T paper presents the authors’ rejoinder to Zeithammer and Adams [Zeithammer, R., C. Adams. 2010. The sealed-bid abstraction in online auctions. Marketing Sci. 29(6) 964–987]. This rejoinder clarifies and qualifies conclusions of the original paper and makes suggestions for fruitful areas of future research. In particular, the original paper shows that bidding style can make a big difference in ...

The potential benefits of collaboration technologies are typically realized only in groups led by collaboration experts. This raises the facilitator-in-the-box challenge: Can collaboration expertise be packaged with collaboration technology in a form that nonexperts can reuse with no training on either tools or techniques? We address that challenge with process support applications (PSAs). We d...

Cardiospheres (CSs) are self-assembling multicellular clusters from the cellular outgrowth from cardiac explants cultured in nonadhesive substrates. They contain a core of primitive, proliferating cells, and an outer layer of mesenchymal/stromal cells and differentiating cells that express cardiomyocyte proteins and connexin 43. Because CSs contain both primitive cells and committed progenitors...

We give new call-by-value calculi of control operators that are complete for the continuation-passing style semantics. Various anticipated computational properties are induced from the completeness. In the first part of a series of papers, we give the characterization of termination properties using the continuation-passing style semantics as well as the union-intersection type discipline.

We discuss Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov proposal for the gauge/string theory correspondence for gauge theories in curved space. Specifically, we consider KlebanovTseytlin cascading gauge theory compactified on S. We explain regime when this gauge theory is a small deformation of the superconformal N = 1 gauge theory on the world volume of regular D3-branes at the tip of the conifold. We study close...

Multimedia style sheet systems uniformly use a constraint-based model of layout. Constraints provide a uniform mechanism for all aspects of style management and layout and are better-suited to non-textual media than flow models. We have developed a prototype style sheet system, Proteus, and have used it with a variety of document types, including program source code. This work has exposed a cri...

This paper discusses the implementation of adaptability in environments that are based on the Standard Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems. This adaptability is explored in the context of style sheets, which are represented in such formats as DSSSL. The use of existing public standards and tools for this implementation of style sheet-based adaptability is described. ...

Call-by-name can be simulated in a call-by-value setting using \thunks" (i.e., parameterless procedures) or continuation-passing-style (CPS). In this paper we uncover a relationship between the two simulations. We prove that the call-by-value CPS transformation Cv, when applied to a term T (t) which simulates call-by-name using thunks, yields a term identical to the call-by-name CPS transformat...