Reply to L Massey

Reply to Massey: Drift does influence mutation-rate evolution.

Although Massey argues that proteome size (P), not the effectivepopulation size (Ne), is the primary determinant of mutation-rate evolution (1), nothing inhis commentor inhisprior work (2) contradicts our conclusions (3). First, although we noted how the mutation rate/nucleotide site/generation (μ) scales with Ne and P of a species, we did not rank the relative importance of these sources of va...

Massey Products and Deformations

It is common knowledge that the construction of one-parameter deformations of various algebraic structures, like associative algebras or Lie algebras, involves certain conditions on cohomology classes, and that these conditions are usually expressed in terms of Massey products, or rather Massey powers. The cohomology classes considered are those of certain differential graded Lie algebras (DGLA...

Generalised Berlekamp-Massey algorithm

The BerlekampMassey algorithm is revisited and proven again by using the matrix representation. This approach makes the derivation and proof of the algorithm straightforward, simple and easily understood. It further enables the presentation of a generalised Berlekamp Massey algorithm, including the conventional algorithm and the inversion-free algorithm as two special cases. -,

The Authors’ Reply

For Space ( 2005 ) : Doreen Massey

On page 108 of For Space, an impassioned book that discloses the theoretical and political challenges of thinking space, a map of part of the South-East of England is inscribed with a very simple if perhaps initially puzzling phrase: The phrase recalls Rene Margritte’s famous inscription below a painting of a pipe: ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe’ (this is not a pipe). Initially, like Margritte’s phra...