John Knowles
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Knowles |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Knowles |
| SIGNATURE | KNOWLES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3242-2737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Crime Minimisation and Racial bias: What can we Learn from Police Search Data
Is variation by motorist race in the success rate of searches informative about racial bias if police are motivated by crime minimisation rather than success-rate maximisation? We show that the basic idea of extracting information from 'hit rates' may still be valid, provided one can verify some simple restrictions on the joint distribution of criminality by race. We also extend these results to the case where the police minimise the rate of unpu…
Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality
This paper examines the interactions between household formation, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model in which agents decide to become skilled or unskilled and form households. We show that the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in skills) is an increasing function of the skill premium. In the absence of perfect capital markets, the economy can converge to different steady states, depending upon init…
Applications of Pooled DNA Samples to the Assessment of Population Affinities: Short Tandem Repeats
Pooled DNA samples have been used in association studies of Mendelian disease genes. This method involves combining equal quantities of DNA from patients and control subjects into separate pools and comparing the pools for distributions of genetic markers. In this study identical quantities of DNA from 300 individuals representing 6 populations were pooled and amplified for 296 loci using the touchdown polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. The …
Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence
African American motorists in the United States are more likely than white motorists to have their cars searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-stop data whether police are basing their decisions to stop cars on the race of the driver. We develop a model of law enforcement for a population with two racial types who also differ along other dimensions…
The cleft sentence A base-generated perspective
Structural Choice in Spanish Clausal Comparison
1. A not insignificant problem of Spanish syntax is that of relating the subdeletion sentence (1) to its comparative-deletion congener (2) (1) Juan comió más manzanas que peras había traído. Juan ate more apples than he had brought pears. (2) Juan comió más manzanas de las que había traído. Juan ate more apples than he had brought. At first glance there appears to be little that is problematic and the solutions that have been proposed for English…
The Tag as a Parenthetical
The marked syntactic similarities of English Tags and Parentheticals suggest that Tags themselves are a type of parenthetical. Based on this assumption a solution is proposed in which the properties of Tag form are accounted for in terms of certain non-transformational constraints required independently for parentheticals
Lexemic iteration
The Spanish correlatives of comparison and sentence recursion
Hispanoamerica: Panorama contemporaneo de su cultura
The Price family of glass-painters
The work of the Price family, William known as ‘the elder’, Joshua, and William the younger, is of considerable interest in the history of glass-painting in England, not merely because they lived during a period in which, for lack of patronage, glass-painters were few, but from the degree of accomplishment, both artistic and technical, shown in their work
Additional Notes on the History of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers
The following notes have been set down in response to the invitation contained in a foot-note to page 15 of Mr. Chas. H. Ashdown's excellent History of the Company, in the hope that they will prove of interest to those who are anxious that all details in connexion with one of the most interesting of medieval crafts shall be recorded
Disputes between English and Foreign Glass-Painters in the Sixteenth Century
At the beginning of the sixteenth century Flanders had for a hundred years or more been the art centre of western Europe. Thence, and from the Rhenish provinces, most of the art movements sprang; and it was there that new ideas of technique and craftsmanship and new ways of looking at things had their birth. Henry VII, who since the age of five had lived abroad, favoured foreigners, especially Flemings, and encouraged trade with the Netherlands i…
The York School of Glass Painting
Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence
African American motorists in the United States are more likely than white motorists to have their cars searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-stop data whether police are basing their decisions to stop cars on the race of the driver. We develop a model of law enforcement for a population with two racial types who also differ along other dimensions…
Crime Minimisation and Racial bias: What can we Learn from Police Search Data
Is variation by motorist race in the success rate of searches informative about racial bias if police are motivated by crime minimisation rather than success-rate maximisation? We show that the basic idea of extracting information from 'hit rates' may still be valid, provided one can verify some simple restrictions on the joint distribution of criminality by race. We also extend these results to the case where the police minimise the rate of unpu…
The Price family of glass-painters
The work of the Price family, William known as ‘the elder’, Joshua, and William the younger, is of considerable interest in the history of glass-painting in England, not merely because they lived during a period in which, for lack of patronage, glass-painters were few, but from the degree of accomplishment, both artistic and technical, shown in their work
The cleft sentence A base-generated perspective
Disputes between English and Foreign Glass-Painters in the Sixteenth Century
At the beginning of the sixteenth century Flanders had for a hundred years or more been the art centre of western Europe. Thence, and from the Rhenish provinces, most of the art movements sprang; and it was there that new ideas of technique and craftsmanship and new ways of looking at things had their birth. Henry VII, who since the age of five had lived abroad, favoured foreigners, especially Flemings, and encouraged trade with the Netherlands i…
The York School of Glass Painting
Disputes between English and Foreign Glass-Painters in the Sixteenth Century
At the beginning of the sixteenth century Flanders had for a hundred years or more been the art centre of western Europe. Thence, and from the Rhenish provinces, most of the art movements sprang; and it was there that new ideas of technique and craftsmanship and new ways of looking at things had their birth. Henry VII, who since the age of five had lived abroad, favoured foreigners, especially Flemings, and encouraged trade with the Netherlands i…
Additional Notes on the History of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers
The following notes have been set down in response to the invitation contained in a foot-note to page 15 of Mr. Chas. H. Ashdown's excellent History of the Company, in the hope that they will prove of interest to those who are anxious that all details in connexion with one of the most interesting of medieval crafts shall be recorded
The Price family of glass-painters
The work of the Price family, William known as ‘the elder’, Joshua, and William the younger, is of considerable interest in the history of glass-painting in England, not merely because they lived during a period in which, for lack of patronage, glass-painters were few, but from the degree of accomplishment, both artistic and technical, shown in their work
Hispanoamerica: Panorama contemporaneo de su cultura
The Spanish correlatives of comparison and sentence recursion
Lexemic iteration
The Tag as a Parenthetical
The marked syntactic similarities of English Tags and Parentheticals suggest that Tags themselves are a type of parenthetical. Based on this assumption a solution is proposed in which the properties of Tag form are accounted for in terms of certain non-transformational constraints required independently for parentheticals
Structural Choice in Spanish Clausal Comparison
1. A not insignificant problem of Spanish syntax is that of relating the subdeletion sentence (1) to its comparative-deletion congener (2) (1) Juan comió más manzanas que peras había traído. Juan ate more apples than he had brought pears. (2) Juan comió más manzanas de las que había traído. Juan ate more apples than he had brought. At first glance there appears to be little that is problematic and the solutions that have been proposed for English…
The cleft sentence A base-generated perspective
Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence
African American motorists in the United States are more likely than white motorists to have their cars searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-stop data whether police are basing their decisions to stop cars on the race of the driver. We develop a model of law enforcement for a population with two racial types who also differ along other dimensions…
Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality
This paper examines the interactions between household formation, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model in which agents decide to become skilled or unskilled and form households. We show that the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in skills) is an increasing function of the skill premium. In the absence of perfect capital markets, the economy can converge to different steady states, depending upon init…
Applications of Pooled DNA Samples to the Assessment of Population Affinities: Short Tandem Repeats
Pooled DNA samples have been used in association studies of Mendelian disease genes. This method involves combining equal quantities of DNA from patients and control subjects into separate pools and comparing the pools for distributions of genetic markers. In this study identical quantities of DNA from 300 individuals representing 6 populations were pooled and amplified for 296 loci using the touchdown polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. The …
Crime Minimisation and Racial bias: What can we Learn from Police Search Data
Is variation by motorist race in the success rate of searches informative about racial bias if police are motivated by crime minimisation rather than success-rate maximisation? We show that the basic idea of extracting information from 'hit rates' may still be valid, provided one can verify some simple restrictions on the joint distribution of criminality by race. We also extend these results to the case where the police minimise the rate of unpu…
Computer Science (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · History (3 works)