This paper investigates competition between jurisdictions in the context of cross-border shopping for state lottery tickets. We rst develop a simple theoretical model in which consumers choose between state lotteries and face a trade-o between travel costs and the price of a fair gamble, which is declining in the size of the jackpot and the odds of winning. Given this trade-o , the model predic...

2 Band-Gap Polymers and Their Implications in Photovoltaic Materials 3 Design 4 Brian S. Rolczynski,†,‡,§ Jodi M. Szarko,†,‡,§ Hae Jung Son,‡,∥ Yongye Liang, Luping Yu,*,‡,∥ 5 and Lin X. Chen*,†,‡,§ 6 †Department of Chemistry and ‡ANSER Center, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United 7 States 8 Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National La...

Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a medium and large vessel vasculitis, defined as a nonspecific aortitis that usually involves the aorta and its branches Kobayashi and Numano (2002). Its etiology remains unclear, and its complications are diverse and severe, including stenosis of the thoracic and abdominal aorta, aortic valve damage and regurgitation, and stenosis of the branches of the aorta. Caro...

Newburgh and Johnston (1) have proposed a method for the determination of water balances that depends largely on the demonstrations by Benedict and Root (2) and others that, in the absence of sweating, losses of body weight not referable to the obvious differences between the weights of ingesta on the one hand and the urine and feces on the other hand, parallel closely the heat production of no...