Noise figure considerations in the design of superhetrodyne receiver input circuits.

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Affirmative action in education and Black Economic Empowerment in the workplace in South Africa since 1994: policies, strengths and limitations

This paper explains the concepts of Affirmative Action (AA) and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and the policies developed in post-Apartheid South Africa. It compares it to similar policies adopted in different contexts in Malaysia, India and the U.S.A. It explains and critiques the South African policies on AA and BEE, its history since 1994 and how class has replaced race as the determinant of who succeeds in education and the workplace. It analyses why these policies were essential to address the massive racial divide in education and the workplace at the arrival of democracy in 1994, but also why it has been controversial and racially divisive. The strengths and limitations of these policies are juxtaposed, the way it has benefitted the black and white elites, bolstered the black middle-class but has had little success in addressing the education and job futures of poor, working class black citizens in South Africa. The views of a number of key social analysts in the field are stated to explain the moral, racial, divisive aspects of AA in relation to the international experience and how South Africa is grappling with limited success to bridge the divide between the rich and poor

Book Reviews

THE BEST OF TRUSTS AND ESTATES-ESTATE PLANNING There are one hundred and four articles arranged in eight chapters entitled, Estate Planning-A Panoramic View, Using the Marital Deduction, Income Tax Planning, Making the Most of Gifts, Minimizing Administration Problems, How to Handle Business Interests, Arranging Life Insurance, and Drafting Wills and Trusts. The citation and date of the original publication of each article is stated, and in many instances there is an addendum by the author which brings the article up to the date of the book. In addition there are excellent introductory commentaries by the editors at the beginning of each chapter which reflect helpfully the current status of our intellectual thought and maturity. This reader feels that the book becomes dramatically more valuable and interesting after Chapter One. The articles on the marital deduction, income tax planning, etc., as above listed, provide excellent selections reflecting the competing values which have been developed and argued during the ten-year period, and it is a pleasure to have them all together in one volume. ================================ AN ELECTRONIC CASH AND CREDIT SYSTEM Jurimetrics, cybernetics, electronic data processing, information retrieval and a myriad of like terms represent the nova lingua of the legal age in which we live. This is the era of the mechanized brain-a brain which plays with numbers and never forgets what it is told. It is perhaps too early to say whether the computer will prove to be a panacea for mounting problems of accounting in the modern commercial community. However, it is not too early to predict that the computer and its counterparts will play an increasing role in the lives of all, providing, of course, that we can reach some accommodation between the computer\u27s labor-saving characteristics and its proclivity for invading individual privacy, which to some is intolerable. After all, the gossip who forgets nothing, and tells all indiscriminately to anyone who asks, may be something more than a mere nuisance. The implications of the policy problems raised by the preceding paragraph of this review are not the subject of this book. The authors, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, are concerned only with describing a computerized system by which goods may be distributed for cash held by the purchaser\u27s bank or financing institution without the intervention of the present checking system whereby orders are drawn by the purchaser on the third party (bank) holding the drawer\u27s funds

Soils of Daviess County, Missouri

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Jubilee mugs:the monarchy and the Sex Pistols

With rare exceptions sociologists have traditionally had little to say about the British monarchy. In the exceptional cases of the Durkheimian functionalism of Shills and Young (1953), the left humanism of Birnbaum (1955), or the archaic state/backward nation thesis of Nairn (1988), the British nation has been conceived as a homogenous mass. The brief episode of the Sex Pistols' Jubilee year song 'God Save the Queen' exposed some of the divisions within the national 'mass', forcing a re-ordering of the balance between detachment and belonging to the Royal idea. I argue that the song acted as a kind of 'breaching experiment'. Its wilful provocation of Royalist sentiment revealed the level of sanction available to the media-industrial complex to enforce compliance to British self-images of loyal and devoted national communicants

Clofarabine and high-dose cytosine arabinoside in the treatment of refractory or relapsed acute myeloid leukaemia

Clofarabine (40 mg/m2/day × 5) and high-dose cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C, 1–2 g/m2/day × 5) were used in 10 men and 11 women, at a median age of 45 (22–62) years, with refractory (N = 4) and relapsed (N = 17) acute myeloid leukaemia, after a median of 3 (2–5) prior regimens. Grade 4 myelosuppression was observed in all cases, with two patients dying of bacterial sepsis. Nine patients achieved a complete remission. Disease status, number of prior therapies, and cytogenetic aberrations were not associated with the outcome. However, remission was only achieved with Ara-C at 2 g/m2/day and not 1 g/m2/day (9/15 versus 0/4, P = 0.03)

Access and closure management of large bore femoral arterial access

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Bodyweight Perceptions among Texas Women: The Effects of Religion, Race/Ethnicity, and Citizenship Status

Despite previous work exploring linkages between religious participation and health, little research has looked at the role of religion in affecting bodyweight perceptions. Using the theoretical model developed by Levin et al. (Sociol Q 36(1):157–173, 1995) on the multidimensionality of religious participation, we develop several hypotheses and test them by using data from the 2004 Survey of Texas Adults. We estimate multinomial logistic regression models to determine the relative risk of women perceiving themselves as overweight. Results indicate that religious attendance lowers risk of women perceiving themselves as very overweight. Citizenship status was an important factor for Latinas, with noncitizens being less likely to see themselves as overweight. We also test interaction effects between religion and race. Religious attendance and prayer have a moderating effect among Latina non-citizens so that among these women, attendance and prayer intensify perceptions of feeling less overweight when compared to their white counterparts. Among African American women, the effect of increased church attendance leads to perceptions of being overweight. Prayer is also a correlate of overweight perceptions but only among African American women. We close with a discussion that highlights key implications from our findings, note study limitations, and several promising avenues for future research