In his famous article on “The nature of the firm”, Ronald Coase (1937) sought to answer the question why firms exist, why there are many firms and not just one, why people do not work as individual producers but rather in firms. He suggested that transaction costs could explain the boundaries of the firm and that suggestion later on gave rise to an abundant literature on vertical integration. T...

This essay provides an analytic synthesis of the contribution by economists to the study of crime and the criminal justice system. We begin by summarizing the distinctive features of the economic approach, namely a focus on rational self-seeking behavior and analysis of the consequences of interactions among groups of actors that create equilibria in a system. We then use a taxonomy suggested b...

Faas, Travis Byron. M.S., Purdue University, May, 2010. An Examination of Social Presence in Video Conferencing vs. an Augmented Reality Conferencing Application. Major Professor: Ronald Glotzbach. This study focused on the implications of augmented reality videochat when used in an educational context. Traditional web conferencing systems are impaired by limitations that inhibit their use for ...

In contrast to the several antigenic markers identified on murine natural killer (NK) 1 cells (1-3), human NK cells have so far been characterized only by surface properties and receptors (4, 5) that do not allow discrimination from many other peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Detection of human NK cells is therefore largely based on the measurement of in vitro cytolytic reactivity against ce...

We consider the common-knowledge paradox raised by Halpem and Moses: common knowledge is necessary for agreement and coordination, but common knowledge is unattainable in the real world because of temporal imprecision. We discuss two solutions to this paradox: ( 1) modeling the world with a coarser granularity, and (2) relaxing the requirements for coordination. @ 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All...

A myeloma is an abnormal proliferation of plasma cells derived from reticulum cells (Innes and Newall, 1961). Four types are usually differentiated: multiple myeloma when tumours are scattered through the skeleton; solitary myeloma or plasmacytoma when the lesion is localized to a single focus in a bone; extramedullary plasmacytoma when the lesion is found in extraosseous sites such as the uppe...

structure of the problem at hand. In 1991, Ronald H. Coase received the Nobel prize for his work on the role of transaction costs in economics. His paper on “The Nature of the Firm” (Coase 1937) introduced transaction costs as the primary reason for the existence of firms. Coase pointed out that firms substitute an internal management structure for market transactions to eliminate the costs of ...

Intentionality: A Study of Mind, Meaning, and Language (Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1982), where our interpretation is developed in greater detail. Ronald McIntyre and David Woodruff Smith, “Theory of Intentionality,” in J. N. Mohanty and William R. McKenna, eds., Husserl’s Phenomenology: A Textbook (Washington, D. C.: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and University Press of A...