This collection traces the history of seven Dutch sugar plantations in Guiana (the colony of Surinam) through nearly a century of major developments, including the Napoleonic Wars and the transition from a slave to a free labor economy. The records consist of correspondence regarding the administration of the plantations in the Surinam colony, a...
Created:
1739-11-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
We combine theory and empirics to (i) show that some buyers in online advertising markets are financially constrained and (ii) demonstrate how to design auctions that take into account such financial constraints. We use data from a field experiment where reserve prices were randomized on Google's advertising exchange. We find that, contrary to t...
Creator:
Lobel, Ilan (New York University)
Created:
2018-10-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This talk will focus on theory and practice of combinatorial auctions and their application to thesale of wireless spectrum licenses. As new wireless applications emerge worldwide, the wireless industry and government regulators are looking to reallocate wireless spectrum to better match the demand. Combinatorial auctions can play an effective r...
Creator:
Hajek, Bruce (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Created:
2015-10-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
No illustration, text only. Additional text (following first sentence): We've already fought for that, as the German nationals were wading around in the swamp of Parliament and the papal chamberlain Mr. von Papen was, as a Prussian member of Parliament, still in affiliation with Severing and Grzesinski. However, the strong central authority must...
Creator:
Kampmann, Karoly, 1902-1945
Created:
1932?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Upper Midwest Literary Archives.
Nine soldiers seated around a table with typewriters. A uniformed woman YMCA worker stands next to them. On the back wall a large diagram of the Underwood standard typewriter keyboard is posted.
Created:
1914 - 1919
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department set up this telegraph workshop at Alipore, Calcutta in early 1855 as a repair workshop, and gradually it started production of Telegraph and Telecom equipment. This workshop supplied Telegraph/Telecom materials throughout India (including the territory of Burma prior to 1937). This is one of a set of 45 p...
Created:
1920 - 1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
The gastric mucus layer is widely recognized to serve a protective function in the human stomach, shielding the epithelium and the gastric mucosa from the extremely low pH and digestive enzymes present in the stomach lumen. How this gel layer and the extreme pH gradient across it are maintained is not fully understood. Mucus secretion and swelli...
Creator:
Lewis, Owen (The University of Utah)
Created:
2018-03-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.