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Inflation and financial market performance
An exploration of the cross-sectional relationship between inflation and an array of indicators of financial market conditions, using time-averaged data covering several decades and a large number of countries.Financial markets ; Inflation (Finance)
Integrating the UWSP natural resources curriculum
Following an intensive five-year program of curriculum review and strategic planning, the College of Natural Resources (CNR) at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) has initiated a planned six-year revision of its undergraduate curricula in natural resource management. It is our belief that such revision is necessary for our graduates to have the attributes and capabilities necessary to meet the future challenges of long-term, landscape scale, ecosystem management planning. To meet these challenges, significant change is needed in the pedagogical and technological infrastructure of undergraduate natural resource education. The goal of this revision is to develop programs that will prepare young professionals to comprehend and apply sound interdisciplinary approaches to solving resource management problems, now and in the future, while at the same time providing the technical competencies required by the vast array of employers of our graduates
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New X-ray Clusters in the EMSS II: Optical Properties
We present optical images for 9 new clusters of galaxies we have found in a
reanalysis of the Einstein IPC images comprising the Extended Medium
Sensitivity Survey (EMSS). Based on the presence of a red sequence of galaxies
in a color-magnitude (CM) diagram, a redshift is estimated for each cluster.
Galaxy overdensities (cluster richnesses) are measured in each field using the
B_gc statistic which allows their plausible identification with the X-ray
emission. The nature of our X-ray detection algorithm suggests that most of
these clusters have low X-ray surface brightness (LSB) compared to the
previously known EMSS clusters. We compare the optical and X-ray observations
of these clusters with the well-studied Canadian Network for Observational
Cosmology (CNOC) subsample of the EMSS, and conclude that the new clusters
exhibit a similar range of optical richnesses, X-ray luminosities, and,
somewhat surprisingly, galaxy populations as the predominantly rich, relaxed
EMSS/CNOC clusters.Comment: Accepted to ApJ, 17 pages, 14 figures, uses emulateapj5.st
The Low Quiescent X-Ray Luminosity of the Neutron Star Transient XTE J2123-058
We report on the first X-ray observations of the neutron star soft X-ray
transient (SXT) XTE J2123-058 in quiescence, made by Chandra and BeppoSAX, as
well as contemporaneous optical observations. In 2002, the Chandra spectrum of
XTE J2123-058 is consistent with a power-law model, or the combination of a
blackbody plus a power-law, but it is not well-described by a pure blackbody.
Using the interstellar column density, the power-law fit gives photon index of
3.1 (+0.7,-0.6) and indicates a 0.3-8 keV unabsorbed luminosity of 9(+4,-3)E31
(d/8.5 kpc)^2 ergs/s (90% confidence errors). Fits with models consisting of
thermal plus power-law components indicate that the upper limit on the
temperature of a 1.4 solar mass, 10 km radius neutron star with a hydrogen
atmosphere is kT_eff < 66 eV, and the upper limit on the bolometric luminosity
is L_infinity < 1.4E32 ergs/s, assuming d = 8.5 kpc. Of the neutron star SXTs
that exhibit short (< 1 year) outbursts, including Aql X-1, 4U 1608-522, Cen
X-4, and SAX J1810.8-2609, the lowest temperatures and luminosities are found
for XTE J2123-058 and SAX J1810.8-2609. From the BeppoSAX observation of XTE
J2123-058 in 2000, we obtained an upper limit on the 1-10 keV unabsorbed
luminosity of 9E32 ergs/s. Although this upper limit allows that the X-ray
luminosity may have decreased between 2000 and 2002, that possibility is not
supported by our contemporaneous R-band observations, which indicate that the
optical flux increased significantly. Motivated by the theory of deep crustal
heating by Brown and co-workers, we characterize the outburst histories of the
five SXTs. The low quiescent luminosity for XTE J2123-058 is consistent with
the theory of deep crustal heating without requiring enhanced neutron star
cooling if the outburst recurrence time is >~ 70 years.Comment: 8 pages, accepted by Ap
Wave Mechanics of a Two Wire Atomic Beamsplitter
We consider the problem of an atomic beam propagating quantum mechanically
through an atom beam splitter. Casting the problem in an adiabatic
representation (in the spirit of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in
molecular physics) sheds light on explicit effects due to non-adiabatic passage
of the atoms through the splitter region. We are thus able to probe the fully
three dimensional structure of the beam splitter, gathering quantitative
information about mode-mixing, splitting ratios,and reflection and transmission
probabilities
Communication and Group Perception: Extending the `Saying is Believing' Effect
The saying-is-believing (SIB) effect occurs when tailoring a message to suit an audience influences a communicator's subsequent memories and impressions about the communication topic. Previous studies were restricted to one-person audiences and individuals as the communication topic. The present studies explored the SIB effect with multiple-person audiences and groups as the communication topic. In Study 1, the SIB effect occurred with a 1-person, but not a 3-person, audience. In Study 2, the SIB effect occurred with a 3-person audience when the audience explicitly validated communicators' messages. These findings demonstrate the generalizability of the SIB effect to group contexts, provide further evidence for a shared reality interpretation of this effect, and suggest a potentially important mechanism underlying stereotype development
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The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our Committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an expression of special interest to up to two employers prior to interviews at the January Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings. Second, the AEA now invites candidates who are still on the market, and employers whose positions are still vacant, to participate in a web-based "scramble" to reduce search costs and thicken the late part of the job market. We present statistics on the activity in these market mechanisms and present survey evidence that both mechanisms have facilitated matches. The paper concludes by discussing the emergence of platforms for transmitting job market information and other design issues that may arise in the market for new economists.Economic
Successful unrelated donor cord blood transplantation for Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia
GT, a rare disorder of platelet function, can lead to life-threatening bleeding, particularly following the development of antiplatelet antibodies. Curative therapy includes HCT but previous reports are limited predominantly to matched siblings and have excluded CBT. Delayed or non-engraftment of platelets because of antiplatelet antibodies might be particularly concerning after CBT for GT. Here, we report two successful unrelated cord blood transplants for GT. Recurrent life-threatening bleeding was the primary indication for HCT, with one patient developing antiplatelet antibodies pre-HCT. Bleeding risks associated with delivery of the conditioning regimen and the toxicity that follows should be carefully considered, including tunneled central venous line catheter placement, inclusion of B cell-specific therapy to potentially decrease antiplatelet antibody production, and targeted busulfan dosing. This is the first report of successful unrelated cord blood HCT for GT and indicates that modifications to supportive care can improve the safety of this potentially curative therapy for patients with severe, life-threatening disease manifestations.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78580/1/j.1399-3046.2009.01251.x.pd
A four gene signature of chromosome instability (CIN4) predicts for benefit from taxanes in the NCIC-CTG MA21 clinical trial.
Recent evidence demonstrated CIN4 as a predictive marker of anthracycline benefit in early breast cancer. An analysis of the NCIC CTG MA.21 clinical trial was performed to test the role of existing CIN gene expression signatures as prognostic and predictive markers in the context of taxane based chemotherapy.RNA was extracted from patients in cyclophosphamide, epirubicin and flurouracil (CEF) and epirubicin, cyclophosphamide and paclitaxel (EC/T) arms of the NCIC CTG MA.21 trial and analysed using NanoString technology.After multivariate analysis both high CIN25 and CIN70 score was significantly associated with an increased in RFS (HR 1.76, 95%CI 1.07-2.86, p=0.0018 and HR 1.59, 95%CI 1.12-2.25, p=0.0096 respectively). Patients whose tumours had low CIN4 gene expression scores were associated with an increase in RFS (HR: 0.64, 95% CI 0.39-1.03, p=0.06) when treated with EC/T compared to patients treated with CEF.In conclusion we have demonstrated CIN25 and CIN70 as prognostic markers in breast cancer and that CIN4 is a potential predictive maker of benefit from taxane treatment
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