Dedication This dissertation is dedicated to my parents, Jay, and Serena. Acknowledgements I wish to thank the multitude of people who have been furthering me. In particular, I would like to extend my most sincere appreciation to my advisor Dr. Frank Wicker for his devoted guidance throughout my work. Working with Frank has been an invaluable and delightful experience, and his advice and suppor...

We examine a mechanism by which bundling may inefficiently deter entry into the market. The model considers an incumbent monopolist in two complementary components that faces a series of entry attempts by rivals. It is shown that the incumbent can practice bundling to buttress its monopoly position by keeping specialist innovators out of the market. Bundling prevents specialist rivals from coor...

On November 29, 1949, Harold Ridley implanted the first intraocular lens (IOL). This marked the beginning of a major change in the practice of ophthalmology and, for Ridley, the beginning of an era of inspiration, reward and challenge, unfortunately marred by the disdain and discourteous actions of many colleagues within the academic establishment in Europe and the United States. By the late 19...

Minjae Kang, Christopher Seungkyu Lee, Ye Ji Kim, Hae Rang Jay Jiyong Kwak, Sun Young Ryu, Do Wook Hyo Song Park, Jae Yong Han, Joon Eun Choi, Suk Ho Byeon, Sung Soo Kim. J Retin 2022;7:113-20. https://doi.org/10.21561/jor.2022.7.2.113

Debating the interpretation of Burgess Shale fossil records, Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris have formulated two conflicting theses regarding nature evolutionary processes. While argued that evolution is essentially a contingent process whose outcomes are unpredictable, claimed omnipresence convergence testifies it in fact deterministic, leading to predictable inevitable outcomes. The...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has had substantial implications on all aspects of our lives including teaching and learning. Interest in online education grown unprecedentedly as online-only was the only option for continuing at levels several months when countries went into lockdown March 2020. Higher not an exception. As put by Mazzei Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo (2022), due to pandemic, “[t]hose who...

Se ogni attività progettuale presuppone un quadro di riferimento -stabile o previsione e visione- nel quale inscrivere prefigurazione, lo stato conoscenze mutazioni sul futuro post-pandemico non è chiaro, né sono le necessità i processi utili per affrontarle. Anche rispetto al ruolo del progetto paesaggio possibile organizzare solo risposte parziali transitorie, che forse più prese coscienza fi...

Arctic and subarctic wildlife are among the most vulnerable species to climate change. Canada Jays (Perisoreus canadensis (Linnaeus, 1776)) generalist residents of northern boreal forests scatter-hoard food insulate against scarcity during winter. Unlike scatter-hoarders, however, primarily cache perishable food, rendering their caches more susceptible change induced degradation loss. Here we u...