciently asexual bdelloid rotifers escape lethal fungal parasites by drying up and blowing away.

Asexuality has major theoretical advantages over sexual reproduction. An important evolutionary puzzle, therefore, is why exclusively asexual metazoan lineages rarely endure. The Red Queen hypothesis posits that asexuality is rapidly extinguished by relentlessly coevolving parasites and pathogens. If so, any long-lasting asexual lineage must have unusual alternative mechanisms to deal with thes...

Whittaker Graduation and the Hodrick-Prescott Filter

Hodrick and Prescott (1997) proposed a smoothing method for economic time series that is very similar to graduation, it is usually known as the H-P method. They acknowledged that this method is equivalent to graduation methods and that it had been in use among actuaries. The literature on smoothing methods based on their approach grew separately from the graduation literature, due to the useful...