Oh, brother …

Oh brother, where art thou? A Bayes factor test for recombination with uncertain heritage.

Current methods to identify recombination between subtypes of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) fall into a sequential testing trap, in which significance is assessed conditional on parental representative sequences and crossover points (COPs) that maximize the same test statistic. We overcame this shortfall by testing for recombination while inferring parental heritage and COPs using an e...

Oh Brother! Testing the Etiology of Sibling Effects Using External Cash Transfers

Siblings can slow child development, but distinguishing intrinsic from economic circumstances has been more difficult. The grants of the Oportunidades Mexican welfare program allow us to test this linkage. We investigate whether transfers increase firstborn characteristics faster than other children's characteristics, and whether the observed negative effects of being part of a larger set of si...

Brother Animal

?a seemingly forgotten figure of earliest psychoanalytical days. The picture emerges of a brilliant and talented man, caught in the web of his own disturbed psyche, who finally sought refuge and self-expression through psychoanalysis. He made some of the earliest contributions to the psychoanalytic study of the psychoses, and impressed Freud and his colleagues as a man of ideas and importance. ...

Nobody's Brother

Hiding from Big Brother

The present state of Internet surveillance and censorship has prompted the development of sophisticated anonymization and encryption protocols. The importance of anonymity and data encryption has already set foot in people’s minds. In this paper, we discuss why it is necessary to not only hide the contents and involved parties of communications, but also the communication itself. We present som...