Henry James’ novel The Turn of the Screw is notorious for its ambiguous nature about the ghostly figures that keep haunting the protagonist the governess. This paper attempts to give the study of this novel another turn of the screw by arguing that it is a hybrid of popular culture of ghost stories and high culture of psychological studies of ghosts. It is intended by Henry James as a blueprint...

Absorptive capacity is the principle that assimilating new knowledge requires prior knowledge. The attendant prescription is to invest more in R&D to derive greater benefit from the R&D of others (spillovers). Empirical tests of R&D productivity typically find absorptive capacity (R&D*rival R&D) to be significant. This result poses a puzzle however: What can a firm conducting 50% of industry R&...

Figure 5\ Detecting forgery attack, (a) The tampered image, (b) The actual region tampered, (c) The difference map with k=9, (d) the difference map with k=7 ...12 Figure 6\ Modified Images of lena, (a) The image lena, (b) The image with the LSB plane and the second LSB plane flipped (c) The image with the LSB plane flipped (d) the image with the second LSB plane flipped ..

A traditional method for comparing two expression levels of genes in microarray experiments is the two-sample t-test. Because of the difficulty in using a large number of microarrays, an alternative method is required which can provide a reliable judgment of the comparison from a small number of replicates, even from a single pair of control and treatment. We present a method for detecting the ...

Enterprise networks are in constant danger of being breached by cyber-attackers, but making the decision about what security tools to deploy to mitigate this risk requires carefully designed evaluation of security products. One of the most important metrics for a protection product is how well it is able to stop malware, specifically on “zero”-day malware that has not been seen by the security ...

Symbioses of grasses and fungal endophytes constitute an interesting model for evolution of mutualism and parasitism. Grasses of all subfamilies can harbor systemic infections by fungi of the family Clavicipitaceae. Subfamily Poöideae is specifically associated with epichloë endophytes (species of Epichloë and their asexual derivatives, the Neotyphodium species) in intimate symbioses often char...

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Using hepatic vein catheterization, fractional clearance (K) and hepatic extraction rate (ER) of Indocyanine Green (ICG) and radioisotope particles (RI) were studied in cirrhotic portal hypertension (24 postnecrotic cirrhotics and 25 alcoholic cirrhotics). ICG given intravenously is cleared from blood only by hepatocytes, whereas RI are uptaken by intrahepatic (Kupffer cells) and extrahepatic r...