We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond to both affiliate and parent profitability. The elasticity of affiliate wages to parent profits per wo...

Polar exploration history should easily capture a wide range of imaginations, and ‘climate change’ together with the anthropogenic component of its causes and consequences is a topic that is now discussed by ordinary people across the world. However, it is a large, multifaceted and highly complex concept to come to grips with, where the devil is often in the detail. Thus, it is no mean task to ...

John McCarthy, considerado como uno de los padres de la Inteligencia Artificial, es hijo de padre católico irlandés y madre judía lituana. Ingresó en el Caltech (Instituto Tecnológico de California) a los 16 años, de donde fue expulsado por negarse a seguir las clases de educación física, pero años después fue admitido de nuevo como veterano de guerra. Se licenció en matemáticas en 1948, despué...

one whose clinical acumen, painstaking and accurate observations and valuable writings had gained for him a reputation which was world-wide and which added a lustre to British Medicine. John Thomson was born in Edinburgh in 1856, and, after receiving his education at the Academy and University, he studied in London, Berlin and Vienna. His interest was early directed towards diseases of children...

On 30th December, 1944, the death occurred of Dr. John Dacre, who retired some years ago after being for many years a well-knoAvn practitioner in Clifton. ^ Dr. Dacre qualified in 1882, and in 1883 came to Bristol from Leeds Infirmary, where he had held the post of Assistant House Surgeon. In November of the same year he was elected Assistant Resident Medical Officer and Pathologist at Bristol ...

A persistent, but little researched, theme in demographic transition theory is that of transition, especially fertility transition, lagging for cultural reasons behind changes in material circumstances. A sub-theme is that of the lag time being shortened by social upheaval challenging the cultural retardants and thus causing demographic behaviour to catch up with economic reality. This paper ex...

Legal analysis is a multistep process that performs the complex tasks of identifying real world activities through the lens of a predefined legal code and sets of laws. Based on a brief understanding of an issue a legal professional must make a recommendation on where to apply limited researching resources. We employ Naïve Bayes models in a parallel, nonmutually exclusive alignment towards the ...

John Gardner’s Grendel is a celebrated example of the ontological postmodernist fiction. Along with a discovery of self with which Grendel the narrator of the novel is concerned, grand narratives such as philosophy are questioned. Grendel denies the external objective reality and generously allows the legitimacy of fantastic and non-realistic methods by using “life-affirming fabulous art” as it...

John Bonner started working on cellular slime molds in 1940 as an undergraduate at Harvard University, and resumed those studies there as a graduate student after the 2nd World War, finishing his PhD in 1947. His first job was in biology at Princeton University, where he has remained ever since: from assistant professor to professor emeritus. He continues to pursue both his laboratory research ...

It was oniy m our last volume ^1910, page 359; mat we gave a review of Dr. Beddoe's life as gathered from his own Memories of Eighty Years (Arrowsmith). He is no longer able to write his own biography, but who could write this better than himself in the life-story he has given us ? It becomes our duty to record our appreciation of the work he has done during his eighty-four years, and to expres...