Over the past three decades vertical price transmission analysis has been the subject of considerable attention in applied agricultural conomics. It has been argued that the existence of asymmetric price transmission generates rents for marketing and processing agents. Retail prices allegedly move faster upwards than downwards in response to farm level pricemovements. This is an important issue...

It has been reported by White (1940), Rake, McKee, and Jones (1942), White and Hill (1943), Jones, Rake, and Hamre (1943), and Bush, Dickison, Ward, and Avery (1945) that the fungus Aspergillusflavus produces an antibiotic substance known as aspergillic acid. Aspergillusflavus is also known to produce other antibiotic substances such as flavacidin (McKee, Rake, and Houck, 1943; McKee and MacPhi...

Refusals are complex face-threatening speech acts whose appropriate performance requires not only lengthy sequences of negotiation and cooperative achievements, but also face-saving strategies to accommodate the disruptive nature act (Gass & Houck 1999). Also, since they have a face threatening nature, subject cultural variations. Consequently, care must be taken in choice refusal strategie...

Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, the most frequently inherited disease affecting the Caucasian population, is an autosomal recessive disorder affecting principally the exocrine glands. It is of interest that despite the steadily increasing number of cellular and biochemical abnormalities reported in the disease even the most intrepid investigator has stopped short (sometimes only just) of staki...

We use time-dependent, axisymmetric, hydrodynamic simulations to study the linear stability of the stalled, spherical accretion shock that arises in the post-bounce phase of core-collapse supernovae. We show that this accretion shock is stable to radial modes, with decay rates and oscillation frequencies in close agreement with the linear stability analysis of Houck and Chevalier. For non-spher...

Background The standing toe raise, or heel rise, requires ankle plantarflexor strength, and is often used to assess foot and ankle muscle function. There is limited research on the mechanics within the foot during this task. Houck et al., [1] found that hindfoot eversion/inversion was significantly different than controls during a bilateral toe raise task in patients with posterior tibialis ten...

Yield analysis is a method designed to estimate the inference coefficients on each unit of the population, as opposed to regression and other techniques that estimate the inference for the population as a whole. Yield analysis has a great analytical potential, which has been proven in several marketing case studies for large companies. It allows for creation of good models even in situations wh...

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The heterogeneity a n d v olatility of open distributed systems make high assurance security a n elusive goal. One solution is to provide developers with tools for designing and implementing robust object systems with veriiable behavior in open environments (Cleaveland et al., 1 9 9 4). The Meta-Object Operating System Environment (MOOSE) (Hale et al., 1997) is intended to s...