In a recent article Steven Rosefielde has argued that (1) according to the best available statistics the postwar growth of Russia under the command system was surprisingly good (2) economic theory requires that nonmarket systems must fail by comparison with market economies (3) the statistics are therefore at fault: they “lied and were misconstrued” by western “statistically oriented comparativ...

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The presence of cell-surface antigens on line10 hepatocarcinoma cells was demonstrated by immunoelectronmicroscopy (IEM) with the use of xenogeneic and syngeneic tumor-specific antibody and syngeneic BCG-induced antibody. This confirmed that in addition to tumor-specific antigen(s) there are common antigens between line-10 hepatocarcinoma cells and BCG organisms. The specificity of this cross-r...

In this paper, we propose a class of Bayes estimators for the covariance matrix of graphical Gaussian models Markov with respect to a decomposable graph G. Working with the WPG family defined by Letac and Massam [Ann. Statist. 35 (2007) 1278–1323] we derive closed-form expressions for Bayes estimators under the entropy and squared-error losses. The WPG family includes the classical inverse of t...

We present results of an ongoing program at the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope for spectroscopy of BL Lac objects (BLLs) lacking a firm redshift estimate, and here we report on 15 objects. For 11 sources we confirm the BL Lac classification, and determine new redshifts for three objects, one with weak emission lines (PKS 1057− 79, z = 0.569) and two with absorptions from the...

The inositol pyrophosphate disphosphoinositol pentakisphosphate (PP-InsP(3)/InsP(7)) is formed in mammals by two recently cloned inositol hexakiphosphate kinases, InsP(6)K1 and InsP(6)K2 (Saiardi, A., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Snowman, A. M., Tempst, P., and Snyder, S. H. (1999) Curr. Biol. 9, 1323-1326). We now report the identification, cloning, and characterization of a third InsP(7) forming en...

In this paper, we propose a class of Bayes estimators for the covariance matrix of graphical Gaussian models Markov with respect to a decomposable graph G. Working with the WPG family defined by Letac and Massam [Ann. Statist. 35 (2007) 1278–1323] we derive closed-form expressions for Bayes estimators under the entropy and squared-error losses. The WPG family includes the classical inverse of t...

RAGAN, H. A., S. NACHT, G. R. LEE, C. R. BISHOP, AND G. E. CARTWRIGHT. Effect of ceruloplasmin on plasma iron in copper-deficient swine. Am. J. Physiol. 217(5) : 1320-1323. 1969.-The administration of homologous ceruloplasmin to copper-deficient swine with adequate iron stores resulted in a rapid, marked, and sustained increase in plasma iron concentration. An amount of inorganic copper equival...

We develop a polynomial translation from finite control processes (an important fragment of pi-calculus) to safe low-level Petri nets. To our knowledge, this is the first such translation. It is natural (there is a close correspondence between the control flow of the original specification and the resulting Petri net), enjoys a bisimulation result, and is suitable for practical model checking. ...