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ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Handbook of West African Art. William R. Bascom and Paul Gebauer
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Les Civilisations Africaines. Denise Paulme
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Contribution a l'Étude de l'Histoire de l'Ancien Royaume de Porto-Novo. A. Akindélé and C. Aguessy     

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ECOLOGY OF TELEOST FISHES. By Robert J. Wootton.
THE FATE AND EFFECTS OF OIL IN FRESHWATER. Edited by J. Green and M. W. Trett.
FISH AND FISHING IN ANCIENT EGYPT. By Douglas J. Brewer and Renée F. Friedman.     

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ETHNOLOGY: The Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Study. C onrad M. A rensberg . American Museum Science Books.
ETHNOLOGY: Family and Community in Ireland. C onrad M. A rensberg and S olon T. K imball . Preface by W. Lloyd Warner.
ETHNOLOGY: Irish Peasant Society: Four Historical Essays. K. H. C onnell .
ETHNOLOGY: New Dubliners: Urbanization and the Irish Family. A lexander J. H umphreys .     

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ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Azande, and Related Peoples of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Belgian Congo . P. T. W. B axter and A udrey B utt .
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho . I. M. L ewis .     

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ETHNOLOGY: History of an African Independent Church. Volume I: The Church of the Lord (Aladura) . H. W. Turner.
ETHNOLOGY: African Independent Church. Volume II: The Life and Faith of the Church of the Lord (Aladura). H. W. Turner.     

Notes on the Plague Years: AIDS in Marseilles, Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS, The AIDS Crisis: A Documentary History, and Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency

Notes on the Plague Years: AIDS in Marseilles. Bernard Paillard (Berkeley Frank, trans.). New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1998. xxx. 293 pp.
Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS. Renée T. White. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. xii. 215 pp.
The AIDS Crisis:. Documentary History. Douglas A. Feldman and Julia Wang Miller. eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. xlii. 266 pp.
Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Cristiana Bastos. Bloomington: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xx. 225 pp.     

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ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Social Anthropology in Polynesia. F elix M. K eesing
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Social Anthropology in Melanesia. A. P. E lkin .     

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ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Chinese in Modern Malaya. Victor Purcell
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The National Status of the Chinese in Indonesia. Donald E. Willmott     

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ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Handbook for Industry Studies. Everett E. Hagen
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Japanese Factory: Aspects of Its Social Organization. James G. Abegglen     

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ETHNOLOGY: Caste and Kinship in Central India: A Village and its Region . Adrian C. Mayer
ETHNOLOGY. Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-west Pakistan . E. R. Leach     

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ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Report on a Melanau Sago Producing Community in Sarawak. H. S. M orris
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Chinese of Sarawak: A Study of Social Structure. J u - k ' ang T' ien     

The Law of the Lifegivers: The Domestication of Desire

The Law of the Lifegivers: The Domestication of Desire. René Devisch and Claude Brodeur. Langhorne, PA: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. 268 pp.     

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ETHNOLOGY: Being a Palauan . H. G. Barnett
ETHNOLOGY: Bunyaro: An African Kingdom . John Beattie
ETHNOLOGY: The Tiwi of North Australia . C. W. M. Hart and Arnold R. Pilling
ETHNOLOGY: The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains . E. Adamson Hoebel
ETHNOLOGY: Tepoztlán: Village in Mexico . Oscar Lewis     

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Neurobiology of Glycoconjugates edited by Richard U. Margolis and Renée K. Margolis.
Transmembrane Signalling, Intracellular Messengers and Implications for Drug Development edited by Stefan R. Nahorski.
Brain Imaging Techniques and Applications edited by N. A. Sharif and M. E. Lewis.     

Capability of intensity discrimination in multiple receptor model of insect taste

A simple model in which one CNS taste neuron integrates inputsfrom multiple peripheral receptors is introduced in order toinvestigate the mechanism of acute intensity taste discriminationin flies. Information theory is applied to evaluate the acuteability of discrimination provided by the model. The presentanalysis is carried out under two statistical conditions concerningthe uncertainty of receptor response. Based on experimentaldata obtained by Smith et al. (1983), we estimate the mutualinformation entropy of the model. The numerical results obtainedhere indicate that the uncertainty observed in a single receptorresponse is dramatically reduced by the central integration.Furthermore, each of the eleven stimulus intensity levels experimentallyapplied by Smith et al., can be discriminated completely byintegrating the responses of the realistic number of receptors(33–212). Such a great improvement of the differentialsensitivity in the model resolves the discrepancy between thelow differential sensitivity of single sugar receptors (Smithet al., 1983) and the high sensitivity obtained in the feedingbehavior (Dethier and Rhoades, 1954; Dethier and Bowdan, 1984)of the blowfly.     

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ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY. The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture. John C. Ewers. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 159.) Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1955. xv, 358 pp., 17 plates, 33 figs. $2.75.
The Indian and the Horse. Frank Gilbert Roe. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. xvi, 434 pp., illus. $5.00.     

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MITES OF MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. By Asher E. Treat.
THE SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA. By Hamilton A. Tyler.
APHIDS. By Roger Blackman.
APHID PARASITES (HYMENOPTERA, APHIDIIDAE) OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA. By Petr Stary.
MAN'S PLAGUE. INSECTS AND AGRICULTURE. By V. G. Dethier.
STUDIES IN BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. Edited by V. L. Delucchi.     

Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples

Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples. Jennie R. Joe and Robert S. Young eds. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Studies in the Social Sciences, 50. 1994 (cloth). viii + 527 pp.     

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A Laboratory Guide for a Course in General Botany. Fourth Edition. By L. B onar , L. R oush and R. M. H olman .
Encyclopédie Mycologique. IX. Clés des Mucorinées ( Mucorales ). By N. A. N aumov .
Encyclopédie Mycologique. X. Le genre Mycena. By R obert K ühner .
An Ecological Glossary. By J. R. C arpenter     

Sensory receptors on the hindgut of the cockroach, Leucophaea maderae Fabricius (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae)

In the cockroach, Leucophaea maderae, the hindgut is innervated by the proctodeal nerves, branches of nerves XI of the terminal abdominal ganglion.Phasic afferent activity was recorded from the 11th-proctodeal nerve in response to distention of the hindgut by saline injection. With methylene blue staining, eight multipolar sensory receptors of type II (Dethier, 1963, The Physiology of Insect Senses. Methuen, London) were identified on the ventral and lateral surfaces of the rectum, four on each side. The afferent activity in the 11th-proctodeal nerve most likely originated in these receptors.