Publications

An Overview of Epithelio-Mesenchymal Transformation

Epithelium is the tissue phenotype of early embryos and primitive adults of the chordate phylum. A second tissue type, however, is produced by epithelial-mesenchymal transformat...

Conjugate coding

article Conjugate coding Share on Author: Stephen Wiesner Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Columbia University, New York, N.Y.View Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGACT Ne...

Expression profiling using microarrays fabricated by an ink-jet oligonucleotide synthesizer

Alternative factor specifications, security characteristics, and the cross-section of expected stock returns1We are especially grateful to Eugene Fama (a referee), an anonymous referee and Bill Schwert (the editor) for insightful and constructive suggestions. We also thank Wayne Ferson, Ken French, Will Goetzmann, Craig Holden, Ravi Jagannathan, Bob Jennings, Bruce Lehmann, Josef Lakonishok, Richard Roll, participants at the 1997 Meetings of the Western Finance Association, the 1997 UCLA/USC/UC Irvine conference, the November 1997 Asset Pricing Meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Atlanta Forum, and seminars at Columbia, Indiana, Florida, New York, Tulane, and Yale Universities; Eugene Fama and Ken French for providing part of the data used in this study; and Christoph Schenzler for excellent programming assistance. The second author acknowledges support from the Dean's Fund for Research and the Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt University. We are responsible for remaining errors. This paper was formerly titled `A Re-Examination of Security Return Anomalies'.1

'Scoping the scope' of a cochrane review

Systematic reviews use a transparent and systematic process to define a research question, search for studies, assess their quality and synthesize findings qualitatively or quan...

The Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors

I'll See You On “Facebook”: The Effects of Computer-Mediated Teacher Self-Disclosure on Student Motivation, Affective Learning, and Classroom Climate

This experimental study examined the effects of teacher self-disclosure via Facebook on anticipated college student motivation, affective learning, and classroom climate. Partic...

Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research

An application of normal mode theory to the retrieval of structural parameters and source mechanisms from seismic spectra

A cyclic process of refining models of the mechanical structure of the Earth and models of the mechanism of one or more earthquakes is developed. The theory of the elastic-gravi...

A face(book) in the crowd

Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new peop...

Healthful and Unhealthful Plant-Based Diets and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in U.S. Adults

Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire

This book reviews the experimental literature on how survey questions behave as well as the lore of professional experience and culls from them those guiding principles and spec...