Refereed Journal Articles and Theses by Year

2007

Journal Articles

Awokuse, Titus O. and John C. Bernard.  “Spatial Price Dynamics in U.S. Regional Broiler Markets.”  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 39(2007).

Awokuse, Titus O. (2007) “Spatial Price Dynamics and China's Rice Market Integration: A Causal Analysis with Directed Acyclic Graph.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 32: 58-76.

Awokuse, Titus O. (2007) “Causality between Exports, Imports, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies.” Economics Letters, 94: 389-395.

Bernard, John C., John D. Pesek, Jr., and Xiqian Pan.  “Consumer Likelihood to Purchase Chickens with Novel Production Attributes.”  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 39(2007): 581-596.

Borchers, Allison M., Joshua M. Duke, and George R. Parsons. 2007. Does willingness to pay for green energy differ by source? Energy Policy 35:3327-34

Brown, W.P., Eggermont, P.P.B., LaRiccia, V.N., and Roth, R.R. (2007) Are traditional growth curves suitable for estimating avian growth rates, Journal of Avian Biology, 38, 495-506.

Csiszár V., Rejto L.  and Tusnády  G. : Statistical inference on random structures,
Horizon of Combinatorics, Balatonalmádi, Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies X.,
Ed. L. Lovász

D. DeGraff, M. Malik, Q. Chen, K. Miyako, L. Rejto, A. Aguiar, D. Bancroft, P. Cohen and R. Sikes, (2007) Hormonal regulation of IGFBP-2 proteolysis is attenuated with progression to androgen insensitivity in the LNCaP progression model, Journal of Cellular Physiology 213, pp. 261-268.

Duke, Joshua M. and Lori Lynch. 2007. Gauging support for innovative farmland preservation techniques. Policy Sciences 40:123-55 4.

Johnston, Robert J. and Joshua M. Duke. 2007. Willingness to pay for agricultural land preservation and policy process attributes: Does the method matter? American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(4):1098-1115 3.

Mason, David M. Some observations on the KMT dyadic scheme. (Special issue on Nonparametric Statistics and Related topics in honor of M.L. Puri.) Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
137, 895-906 (2007).

Mason, David M. Laws of the iterated logarithm for the local U-statistic process (with E. Gin´e). Journal of Theoretical Probability. 20, 457-485 (2007).

Mason, David M. On local U–statistic processes and the estimation of densities of functions of several sample variables (with E. Gin´e). Annals of Statistics, 35, 1105-1145 (2007)

Messer, K.D., H. Zarghamee, H.M. Kaiser and W.D. Schulze. 2007.“New Hope for the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism: The Effects of Framing and Context” Journal of Public Economics 91(9):1783-1799.

Messer, K.D., H.M. Kaiser, and G.L. Poe, 2007. “Voluntary Funding for Generic Advertising Using a Provision Point Mechanism: An Experimental Analysis of Option Assurance.” Review of Agricultural Economics 29(3):612-631

Messer, K.D. 2007. “Transferable Development Rights Programs: An Economic Framework for Success.” Journal of Conservation Planning 3:47-53.

R.L. Witt and L.Rejto, (2007) Spinal accessory nerve monitoring in selective and modified neck dissection, Laryngoscope 117, pp. 776-780.

S.H.W. Scheres, Haixiao Gao, M. Valle, G.T. Herman, P.P.B. Eggermont, J. Frank,
J.M. Carazo,  Disentangling conformational states of macromolecules in 3D-EM
through likelihood optimization.  Nature Methods Volume 4 pp. 27--29 (2007)

S.H.W. Scheres, R. Nunez-Ramirez, Y. Gomez-Llorente, C. San Martin, P.P.B. Eggermont,
J.M. Carazo,  Modeling experimental image formation for maximum-likelihood
classification of electron microscopy data,  Structure Volume 15 pp. 1167--1177  (2007)

Journal Articles

Awokuse, Titus O. and Joshua M. Duke. 2006. The causal structure of land price determinants. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 54(2):227-245.

Awokuse, Titus O. and Yan Yuan. "Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on U.S. Poultry Exports." Agribusiness: An International Journal, 22(Spring 2006): 233-245.

Awokuse, Titus O. "Export-led Growth and the Japanese Economy: Evidence from VAR and Directed Acyclic Graphs." Applied Economics 38(March 2006): 593-602.

Aull-Hyde, Rhonda, Sevgi Erdogan, and Joshua M. Duke. 2006. An experiment on the consistency of aggregated comparison matrices in AHP. European Journal of Operational Research 171:290-295.

Bane, V., and P.Krishnan. 2006. Econometric Study of Home Loan Approvals using Statistical Methods. AIMS - International Journal of Quantitative Management. 12(3): 231-256.

Bernard, John C. "Finding and Retaining the Dominant Strategy: The Second-Price, English, and 'Sealed-Offer' English Auctions." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 60(2006): 553-561.

DeMiccio, F.J., Y. Lin, L. Liu, L.Rejtő, S. Beldona and D. Bancroft, (2006) The effect of holidays on hotel daily revenue, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 30 pp 117–133.

Duke, Joshua M. and Lori Lynch. 2006. Four classes of farmland retention techniques: Comparative evaluation and property rights implications. Land Economics 82(2):189-213.

Eggermont, P.P.B., LaRiccia, V.N. (2006) Equivalent kernels for smoothing spleens, Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, 18, 197-225.

Eggermont, P.P.B., LaRiccia, V.N. (2006) Uniform error bounds for smoothing splines, High Dimensional Probability. IMS Lecture Notes/Monograph series, edt. Koltchinshwi, V.I., Li, W., and Zinn, J., 51, 220-237.

Eggermont, P.P.B., LaRiccia, V.N. (2006) On relaxed boundary smoothing splines for nonparametric regression, Advances in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Nova Science Publishers, 63-79.

Gifford, Katie and John C. Bernard. "Influencing Consumer Purchase Likelihood of Organic Food." International Journal of Consumer Studies, 30(2006): 155-163.

Hamadie, B., C. ReVelle, and S. Malcolm "Biological reserves, rare species and the trade-off between species abundance and species diversity." Ecological Economics, 56: 4, pp:570-583, 2006

Mason, David M. Cluster sets of self-normalized sums. Journal of Theoretical Probability. 19, 911-930 (2006).

L. Rejtő and G. Tusnády, (2006) Reconstruction of Kauffman networks applying trees, Linear Algebra and Application 417, pp. 220-244.

Department Publications (Research reports, Staff Papers, Extension Reports)

2006 M.S. Theses

Wang, Xiaohong, “Price Transmission Asymmetries In U.S. Dairy Products” 2006 Advisor: Awokuse
Tian, Min “Asymmetry in Farm to Retail Price Transmission: Evidence from Canada and the United States” 2006 Advisor: Awokuse

Gu, Anli “The Effect of Education on Mortality, Evidence From Delaware” 2006 Advisor: Ilvento

Borchers, Allison “Does Willingness to Pay for Green Energy Differ by Source? A Contingent Choice Experiment” 2006 Advisor: Duke

Xun, Lei “The Determinants of United States Outgoing FDI in the Food-Processing Sector” 2006 Advisor: Awokuse

Siroli, Ryan “An Examination of Price Transmission in the United States Beef, Pork, and Broiler Industries” 2006 Advisor: Bernard

2005

Journal Articles

Awokuse, Titus O., Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Agricultural Prices, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 34/2 (October 2005): 226-237.

Awokuse, Titus O. and Conrado M. Gempesaw II. 2005 “Foreign political instability and U.S. agricultural exports: evidence from panel data," Economics Bulletin, 6:1-12.

Awokuse, Titus O. 2005 “Exports, Growth, and Causality in Korea,” Applied Economics Letters, 12:693-696.

Bernard, John C. and William Schulze. 2005 “The Next New Thing: Curiosity and the Motivation to Purchase Novel Products.” Economics Bulletin 3: 1-8.

Bernard, John C., Xiqian Pan, and Ryan Sirolli. 2005 “Consumer Attitudes towards Genetic Modification and Other Controversial Production Attributes for Chicken.” Journal of Food Distribution Research, 36: 1-11.

Bernard, John C. "Evidence of Affiliation of Values in a Repeated Trial Auction Experiment." Applied Economics Letters, 12(2005): 687-691.

Bernard, John C. and Daria J. Bernard. "Using Context in Classroom Experiments: A Public Good Example." International Review of Economics Education, 4(2005): 9-22.

Bernard, John C., William Schulze, and Timothy Mount. "Bidding Behavior in the Multi-Unit Vickrey and Uniform Price Auctions." Applied Economics Letters, 12(2005): 589-595.

Faqiri, N., and P.Krishnan. 2005. Effect of Nozzle Pressure and Wind Condition on Spray pattern Displacement of RF5 and 110-5R Nozzles. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 21(5):747-750.

Jaiswal, Sanjeev, Eric R. Benson, John C. Bernard and Garrett L. Van Wicklen. "Neural Network Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis of a Mechanical Chicken Catching System." Biosystems Engineering, 92(2005): 59-68.

Krishnan, P., L.J.Kemble, and I.Gal. 2005. Dynamic Spray pattern Displacement of Extended Range Nozzles. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 21(5):751:753.

Lynch, L., S. Malcolm and D. Zilberman, "Effects of a Differentially Applied Environmental Regulation on Trade Patterns and Production Location." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 34/1 (April 2005): 54-74.

Malcolm, S.A. and C. ReVelle, "Representative Success: A New Paradigm for Preserving Species by Reserve Selection." Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Volume 10, Number 4 / December, pp:241-348, 2005

Malcolm, S.A. and C. ReVelle, "Models for Preserving Species Diversity with Backup Coverage, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Volume 10, Number 2, June, pp. 99-105, 2005

Malcolm, Scott A., Joshua M. Duke, and John Mackenzie. 2005. “Valuing rights of first refusal for farmland preservation policy.” Applied Economics Letters 12:285-288.

Mason, David and J. Zinn. 2005 “When does a randomly weighted self-normalized sum converge in distribution?” Electronica Communications in Probability 10:70-81.

Mason, David and U. Einmahl. 2005 “Uniform in bandwidth consistency of kernal-type function estimators,” Ann. Statist. 33:1380-1403.

Mason, David. 2005 “The asymptotic distribution of self-normalized triangular arrays.” Journal of Theoretical Probability. 18:853-870.

Olszewski, Michael, Wallace Pill, Thompson D. Pizzolato and John D. Pesek, 2005 "Priming Duration Influences Anatomy and Germination Responses of Parsley Mericarps" J. Amer . Soc. Hort . Sci. 130(5):754-758.

L. Rejtő and G. Tusnády, (2005) Clustering methods in microarrays, Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 50, pp 199–221.

L.R. Witt, G.S. Weinstein and L. Rejtő , (2005) Tympanomastoid Suture & Digastric Muscle in Cadaver & Live Parotidectomy, Laryngoscope, 115, pp 574–577.

2005 M.S. Theses

Li, Bin “Determinants of Changes in Infant Mortality of Delaware Over the Period from 1989 to 2000.” 2005 Advisor: Thomas W. Ilvento

Singson, Melissa C. "Valuation of Patents Using Options Pricing and Probabilistic Modeling." 2005. Adviser: Scott Malcolm

Szombathova, Slavka “Optimizing School Choice: Conjoint Analysis of Parent Preferences.” 2005 Advisor: John Mackenzie

Gupta, Meeta “Consumer Behavior Towards Chicken Fed with Genetically Modified High Available Phosphorus (HAP) Corn.” 2005 Advisor: John Bernard

Journal Articles

Bernard, John C., John D. Pesek, Jr., and Chunbo Fan. "Performance Results and Characteristics of Adopters of Genetically Engineered Soybeans in Delaware." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 33/2 (October 2004): 282-292.

Bernard, John C., John D. Pesek, Jr., and Chunbo Fan. "Delaware Farmers' Adoption of GE Soybeans in a Time of Uncertain U.S. Adoption." Agribusiness: An International Journal, 20(2004): 81-94.

L.A. Cogburn, X. Wang, W. Carre, L. Rejtő, S.E.Aggrey, M.J.Duclos, J.Simon and T.E.Porter, (2004) Functional genomics in chickens: development of integrated-systems microarrays for transcriptional profiling and discovery of regulatory pathways, Comparative and Functional Genomics, 5, pp. 253–261.

Duke, Joshua M. 2004. Participation in agricultural land preservation programs: Parcel quality and a complex policy environment. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 33(1):34-49.

Duke, Joshua M. and Thomas W. Ilvento. 2004. A conjoint analysis of public preferences for agricultural land preservation. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 33(2):209-219.

Duke, Joshua M. 2004. Institutions and land-use conflicts: Harm, dispute processing, and transactions. Journal of Economic Issues 38(1):227-252.

Duke, Joshua M. and Robert Ehemann. 2004. An application of water scarcity pricing with varying threshold, elasticity, and deficit. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 59(2):59-65.

Duke, Joshua M., Eleonóra Marišová, Anna Bandlerová, and Jana Slovinska. 2004. Price repression in the Slovak agricultural land market. Land Use Policy 21(1):59-69.

Ebel, E., W. Schlosser, J. Kause, K. Orloski, T. Roberts, C. Narrod, S. Malcolm, M. Coleman, and M. Powell, "Draft Risk Assessment of the Public Health Impact of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef." Journal of Food Protection, Vol. 67 pp. 1991-1999, 2004

Krishnan, P., T. Evans, K. Ballal#, and L.J.Kemble. 2004. Scanning Electron Microscopic studies of New and Worn Fan Nozzles for Agricultural Sprayers. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 20(2): 133-137.

Malcolm, S.A., C.A. Narrod, T. Roberts and M. Ollinger, "Evaluating the Economic Effectiveness of Pathogen Reduction Technology in Beef Slaughter Plants." Agribusiness, Vol. 20, pp.109-123, 2004

Mason, David. 2004 “The Chow and Robbins fixed width confidence interval procedure when the second moment barely does not exist.” Journal of Sequential Analysis, 23:179-194.

Mason, David. 2004 “A uniform functional law of the logarithm for the local empirical process.” Annals of Probability. 32:1391-1418.

Mason, David and Paul Deheuvels. 2004 “General confidence bounds for nonparametric functional estimators,” Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, 7: 225-277.

Mason, David and E . Giné. 2004 “The law of the iterated logarithm for the integrated squared deviation of a kernel density estimator,” Bernoulli 10, 721-752.

Vasilas, B., L. Vasilas, J Thompson, Al Rizzo, Jeff Fuhrmann, Thomas Evans, John Pesek and Karl Kunkle, 2004 "Ectomycorrhizal Mantles as Indicators of Hydrology for Jurisdictional Wetland Determinations. Wetlands v. 24, pp 784-795.

Wilson, A., J Hough-Goldstein, Mark vanGessel and John Pesek 2004 "Effects of Varying Weed Communities in Corn onEuropean Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) Oviposition and Egg Mass Predation. Environmental Entomology V.33 320-327

2004 M.S. Theses

Assibey-Yeboah, Mark. “The Effect of U.S. Food Aid on Recipient Countries’ Food Production.” 2004. Adviser: Titus Awokuse

Ding, Hong. “Consumer Willingness to Pay for Farm-Raised Baitfish in the Chesapeake Bay Region.” 2004. Adviser: John Pesek & Richard Bacon

Gifford, Kathryn. “The Effect of Message Framing on Organic Food Purchase Likelihood.” 2004. Adviser: John Bernard

Jamieson, Peter. “An Investigation of the Market Potential for a Graphic Campaign to Communicate Tree-Planting Principles.” 2004. Adviser: Thomas Ilvento

Pan, Xiqian. “A Conjoint Analysis of Consumer Willingness to Purchase Chicken Produced with Different Attributes.” 2004. Adviser: John Bernard

Journal Articles

Acusta, A., Eggermont, P.P.B. and LaRiccia, V.N. (2003) An EM Algorithm for Density Estimation with Randomly Censored Data, Journal of Statistical Computing and Simulation, 73, 223-232.

Awokuse, Titus O. and Jian Yang, "The Informational Role of Commodity Prices in Formulating Monetary Policy: A Reexamination," Economics Letters, 79:219-224, 2003.

Awokuse, Titus O. "Is the Export-led Growth Hypothesis Valid for Canada?" Canadian Journal of Economics, 36:126-136, 2003.

Awokuse, Titus O. and David A. Bessler. "Vector Autoregression, Policy Analysis, and Directed Graphs: An Application to the U.S. Economy," Journal of Applied Economics, 6:1-24, 2003.

L.A. Cogburn, X. Wang, W. Carre, L. Rejtő, T.E.Porter, S.Aggrey and J.Simon, (2003) System-wide chicken DNA microarrays, gene expression profiling, and discovery of functional genes, Journal of Poultry Science Association, 82, pp. 939–951.

Duke, Joshua M. and Kristen A. Sentoff. 2003. Managing isolated wetlands after Solid Waste and Tahoe: The case of Delaware. Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law 18(2):355-76.

Duke, Joshua M. and Laura A. Csoboth. 2003. Increased scientific capacity and endangered species management: Lessons from the red wolf conflict. Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 8(3):539-590.

Duke, Joshua M. 2003. A web-based interface for student peer review, problem-based learning, and peer pressure. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 32:52-6.

Duke, Joshua M. and Ryan P. Jost. 2003. Promoting mediation in property rights conflicts. Land Economics 79(1):29-37.

Duke, J.M., and S.A. Malcolm, "Legal Risk in Agriculture: Right-to-Farm Laws and Institutional Change." Agricultural Systems, Vol. 75, pp. 295-303, 2003

Kitto, S. L., Griffiths, L. G., and Pesek, J. D. (2003), "A long-term study of knowledge, risk, and ethics for students enrolled in an introductory biotechnology course," Journal of Animal Science 81, 1348-1353.

Mason, David M. The L1-norm density estimator process. (with E. Gińe and A. Zaitsev). Ann. Probab., 31, 719–768 (2003). MR# 2003m:60046

Witmer, J. E., Hough-Goldstein, J. , and Pesek, J. D. (2003), "Ground-dwelling and foliar arthropods in four cropping systems," Environmental Entomology, 32, 366-376.

Yang, Jian, and Titus O. Awokuse, "Asset Storability and Hedging Effectiveness in Commodity Futures Markets," Applied Economic Letters 10:487-491, 2003.

2003 Masters Theses

Liu, Ling, “The Impact of Data Collection Technology Within a Self-Administered Survey on Response Rate and Data Quality” 2003 Advisor: Ilvento

Mbure, Gitau, “Implications for Establishment of a TDR Program in New Castle County” 2003 Advisor: Duke

Slovinska, Jana, “What Explains the High Percentage of Agricultural Land in Slovkia Managed by Cooperatives” 2003 Advisor: Duke

Wolinski, Laurie G. “Support and Awareness of Delaware Cooperative Extension” 2003 Advisor: Ilvento
Yuan, Yan, “Exchange Rates Volatility and U.S. Poultry Exports: Evidence from Panel Data” 2003 Advisor: Awokuse

Zhang, Chao, “Consumer Willingness to Pay for Non-Genetically Modified and Organic Foods” 2003 Advisor: Bernard

Journal Articles

Duke, Joshua M., Robert W. Ehemann, and John Mackenzie. 2002. The distributional effects of water quantity management strategies: A spatial analysis. The Review of Regional Studies 32(1):19-35.

Duke, Joshua M. and Rhonda A. Hyde. 2002. Identifying public preferences for land preservation using the analytic hierarchy process. Ecological Economics 42(1-2):131-145.

Kemble, L.J., P. Krishnan, K.J.Henning, and D. T. Tilmon. 2001- 2002. Development and Evaluation of Kenaf Harvesting Technology. Biosystems Engineering, 81(1): 49-56

Krishnaswamy, M., and P. Krishnan. 2002. Nozzle Wear Rate Prediction using Regression and Neural Network. Biosystems Engineering, 82(1): 53-64.

Parr, A., Tallamy, D. W., Monaco, E. L., and Pesek, J. D. (2002), "Proximate Factors Regulating Maternal Options in the Eggplant Lace Bug, Gargaphia solani (Heteroptera: Tingidae)," Journal of Insect Behavior, 15, 467-475.

L.Rejtő and G.Tusnády, (2002) Evolution of Boolean networks in Tierra environment, Limit Theorems in Probability and Statistics II., (eds. I. Berkes, et al.), pp. 499–526.

Tallamy, D. W., Monaco, E. L., and Pesek, J. D. (2002), "Hormonal Control of Egg Dumping and Guarding in the Lace Bug, Gargaphia solani (Hemiptera: Tingidae)," Journal of Insect Behavior, 15, 495-511.

Masters Theses

James, Sara-Beth “The Effect of Local Economic Development Policy on Employment Growth in Rural Counties - The Mid-Atlantic Region” 2002 Advisor: Ilvento

Jones, Steven W. “An Attempt to Model Cycles of Credit Card Delinquency Using Macroeconomics Variables” 2002 Advisor: Mackenzie

Ke, Xiongkan “The Optimization of Ripariam Forest Buffer Land Acquisition Program” 2002 Advisor: Malcolm

Triplett, Jonathan “A simulation Methodology for Evaluating Alternative Sorting Configurations” 2002 Advisor: Malcolm

Journal Articles

Mason, David M. Small deviations for some multi-parameter Gaussian processes (with Z. Shi). J. Theoretical Prob., 14, 213-239 (2001). MR#2001m:60091

Mason, David M. Some extreme value behavior associated with the Hopfield model (with A. Bovier). Ann. Appl. Probab., 11, 91-120 (2001). MR#2002c:82049 16

Mason, David M. Bootstrapping the Student t-Statistic (with Qi-Man Shao). Ann. Probab., 29, 1435-1450 (2001).

Master's Theses

Horner, Keith M. “Determining Public Preferences for Farmland Preservation” 2001 Advisor: Duke
Chen, Xiaoxuan “Farmer Participation in Agricultural District and PDR Program in Delaware” 2001 Advisor: Duke

Fan, Chunbo “An Analysis of Farm Effects of GE Soybeans in Delaware” 2001Advisor: Bernard
Guiragossian, George B. “Public Support for Local Economic Development in the Rural South” 2001 Advisor: Ilvento

Kuklish, Jaime I. “The Role of Exports in the Economic Growth of Slovakia” 2001 Advisor: Ilvento
Kuntz, Jennifer “Growth Modeling and Institutions in Transition Economies: The Role of Culture” 2001 Advisor: Mackenzie

Morris, Carla C. “Cost Model Misestimates” (Dissertation) 2001 Advisor: Stark

Okenka, Radovan “Customer Satisfaction and Credit Card Dilinquencies” 2001 Advisor: Mackenzie
Zheng, Shi “Development of a Decision Support System for On-Site Composting for Small Farms” 2001 Advisor: Malcolm

Journal Articles

Bernard, John C. and William Schulze. "Teaching Marginal Cost, Supply and Efficiency with an English Auction Experiment." Journal of Economic Education, 31(2000): 52-59.

Cook, Khari, Toensmeyer, Ulrich C. and German, Carl. L., "An Analysis of Household Consumption of Fresh Potatoes in Delaware", Journal of Food Distribution Research, Volume 31, Number 1, pp 103-108, March 2000.

Eggermont, P.P.B. and LaRiccia, V.N. (2000) Almost Sure Asymptotic Optimality of Cross Validation for Spline Smoothing. High Dimensional Probability II, 425-442.

Eggermont, P.P.B. and LaRiccia, V.N. (2000). Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Smooth Monotone and Unimodal Densities. The Annals of Statistics, 28, 922-947.

Kuches, Kristy, Toensmeyer, Ulrich C., German, Carl L. and Kuklish, Jamie, "The Impact of Respondents Characteristics on Purchasing Decisions", Journal of Food Distribution Research, Volume XXXI, Number 1, March 2000, pp 132-138.

Mason, David M. An empirical process approach to the uniform consistency of kernel-type function estimators, (with U. Einmahl). J. Theoretical Prob., 13, 1-37 (2000). (e) MR#2001b:62030

Mason, David M. A study of serial ranks via random graphs, (with E. Haeusler and T. Turova). Bernoulli, 6, 541-570 (2000). MR#2001i:62057

L.Rejtő and G.Tusnády, (2000) Tierra, Hungarian Journal of Mathematics, 6., 28–47.

Master's Theses

Wang, Weihua “An Adaptive Classification Scheme for Data Driven Label Switching Networks” 2000 Advisor: Chien-Chung

Barton, Sherrie S. “Issues, Concerns, and Directions of the U.S. Poultry Industry and International Poultry Trade” 2000 Advisor: Gempesaw

Cook, Khari A. “An Analysis of Household Consumption of Fresh Potatoes in the State of Delaware” 2000 Advisor: Toensmeyer

DiFurio, Ferdinand G. “The Adoption of Integrated Pest Management in the Green Industry in Delaware” 2000 Advisor: Ilvento

Gray, Brenna “A Regional Input-Out Analysis of the Delmarva Poultry Industry” 2000 Advisor: Gempesaw

Jost, Ryan “An Evaluation of Land Use Conflict Resolution at the Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Level in New Castle County, Delaware” 2000 Advisor: Duke

Muya, Simon “The Economics of Weed Management in Lima Bean Production Enterprises” 2000 Advisor: Gempesaw

Reciprocal Educational Exchange Between The University of Delaware and Slovak Agricultural University: Final Report

Understanding the Falling Number Wheat Quality Test

The Historical Basis Record for Grain and Soybeans in Delaware: Marketing Years 1998/99 to 2003/04