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Heritability and Linkage Analysis of Appendicitis Utilizing Age at Onset
No full textAppendicitis usually afflicts the young, but there is a large tail in the distribution of onset age. The genetics of this disease are still not well understood. A heritability analysis and genome wide linkage analysis of a large twin dataset was undertaken. Treating age of onset of appendicitis as a censored survival trait revealed a heritability of 0.21, and found evidence of linkage to Chromosome 1p37.3. Author(s): Christopher Oldmeadow 1 * | Kerrie Mengersen 2 | Nicholas Martin 3 | David L. Duffy
External interventions and the duration of civil wars
No full textThe authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using"expected"rather than"actual"external intervention as an explanatory variable in the duration model. Unlike previous studies, they find that external intervention is positively associated with the duration of civil war. They distinguish partial third-party interventions that extend the length of war, from multilateral"peace"operations, which have a mandate to restore peace without taking sides - and which typically take place at war's end, or at least when both sides have agreed to a cease-fire. In a future paper, the authors will examine whether partial third-party interventions - whatever their effect on a war's duration - increase the risk of war's recurrence. If that proves true, then even if interventions reduce the length of civil war, they may do so at the cost of further destabilizing the political system, and sowing the seeds of future rebellion.Children and Youth,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Social Conflict and Violence,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs
Competition Policy in Network Industries: An Introduction
No full textThe author discusses issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects, market structure, market share and profits inequality, choice of technical standards, relationship between the number of active firms and social benefits, existence of market power, leveraging of market power in complementary markets, and innovation races. The author finds that there are often significant differences on the effects of application of antitrust law in network and non-network industries.
Emperor and author : the writings of Julian the Apostate /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Introduction Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher -- Julian the writer and his audience / Susanna Elm -- Reading between the lines : ; Julian's First Panegyric on Constantius II / Shaun Tougher -- 'But I digress...' : ; rhetoric and propaganda in Julian's second oration to Constantius / Hal Drake -- Is there an empress in the text? ; Julian's Speech of thanks to Eusebia / Liz James -- Julian's Consolation to himself on the departure of the excellent Salutius : ; rhetoric and philosophy in the fourth centurry / Josef Lössl -- The tyrant's mask? ; Images of good and bad rule in Julian's Letter to the Athenians / Mark Humphries -- Julian's Letter to Themistius -- and Themistius' response? / John W. Watt -- The emperor's shadow : ; Julian in his correspondence / Michael Trapp -- Julian the lawgiver / Jill Harries -- Words and deeds : ; Julian in the epigraphic record / Benet Salway -- Julian and his coinage : ; a very Constantinian prince / Fernando López Sánchez -- Roman authority, imperial authoriality, and Julian's artistic program / Eric R. Varner -- Julian's Hymn to the mother of the gods : ; the revival and justification of traditional religion / J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz -- Julian's Hymn to King Helios : ; the economical use of complex Neoplatonic concepts / Andrew Smtih -- The forging of an Hellenic orthodoxy : ; Julian's speeches against the cynics / Arnaldo Marcone -- The Christian context of Julian's Against the Galileans / David Hunt -- The politics of virtue in Julian's Misopogon / Nicholas Baker-Brian -- The Caesars of Julian the Apostate in translation and reception, 1580-ca -- 1800 / Rowland SmithAfterword: studying Julian the author / Jacqueline Long
Rayner, Rhoda Elspeth (Betty) 1907-1981
No full textANU, Research School of Sciences, ADB Endowment fund
Theory of Optimal Taxation and Current Tax Policy in Pakistan’s Agriculture
No full textpublic finance into the mould of classical welfare economics by emphasising minimisation of dead weight losses resulting from the imposition of a tax or faulty tax structure. As such, these modern theories have much in common with the traditional approach in terms of efficiency and equity. In spite of this, however, the differences remain. For example, the former theories adhere strictly to the norms of classical welfare economics which treats individual consumers as utility maximisers where improvements in welfare involve change that makes one individual better-off without making someone else worse-off [Stern (1987)]. In contrast to the emphasis of traditional theories on lump-sum taxes, the optimum tax literature is concerned with the implication of using non-lump-sum taxes which have a wider range and therefore more useful to the policy-maker. The recent work on normative tax theory looks at the impact of taxation on individual decisions and the trade off between raising revenues or redistributing tax burdens and the efficiency losses [Atkinson (1987)]. Finally, the optimal tax literature may be more pragmatic in its approach than traditional works as it realistically deals with government objectives and constraints and combines them into models that are sufficiently rich to allow for differences between people regarding income and expenditure patterns.
Exegetical Appoaches of Nicholas de Lyra in Postilla litteralis and Ins Role in Christian Tradition
No full textVykladačská činnost Mikuláše z Lyry v Postille litteralis a její význam v křesťanské exegetické tradici Exegetical Appoaches of Nicholas de Lyra in Postilla litteralis and Ins Role in Christian Tradition Štěpán Lisý The present work studies variability in Nicholas of Lyra's exegesis in his Postilla litteralis and its role in Christian misionary activities among Jews and Muslims. Lyra's postila is significantly influenced by commentary of Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak. In Postilla litteralis there is a minor influence of commentaries of David Kimchi (Radak), Abraham Ibn Ezra and Raymundus Martini as well. Also in the study the author examines the impact of Postilla litteralis on later scholars and existing numerous manuscripts of Lyra's works in Bohemian and Moravian lands
Optimal standoff imaging using structured laser illumination and graphical models
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2014.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246).Structured illumination can be used to form images without using a lens or a detector array. A series of spatially-structured laser pulses is cast on the scene of interest, and a single-detector power measurement is made on the light each pulse returns from the scene. There has been significant interest in the "ghost imaging" configuration, in which the spatial patterns are randomly generated-e.g., by driving the pixels of a spatial light modulator with independent, identically-distributed pseudorandom inputs-and the sequence of measurements is correlated with reference versions of those patterns to image the scene. This naive reconstruction, however, is far from optimal for standoff imaging, for which rough-surfaced objects create laser speckle in the measurements. We develop a graphical model that encompasses the probabilistic relationships in structured-illumination standoff imaging along with an approximate message-passing algorithm for belief propagation to perform optimal scene reconstruction. This approach lets us accurately model the statistics of speckled images, photon detection, and atmospheric turbulence, as well as incorporate intelligent priors for the scene that capture the inherent structure of real-world objects. The result is state-of-the-art scene reconstructions.by Nicholas David Hardy.Ph. D
Los derechos de las plantas: aportes teológicos en la teoría de la justicia de Nicholas Wolterstorff
No full textIn this article, I present the concept of rights of the plants found in Nicholas Wolterstorff\u27s theory of justice. In addition, I make an analysis from a theological perspective, regarding its possible contribution to the understanding on ecology, taking the same framework used by the author: the biblical scriptures of the Old and New Testament. Finally, I outline some reflections of my own following the same line of thinking as that found in the above theory, both in a proposal of quasi-rights and as a solution to the incapacity of moral agency.Se presenta la idea de derechos de las plantas en la teoría de la justicia de Nicholas Wolterstorff y se realiza un análisis en perspectiva teológica respecto a su posible contribución, tomando como paradigma de referencia el mismo utilizado por el autor en cuestión: las escrituras bíblicas del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento. Por último, se esbozan algunas reflexiones propias siguiendo la misma línea de pensamiento de la teoría antes indicada, tanto en una propuesta de cuasi-derechos como en una solución a la incapacidad de agencia moral
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