This is a draft of a chapter for a book, Modification, in preparation for the Cambridge University Press series Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics. The full manuscript is also available as a single document on my website, as are some additional chapters. The book is something between a textbook for people who already have a basic background in semantics and a survey of work in the area. For...

Article history: Received 14 February 2008 Received in revised form 27 October 2008 Accepted 31 October 2008 Four experiments were conducted to evaluate the palatability of sorghum, maize, rye and lupine for pigs. Diets containing sorghum, maize, rye or lupine (test diets) were offered in a series of double choice tests against a reference diet. To prepare the reference diets, white broken rice...

This paper examines portfolios within the framework of a dynamic asset-pricing model when investors can trade equity assets as well as bonds of many different maturities. We specify the model so that investors have demand for both a risky and a safe income stream. We characterize the resulting optimal equilibrium stock and bond portfolios and document that optimal bond investment strategies par...

virulence of blastospores and conidia of the fungus metarhizium anisopliae were investigatedon different instar nymphs and adults of sunn pest, eurygater integriceps. experiments werecarried out through a factorial arrangement in a completely randomized design of threereplications. the bioassays were performed through immersion method. results revealedsignificant differences among virulence of ...

This study assessed factors influencing consumer's preferences on rice attributes in Indonesia using data collected from a sample of 329 consumers South Sumatra Province Indonesia. used two variables such as independent and dependent variables. Independent predictor consumer include social-demographic On another side, rice-based the consumer. Social demographic gender, age, number families, occ...

BACKGROUND Brewers' rice is locally known as temukut, is a byproduct of the rice milling process, and consists of broken rice, rice bran, and rice germ. Unlike rice bran, the health benefit of brewers' rice has yet to be fully studied. Our present study aimed to identify the chemopreventive potential of brewers' rice with colonic tumor formation and to examine further the mechanistic action of ...