Publications

Anisotropy of the Pacific upper mantle

Abstract : Seismic refraction measurements of the compressional wave velocity of the upper mantle, obtained in the northeast Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, have sh...

Discerning the Ancestry of European Americans in Genetic Association Studies

European Americans are often treated as a homogeneous group, but in fact form a structured population due to historical immigration of diverse source populations. Discerning the...

An empirical examination of the amortized spread1Prior versions of this paper were entitled, `Bid–ask spreads, holding periods, and realized transaction costs.' We are grateful for many helpful comments from Yakov Amihud, Jennifer Conrad, Larry Dann, Diane Del Guercio, Dave Denis, Diane Denis, Craig Dunbar, Ed Dyl, Roger Edelen, Rob Hansen, Mark Huson, Raman Kumar, Chris Lamoureux, John McConnell, Wayne Mikkelson, Megan Partch, Henri Servaes, Vijay Singal, Mike Weisbach, Marc Zenner, and an anonymous referee. In addition, we appreciate the comments from seminar participants at the 1997 American Finance Association meetings, the University of Arizona, Kansas State University, the University of North Carolina, the 1996 Pacific Northwest Finance Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Wisconsin. This work has been partially supported by a summer research grant from the Pamplin College of Business.1

Nested Cladistic Analysis Indicates Population Fragmentation Shapes Genetic Diversity in a Freshwater Mussel

Abstract Recently developed phylogeographic analyses that incorporate genealogical relationships of alleles offer the exciting prospect of disentangling historical from contempo...

Spring arrival patterns of the Cuckoo<i>Cuculus canorus</i>, Nightingale<i>Luscinia megarhynchos</i>and Spotted Flycatcher<i>Musciapa striata</i>in Britain

Data on the arrival dates of Cuckoo, Nightingale and Spotted Flycatcher published in the Royal Meteorological Society phenological reports are presented. From these records, con...