We used 5704 14 C, 10 Be, and 3 He ages that span the interval from 10,000 to 50,000
years ago (10 to 50 ka) to constrain the timing of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in terms of …

Abstract Systems for inducing concept descriptions from examples are valuable tools for
assisting in the task of knowledge acquisition for expert systems. This paper presents a …

S. Bochner's concept of a subordinate stochastic process is proposed as a model for
speculative price series. A general class of finite-variance distributions for price changes is …

Organizations distribute incentives to individuals in order to induce them to contribute activity.
Aspects of organizational behavior and change are explained by exploring the differing …

This chapter considers changes in global mean sea level, regional sea level, sea level
extremes, and waves. Confidence in projections of global mean sea level rise has increased …

Modern freemasonry was invented in London about 1717, but was only one of a surge of
British associations in the early modern era which had originated before the English Revolution…

The most prominent Holocene climatic event in Greenland ice-core proxies, with approximately
half the amplitude of the Younger Dryas, occurred ∼8000 to 8400 yr ago. This Holocene …

The possibility of a reduced Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to increases in
greenhouse-gas concentrations has been demonstrated in a number of simulations with …

… Peter Burke over a friendly lunch at Cambridge in the late 1990s, and I am grateful to Peter …
started rather earlier: in the collaboration with Peter Burke, Paul Slack, Penelope Corfield and …

Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is
unprecedented in that time. Here we provide a broader perspective by reconstructing …