Ripley, S. Dillon, and Bruce M. Beehler. Rails of the World, a Compilation of New Information, 1975-1983 (Aves: Rallidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, number 417, 28 pages, 2 figures, 1985.—The senior author's monographic treatment of the Rallidae, published in 1977, was based on data available to 1975. Corrections and additions to that treatment are presented here in the form of spec...

monsoonal regime of India and Ceylon, probably produces considerable disturbance of the scheme; Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, for instance, tells us that in Ceylon artificial lakes at an altitude slightly over 2,000 meters may occasionally freeze, though such lakes are certainly not polymictic and presumably belong in the dimictic category. Further details will be found in our forthcoming independent w...

Currently, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods attract much attention among statisticians, cf. e.g. Smith and Roberts (1993), Besag and Green (1993), Besag et al. (1994), Tierney (1994) and the accompaning discussions and references. The genesis of most ideas lies in statistical physics following the early work by Metropolis et al. (1953). In that paper the first Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm...

: This paper presents, in a more general setting, a simple approach to ‘relevant restricted generalizations’ advanced in previous work. After reviewing some desiderata for restricted generalizations, I present the target route towards achieving the desiderata. An objection to the approach, due to David Ripley, is presented, followed by three brief replies, one from a dialetheic perspect...

Patricia Highsmith’s stated reason for writing The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) was to see if she could elicit empathetic engagement her immoral protagonist Tom Ripley. Amongst other factors, achieves goal by allowing readers align affectively with the protagonist’s road self-discovery. Her experiment culminates Tom’s fruition into an aggressive consumer, thus resolving his and readers’ apprehens...

This essay focuses on Sophia Ripley’s 1841 article “Woman,” which was published in the Dial two years before Margaret Fuller’s “The Great Lawsuit. Man Versus Men. Woman Women” appeared same publication. Originally written as homework for one of Boston Conversations (1839–1844), plea favor women’s right to education perfectly epitomizes polyphonic nature feminist social advances antebellum Ameri...