In the October 1975 edition of this Review, Harrison and Nolan examine the "residual wealth" assumption which Lyons (1972 and 1975) made when using the mortality multiplier method to estimate the distribution of personal wealth in Ireland. The assumption was that all of the unexamined estates of adults who died in 1966 had a net value of zero. Scrutiny of such assumptions is valuable because, a...

Eight key IS strategic alignment studies are reviewed and classified using Miles and Snow’s business strategy typology in an effort to reconcile different approaches. Key findings include a high degree of consistency between study results along typology lines and support for a moderating effect of business strategy on the relationship between IS strategic alignment and business performance.

It goes without saying that a good linguistic theory should neither undergenerate (i.e., it should not miss any attested patterns) nor overgenerate (i.e., it should not predict any “unattestable” patterns). Recent literature has argued that the Maximum Entropy (ME; Goldwater & Johnson 2003) framework provides a probabilistic extension of categorical Harmonic Grammar (HG; Legendre et al. 1990; S...

The acute oral LD50s of several inorganic arsenicals are listed in Table 23. Trivalent inorganic arsenic is generally more toxic than pentavalent inorganic arsenic. The oral LD50 of As2O3 (As2O3), a trivalent arsenical, administered to three strains of mice, ranges from 26 to 36 mg As/kg body weight (Harrison et al., 1958; Kaise et al., 1985). Because of the low solubility of As2O3 in water, Ha...

Calcium homeostasis is achieved by the interplay of a number of humoral agents (1). Of central importance are the activities of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and of vitamin D. This was fully appreciated 35 years ago (2), but in spite of considerable effort, the nature of the relationship remains controversial. Recent opinion has varied from that of a complete dependence of hormone action upon the p...

Parentage analysis in natural populations is a powerful tool for addressing a wide range of ecological and evolutionary questions. However, identifying parent-offspring pairs in samples collected from natural populations is often more challenging than simply resolving the Mendelian pattern of shared alleles. For example, large numbers of pairwise comparisons and limited numbers of genetic marke...

We make the case that psychologists should make wider use of structural econometric methods. These methods involve the development of maximum likelihood estimates of models, where the likelihood function is tailored to the structural model. In recent years these models have been developed for a wide range of behavioral models of choice under uncertainty. We explain the components of this method...

Prosodic Typology II gathers a set of papers detailing the intonational phonologies of 14 different languages from across the globe. As the name suggests, Prosodic Typology II is the successor to the first Prosodic Typology volume (Jun 2005b); the introductory chapter by Sun-Ah Jun describes it as an extension of the original collection. There is a great deal of continuity between this volume a...