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The discovery of enkaphalin, an opiate peptide in the brain, has led to speculation as to its role in the occurrence of the phenomenon known as the "runner's high." The authors review current research trends and develop hypothetical proposals regarding the relationship between enkephalin and the euphoric, consciousness altering experience, the "runner's high."

Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Spratly Islands Dispute: Legal Issues and Prospects for Diplomatic Accommodation -- 3 Energy Issues in the South China Sea Region -- 4 Security Risks of a South China Sea Conflict -- 5 Commercial Observation Satellites for Conflict Avoidance -- 6 Cooperative Remote Monitoring in the South China Sea: Comparing the Utility of Aerial and Satellite Imagery -- 7 Remote Sensing Capabilities and Experience Available to the South China Sea Littoral States -- 8 A Cooperative Monitoring Regime for the South China Sea -- 9 Environmental Remote Sensing of the South China Sea -- 10 Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia -- 11 Conclusions -- Appendix: Occupied Locations among the Spratly Islands, circa 2000 -- Recommended Readings -- Index -- About the Contributors.

American Protestant missionaries played important political and cultural roles in the late Ottoman Empire in the period before, during, and after the Armenian genocide. They reported on events as they unfolded and were instrumental coordinating and executing relief efforts by Western governments and charities. The Burke Library's Missionary Research Library, along with several other important collections at Columbia and other nearby research repositories, holds a uniquely rich and comprehensive body of primary and secondary source materials for understanding the genocide through the lens of the missionaries' attempts to document and respond to the massacres.

ABSTRACTThe use of loss functions for measuring the undesirability associated with failure to achieve target values for manufacturing product characteristics is widespread in industry. This study presents a generalization of one of the most commonly used loss functions and compares the two functions based on five theoretical criteria. A simulation involving multiple probability distributions for a single product characteristic is used to compare the performance of the loss functions. An example from the manufacture of helicopter transmission gears is used to empirically demonstrate the superiority of the generalized loss function over the conventional loss function.