In this review of the chemistry, biochemistry and chemical pathology of the bile pigments I am well aware that I shall ask many more questions than I am able to answer. It seems appropriate that the subject should be considered under the five headings: -Chemistry; Formation from Haem Proteins; Transport in the Blood; Conjugation and Transport to the Bile; and Changes in the Gut. I shall conclud...

1 Partly supported by “Nation’s Outstanding Young Scientists Funds” of China (No. 79925001), the Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Programme Between China and Flandres (174B0201) and Tsinghua’s Soft Science Key Project on E-Commerce. 2 Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]. Abstract Mining functional dependencies (FDs) is valuable in analyzing the relationships a...

Land acquisition and ownership is an important part of modern agriculture in North America. Given the unique nature of farmland as a good, this paper develops a multi-agent simulation of farmland auction markets in a Canadian context. The model is used to generate data on land transactions between farm agents to determine if a particular auction design or type is better suited to farmland trans...