Work Of Miller Research Articles

Toxic Shock: Understanding Violence against Young Males in the Workplace

The paper explores the complex issue of workplace violence as it is experienced by young males who are victims of various forms of abuse. It highlights, through use of media reports and composite vignettes, the range of violent practices that some young males experience at work. By way of interpretation the different events are placed within a context of literature that explores the links between masculinities and violence. Through Alice Miller's work, the paper explores the idea that pedagogies of abuse are handed on from generation to generation and are learned practices. The paper concludes with consideration of the implications for education.

Peter Miller, Forestry and the Ethics of Integrity

I have known Peter Miller for many years, and have worked with him on several research projects since 1992, including the multidisciplinary Global Integrity Project, which was completed in 1999. One of the purposes of that project was to investigate the commonly held view that environmental protection and human welfare are in conflict. The goal was to demonstrate that the MconflictM is more apparent than real, at least at the level of health and life. Each conflict that pits human interests against ecological considerations is too facile ifit does not understand the intimate connection between natural processes and all of life, including that of human kind. More specifically, there is no conflict between the preservation of certain core or wild areas (Noss, 1992) and human welfare, because these areas must be maintained not only to support life within their confines, but also for the benefit of all life beyond their borders. Miller's work on the project was concerned with forestry policy, as he has worked extensively in the area of sustainable forest management, combining both theoretical interests and practical experience as a committed environmental activist. In this paper I discuss some of the issues Miller addresses in an article co-authored with James Ehnes as part of the Global Integrity Project (2000). Miller and Ehnes begin by summarizing what appear to be conflicting values concerning forests and forestry in Canada:

Numerical Simulation of NOx Emission from Char Combustion with Detailed Gas Phase Mechanisms

AbstractThe present paper proposed a mathematical model for the simulation of NOx emission from char combustion. The one‐dimensional two‐phase model developed by Kuo [9] was simplified, and a detailed gas‐phase reaction scheme was included, based on the work of Miller and Bowman [19] with updated reaction rates of some important reactions. The scheme includes 289 reactions and 51 species. Two global models for char oxidation were used and compared. The heterogeneous formation of NOx from char oxidation, the reaction of NOx destruction on the char surface, and the reaction of NO destruction by CO catalysed by char were taken into account during char combustion. Our work showed that NOx destruction is sensitive to the char oxidation rate. The heterogeneous reactions for both char oxidation and for NOx formation and destruction require further investigation.

A Generalized Earnings Model of Stock Valuation

Traditional approaches to valuing equities have largely focused on the Dividend Discount Model. It may be hard to reliably estimate dividend processes in small samples and market participants focus primarily on earnings and other accounting information in analyzing stocks. For these reasons we try to value stocks using earnings and book value. Building on the seminal work of Miller and Modigliani (1961) and Ohlson (1990, 1995) we develop a Generalized Earnings Model of stock valuation which uses earnings and book values. This is a general no-arbitrage model which uses stochastic pricing kernels. The model can be implemented by assuming the driving variables follow affine processes which allows tractable calculations. We apply the model to several individual stocks.

Suspiciousness, Mental Simulation, and Norm Theory

Seven studies were conducted to replicate the work of Miller, Turnbull, and McFarland (1989), who tested predictions from norm theory (Kahneman & Miller, 1986). The first three studies with stimulus materials identical to those used by Miller et al. failed to confirm that the ease with which the event might be mentally simulated affected the degree of suspiciousness. In Studies 4, 5, and 6, the improbable events were made objectively more probable, but this did not produce significant results. In the 7th study, the objective probability and attitude toward the target were varied. Although there was a main effect for ease of mental simulation, this effect was produced by only 1 of the 3 vignettes.

Topographies (review)

THE COMPAKATIST cultural ("hegemonic") tradition(s). Transformative strategies and re-visioning postures associated witii critical rereading are in fact mentioned by many contributors , but the collection fails to describe rereading either as a conscious, culturally stimulated activity or as a natural, inevitable outgrowth ofdie continuing reading process. It merely suggests that "reading as rereading opens up a temporal space of reading, an irreducible difference in the time that we take to read" (14). Also puzzling is the editor's decision to include Maurice Blanchot's "Reading ." The essay is apparently meant for those readers who cannot find their critical niche in either direction emphasized by Bennett: that readers are the product of historical/social concerns, or mat even as individuals they are multiple. Blanchot holds that reading, for readers, is the reverse offinding an identity, that it is in fact, a "dissolution ofdie . . . sense ofself" (188), a position that undermines everydiing this collection has tried to establish concerning the interactive, transformative aspects of reading as a conscious act. His theory robs text and reader of cultural context, presenting each as an entity "torn from its place" (190). (Georges Poulet, whose "criticism ofidentification" encourages readers to identify with the spirit of the work, may have been a more suitable—and certainly less radical—inclusion at this point in the collection.) For Blanchot, reading merely affirms the existence of the work: "The book needs the reader to become a statue" (191)—immutable, unchanging , a "tranquil and silent presence" (194) that produces nothing. Blanchot is clearly among those famousely described by Bardies in S/Z, "who ... are obliged to read the same story everywhere." Robin Rison Ashworth Virginia Commonwealth University J. HILLIS MILLER Topographies. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995. 376 pp. Topographies is more manjust J. Hillis Miller's most recent book (published in the Crossing Aesthetics series edited by Werner Hamacher and David Wellbery). The title is, in fact, a perfect introduction to me subject-matter and a most concise synthesis ofthe critic's method as well. A former member of the so-called Yale School with Paul de Man, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartman, Miller is by now a prolific author in whose work a phenomenological heritage is blended with a rare talent for "deconstructive" reading. To be sure, after the phenomenological period at Johns Hopkins, when Miller practiced a comprehensive criticism of identification, two other important moments followed: his affiliation with the Yale School, and the current post-Yale sequel at the University of California, Irvine. However, Miller never really lost touch during his Yale and Irvine phases with phenomenology as a reading strategy for unifying die subject and the object. In this connection, it should be recalled that at the time of The Disappearance ofGodand Poets ofReality, phenomenological criticism acted mainly as a challenge to New Criticism and its general aim ofestablishing a more "objective" approach to literature. A similar polemical note appeared in Miller's work, except that what for other interpreters was a political strategy dictated by the urgency ofdie moment, was for Miller more abiding: phenomenolVoI . 21 (1997): 163 REVZEWS ogy never vanished from his critical practice. Georges Poulet has remained a strong influence, along with an unbroken faiui in a sort of"humanistic" outlook on literature which emphasizes thejoy ofreading. The chapter on Derrida in Topographies reformulates the two main directions ofMiller's phenomenological career: phenomenology as a reading technique and as programmatic polemics. The act ofreading especially has capital significance for understanding Miller's evolution. The critic constantly reinforces the idea that, for him, deconstruction is nothing else but "good reading," and that the central difficulty in criticism arises wim our choice ofwhat to read. This necessarily leads to die ethical question: why does one choose to examine Trollope's fiction instead of Wilde's, for instance? The answer, at least for Miller, seems to be one ofthe definitions ofdeconstruction, which is a critical metiiod based on "me ethics ofreading." In other words, "ediics" is a signifier for the subjective affinity, or the phenomenological principle ofidentification, whereas deconstruction stands for the signified, the way to give one's textual choice a proper and comprehensive reading. This theoretical shift distances Miller within the Yale School from...

Strong polynomial-time reducibility

The degree structure of functions induced by a polynomial-time reducibility first introduced in G. Miller's work on the complexity of prime factorization is investigated. Several basic results are established including the facts that the degrees restricted to the sets do not form an upper semilattice and there is a minimal degree, as well as density for the low degrees, a weak form of the exact pair theorem, the existence of minimal pairs and the decidability of the Π 2 theory of the low degrees.

Understanding Arthur Miller

This appraisal of Arthur Miller's theatrical canon illumines the international importance of a playwright whose work is considered a mirror of American life. Griffin demonstrates that Miller's plays, though seeming to centre on uniquely American issues, speak to audiences from Brazil to Russia, Iceland to China - the last being a country where Death of a Salesman has enjoyed tremendous popularity despite the unfamiliarity of the Chinese people with Willy Loman's occupation. book discusses Arthur Miller's major plays in depth, analyzing characters, plots, themes, dramatic effects and language. It also reviews: his one-act plays and longer plays of the 1980s; two plays of the 1990s, The Last Yankee and Broken Glass; his screenplay for the film version of The Crucible; and his articles, essays, speeches and introductions. A theatre editor and critic and drama professor when Miller's works were first staged, Griffin recalls the harshness with which most reviewers initially judged Miller's plays and recounts the vigour of the McCarthyistic attack on The Crucible.

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AN ASYMPTOTIC TEST FOR THE EQUALITY OF COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATION FROMk POPULATIONS

The coefficient of variation is often used as a guide of the repeatability of measurements in clinical trials and other medical work. When possible, one makes repeated measurements on a set of individuals to calculate the relative variability of the test with the understanding that a reliable clinical test should give similar results when repeated on the same patient. There are times, however, when repeated measurements on the same patient are not possible. Under these circumstances, to combine results from different clinical trials or test sites, it is necessary to compare the coefficients of variation of several clinical trials. Using the work of Miller, we develop a general statistic for testing the hypothesis that the coefficients of variation are the same for k populations, with unequal sample sizes. This statistic is invariant under the choice of the order of the populations, and is asymptotically chi 2. We provide an example using data from Yang and HayGlass. We compare the size and the power of the test to that of Bennett, Doornbos and Dijkstra and a statistic based on Hedges and Olkin.

Varied Sign Language Systems and Their Mediating Effects on WISC—R Verbal Subtests of Profoundly Deaf Students: A Replication

This study replicated the 1984 work of Miller who reported a normal mean Verbal IQ of profoundly deaf students. To 27 profoundly deaf students the WISC--R Verbal Scale was administered using one of three signed language systems. The means do not support Miller's findings and raise some doubt about the mediating effects of language systems among profoundly deaf students.

Success and failure for hereditary Harrop formulae

We introduce the foundational issues involved in incorporating the NEGATION as FAILURE (NAF) rule into the framework of first-order hereditary Harrop formulae of Miller et al. This is a larger class of formulae than Horn clauses, and so the technicalities are more intricate than in the Horn clause case. As programs may grow during execution in this framework, the role of NAF and the CLOSED WORLD ASSUMPTION (CWA) need some modification, and for this reason we introduce the notion of a completely defined predicate, which may be thought of as a localisation of the CWA. We also show how this notion may be used to define a notion of NAF for a more general class of goals than literals alone. We also show how an extensional notion of universal quantification may be incorporated. This makes our framework somewhat different from that of Miller et al., but not essentially so. We also show how to construct a Kriple-like model for the extended class of programs. This is essentially a denotational semantics for logic programs, in that it provides a mapping from the program to a pair of sets of atoms that denote the success and (finite) failure sets. This is inspired by the work of Miller on the semantics on first-order hereditary Harrop formulae. Note that no restriction on the class of programs is needed in this approach, and that our construction needs no more than ω iterations. This necessitates a slight departure from the standard methods, but the important properties of the construction still hold.

Steam Corefloods With Concurrent X-Ray Ct Imaging

Abstract A series of steam corefloods has been performed utilizing X-ray CT imaging to monitor phase saturations during the floods. A numerical simulator was used to analyze the experimental results. The steamfloods of initially water-filled sand packs were carried out at low enough flow rates that capillary pressure was comparable in magnitude with viscous pressure drop. Numerically marching the observed pressure drops provided a significant test of the assumed steam-water capillary relationship. A capillary pressure curve of Leverett j-function form was found suitable for the simulations. The steam relative permeability curve was found by numerically matching both pressure drop and CT saturation data. The expected steam frontal behaviour was seen in the CT images, but the images also revealed unexpectedly large variations in water saturation transverse to the steam propagation direction. Although core porosity derived from the CT images showed no significant variation across the core, it was hypothesized that small variations in steam-water capillary pressure could have resulted from more subtle core packing variations. The expected type of core heterogeneity was subsequently confirmed by subjecting the core to petrographic image analysis. Numerical simulations embodying a realistic degree of core heterogeneity were able to reproduce the transverse saturation variations as a consequence of capillary crossflow. Introduction The steam displacement or ‘steam drive’ method is one of the major techniques for thermal recovery and has been intensively studied both theoretically and experimentally. Particularly important from a theoretical standpoint was the work of Miller(1) showing that the frontal propagation of steam was far more stable than that of a non-condensible gas. Although many analytic methods have been developed and used for simplified predictions(2, 3, 4), in most practical situations a numerical simulator is employed to model steam processes. A fundamental physical property required for the simulation of steam-based processes is the relative permeability of steam. Customarily, numerical models treat steam flow in the same manner as the flow of any ocher reservoir gas. As noted by Sanchez and Schechter(5) there is little direct evidence to support this assumption. Indeed, the issue of steam relative permeability has generated debate in the literature right up to the present. For example, Sanchez and Schechter(5) and Closmann and Vinegar(6) present experimental results confirming the similarity between steam and non-condensible gas relative permeabilities. Verma et al.(7) however, find that steam relative permeability is significantly higher than that of a non-condensible gas. The latter authors further argue that it is reasonable to expect such differences because of the possibility of phase transformation in the flow channels. Because of the diversity of opinion surrounding the basic issue of relative permeability, it is important to investigate steam flow using a range of tools. In particular, the technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT) provides the possibility of monitoring fluid saturations while processes are taking place in a laboratory coreflood experiment. This relatively new technique in petroleum research has already proven itself to be very useful in a wide range of experimental studies(6, 8, 9, 10).

The Netherlands and the Nazi Genocide (review)

Book Reviews 103 supported Israel, though without trying to practice American-style ethnic politics in an environment that remains resistant to such ideas. Kaspi's survey is broader in scope than any of the literature in English on Jews in wartime France, and an English version would be welcome for undergraduate courses on the Holocaust. The bibliography is thorough, although-understandably, in view ofthe book's intended audience-it fails to indicate which titles are available in English. Specialists in the field will find little that is new here, but Kaspi's book constitutes the best synthesis of the subject to date and makes it possible to understand some of the ways in which the experience of the Jews in France differed from that of their fellows in other European countries. Jeremy D. Popkin Department of History University of Kentucky The Netherlands and the Nazi Genocide, edited by G. Jan Colijn and Franklin Littell. Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. 544 pp. $95.00. This volume is an amalgam of the papers presented at the 21st Annual Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust held in Pomona, NewJersey during March 1991. As is often the case, the title of the work is at once focused and misleading. Only nine of the articles are related to the Nazi genocide in the Netherlands, while twenty-four deal with other subjects. Nevertheless , it provides significant information about the Dutch experience and related issues about the Holocaust. It is unfortunate that the book is so expensive, as cost may militate against greater library circulation. The Netherlands represents a country during the Nazi era where many misconceptions exist. Many people believe there was strong support of the Jewish population by the Dutch, linked to the longer history of welcome given in Amsterdam to those of Spanish descent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reality, however, offers a somewhat different picture. Only 40,000 of the 140,000 Dutch Jews survived the Holocaust. Anne Frank's story, which has become an icon of modern culture and the story 'of the Holocaust, represents the essence of the question-Anne did not survive. Furthermore, the Netherlands had. the largest Nazi party outside ofGermany and Austria, something not found in France or Poland. 104 SHOFAR Spring 1993 Vol. 11, No.3 Nanda van der Zee's article on the theme of "Dutch Heroism" is useful in that it reiterates many of Presser's themes about Dutch complicity: the bureaucratic zeal ofthe Dutch Union, complicity ofPopulation Registry Offices and the police in identitying Jews, and the failure of both government in exile and the Red Cross to speak out about the specificity of Nazi persecution of Dutch and other Jews. Ger van Roon's article on the Protestant Churches echoes this theme indicating the insufficiency of Church responses, except for a protest against the policy of Dutch neutralism by followers ofKarl Barth and the "Barmen Theses" in 1939 and 1940" and the altruistic responses by individual Dutchmen in hiding Jews. Jack Polak, writing as a survivor and historian, takes a different position. He underscores the "unbelievable might of the Germans," the difficulty in getting out of the country, the absence of knowledge by Jews themselves about gas chambers, and the failures of the Dutch government to provide any spokesmen for the Jewish cause. Polak enumerates the varying levels of Dutch resistance, and contrasts them with Jewish persecution and resistance, the co-option of Jewish institutions, such as the Jewish newspaper, by the Nazis, and lack of knowledge of the ultimate solution. In responding to Judith Miller's recent work on the Dutch Jews, Polak's conclusion is that the Dutch took exceptional casualties and there was no alternative for the Jews' fate. Henry Huttenbach affirms many of Polak's points, concluding that "the Holocaust in the Netherlands reveals nothing outstanding or unusual on all three sides-the German, the Dutch and the Jewish ... The coming of the Nazis removed the protective cover of the law, making the forbidden permissible." The second section of this book will provide perhaps some of the most interesting articles, as they go beyond the focus of the Netherlands. Herbert Hirsh's article focuses on...

David Miller's Theory of Market Socialism and the Recent Reforms in Kibbutzim

David Miller's recent works form a substantial contribution to socialist theory and particularly to the theory of market socialism. I consider that a model of market socialism as advanced by Miller is a feasible prescription for socialism in modern developed societies and that this is manifested in the changing features of the Israeli kibbutz. Furthermore, the ‘new’ kibbutz emerging from dramatic reforms is preferable to the system of cooperatives that Miller puts forward. Miller's theory is described as a conjunction of two socialist challenges to the capitalist society, the ‘distributive’ and the ‘quality-of-life’ critiques. The ideology of the ‘old-style’ kibbutz is then examined in the light of these theories. Finally, I explore reforms in the kibbutz, analysing these changes as a reflection of Miller's theory.1

The Portuguese Slave Trade from Angola

Ever since Philip Curtin's census of the Atlantic slave trade was published in I 969, historians have been preoccupied by attempts to quantify the slaves exported from Africa by various national carriers between I 500 and I 870 and the levels and patterns of slave mortality in the middle passage. Given the title of Miller's book, one might be forgiven for assuming that his lengthy study of the Angolan slave trade follows this established pattern, particularly since Miller himself has made important contributions in the past to quantifying this branch of the trade. A survey of the contents of the book soon undermines such an assumption, however, for although Miller provides a brief summary of slave exports from Angola (pp. 228-34) and the story of the slaves and the appalling levels of mortality they suffered during their terrible journey from the Angolan interior to the shores of Brazil figure prominently in his book, the reader will search in vain through its 770 pages for an integrated analysis of long-term trends in slave exports and other time series in the Portuguese slave trade from Angola. The relegation of the quantitative aspects of the trade to a supporting role in Miller's study reflects to some extent his scepticism about the available trade statistics, most of which derive from official tax records and are, he believes, too unreliable to permit 'the formal statistical and economic analysis that has informed much recent work on the Atlantic slave trade' (p. xvi). But it also arises from the fact that Miller's primary concern is not with the levels of trade per se, but with the principal actors in the business African rulers and lineage heads, Luso-African merchants and colonial officials based at Luanda, Brazilian shipowners, and Lisbon tax contractors, merchants and trading companies and how their attitude toward and involvement in it shaped its internal structure and organization. This is an ambitious and formidable undertaking, for not only did the roles and levels of participation in the trade of those associated with it vary over time, but the commercial, political and, ultimately, cultural and ideological worlds in which they operated differed greatly and changed significantly in the period that he covers. Moreover, the evidence available to Miller for assessing the perceptions and motives of the key players in the trade and how these shaped their behaviour and the trade's structure largely derives from the records of the colonial authorities, which, given their 'eloquent silences' (p. xxiii), are far from ideal for his purposes. By his own admission, important parts of his argument depend, therefore, upon inferences and interpretations drawn from slender and contentious evidence and assumptions, and can, and no doubt will, be the subject of criticism and revision. Nevertheless, in terms of the insights that it provides into the organization of the Portuguese slave trade, particularly at Luanda, and the general scope and range of issues that it confronts, this is unquestionably a notable addition to the literature on the Atlantic slave trade. Those familiar with Miller's previous work, most of which has centred on precolonial Angola and the pattern of slave shipments from the region, will be

Drilling Fluids and Reserve Pit Toxicity

Drilling fluids are now classified as exempt under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste laws. Since 1986, however, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been studying reserve pit contents to determine whether oilfield wastes should continue under this exemption. Concerns regarding reserve pit contents and disposal practices have resulted in state and local governmental regulations that limit traditional methods of construction, closure, and disposal of reserve pit sludge and water. A great deal of attention and study has been focused on drilling fluids that eventually reside in reserve pits. In-house studies show that waste from water-based drilling fluids plays a limited role (if any) in possible hazards associated with reserve pits. Reserve pit water samples and pit sludge was analyzed and collated. Analyses show that water-soluble heavy metals (Cr, Pb, Zn and Mn) in reserve pits are generally undetectable or, if found in the total analysis, are usually bound to clays or organics too tightly to exceed the limitations as determined by the EPA toxicity leachate test. The authors' experience is that most contamination associated with reserve pits involves high salt content from produced waters and/or salt formations, lead contamination from pipe dope, or poorly designedmore » pits, which could allow washouts into surface waters or seepage into groundwater sources. The authors' analyses show that reserve its associated with water-based drilling fluid operations should not be classified as hazardous; however, careful attention attention should be paid to reserve pit construction and closure to help avoid any adverse environmental impact.« less

The Arbitrage Principle in Financial Economics

The importance of arbitrage conditions in financial economics has been recognized since Modigliani and Miller's classic work on the financial structure of the firm. They showed that if a firm could change its market value by purely financial operations such as adjusting its debtequity ratio, then individual shareholders and bondholders could engage in analogous portfolio transactions that would yield pure arbitrage profits. If the market was efficient enough to eliminate arbitrage profits for the individual shareholders, then it would eliminate arbitrage profits for the firm as well. Subsequently, financial economists have used arbitrage arguments to examine a variety of other issues involving asset pricing. One of the major advances in financial economics in the past two decades has been to clarify and formalize the exact meaning of “no arbitrage” and to apply this idea systematically to uncover hidden relationships in asset prices. Many important results of financial economics are based squarely on the hypothesis of no arbitrage, and it serves as one of the most basic unifying principles of the study of financial markets. In this essay we will examine some of these results.

Henry Miller , and: Henry Miller: The Major Writings (review)

Reviewed by: Henry Miller, and: Henry Miller: The Major Writings Richard Toby Widdicombe J. D. Brown . Henry Miller. Literature and Life Series. New York: Ungar, 1986. 147 pp. $14.95. Leon Lewis . Henry Miller: The Major Writings. New York: Schocken, 1986. 247 pp. $19.95. It has been over seven years since Henry Miller died. During that time the academic community has been surprisingly reluctant to pass judgment on the enduring worth of his contribution to American literature, and although J. D. Brown's Henry Miller and Leon Lewis' Henry Miller: The Major Writings —the first book-length studies of Miller's work since his death—are not definitive enough to deliver that judgment, both do offer considerable insight into "the rogue elephant of American literature" (as Lawrence Durrell once called Miller) and deserve a place on the select bookshelf of first-rate Miller criticism. As the latest volume in Ungar's Literature and Life: American Writers Series, J. D. Brown's Henry Miller is a survey text intended more for undergraduates, graduates, and generalists than for the specialist. In it, Brown covers Miller's entire life from his childhood in Brooklyn to his last years in Pacific Palisades, briefly discusses as many as space will allow of the ninety or more works that comprise the Miller canon, and places him firmly within the American autobiographical tradition. After an opening chapter in which Miller's early, disastrous efforts to become a writer are detailed, the book is divided evenly into three chapters on the "Paris" books (Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, and Tropic of Capricorn) and three chapters on the "American" books (principally The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, The Time of the Assassins, The Rosy Crucifixion, and Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch) with a transitional chapter on The Colossus of Maroussi and a coda on Miller's central place in American autobiography. Brown's intent in his work is not so much to be original as to consolidate the gain in critical reputation that Miller experienced in the '60s and '70s. For him, then, Henry Miller "remains a great American writer" rather than an "artist-piffler" (Alwyn Lee), a "minor figure" (Frank Kermode), or a "talented hick" (Stanley Kauffmann). And in arguing his case for Miller's greatness, Brown is remarkably persuasive, partly because of the cumulative weight of seeing Miller's career whole for the first time, partly because his coda on Miller's importance in the tradition of American autobiography is such a fine piece of work. In only twelve pages, he convinces the reader of the validity of his controlling generalization: Miller's "greatest achievements were as a surrealist, as a vernacular humorist, as a transcendentalist, and as an autobiographer. In these four respects Miller ranks with the best writers of this century." Such a generalization is not, of course, new, but the clarity, concision, and unity of Brown's apologia for Miller are noteworthy. Yet Henry Miller is not a book without faults. The speed with which Brown has to shuttle through the Miller canon sometimes causes dizziness. The grasp Brown has on the facts intermittently slips. There are also occasional repetitions and an overfondness for tendentious generalization. There is too much quotation [End Page 316] from Miller's works tied to too little analysis, and, finally, a too-ready identification of Miller with the persona of his "auto-novels." Because Miller was, self-confessedly, a man of "a thousand faces, [and] all of them genuine," such an identification poses problems left unexplored in J. D. Brown's Henry Miller. Leon Lewis' study is altogether weightier than Brown's book: more subtle, more complex, more densely argued. After an introduction, entitled "Acolytes and Adversaries," in which he surveys the history of criticism on Miller and emphasizes the intent of his argument—"to see fully what Miller was trying to do"—Lewis spends three chapters constructing an original and, at times, provocative argument, and six chapters developing his thesis through a close reading of Miller's "major" writings. Lewis' argument is tripartite: first, that Miller needed to recreate a substitute place for the vanished happiness and wonder of his Brooklyn childhood and tried to do...

A time-dependent method for computing thermal rate constants

Presented is an efficient numerical method for computing thermal rate constants for quantum systems with few, localized degrees of freedom. The starting point is the work of Miller, Schwartz and Tromp in which the rate constant is expressed in terms of an equilibrium flux-flux correlation function. The correlation function can be calculated very efficiently by using a combination of discrete momentum and coordinate representation. This saves time by replacing the matrix multiplications normally involved in evaluating propagators with fast Fourier transforms.