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The Concept of Laws in Social Science: A Critique and Notes on an Expanded View

Agnostic Notes on Regression Adjustments to Experimental Data: Reexamining Freedman’s Critique By

Freedman [Adv. in Appl. Math. 40 (2008) 180–193; Ann. Appl. Stat. 2 (2008) 176–196] critiqued ordinary least squares regression adjustment of estimated treatment effects in randomized experiments, using Neyman’s model for randomization inference. Contrary to conventional wisdom, he argued that adjustment can lead to worsened asymptotic precision, invalid measures of precision, and small-sample ...

The Creature Before the Law: Notes on Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence

Transforming as it does from an exemplar of meticulous philosophical analysis into an allusive political/messianic tract, Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is representative of all that is most difficult about his work. Against those critics who find the eschatological dimensions of Benjamin’s texts unpalatable and/or philosophically bankrupt, however, the wager of this paper is that it ...

Working Paper No. 82

Cluster analysis is used to produce a small number of job contours more homogeneous in job quality than standard occupation and industry groups. The results indicate a six-contour job structure that is consistent with dual and tripartite labor market segmentation frameworks. This classification scheme is used to examine the effects of employment restructuring in the 1980's by race and gender. W...

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Imperatorin (IMP) is the major active ingredient in many common medicinal herbs. We examined the irreversible inhibitory effect of IMP on CYP2B6. IMP produced a timeand concentrationdependent inactivation of CYP2B6. About 70% of activity of CYP2B6 was suppressed after its incubation with 1.5 mM IMP for 9 minutes. KI and kinact were found to be 0.498 mM and 0.079 min , respectively. The loss of ...