We conceptualize colleges and universities as embedded in quasi-markets, meaning competitive sites created by policy, that disfavor the humanities. We therefore posit that increased revenues from a quasi-market predict institutional de-emphasis of the humanities. Results indicate that private colleges and universities follow this pattern while public institutions do not. Manuscript

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) form a large functional family of small noncoding RNAs and play an important role as posttranscriptional regulators, by repressing the translation of mRNAs. Recently, the processing mechanism of miRNAs has been reported to involve Drosha/DGCR8 complex and Dicer, however, the exact mechanism and molecular principle are still unknown. We thus have tried to understand the relate...

The Whitehead Minimization problem is a problem of finding elements of the minimal length in the automorphic orbit of a given element of a free group. The classical algorithm of Whitehead that solves the problem depends exponentially on the group rank. Moreover, it can be easily shown that exponential blowout occurs when a word of minimal length has been reached and, therefore, is inevitable ex...

In this note, we try to shed some light on the relationships between the Hopf invariant, Kervaire invariant, and Whitehead square. More specifically, we prove two classical results (theorems 2.1 and 3.1) in a way that seems more transparent (at least to the author) than what is found in the literature. No new results are claimed, only a different exposition. In addition to the references cited,...

cultures of lactic streptococci. J. Dairy Research, 5, 197-207. WHITEHEAD, H. R., AND COX, G. A. 1936 Bacteriophage phenomena in cultures of lactic streptococci. J. Dairy Research, 7, 55-62. WHITEHEAD, H. R., AND HUNTER, G. J. E. 1937 Observations on the activity of bacteriophage in the group of lactic streptococci. J. Path. Bacteriol., 44, 337-347. WHITEHEAD, H. R., AND HUNTER, G. J. E. 1947 B...