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A revision of Otholobium C.H. Stirton (Papilionoideae, Leguminosae)
No full textIncludes bibliography.This study arose from difficulties encountered in identifying Psoralea s.l. for the Flora of southern Africa. A worldwide assessment of the genus Psoralea resulted in the fragmentation of the genus into six genera: Bituminaria, Cullen, Hallia, Otholobium, Orbexilum, and Psoralea. In the course of this study a detailed comparison was made of the tribes Psoraleeae and Amorpheae. Considerable new data from phytochemistry, palynology, morphology and leaflet anatomy confirmed that they were distinct and not closely related as had been widely assumed: new characters included cotyledon type, arrangement of the embryo and radicle in the seed, seed shape, fruit morphology, chromosome numbers, petiolar anatomy, root architecture, nodule type, inflorescence architecture, 6AH-pterocarpan and 6a-hydroxy analogue chemistry, pollen anatomy and morphology. A cladistic analysis was made of the genera in the Psoraleeae
Response to the Round Table on Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal 1819–1849
No full textAuthor Robert C.H. Sweeny responds to comments on his award-winning book, Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal 1819–1849.L’auteur Robert C.H. Sweeny répond aux commentaires de son livre récompensé, Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal 1819–1849
Trail Municipal Council, 1907
No full textLeft to right: A. Donaldson, E. Harkness, J. Fluher, Mayor J.H. Schofield, G.A. White, J. Craig, C.H. Gill
Trail Municipal Council, 1906
No full textLeft to right: A. Donaldson, E. Harkness, S.D. Weaver, Mayor J.H. Schofield, G.A. White, J. Craig, C.H. Gill
Trail Municipal Council, 1905
No full textLeft to right: A. Donaldson, E. Harkness, S.D. Weaver, Mayor J.H. Schofield, G.A. White, J. Craig, C.H. Gill
Recourse against Judgments in the Netherlands
No full textIn the 1980s, the Netherlands witnessed the start of a comprehensive programme of reform in the fields of judicial organisation and procedure. The reform programme consists of three stages, of which the first has now been completed. This has, amongst other things, resulted in the consolidation of several administrative procedures which were formerly adjudicated by different judicial bodies, in the Arrondissementsrechtbank. Consequently, the Arrondissementsrechtbank has obtained extensive administrative jurisdiction together with its jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases. As part of the reforms in the second stage, a bill has been submitted to Parliament which contains changes in the court structure. It is proposed to abolish the Kantongerecht and to reallocate its jurisdiction to the Arrondissementsrechtbank, transforming the latter court into a general first-instance court. In addition, the bill contains changes in the Code of Civil Procedure. In the present report the author discusses the current situation January 1998
Bifurcation Routes in Financial Markets
No full textThe heterogeneity of expectations among traders introduces an important non-linearity into the financial markets. In a series of papers, Brock and Hommes, propose to model economic and financial markets as adaptive belief systems. Asset price fluctuations in adaptive belief systems are characterized by phases of close-to-the-fundamental-price fluctuations, phases of optimism where most agents follow an upward price trend, and phases of pessimism with small or large market crashes. In this paper will be discussed the EMH benchmark and forecasting rules of fundamentals and trend extrapolators. Some illustrative examples are supplied.heterogeneity of expectations, adaptive belief systems, forecasting rules, fundamentals, trend extrapolators equations, limit cycles, asymptotical stability
John Ploughman's Talk or Plain Advice for Plain People.
No full textI admit that I have read only two pages of this book (154-5). It seems a non-stop barrage of one-liners. The author does indeed, as the cover illustration suggests, take the bull by the horns! I picked the book up because its frontispiece of Aesop's fox and crow depicts the book's insight: The fox admires the cheese, not the raven (154). My two pages had lots of good zingers in them, like He who believes in promises made at elections has long ears, and may try to eat thistles. I suspect there are many more fable-related proverbs along the way in the book, but for now I will let someone else find them. This printing represents the 544th thousand.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)C.H. Spurgeo
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