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Moment properties of estimators for a type 1 extreme value regression model
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Moment properties of estimators for an extreme value regression model with type 2 censoring
An extreme value regression model for grouped data with type 2
censoring is considered. The response variable is taken to have a
type 1 ext reme va lue d i s t r i b u t i on for sma l l e s t v a l ue s a nd a s tandar d
linear regression model is assumed f o r t he means . Large sampl e
approximations to the variances of the maximum likelihood estimators
are derived. The small sample moment properties of the maximum
likelihood estimators are evaluated by simulation for the case of
simp l e l i n e a r r e g ress i o n . T h e r e sul t s s h o w t h a t t h e e stima t or o f
the scale parameter has a s t rong bias in sma l l samples, particularly
when ther e is a heavy degree of censoring. Final l y , sma l l sample
variance and mean square error efficiences of the best linear unbiased
estimators relative to the maximum likelihood estimators are assessed
Mobile library and staff preparedness
The provision of access to information and effective delivery of information services is central to the role of librarians. Mobile technologies have added another dimension to this role â one that requires new knowledge, skills and competencies to ensure the needs and expectations of users are met. If libraries are to be successful in developing services for mobile technologies, their managers will have to consider two significant staffing issues. Firstly, it is important to understand what knowledge, skills and competencies are needed by staff to enable them to deliver services through mobile technologies, and secondly, to use that understanding to provide support and training for staff in the use of mobile technologies. In order to explore these issues and to contribute to the planning and professional development in the mobile library environment, a survey was undertaken of librarians working in the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia and New Zealand
Purely Magnetic Spacetimes
Purely magnetic spacetimes, in which the Riemann tensor satisfies
for some unit timelike vector , are studied. The
algebraic consequences for the Weyl and Ricci tensors are examined in detail
and consideration given to the uniqueness of . Some remarks concerning the
nature of the congruence associated with are made.Comment: 12 pages, standard latex. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
History will eat itself: Rory Mullarkey's "Cannibals" and the terrors of end-narratives
Rory Mullarkeyâs Cannibals (2013), an odyssey from post-Soviet Ukraine to contemporary Britain, catalogues the destructive power of teleological historical narratives through the eyes of a protagonist âmutilated in acts of spectacular terrorâ (Gray 205). This article aligns Mullarkeyâs play with the anti-narrative political philosophy of John Gray, criticizing their approaches as implicitly valorising the very philosophies they purport to oppose. Offering an alternative reading of Cannibals through the lens of Alain Badiouâs Rebirth of History (2012), I contend that the play opens up a space of resistance against the totalizing impulses of the present, one in which âthe power of an Idea may take rootâ (Badiou 15).Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
Communion tokens, Vanuatu
The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries, radically transforming the lives of people in large parts of the globe, including in Europe itself. By exploring a range of artefacts, photographs and archival documents that have survived, or emerged from, these transformations, this volume sheds an
oblique light on the histories of British Missionaries in Africa and the Pacific, and the ways in which their work is remembered in different parts of the world today.
Short contributions describing the histories of particular items, accompanied by rich visual imagery, showcase the extraordinary items that were caught up in histories of conversion, and are still controversial for many today. By
focusing on the varied forms of missionary heritage, this volume aims to question the often used categories of trophies, relics or curios, and highlightthe complexity involved in the missionary encounter.
This volume is the result of a research networking project bringing together specialists of missionary collections, i.e. artefacts, photographs or archival documents. These specialists are academics of various disciplines, museum
curators and indigenous stakeholders who aim to show to a wide audience what missionary heritage constitutes and how varied it is. The heritage in focus is based in museums, archives, churches and archaeological sites in
Britain, the Pacific and Africa. With contributions by Ben Burt of the British Museum, Sagale Buadromo of
the Fiji Museum, Ghanaian artist, art historian and curator Atta Kwami, Jack Thompson of the University of Edinburgh, Steven Hooper of the Sainsbury Research Unit, Joshua Bell of the Smithsonian Institute, Samoan artist Greg
Semu and many more
Cellular inhibition and the origin of cancer, with special reference to the mode of action of the carcinogenic hydrocarbons
Sections I and II:Intraperitoneal administration of a number of
carcinogenic hydrocarbons, including 1:2:5:6- dibenz-
:anthracene, 5:6 -clopenteno -1:2- benzanthracene,
and 3:4- benzpyrene, produced considerable inhibition
in the rate of growth of the Jensen and Walker
tumours. On the other hand, a series of related
non -carcinogenic compounds (anthracene, phenanthrene,
1:2- cyclopentenophenanthrene, dodecahydro -l:2 -benz-
:anthracene, pyrene, fluoranthene, triphenylene,
dehydronorcholene, perylene, 1:9- benzanthrone and
diphenylene oxide) gave no inhibition of tumour
growth when tested under the same conditions. Of
the synthetic oestrogens 1-keto- 1:2:3:4 -tetrahydro-
:phenanthrene and 9:10- dihydroxy- 9:10- di- n- propyl9:10-
dihydro- 1:2:5:6- dibenzanthracene, the latter
proved to be moderately inhibitory and the former
quite inactive. Inhibitory activity was also shown
to a variable extent by chrysene and by 1:2 -benz-
:anthracene and certain of its derivatives (3 -, 4-
and 7- methyl -), the carcinogenicity of which is
either very feeble or nil.In comparative experiments on body -growth,
x- radiation, lead and colchicine were found to
produce a temporary interference which was followed
by recovery to the normal growth-rate, with or
without compensation. Although the carcinogenic
hydrocarbons must be regarded as toxic substances,
their growth- inhibiting action is apparently
independent of toxicity in any non -specific sense,
since manifest poisons evoke an entirely different
response.The inhibition produced by the carcinogenic
compounds was extremely prolonged, even after a
single injection. This feature is discussed in
relation to the rate of excretion of such substances.
It was further noted that l:2:5:6- dibenzanthracene
produced a diminution of both male and female
fertility accompanied, in certain cases, by
histological changes in the gonads.There is thus a correlation in compounds of
this type between carcinogenicity and growthinhibitory
power. It is suggested that the mode of
action of these substances is indirect, and that they
operate by producing a prolonged retardation of the
growth of normal cells, which eventually react by a
process of discontinuous variation to give a new cell
race with a greatly increased fission rate.Section III:Attention is drawn to the striking multiplicity
of carcinogenic agents, which, although they are
sufficiently diverse as to have no physical or
chemical features in common, nevertheless produce
identical end -results in cells exposed to their
action. Similar examples are quoted from other
fields and the basis of biological non -specificity
is examined. Arguing from the general biology of
variation, it is suggested, in the special case of
tumour -producing agents, that these operate by
producing interference with certain normal functions
of the cell, and particularly with growth, in such a
way as to induce variation in the characters
affected. The detailed evidence in support of this
view derives from a certain degree of parallelism
between optimal growth- inhibiting power and
tumour- producing capacity which is shown by radioactive
agents and the carcinogenic hydrocarbons.
In a discussion of the biological nature of this
cellular change, emphasis is concentrated on its
irreversibility. A summary is given of the known
biochemical effects of tumour -producing agents,
including a reference to the possible significance
of ischaemia in tumour induction. The conception
of somatic cell variation in general, and of
cellular inhibition in particular as its cause, is
discussed in relation (1) to the salient features
of the natural history of cancer and (2) to the
theories of Virchow and Cohnheim, to allied genetic
theories, to Warburg's hypothesis, and to the
various infective hypotheses of tumour causation
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