Vol. XLVI (October 2009), 573–583 573 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Robert J. Kwortnik Jr. is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and W. Michael Lynn is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. William T. Ross Jr. is Smeal Research Fellow in Marketing ...

Given a nonlinear It^ o equation dx(t)=f(x(t);t)dt+ug(x(t);t)dw(t), suppose that the equation is almost surely exponentially stable provided the noise intensity u is large enough. We show that if u is replaced by u= R t 0 jr(s)x(s)j p ds, then the equation stabilizes itself in the sense that R 1 0 jr(t)x(t)j p dt<1 a.s. Moreover, if u is replaced by u=sup 0t jr(s)x(s)j, then the equation stabil...

In 1979 Robert and Bonamy published a complex formalism (CRB) for the calculations of the 10 pressure broadened half-width and collision-induced line shifts [J. Phys. Paris 40, 923 (1979)]. Application of the linked cluster theorem produced expressions that no longer needed the cut-off procedure that plagued earlier line shape theories. Recently, Ma, Tipping and Boulet (MTB) suggested that the ...

5. Dushane JW, Kirklin JW: Late results of the repair of ventricular septal defect on pulmonary vascular disease. In Advances in Cardiovascular Surgery, edited by Kirklin JW: New York, Grune and Stratton, 1973, p 9 6. Jarmakani MM, Graham TP Jr, Canent RV Jr., Spach MS, Capp MP: Effect of site of shunt on left heart volume characteristics in children with ventricular septal defect and patent du...

PETER C. BLOCK, MD, FACC, JOSEPH R. CARVER, MD, FACC, JOHN S. DOUGLAS, JR., MD, FACC, NEAL L. EIGLER, MD, FACC, MARK A. HLATKY, MD, FACC, DAVID R. HOLMES, JR., MD, FACC, ADOLPH M. HUTTER, JR., MD, FACC, ALICE K. JACOBS, MD, FACC, WARREN L. JOHNSON, JR., MD, FACC, JAMES G. JOLLIS, MD, FACC, STEPHEN E. KIMMEL, MD, FACC, WARREN K. LASKEY, MD, FACC, HAROLD LUFT, PHD, DAVID J. MALENKA, MD, FACC, ALL...

Frederick Justin Almgren Jr., one of the world’s leading geometric analysts and a pioneer in the geometric calculus of variations, began his graduate work at Brown in 1958. It was a very exciting place and time for geometric measure theory. Wendell Fleming had just arrived and begun his collaboration with Herbert Federer, leading to their seminal paper “Normal and Integral Currents” in 1960 [19...

John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on June 13, 1928 and was named after his father, who was an electrical engineer. His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin), was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. After attending the standard schools in Bluefield, Nash entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mell...

In the USA, cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is often sympatric with wild H. annuus, which is an agricultural weed that grows along roadsides and in other disturbed sites. We found that crop-to-wild gene flow was common (~5-40% hybrids) when wild plants occurred within <1,000 m of the crop, and crop-specific genetic markers persisted in wild populations for many generations. Crop-to-wil...

The Dahl salt-sensitive rat (SS/Jr) is a widely used animal model of salt-sensitive hypertension. SS/Jr rats are believed to be highly inbred and uniformly sensitive to the hypertensinogenic effects of sodium chloride, but we have recently observed that SS/Jr rats from Harlan Sprague Dawley, Inc, exhibit considerable variability in their blood pressure response to supplemental dietary salt. To ...