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• Reconceptualizing religious change: ethno-apostasy and change in religion among American Jews

  - 2006-12-22

  Since the 1960s, observers of American religion have recognized that individuals, through their personal choices, wield a collective power to reshape the religious landscape of the United States. Religious switching and the abandonment of religious affiliation are widely acknowledged to be inherent features of an environment where religion derives its...

  Tags: affiliation, America, analysis, Barry, Cohen, Gary, Israel, M., network, Phillips, Richard, Robert, U.S., University of Oxford

• SEQUENOM Secures Rights to Key Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnostic Intellectual Property.

  - 2005-10-20

  SAN DIEGO, October 20 /PRNewswire/ -- SEQUENOM, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM) has acquired exclusive rights in certain countries including the United States, United Kingdom and other countries in Europe and elsewhere, to non-invasive prenatal diagnostic intellectual property from Isis Innovation Ltd., the technology...

  Tags: analysis, Company, diagnostics, University of Oxford

• BP and Oxford University agree $14 million funding of economics chair and centre at Oxford for the analysis of resource-rich economies.

  - 2005-08-02

  M2 PRESSWIRE-2 August 2005-BP: BP and Oxford University agree $14 million funding of economics chair and centre at Oxford for the analysis of resource-rich economiesC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02082005 BP and the University of Oxford announced today the endowment of the...

  Tags: analysis, BP Plc, University of Oxford

• Advances and challenges in innovation studies

  - 2005-03-01

  The study of innovation is a relatively young and fast-growing branch of social science. Mainly inspired by the work of Joseph Schumpeter and by other research traditions outside the economics mainstream, it has developed as an interdisciplinary field studying the relationships among economic, technological, organizational, and institutional changes. In his...

  Tags: analysis, innovation, knowledge, Leadership, Learning, Nelson, Richard, scholar, Strategy, Technologies, technology, theory, Unemployment, University of Oxford, Winter

• Forthcoming reviews.

  - 2005-02-01

  Books listed here have been assigned for review in the past quarter. Publication of their reviews or reports generally would occur within the next four issues of the journal. Persons interested in reviewing specific books must notify the editor soon after the publication date for the...

  Tags: analysis, modeling, Springer-Verlag, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Wiley

• Forthcoming reviews.

  - 2004-11-01

  Books listed here have been assigned for review in the past few months. Publication of their reviews or reports generally would occur within the next four issues of the journal. Persons interested in reviewing specific books must notify the editor soon after the publication date for...

  Tags: analysis, Chapman Co., M., Springer-Verlag, Thomson Corp., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Wiley

• An Asymptotic Analysis of an American Call Option With Small Volatility

  BNET - 2004-05-09

  This paper presents an asymptotic analysis of an American call option where the diffusion term volatility is small compared to the drift terms interest rate and continuous dividend yield. The paper shows that in the limit where diffusion is negligible, relative to drift, then, at leading order, the American call's...

  Tags: Volatility, Diffusion, University Of Oxford, Analysis, Option, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance

• Policy change and discourse in Europe: can the EU make a 'square meal out of a stew of paradox'?

  - 2004-03-01

  'Discursive institutionalism' provides a potentially fruitful means of overcoming the tendential structuralism of much new institutionalist scholarship. In particular, it focuses attention on the interplay of structure and agency and raises important questions about how far we should expect policy--and indeed the polity--to be coherent. Radaelli and Schmidt's drawing together...

  Tags: agency, analysis, Europe, European Commission, integration, MARKETING, theory, University of Oxford

• Rebuilding Zion: the Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877 - Book Review

  - 2000-01-01

  By Daniel W. Stowell. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 278 pp. It may well be that understanding the Reconstruction era in the American South is the key to understanding the region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. If this is indeed true, then understanding the reconstruction...

  Tags: analysis, University of Oxford

• Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West. (book reviews)

  - 1998-04-01

  Historians have for several decades been discussing the extent to which the British Industrial Revolution was influenced by substantial contemporaneous improvements in the human understanding of nature. Professor Jacob has herself contributed to this debate, not only in writing a book entitled The Cultural Meaning of...

  Tags: analysis, FINANCE, professor, SOFTWARE, University of Oxford