Interpreting DNA Mixtures with Related Contributors in Subdivided Populations

Abstract.  In this paper, we study the statistical interpretation of forensic DNA mixtures with related contributors in subdivided populations. Compact general formulae for match probabilities are obtained for two situations: a relative of one tested person is an unknown contributor of a DNA mixture; and two related unknowns are contributors. The effect of kinship and population structure is illustrated using a real case example.     

Oestrogen Rising 2016: Ireland’s stained and bloodied cloths

A weaver, seamstress, laundress and artist, in this essay I shall spin a yarn, tangle a web, and construct a text(ile) of the inter-weave of narrative and identity that I define as my intellectual, textual, somatic and material/visual practice obsessions. My work explores ‘the places in-between’ in the entanglements of Irish and Northern Irish gender and identity, and in the abject fabrics of death and of desire. As an Irish feminist, sense-making of the complexities, conundrums, challenges and contradictions of my land, my cloth, my body and my culture owes much to Irish women before me who fought for female suffrage, and Irish women now – north and south of the border that divides the island of Ireland – who still struggle for equality of citizenship, social justice, human rights, and full reproductive autonomy. My contention is that when we accept that Ireland herself is a many-layered cloth, a stained and bloodied cloth, a cloth marked irreversibly by history, conflict, denial and abuse, stained by its own repression, marked through denial of all its people’s rights and needs, and bloodied by its greatest export, the haemorrhage of its people, then – polemical, didactic or reflective, with more compassion, empathy, humility and heart – we just might make peace with our past.     

不要玷污历史唯物主义和唯物辩证法,维护语言文字科学的尊严--评《汉字哲学初探》

李敏生的<汉字哲学初探>一书混淆了语言和文字并由此产生了一系列常识性错误,该书还存在信口开河、克隆自己的"著"作等不良学风.为维护语言文字科学的尊严,对该书的错误及其作者的不良学风必须予以严厉批评.     

曙红化甲基蓝的性质研究

本文报道了曙红化甲基蓝这种生化剂染料的吸收光谱及其特征参数,同时对其荧光光学性质进行初步研究。曙红化甲基蓝在可见光区域内单分子吸收光谱基本是相似的。其在不同极性溶剂中特征吸收峰在520～660nm范围之内,其值随着溶剂极性增加而略向红移。同时发现这种物质即使在极性小的溶剂中也无二聚体的形成,是很理想的光敏剂;另外通过对其荧光光谱的研究,找到这种物质的最大激发波长和最大吸收波长,从而测得其荧光量子产率1。     

以应变为基础的管道设计准则及其控制因素

多数现行的管道设计方法都是以应力为基础的，但它不能完全有效地解决管道强度设计的所有问题，特别是对于地面变形等位移载荷控制下的情形。从国内外管道设计标准和最新的研究进展出发，对处于极限状态的椭圆化、拉伸和压应变极限的现行基于应变的标准进行了对比，分析了管道应变极限的多种控制因素，明确了多种影响因素对于管道应变极限的控制。面对国际上对管道强度在特定载荷作用下基于应变的设计趋势和我国西气东输及其二线工程的大规模建设，提出了我国进行相关研究的必要性与迫切性。