JAP Volume 34 Number 4

Research Papers

827 JOSEPH C. WATKINS. Mechanical models for cell movement - locomotion, translocation, migration

847 JAMES LEDOUX. A geometric invariant in weak lumpability of finite Markov chains

859 BÉLA BOLLOBÁS AND ALAN STACEY. Approximate upper bounds for the critical probability of oriented percolation in two dimensions based on rapidly mixing Markov chains

868 HANS-OTTO GEORGII AND TORSTEN KÜNETH. Stochastic comparison of point random fields

882 J. BERTOIN, L. CHAUMONT AND M. YOR. Two chain-transformations and their applications to quantiles

898 AIHUA XIA. On the rate of Poisson process approximation to Bernoulli process

908 MARIE F. KRATZ AND HOLGER ROOTZÉN. On the rate of convergence for extremes of mean square differentiable stationary normal processes

924 ANTONELLA CALZOLARI AND FEDERICO MARCHETTI. Limit motion of an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck particle on the equilibrium manifold of a force field

939 C. C. HEYDE AND Y. YANG. On defining long-range dependence

945 D. P. KENNEDY AND R. P. KERTZ. A prophet inequality for independent random variables with finite variances

959 F. THOMAS BRUSS AND THOMAS S. FERGUSON. Multiple buying or selling with vector offers

974 THOMAS S. FERGUSON AND C. MELOLIDAKIS. Last round betting

988 GEORGE CHRISTAKOS AND DIONISSIOS T. HRISTOPULOS. Stochastic indicator analysis of contaminated sites

1009 TITYIK WONG. Preservation of multivariate stochastic orders under multivariate Poisson shock models

1021 KYRIAKOS PETAKOS AND THEOTHOSIOS TSAPELAS. Reliability analysis for systems in a random environment

1032 NADER EBRAHIMI. Multivariate age replacement

1041 WLADYSLAW SZCZOTKA. Asymptotic stationarity of queueing processes

1049 F. SIMONOT. Convergence rate for the distributions of GI/M/1/n and M/GI/1/n as n tends to infinity

1061 J. PREATER. M/M/inf transience revisited

1068 ROBERT W. CHEN, BURT ROSENBERG AND LARRY A. SHEPP. A secretary problem with two decision makers

Short Communications

1075 S. A. BEREZNER, A. E. KRZESINSKI AND P. G. TAYLOR. A product-form `loss network' with a form of queueing

1079 VOLKERT PAULSEN. The moments of FIND

1083 Index