Logarithm of odds (lods) for linkage in complex inheritance.

Lod scores provide a method to unify linkage tests based on identity by descent and identity in marker state while permitting selection of the most informative individuals through their disease-related phenotypes and markers in relatives. After parametric lods are reviewed, a nonparametric approach that depends on a single logistic parameter beta is introduced. Lods for parents tested or unknown are derived, multiple pairwise mapping is presented, and power is shown to be good even for moderately small values of beta. Comparison of parametric and nonparametric approaches (yet to be made) will provide for polygenes the efficiency and reliability that lod scores gave to mapping of major loci 40 years ago.

Why EU promotion is at odds with successful crisis management: public relations, news coverage, and the Aceh Monitoring Mission. EU Centre in Singapore Working Paper No. 10, September 2012

The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and its accompanying Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions can be tools used to increase the international profile of the European Union. Nevertheless, CSDP missions garner little news coverage. This article argues that the very nature of the missions themselves makes them poor vehicles for EU promotion for political, institutional, and logistical reasons. By definition, they are conducted in the middle of crises, making news coverage politically sensitive. The very act of reporting could undermine the mission. Institutionally, all CSDP missions are intergovernmental, making press statements slow, overly bureaucratic, and of little interest to journalists. Logistically, the missions are often located in remote, undeveloped parts of the world, making it difficult and expensive for European and international journalists to cover. Moreover, these regions in crisis seldom have a thriving, local free press. Using the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) as a case study, the author concludes that although a mission may do good, CSDP missions cannot fulfil the political function of raising the profile of the EU.

Against odds; a detective story,

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Dog Breaking : the most expeditious, certain and easy method, whether great excellence or only mediocrity be required, with odds and ends for those who love the dog and gun /

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Human odds and ends/

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"Quad's odds";

"Three hundred pages of the book never saw print before. The remainder is made up of my sketches in the Detroit free press, Hearth and home, Fireside friend, New York weekly, Cleveland pictorial world, and two or three daily papers."--p. x.

Novellettes of a traveller; or, Odds and ends from the knapsack of Thomas Singularity, journeyman printer.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms [n.d.] (American culture series, Reel 202.2)

The odd volume : a collection of odds and ends ; in prose and verse /

Part 1 printed in green ; pt. 2 printed in red.

A treatise on the game of chess. Containing games of odds, various openings of even games, different methods of winning and drawing the game. Also, numerous critical situations on diagrams. To which are added, the art of playing without seeing the board, and an account of the most celebrated chess players of his time. First published in 1617, by D. Pietro Carrera. Tr. from the Italian, with additional notes and remarks by W. Lewis.

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A treatise on the game of chess; containing the games on odds, from the "Traité des amateurs"; the games of the celebrated anonymous Modenese; a variety of games actually played; and a catalogue of writers on chess.

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Chess at odds of pawn and move, a complete analysis of the opening, exemplified in two hundred and fifty games, from actual play, contested between some of the best exponents of the last 50 years.

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Odds and ends,

Introductory.--Boyhood and schoolboy life.--Sunday-schools.--Preaching and preachers.--Parochial "missions" and missioners.--Cathedrals and cathedral life.--A problem in morals.--The relation of disease to crime.--Club life.--Odd people I have met, and odd doings and sayings.

Capitalistic morality; some odds and ends,

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