N [AlE 1982, the Ceder-al Reserve switched from a nonborrowed-r-eserves to a bom-n’owed-r-esemves operating procedune.’ Analysts genem-ally believe that the adoption of this pr-ocedure, which involves the use of a “borrowings assumption” specified by the Federal Open Market Committee (CONIC), n’epresents a policy reversal towar-d the setting of the fedem-al funds n-ate and away from direct mone...

We generalize the recently proposed noncommutative ADHM construction to the case of Γ-equivariant instantons over R, with Γ a Kleinian group. We show that a certain form of the inhomogeneous ADHM equations describes instantons over a noncommutative deformation of the Kleinian orbifold C/Γ and we discuss the relation of this with Nakajima’s description of instantons over ALE spaces. In particula...

An experiment in beer tasting among 18 first year pre-clinical students showed that only two appeared to be able to discriminate light from bitter ale correctly. As a whole the group did worse than would be expected by guessing at random on each tasting trial. Some psychological biases, one possibly as a result of the design, are indicated by the results and a possible remedy suggested. The dan...

Extracts from the plants Plantago lanceolata and P. rugelii were evaluated for toxicity to the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita, the beneficial microbes Enterobacter cloacae, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Trichoderma virens, and the plant-pathogenic fungi Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. gladioli, Phytophthora capsici, Pythium ultimum, and Rhizoctonia solani. Wild plants were collected, roots we...

Scutopalus tomentosus sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Plantago tomentosa Lam. (Plantaginaceae) in a vineyard agroecosystem at Dois Lajeados county, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This is the first species of this genus described from the Americas. A key to world species is included.