Leading and trailing indexes are characterized by their timing and their accuracy. Timing is the lead or lagging (trailing) time relative to a target time series, here industrial production (IP). Accuracy is measured here by the correspondence between the directions of changes in the indicator and the target. By plotting candidate leading and trailing time series and the target time series in p...

We provide maximum likelihood estimators of term structures of conditional probabilities of corporate default, incorporating the dynamics of firm-specific and macroeconomic covariates. For U.S. Industrial firms, based on over 390,000 firm-months of data spanning 1979 to 2004, the level and shape of the estimated term structure of conditional future default probabilities depends on a firm’s dist...

A series of laboratory experiments has been performed to investigate the role of sulfur ion implantation on the differences in the reflectivity of Europa's "leading" and "trailing" hemispheres in the UV and visible. The lower reflectivity of Europa's trailing hemisphere at around 0.28 /xm can be attributed to a SO band which is caused by either the implantation of sulfur ions from Jupiter's mag...

Long-distance cell migration is an important feature of embryonic development, adult morphogenesis and cancer, yet the mechanisms that drive subpopulations of cells to distinct targets are poorly understood. Here, we use the embryonic neural crest (NC) in tandem with theoretical studies to evaluate model mechanisms of long-distance cell migration. We find that a simple chemotaxis model is insuf...

Title of dissertation: COMPREHENSIVE AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS OF HELICOPTER ROTOR WITH TRAILING-EDGE FLAP FOR PRIMARY CONTROL AND VIBRATION CONTROL Jinwei Shen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2003 Dissertation directed by: Professor Inderjit Chopra Department of Aerospace Engineering A comprehensive aeroelastic analytical model of helicopter rotors with trailingedge flaps for primary and vibration controls ...

Intracellular rheology is a useful probe of the mechanisms underlying spontaneous or chemotactic locomotion and transcellular migration of leukocytes. We characterized regional rheological differences between the leading, body, and trailing regions of isolated, adherent, and spontaneously locomoting human neutrophils. We optically trapped intracellular granules and measured their displacement f...

Mammalian cells develop a polarized morphology and migrate directionally into a wound in a monolayer culture. To understand how microtubules contribute to these processes, we used GFP-tubulin to measure dynamic instability and GFP-EB1, a protein that marks microtubule plus-ends, to measure microtubule growth events at the centrosome and cell periphery. Growth events at the centrosome, or nuclea...

H altitude or impulse response matrix I identity matrix j dummy index M Mach number R correlation coefficient S matrix of singular values STBL left stabiliser position STBR right stabiliser position t, Δt time, time step T projected state matrix multiplied by the instrument TEFL left trailing-edge flap deflection TEFR right trailing-edge flap deflection u system input vector U matrix of past or...

A riderless bicycle can automatically steer itself so as to recover from falls. The common view is that this self-steering is caused by gyroscopic precession of the front wheel, or by the wheel contact trailing like a caster behind the steer axis. We show that neither effect is necessary for self-stability. Using linearized stability calculations as a guide, we built a bicycle with extra counte...

A case is made for the existence of permeability of current sheets in electromagnetic pulsed plasma thrusters. Permeability refers to the leakage of plasma or neutral particles behind the sheet and could cause a significant effect on the performance of the thruster. Analytical calculations are presented which demonstrate the mismatch between experimental velocity profiles and theoretical snowpl...