Economic policy was used actively in most countries to curb the economic downturn. Substantial resources were deployed in the form of stimulus packages and measures to prevent financial market collapse. Nonetheless, unemployment in the OECD area rose by 15 million in the first year after the outbreak of the crisis. The downturn also led to a sharp fall in tax revenues. Budget deficits ballooned...

PPROXIMATELY 17% of the eggs laid by non-mated Beltsville Small A White (BSW) turkeys showed some type (e.g., membranes, blood, embryos) of development upon incubation ( OLSEN and MARSDEN 1953,1954). The question arose as to whether the cells in such unfertilized eggs were haploid or diploid. YAO and OLSEN (1955) reported finding diploid chromosome numbers in embryonic tissue of parthenogenetic...

This article considers two similar likelihood-based test statistics for comparing two fixed trees, the Kishino-Hasegawa (KH) test statistic and the likelihood ratio (LR) statistic, as well as a number of different methods for determining thresholds to declare a significant result. An explanation is given for why the KH test, which uses the KH test statistic and normal theory thresholds, need no...

Probabilistic tests of topology offer a powerful means of evaluating competing phylogenetic hypotheses. The performance of the nonparametric Shimodaira-Hasegawa (SH) test, the parametric Swofford-Olsen-Waddell-Hillis (SOWH) test, and Bayesian posterior probabilities were explored for five data sets for which all the phylogenetic relationships are known with a very high degree of certainty. Thes...

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