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This volume of the Subcellular Biochemistry series is the result of the long-standing research interest of the editor in the molecular mechanism underlying Alzheimer's disease and other amyloid diseases, indicated also by the earlier book in the series (Volume 38), devoted to Alzheimer's disease. The broad coverage within the present amyloidogenesis book represents an attempt to collate current knowledge relating to the proteins and peptides involved in most of the known amyloid diseases, together with some amyloid/fibril-forming proteins and peptides that are not involved in diseases. Thus, t.

Negotiating and transforming the public sphere: African American political life in the transition from slavery to freedom / Elsa Barkley Brown -- A changing world of work: North Carolina elite women, 1865-1895 / Jane Turner Censer -- Farmers, dudes, white Negroes, and the sun-browned goddess / Stephen Kantrowitz -- Etiquette, lynching, and racial boundaries in southern history: a Mississippi example / J. William Harris -- New women / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Defiance and domination: "white Negroes" in the Piney Woods New South / Victoria E. Bynum -- Pilgrimmage to the past: public history, women, and the racial order / Jack E. Davis -- Le reveil de la Louisiane: memory and Acadian identity, 1920-1960 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Southern seeds of change, 1931-1938 / Patricia Sullivan -- "You must remember this": autobiography as social critique / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- "You don't have to ride Jim Crow": CORE and the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation / Raymond Arsenault -- Bombingham / Glenn T. Eskew -- Sex, segregation, and the sacred after Brown / Jane Dailey

Decisions about how to organize and run an election can shape political participation. Policy choices may distribute election resources unequally, skewing voting outcomes. In low- and middle-income countries where electoral capacity and resources are scarce and decision-making highly centralized, election administration has the potential to shape results on a large scale. In the context of Kenya's August 2017 elections, I study the consequences of a legislated threshold that determines the capacity of polling centers to quickly serve voters by reducing election-day lines. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find that turnout is 2.4% lower in congested polling places just below the threshold relative to polling places above the threshold. Relative to other hypothetical thresholds, the chosen threshold benefits the incumbent president, as incumbent strongholds receive more polling resources than opposition areas. The results demonstrate how electoral resource allocation shapes political behavior and election outcomes.

Questions about racial or ethnic group identity feature centrally in many social science theories, but detailed data on ethnic composition are often difficult to obtain, out of date, or otherwise unavailable. The proliferation of publicly available geocoded person names provides one potential source of such data'if researchers can effectively link names and group identity. This article examines that linkage and presents a methodology for estimating local ethnic or racial composition using the relationship between group membership and person names. Common approaches for linking names and identity groups perform poorly when estimating group proportions. I have developed a new method for estimating racial or ethnic composition from names which requires no classification of individual names. This method provides more accurate estimates than the standard approach and works in any context where person names contain information about group membership. Illustrations from two very different contexts are provided: the United States and the Republic of Kenya.