Abstract This article examines two female slaveholders, one real and fictional, to explore the relationship between gender slave management in both history popular culture. Annie Palmer, “White Witch of Rose Hall” plantation Jamaica, although creation folklore journalistic exaggeration, has functioned for a century half as symbol not only evils slavery but idea that slaveholders’ cruelty threat...

In this paper we consider the problem of allocating bandwidth to two transmitters/queues with arbitrary arrival processes, so as to minimize the total expected (discounted) holding cost of backlogged packets in the system over a finite (infinite) horizon. The bandwidth is in the form of time slots in a TDMA schedule. Allocation decisions are made based on the queue backlog information, which is...

Performance measures were evaluated for 125 outdoor sows and litters of two crossbred genotypes (Camborough-15 and 25% Meishan) and in two farrowing hut designs (American-style and English-style hut). Contemporary breeding groups of second-parity sows were evaluated in an intensive, outdoor research unit. Sow genotype and hut designs were arranged factorially. Seven complete blocks were evaluat...