Many bargaining situations share the following characteristics: a central party makes an offer to a group of individuals; the proposals are restricted to treat all group members equally; and decisions of the group are reached through a voting process, with the vote binding all the members of the group. Examples include debt restructuring negotiations between a troubled company and its bondholde...

Philip J. Fay, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester, passed away on June 25, 2014 at the age of 61. He succumbed to the multiple myeloma that he had battled valiantly for 6 years. Phil is survived by his wife of 38 years, Andrea, daughters Amber and Emily, and five grandchildren. On July 8th the flags at the University of Rochester were lowered in his h...

We study in this paper the maximal version of the coarse BaumConnes assembly map for families of expanding graphs arising from residually finite groups. Unlike for the usual Roe algebra, we show that this assembly map is closely related to the (maximal) Baum-Connes assembly map for the group and is an isomorphism for a class of expanders. We also introduce a quantitative Baum-Connes assembly ma...

About the Authors Philip W. Setel, Lance Saker, Nigel C. Unwin, and David R. Whiting are with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School, Department of Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Philip W. Setel and David R. Whiting are also with the Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project, Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as is Yusuf Hemed. Henry Kitange is with the Morogoro Re...

A discrete time probabilistic model, for optimal equity allocation and portfolio selection, is formulated so as to apply to (at least) reinsurance. In the context of a company with several portfolios (or subsidiaries), representing both liabilities and assets, it is proved that the model has solutions respecting constraints on ROE’s, ruin probabilities and market shares currently in practical u...

Where are we at regarding species translation? A review of the sbv IMPROVER challenge J. Hoeng, M.C. Peitsch, P. Meyer and I. Jurisica* Philip Morris International R&D, Philip Morris Products S.A., Quai Jeanrenaud 5, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Computational Biology, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA, Department of Computer Science and Department of Medical Biophy...

Qian Wu, Ken Chambliss, Michihisa Umetani, Chieko Mineo, and Philip W. Shaul From Division of Pulmonary and Vascular Biology, Department of Pediatrics University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390 Running head: Non-nuclear ER signaling in endothelium Address correspondence to: Philip W. Shaul, M.D., Division of Pulmonary and Vascular Biology, Department of Pediatrics, Uni...

Reviewers Donald A. Bergman, MD, FACP, FACE Jeffrey R. Garber, MD, FACE Carlos R. Hamilton, Jr., MD, FACE Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FACE Kalman E. Holdy, MD John S. Kukora, MD, FACS, FACE Philip Levy, MD, FACE Pasquale J. Palumbo, MD, MACE Steven M. Petak, MD, JD, FACE Leonid Poretsky, MD Philip Rabito, MD, FACE Herbert I. Rettinger, MD, FACE, MBA Helena W. Rodbard, MD, FACE F. John Service,...

The primary accomplishment of this study is to explore how national culture dissimilarities impact pre and post performances of the resulted acquirers in China Merger and Acquisition (M&A) cases. This article developed the simplified representations of the National Culture Dissimilarity Index (NCDI) to examine the built-in models by taking hierarchical regression analysis approach. The NCDI con...

Swedish snus is a medium/high nicotine delivery, low-nitrosamine moist smokeless tobacco product that has been estimated to be at least 90% less harmful than smoked tobacco. More men use snus than smoke cigarettes in Sweden, and a quarter of male former smokers quit by switching to snus. Leading multinational cigarette manufacturers have begun test-marketing snus-like products in the United Sta...