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Notes: The Ordnance Survey makes extensive use of air survey in its mapping programmes at scales of 1 : 1250, 1 : 2500 and 1 : 10 000. A short history of the development of air survey within the Ordnance Survey leads into a description of current methods including the flying, processing and aerial triangulation tasks as well as the plotting of the maps by instrumental or graphical means.

Notes: A number of proposals have been put forward for the extraction of three dimensional data from a pair of electron microscope photographs taken from different angles. The methods used have, in general, been either point by point analyses or rather inconvenient. This paper shows that an existing photogrammetric plotter of topographic accuracy can, with very simple modification, be converted to give continuous plotting facilities from certain such micrographs.

Notes: The author reminisces upon a career of almost 40 years as a practising surveyor photogrammetrist, both as a Royal Engineer officer and as a director of a commercial survey organisation. The reminiscences include service with the Survey of India, war time operations in the Middle East and South East Asia Command, and commercial surveys of all types in developing countries. Professional service with international surveying and photogrammetric organisations is also mentioned, with particular reference to the fraternal aspects of international photogrammetry.

Notes: An increasing number of applications of photogrammetry are concerned with the analysis of models, constructed to simulate proposed or existing conditions in architecture and engineering. The paper draws attention to some of these projects and reports one example in detail.

Notes: The author describes the photogrammetric equipment in use by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), the methods used and the work that is being done in architectural recording. The difficulties and the possibilities of future architectural work in the United Kingdom are discussed and the achievements of some other countries in this field are reviewed.

Notes: The author describes conventional methods of highway planning and explains at what points modern methods, involving photogrammetric and electronic computation techniques, can be applied with advantage. Detailed accounts are given of the photogrammetric measurement of cross-sections and of programmes for the computation of masses.

Notes: A Leica camera on an indexing head was used to obtain photographic panoramas from three stations on a mountaineering expedition to Lahul in 1958. The field calibration of the camera presented some problems and various methods of calculating the focal length were investigated; a more convenient form of the Hotine method was derived. A map of the area at a scale of 1:50,000 was plotted from the photographs. The authors conclude that a good 35-mm. camera has some advantages over a plane table for exploration mapping.

Notes: This paper discusses the principal changes made to the Thompson- Watts plotter Model 1 as a result of experience gained with that instrument under test and in production. Some test results with the new instrument, Model 2, are given at the end of the paper. The opportunity is also taken to describe the variable magnification system of the instrument, not changed from Model 1.

Notes: The article discusses a general classification system applicable to digital ground models (D.G.M.) as used in highway design. Examples of the various categories are given, together with details of some advantages and disadvantages. The place of the D.G.M. in the highway design system is described in conjunction with traditional methods. The relationship between accuracy, density and economy of D.G.M. systems is examined. Finally an experiment is described which investigates the accuracy of various D.G.M. systems; it is being conducted by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory.

Notes: Book reviews in this article:OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES IN LENS DESIGN. By T. H. Jamieson.ADJUSTMENT BY LEAST SQUARES IN GEODESY AND PHOTOGRAM-METRY. By R. A. Hirvonen.AERIAL PHOTO-ECOLOGY. By J. A. Howard.PROCEEDINGS OF THE ISP COMMISSION IV SYMPOSIUM 1970. Editor J. Kure.

Notes: The use of aerial photography for hydrographic requirements is discussed, with particular reference to current circulation in an all water area. The paper examines the criteria and limitations imposed by an environment which is alien to normal topographic photogrammetry.

Notes: This paper is divided into two parts: the first discusses the practical navigation techniques evolved for air survey, and the second deals with the associated techniques of ground plotting and flight-line recovery. Both parts of the paper have a geophysical bias since it is in this field that most experience has been gained, but the basic principles apply equally to photographic survey.

Notes: Calculated precision turns can be valuable as an aid to visual navigation at all scales and under all conditions of air survey navigation. The turns can be performed either at a given rate of turn or at a given angle of bank, and a slide rule has been developed at the International Training Centre for Aerial Survey, Delft, on which the necessary calculations for either case can be performed quickly and easily. The accuracy of location aimed at is such that the threshold of the new run presents an angle-off of not more than 3° on the completion of the turn. Examples show that this can be achieved in normal practice.

Notes: Recent developments in stereoscopy are reviewed, and their relevance to photogrammetry discussed.

Notes: Book reviews in this article: ELEMENTARY PHOTOGRAMMETRY. By D. R. Crone. INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK OF CARTOGRAPHY (Vol. III, 1963). Editor, Eduard Imhof.

Notes: The Stereomat System has been adapted to a modified Wild B8 Aviograph Stereoplotter. A brief description is given of the new instrument and the principles employed.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Miamiensis avidus n. g., n. sp., a marine facultative parasite, is described. Morphological studies were made on specimens treated with the Chatton-Lwoff silver impregnation technique and living material was examined with phase microscopy. Particular attention was given the infraciliature of the buccal apparatus and its importance to generic assignment in the order Hymenostomatida.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. A comparison of the effects upon trypsin-dispersed chick liver cell cultures of a virulent (Jones' Barn) and a non-pathogenic (Lahore) strain of Trichomonas gallinae revealed significant differences in behavior of the parasites in cell cultures and in the response of such cultures. The virulent strain multiplies faster in nutrient medium in the presence of cell cultures; stimulates great activity of the macrophages; is not handled effectively by these phagocytes in which it can multiply causing their ultimate destruction; is found significantly more often within the cytoplasm of the liver epithelial and fibroblast-like cells; causes very much more profound degenerative changes in all the cells, both invaded and non-invaded; and suppresses effectively the division rate of the fibroblast-like cells. On the other hand, the nonpathogenic strain multiplies at a lower rate in the presence of cell cultures; stimulates less activity of the macrophages; is handled readily by these phagocytes in which it multiplies only very rarely, if ever; is found seldom within the liver epithelial and fibroblast-like cells; causes far less degeneration of all the cell culture elements; and suppresses significantly less the dlvision rate of the fibroblast-like cells.At the end of a 20–24 hour period typically only a few living cells are left in cultures exposed even to attenuated isolates of the virulent strain, whereas those inoculated with the mild one do not show much degeneration even after 28 hours. The effects upon the cell cultures of cell-free filtrates of actively growing trichomonad cultures are relatively minor, but the changes caused by the filtrates of cultures of Jones' Barn strain appear to be more extensive than those caused by similar filtrates of Lahore strain.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. An iron deficiency was noted for Tetrahymena grown in a proteose-peptone-yeast extract medium. Thus, the addition of an iron chelate and glucose was found to give consistent and luxuriant growth, whereas a number of other additives, including sodium acetate, an inorganic salt mixture lacking iron, and vitamins were found to be without influence on growth rate or cellular yield.Iron-deficient cells showed a marked reduction of oxidative capacity when suspended in a non-nutrient medium as well as when supplied with oxidizable substrates. A 1 hour incubation of iron-deficient Tetrahymena with iron chelate restored oxidative capacity only when the cells were suspended in a nutrient (peptone) medium. Growth of Tetrahymena in media autoclaved with salts resulted in cells with a larger volume but with no increase in oxidative capacity.The addition of 2,4-dinitrophenol elevated respiration of cells suspended in a non-nutrient medium, and of iron deficient cells suspended in the growth medium, suggesting that this compound increases the availability of iron or iron containing compounds, or by-passes the limiting steps.Respiratory quotients were lowered by an iron deficiency and elevated when the cells were grown in the presence of iron and glucose. This suggests more complete utilization of the carbohydrate, possibly due to the activity of a number of enzymes known to be iron-containing metalloproteins that are required for oxidative glucose dissimilation.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Small amebas are difficult to describe because of the lack of permanent morphological criteria. Investigations from the nuclear division and physiological points of view may be useful, but the study of motion and behaviour under natural conditions gives better results in order to show the natural relationship. Descriptions of four new forms of small marine amebas are given. These species belong to the genera Rugipes, Acanthamoeba, Flabellula and Vahlkampfia.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. The development of the macronuclear Anlagen of Paramecium aurelia was studied by means of electron, light and ultra-violet microscopy of timed stages following conjugation. In the youngest Anlagen, no differentiated structures could be made out, and staining reactions gave little or no indications of the presence of DNA or RNA. As development proceeds, a number of conspicuous “sponge-like” RNA-containing bodies surrounded by a “matrix” containing DNA can be seen. Eventually these RNA bodies develop DNA centres and apparently disintegrate, yielding the “large bodies” characteristic of the mature macronucleus, and the “small bodies” then also appear. The relation of these observations to interpretations of the structural elements in the macronucleus is discussed.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Two new species of Isospora are described from the feces of an eastern spotted skunk Spilogale putorius ambarvalis imported into Montana from Florida. The oocysts of I. spilogales n. sp. are 29 to 38 by 22 to 28 μ and contain 2 sporocysts measuring 17 to 22 by 13 to 16 μ; a few Caryospora-like oocysts containing a single sporocyst were considered abnormal I. spilogales oocysts. The oocysts of I. sengeri n. sp. are 16 to 23 by 12 to 18 μ and contain 2 sporocysts measuring 10 to 14 by 8 to 12 μ.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. The Tulahuen and Peruvian strains of Trypanosoma cruzi have been compared as to their ability to metabolize C14-glucose uniformly labeled, or labeled in carbons 1, 2, or 6. Most of the radioactivity from uniformly labeled glucose is incorporated into organic acids in both strains, but significant radioactivity is also recovered in CO2. The Tulahuen strain has a slightly higher rate of glucose consumption, and the rate of incorporation of uniformly labeled glucose-C14 into CO2 is also higher. More radioactivity is incorporated into proteins from uniformly labeled glucose-C14 in the Tulahuen strain, but the radioactivity recovered in total organic acids is fairly similar in both cases. On the basis of the rates of C14O2 production from C14-glucose specifically labeled in carbons 1, 2, or 6, as well as the rates of incorporation into glycerol from uniformly labeled C14-glucose and glucose-6-C14, it is considered that the reactions of the pentose phosphate pathway play a more important role in the Tulahuen strain. The pentose phosphate pathway accounts for 41.4% of the glucose catabolized by the Tulahuen strain compared to only 27.9% in the Peruvian strain. It is suggested that differences in the participation of alternative pathways of carbohydrate metabolism may have some relationship to pathogenicity.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Dactylosoma is a genus of blood protozoa which undergo schizogony, without producing pigment, in the red cells of the lower vertebrates, especially amphibia. The best known species is D. ranarum, but even for this species the life cycle, except as it occurs in the erythrocyte, and the vector remain unknown. Study of slides from the blood of two species of Formosan frogs, Rana guentheri and R. limnocharis, revealed Dactylosoma ranarum in the former, and what appeared to be a new species, for which the name Dactylosoma taiwanensis is proposed, in the latter. Rana limnocharis has not previously been known to be a host of Dactylosoma, nor has this genus of parasite been reported from Formosa. Dactylosoma ranarum, though not known from many species of frogs and toads, occurs in Asia, Africa, Europe, and in Central and South America. This suggests that it must have been a parasite of Anura for a very long time. Since frogs and toads are incapable of long migrations and are very intolerant of salt water, so wide a distribution may also have palaeogeographic significance.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. The formation of chains was induced both in exponentially growing and in synchronized cultures of Tetrahymena Pyriformis GL, by application of one or two hr 34°C shocks. An arrest in constriction along the division furrow is brought about as a result of prolonged exposure to 34° during an early phase of cell division.After return to optimal temperatures, the chains remain in their original tandem configuration. They possess two sets of cortical structures, and generally also two macronuclei.Subsequently, two new oral primordia appear, one in each component. These primordia develop in synchrony with each other. The later development of the chains is correlated with the placement of the oral primordia. In some situations, these primordia form immediately posterior to the pre-existing oral areas and replace them; in these cases, the original division furrow is obliterated, and irregular and probably unstable homopolar doublets form. More frequently, one or both of the oral primordia are normal division primordia. In these cases, the original oral area of the anterior component persists, while that of the posterior component is resorbed. The original fission line persists, and two new fission lines are formed anterior to each of the new oral primordia. When constriction takes place along the new fission lines, the original arrested fission line is occasionally reactivated, and the chain then divides into four cells. More often, the original furrow is not reactivated (or only incompletely reactivated), and the chain divides into two or three cells, depending on how close the two new division furrows are to each other.The chains ultimately give rise to normal clones of singlet cells. No clones of doublets were observed.In the Discussion, the synchronization of developmental events in the two components of the chain is emphasized. The cases of reactivation of the original fission line in synchrony with constriction along the newly formed fission lines seem to indicate that furrowing results from an interaction of a preformed cortical site (fission line) with a pervasive substance which acts to trigger constriction.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Studies were carried out on the introduction of labeled precursors into the DNA of Paramecium aurelia (syngen 4, stock 51) by way of the bacteria that are used for food. A thymine-requiring strain of Escherichia coli (15 T−) was labeled by growth in either H3-methyl thymidine or 2-C14 bromouracil, washed free of the exogenous label, and fed to the paramecia. The tritium label from the bacteria was incorporated almost exclusively into the DNA of the paramecia, whereas it was much less specifically incorporated when introduced directly from the medium. The Cu label from bromouracil was also incorporated mainly into the DNA of the paramecia although a small amount appeared in RNA. The formation of labeled food vacuoles was followed. Food vacuoles were formed at a nearly constant rate, with the total number of vacuoles increasing throughout the cycle. The lifetime of the vacuoles was about 2.5 hours. Incorporation of the label into the DXA of the paramecia begins within a few minutes of the formation of the first labeled vacuole. DNA synthesis begins about 1.5 hr after the previous fission (total cell cycle about 5.8 hr) and progresses at a nearly constant rate throughout the remainder of the cycle.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Ca45 addition to cultures of Hymenomonas, a coccolithophorid chrysomonad, cultivated axenically, led to the autoradiographic confirmation of the intracellular nature of coccolithogenesis. Quantitative studies with isotopically enriched Ca+2 indicate the greatest activity resides in the intracellular fraction. Age of the cultures at the time of isotope addition did not appear to affect the specific activity of the coccoliths. Exchange between cell-free isotopically enriched coccoliths and the environment was also demonstrated. The findings are discussed especially from the viewpoint that the initial intracellular deposition of CaCO3 onto a preformed organic matrix is considered to be an animal rather than a plant characteristic.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Xenon applied at sufficient pressures ranging from 30 pounds per square inch to 225 p.s.i. caused reduction in contractile vacuole activity, increase in cellular volume, expansion of the surface region, cessation of forward movement, and cytolysis of paramecia. Krypton at 915 p.s.i. prevented contractile vacuole activity, but forward movement continued for at least 30 min. When subjected to 115 p.s.i. of N2O, paramecia moved in slow oscillations, and contractile vacuoles failed to empty. At 265 p.s.i. of N2O movement ceased and cytolysis resulted. The pressure required to terminate movement in the same time interval following application of the pressure was less for N2O than for xenon. The expansion of the surface of the cells suggests that inert gases produce narcosis by dissolving into this region.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. The isolation of a culture of Leptomonas mirabilis from the fly Cynomyopsis cadaverina from Guatemala shows that this flagellate is not a stage of Herpetomonas muscarum. It is characterized by giant forms that reach 200 μ in length.All records of giant leptomonads from flies are reviewed. This species was established in culture only by the addition of mosquito extract to the medium. Division of the giant flagellates appears to occur by equal binary fission.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. The peritrich Pyxidiella curvicaula (Penard) was observed in the activated sludge of an English sewage works and was successfully cultured in the laboratory.A number of observations were made upon clonal cultures of P. curvicaula which indicated that this species is colonial at one stage in the asexual life cycle. The branching of the colonial adult is more complex than originally described, and a maximum of 17 individuals has been observed upon one stalk.Since P. curvicaula is in reality a colonial peritrich, it should therefore be transferred to the genus Opercularia Stein, with the name of the species changed to Opercularia curvicaula.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. A method for the in vitro culture of O. purkynei was developed which permitted the continuous culture of this protozoon in clone culture for a. period of 32 months. The shortest division time was 24 hr. The concentration of cells varied between 700 and 1000/ml in the routine procedure. Variations in spination which occurred in the clone culture suggested that this characteristic was of doubtful taxonomic importance.Ground wheat and alfalfa served as substrates but soluble sugars did not. Green plant material appeared to be necessary for continued growth of the protozoa. Ingestion of a large streptococcus was demonstrated by vital staining of a mixed population of bacteria with tetrazolium prior to incubation with the protozoan suspension in the presence of wheat. O. purkynei can tolerate exposure to variations in osmotic pressure, temperature, and oxygen which are consonant with its transfer in nature by grooming or ingestion of contaminated food or drink.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. After several years of field work devoted primarily to determining the incidence of infection of the common milkweed Asclepias syriaca with the trypanosomatid Phytomonas elmassiani, the life cycle of this parasite was determined under controlled conditions. Upon ingestion of phytomonads by the bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, reproduction apparently ceases but growth of individual phytomonads continues until they assume relatively giant proportions. Ten days after ingestion, giant forms are found in the hemocoel of the bug and by 12 days similar forms are present in the salivary glands. In this latter organ, unequal fission takes place with the ultimate formation of numerous forms similar to those found in the plant. Within 2 weeks after these infected bugs had fed on milkweeds, parasites were detected in the latex of formerly non-parasitized plants. The lack of reproduction in the alimentary tract, the formation of giant forms, and the migration through the hemocoel to the salivary glands contrast markedly with the development of Leptomonas oncoptlti in the same bug. In the latter organism, budding leads to the formation of leishmaniform organisms which pass out with feces and are presumably the infective stage of the leptomonad.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. The division delay responses of Tetrahymena (“set-back” curves) which result from heat shocks of the type used in synchronizing studies have been examined in logarithmic and synchronized T. pyriformis GL. The curves indicate an increasing sensitivity to heat shocks with increasing cell age, a sudden sharp increase just prior to the “transition point” and a loss of sensitivity at the transition point. A correlated study of morphogenesis in the synchronous generation suggests that the sudden increase in thermal sensitivity before the transition point is due to a dedifferentiation and redifferentiation of the developing oral primordium which can be induced at this time. The results also suggest that the “stabilization” of the primordium which follows the transition point may occur at more than one developmental stage, i.e., is not stage-specific. It is suggested that stabilization may therefore be due to conditions lying outside the primordium.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Cytoplasmic stippling, intensification of the cell margin, and alterations in color, which have been reported in erythrocytes parasitized by Plasmodium falciparum in man, have been seen also in bovine erythrocytes parasitized by either Babesia bigemina or B. argentina. These changes appear to be identical in the human and bovine infections.Tests with each component of Giemsa stain in simple aqueous solutions alone and in various combinations with eosin, together with tests with Giemsa stains containing one azure component, showed that demonstration of the changes depends on the presence of azure A and eosin and on prolonged staining times at pH 7.2 to 7.4. Specific tests suggested that the changes represent catabolic by-products of the parasites.

Notes: SYNOPSIS. Studies on the composition of commercial Giemsa stain and its effect upon staining quality are reported. These studies were supplemented by observations on the preparation of the components of Giemsa stain and their staining properties in aqueous solution, in Nocht's solution, and in laboratory prepared Giemsa stains containing one azure component. Five groups of commercial batches were differentiated on the basis of their staining reactions on thick and thin films of bovine blood containing Babesia bigemina and B. argentina. Spectrophotometric and chromatographic analysis showed that four groups differed in the proportions of the thiazine components present, while the fifth-group did not appear to be Giemsa stain. Comparison of their staining effects with those obtained with each component in laboratory prepared stains indicated that the major effects of commercial batches on both blood cells and parasites were due to the thiazine component or components in highest proportions, with satisfactory staining of protozoa associated with those batches containing high proportions of methylene blue and azure B and low proportions of the remaining thiazine components.The function of each component of Giemsa stain is defined and the need for the proper balancing of thiazine eosinates with free azure is shown. Close correlation was obtained between analysis by spectrophotometry and chromatography and direct staining tests when samples initially with low MX values were re-examined spectrophotometrically after removal of their methylene violet content. The existence of a leuco form of eosin is reported and its possible significance to the Romanowsky effect is discussed.

Notes: This paper proposes that salary structures and the development of salaries over time be considered within the framework of the distribution of income over time. In particular, it examines certain salary scales in the U.S. and the progressions of typical individuals’ salaries during the period 1948–1969, in comparison with the percentile distributions of household income in the same period, as reflected by the Current Population Survey of the Bureau of the Census.

Notes: This paper assesses the role of inventive and innovational activity in the growth process of Canada, a country which relies overwhelmingly, some 90 per cent, on the importation of technological advances and operational know-how from abroad. Canada has prospered under this arrangement but at a price. With technology came foreign capital, foreign management and substantial foreign control. To lessen Canada's dependence on foreign know-how, this country has embarked on an expanded R & D programme. But the pay-off from these efforts has been less than expected. To throw a light on the subject, the results of two new surveys are presented: one a sample survey of patents granted, the other an interview survey of large corporations. Questions examined include sources of know-how and technological advances, utilization of inventions and abandonment of innovations, R & D and innovations, domestic and foreign innovations, and the profitability of innovations. Aggregative assessment is supplemented by disaggregative analysis using cross-section and industry data.

Notes: The paper presents forecasting models for (1) the share of competitive imports in the total demand for a commodity group and (2) the level of demand for competitive imports of a commodity group. The two forecasting models are used, respectively, with (1) input-output models which incorporate market share parameters as one vector of coefficients and (2) input-output models which assume imports have been determined autonomously. It is shown that these two types of input-output models can be made workable by prefixing one or other of the import forecasting models to the input-output model. Tests are made of the forecasting ability of the combined models.

Notes: This article is an extension of an earlier article dealing with gains and losses from changes in the terms of trade. The object of the present article is to show how gains and losses in foreign trade are distributed among the branches of domestic industry. To this end, price changes for gross domestic product at factor cost in each of 25 branches of industry over the period 1949–1965, computed where possible by the double deflation method, are compared with the change over the same period in final demand—i.e., consumption plus gross investment.

Notes: This paper develops a method for estimating long-run trends in income growth from the data available on a country's currency stock. The method is applied to nineteenth-centry Brazil. The results indicate that contrary to earlier beliefs, the country as a whole probably experienced only moderate growth in per-capita income during the nineteenth century. The approach may also be useful for other countries where data shortages preclude estimates of national income by conventional methods.

Notes: This paper discusses the relevance of the conventional national accounts systems to the traditional African economy and concludes that they contribute little because they omit certain economic activities and fail to recognise the reciprocity between social and economic activities. Social accounting is thus more relevant. Lack of statistical data may make it necessary to conduct special surveys and in some cases a tribe or village or economic region may be a more useful accounting unit than a nation. A modified system of accounts is suggested, based on the frame work of the four consolidated accounts of the SNA. It provides linkages to many more nonmonetised activities. Other linkages would be provided through supporting tables emphasising social activities and transfers. A system of transactor accounts in matrix form is also suggested. In the case of communities smaller than the nation several external transactor sectors could be included. It is recognised that the problem of evaluation of social activities and a number of economic activities remains to be solved and it is concluded that “time spent” may be the only common unit or value to equate such activities.The final section deals with investment in human resources and proposes a balance sheet approach to indicative planning. This exercise would be related to demographic projections in several variants. Other factors to be analysed dynamically would be education and health status, public finance and, ultimately, distribution of income and wealth since it is noted that the process of monetisation is having an impact which may have important welfare implications.

Notes: In this paper the author adds some further empirical tests of his theory of income distribution. This theory (cf. this Review, Series 16, Number 3, September 1970, p. 221 ff) sees income distribution as the distribution of prices of production factors, especially labour, of different quality and prices as the effect of demand and supply factors. The quality of labour is represented only by the number of years of schooling. Its supply is described by the actual numbers of people having each of the possible years of schooling; this frequency distribution can be characterized by its average and by some measure of its dispersion or by one of its deciles (in particular the highest) expressed in terms of its median. The demand for the various qualities of labour can be supposed to be reflected by (i) total demand for commodities, but (ii) more accurately by the percentage of third-level educated people used in and weighted by the size of the four main sectors of production: agriculture, manufacturing, trade and transport, and other services. Extensive material collected and reworked by Professors B. R. Chiswick for the U.S.A. and Canada and T. P. Schultz and L. S. Burns with H. E. Frech III for the Netherlands is used in cross-section tests to explain variations in income distribution in the states of the U.S.A. and the provinces of Canada and the Netherlands. The results can be found in the tables. While further increase and smaller dispersion in years of schooling, according to some of the findings presented, would only moderately reduce the degree of inequality in the U.S.A. and Canada, more result seems to be possible according to other findings, including those for the Netherlands. In the latter category the second demand index mentioned above has been used. This paper is one of several devoted in various ways to the testing of the same theory.

Notes: Statistics for developing countries often are misunderstood and misinterpreted because the published data do not distinguish between the economically modern and the traditional sectors. The purpose of economic development is to move a nation from the traditional, or largely non-monetary, subsistence agriculture type of life, to the modern or money oriented and technologically developed type. Statistics of national accounts, the economically active (the working force), and other topics often fail to be useful for economic development purposes because they are presented for the totality of the country and do not show the modern-traditional sectors separately.In addition, data are often misinterpreted and used incorrectly because the development economists do not understand the nature of the data—how they were collected and what they really signify. This point is illustrated with the economically active statistics. Finally, a plea is made for more statistics and information about families.

Notes: This paper deals with some results of an extended investigation which was carried out by the German Institute of Economic Research, Berlin, and the Ifo-Institute, Munich, and financed by the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk. For 29 sectors of manufacturing Cobb-Douglas production functions have been calculated, based on quarterly figures 1958–1968 of value added, input of hours worked, input of utilized capital stock (net of scrappage), and of potential value added, potential labor input and total capital stock. The income distribution is used as production elasticities. For each of the 29 sectors 12 time series of quarterly indices of total factor input and technical change have been computed, using utilized data (variation 1-6) and capacity data (variation 7-12). Two different time series of α are used, taking quarterly interpolated data (variation 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11) and the geometric mean 1958–1968 (variation 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12). Moreover three different parameters of homogeneity are introduced, taking r= 1 (variation 1, 2, 7, 8), r= 1.1 (variation 3, 4, 9, 10) and r= 1.25 (variation 5, 6, 11, 12). Seven of the 29 sectors show a very high sensitivity of the rate of technical change due to the assumed r, six sectors a rather high sensitivity. Ten of the 29 sectors show a rather small sensitivity of technical change due to the assumed r, six sectors a very small or even negative sensitivity, i.e. an increasing r creates an increasing technical change. These results can be explained by taking account of the fact that total factor input in many branches increased very slowly or even decreased (labor input alone decreased in nearly all branches). A hierarchy of technical change has been calculated; this hierarchy is difficult to explain, because fast growing industries as well as industries with a small or a negative growth rate of output rank in both the leading and the last group of technical change. Very high rates of output result in high rates of technical change (chemicals, mineral oil refining, plastics manufactures), but some industries with a rather small growth of output (shipbuilding, fine ceramics, steel drawing, and cold rolling mills) show a high rate of technical change too.

Notes: An underlying theme in this paper is that the differences in approach in this area arise partly from the complexity of the phenomena in the real world being studied, the implications of this interrelated complexity for unbiassed and efficient estimates of the structural relations, and the problems of getting an adequate number of observations of the required form.Two distinct approaches have been used in the study of marginal and total factor productivity. One approach is to use the factor shares in national income as weights to combine the individual factor inputs to make an index of total factor input, and to use a factor's relative share to measure its marginal contribution. The second approach is to estimate the production relation from the data being used, and derive the marginal contribution of the productive factors to output from the estimated relation. The longest parts of the paper review the procedures followed to cope with the main problems in the real world, and the strengths and limitations in the two approaches. The discussion emphasizes the issues for the economy as a whole, and touches only briefly on the issues in disaggregation.Three major themes are emphasized in the conclusions to the paper. One is that many of the problems, the differences in view, and the controversies grow out of the range of interrelated issues in practical applications. A second major theme is that most of the attempts to solve particular issues by those using the factor shares approach are rather similar to those followed by researchers estimating the production relations directly. A third theme is to encourage more studies that will look at the interconnections between production relations and income distribution, from the points of view of both economic theory (and its predictions about the relevance to concrete applications) and statistical estimation.

Notes: This paper summarizes the results of several studies on total factor productivity of twenty-five countries over the period 1950–1965. Some methodological issues which underlie the derivation and calculation of the familiar partial and total factor productivity indices are discussed. Though evidence on labor productivity for a large number of countries is presented and discussed, the main thrust of the discussion is in terms of the determinants of total factor productivity. The quantitative and qualitative contributions of labor and capital to growth of income are assessed with special attention to the contrasting patterns of these contributions among developed and developing economies. The problems of acceleration and retardation of the growth rate of some economies are considered and possible explanations are offered. Variations in the magnitude and sectoral distribution of the growth rates in several countries over this period are examined. Finally, areas for further research in comparative economic growth are suggested.

Notes: This paper discusses the estimation of the CES Production Function with Hicks-neutral technical change, and gives the results of an empirical study based on time series data (quarterly values) for sixteen industrial sectors in the Federal Republic of Germany (including West-Berlin), 1958–1968. The validity of the basic assumptions of the production model used in this investigation—neutrality of technical change and perfect competition—is tested by estimation of alternative specifications of the equations of this model. For this purpose two different methods of estimation were used.

Notes: Developing countries which typically have import surpluses and inflationary pressures because of insufficient savings are prone to use indirect taxes on imports (Tm) and subsidization of exports (Sx) in order to prevent deterioration of the balance of trade. If these substitutes for devaluation are included in the net indirect tax component of product at current market prices (Ym) the import surplus is likely to be understated, and Ym upward biased. This distortion will be avoided if imports and exports are measured at effective exchange rates (ER), that is, at official rates (OR) plus Tm and Sx respectively, and if (Tm - Sx) is deducted from the net indirect tax component of Ym. Only in this manner become imports and exports consistent with the other uses and resources at market prices and can be articulated with them. At base-year prices the volume index of product at OR diverges from that of ER to the degree that the composition of imports and exports in regard to tax and subsidy rates computed ad valorem significantly changes.Such a case is similar to that of the price indexes of imports and exports moving in diverging proportions: the trade balance at base-year prices will differ from that at current prices. The resulting discrepancies in national accounts have led to proposals of deflating, for example, exports by the price index of imports. Suchlike approaches are incompatible with the principle of national accounting that prices are supposed already to measure substitution values. Deflating exports by import prices means reintroducing substitution values, as does, for example, deflation of incomes by a consumer price index. Correspondingly, since the trade balance at ER conceptually expresses the value of imports at domestic market prices as compared to the corresponding domestic market value of exports, and if at ER the trade balance diverges from that at OR, the former balance has an important meaning (as has the trade balance at base-year prices as compared to that at current prices) and the resulting discrepancy between the two measures should not be removed merely for the sake of accounting smoothness.In contrast to the market price approach, the measurement of product at base-year factor cost is indifferent to the measurement of the trade balance at ER and at OR.It is, therefore, proposed in countries in which part of import taxation and export subsidization substitutes for devaluation, to record imports and exports in the national accounts at effective exchange rates, and to correct the net indirect tax component of product correspondingly. Imports and exports at official exchange rates should be shown within the balance of payments, and the latter separately as a memorandum item.

Notes: Changes in many output determinants contribute to growth. An analysis of the sources of growth is an allocation of changes in output among these determinants. Total factor input and output per unit of input condense all determinants into two groupings. Misinterpretation of results is common because authors presenting either detailed or summary results often provide no complete or precise description of their classification of determinants, and readers ignore even the information provided. The classification suggested in this paper is detailed enough to bring out points at which description is required but often overlooked. Some effects of alternative estimating procedures on classification are described.The relative usefulness and practicality of possible alternative classifications also need consideration and discussion. This paper is concerned with general purpose classifications, appropriate for analysis of actual series measuring a country's total output, that are suitable for present use but will also accommodate useful detail that may later become feasible. A desirable classification will so specify determinants that (1) they both unite cause with effect and correspond to the economist's method of analysis so that his set of tools can be brought to bear; (2) they do not contribute to growth if they do not change; and (3) they conform as well as possible to practical possibility of estimation. Among several points considered fundamental are that the complete contributions of advances in knowledge and of resource reallocation each appear as an entity. They should not be dispersed among inputs or other determinants. It is less clear whether economies of scale should be a separate determinant or their contribution be dispersed.

Notes: Conventional measures of national product make no pretence of including everything that affects welfare. As increasing attention is being paid to environmental pollution, the problem of incorporating certain non-economic variables into the analysis of well-being becomes more relevant. The object of this note is to show how a difference in “needs” for, and hence expenditures on, anti-pollutants, which will show up in conventional national accounts comparisons as differences in “tastes”, should be converted into differences in real income.

Notes: The CMEA standard of statistical information provides a system of national wealth indicators. The paper deals with certain time series published in these countries and in the CMEA Statistical Yearbook as the components of that system. Special attention is paid to the USSR interbranch balance of 30 types of fixed assets cross-classified by 105 branches of economy. This balance is analogous to the input-output table technique in the western literature. On the basis of this balance the Soviet statisticians furnish coefficients of direct and total requirements in fixed assets for each branch. Such coefficients are usually called capital ratios or capital coefficients. In the USSR they are calculated together with the coefficients of direct and total requirements of labour for the same industries, and they supplement input-output tables. The scheme of the fixed assets balance and the matrix for the calculation of these coefficients are described in the paper together with some numerical illustrations of actual coefficients reached in the calculations.

Notes: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sources of economic growth in Japan and to compare the results with those in the U.S. and Europe as studied by E. F. Denison. The method used by Denison is followed as far as possible. The character of this paper is of fact finding, and the interpretation of results or the originality of methodology is not dealt with here. The results may be summarized as follows.(1) Japan's growth rate is two times that of Europe and three times that of the United States.(2) The contributions of labor, capital, and the residual to economic growth are all higher for Japan than for the U.S. or Europe.(3) Factors which account for the higher contribution of labor to economic growth are (a) the higher rate of increase in employment, (b) less shortening of working hours, and (c) improved age and sex composition.(4) Factors which account for the higher contribution of capital to economic growth are a higher rate of increase in capital input and the high elasticity of production with respect to capital.(5) Other notable points include: (a) the contribution of education is lower for Japan; (b) the capital-labor ratio in Japan increased remarkably; (c) capital's share of national income is higher; and (d) 60% of Japan's economic growth is accounted for by the residual.

Notes: This paper analyses productivity growth in the Hungarian economy over the two decades between 1950 and 1970 with the aim of establishing what help can be provided in such analyses by the use of total factor productivity index numbers. After the introductory sections the paper deals first with the rates and factors of Hungarian productivity growth, and then with some methodological lessons of the investigation.

Notes: The paper discusses the relevance of input/output tables as a tool for economic analysis and planning in developing countries. It contends that this is so only to the extent that the input out-put tables enable consistency of production accounts to be verified while providing a suitable basis for macro projections at the same time. As a by-product, such input out put tables, the paper adds, also provide a convenient framework for estimating the needs for extensions and improvements in basic statistics.All these requirements, it is stated, can be fulfilled by a relatively aggregated format of an input/output table—which some of the developing countries are in a position to compile. However, the paper states, it is feared that the case for input/output analysis is not based on these requirements. The main force of arguments is in fact based on the uses of input/output tables for more detailed sectoral analysis and projections. The current state of basic statistics on some key sectors, it is stated, is not sufficiently sound to yield an end-product which is reliable. In the case of sectors where this is so the input/output analysis is not relevant either because of concentration of production in a relatively few establishments or because of limited amount of inter-sectoral interaction. It is further felt that if such arguments were to be accepted by developing countries the result would be a distorted disposition of statistical resources. Immediate needs of the developing countries require concentration of effort in development of more reliable and relevant series on basic statistics.

Notes: At present two systems of measurement of national product are in practice, one as defined in the UN System of National Accounts (SNA) and the other termed the Material Product System (MPS) or National Balances for the Economy. In the present paper, an expanded system of accounts integrating the national balances within the framework of a simplified SNA has been suggested. The accounts suggested are mainly the two sets of (i) Supply, Disposition and Domestic Production of goods and services and Consumption Expenditure of Budget and Mixed Organisations and the Population, and (ii) Income and Outlay and Capital Formation Accounts.The system is convenient not only for arriving at estimates by either of the two approaches, but is readily manageable. This set of accounts can, without any effort, be put in the form of a matrix leading to its ultimate integration with either the UN System of National Accounts or a modified system of national balances.The system gives not only the integrated system of SNA and national balances, but also a coded list of transactors and transactions within the economy. This coded list can be used as the first set of information for the creation of the economic data bank for the Integrated Statistical Information System.

Notes: An announced in the December 1971 issue of this Review, the Thirteenth General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth will be held in Hungary in August of 1973. Persons interested in submitting papers to be considered for presentation in any of the sessions are reminded that they should communicate with the session organizer as soon as possible. A list of topics and session organizers will be found in the December 1971 issue of the Review.

Notes: The author describes the results of his current research designed to measure total investment, tangible and intangible, and the derived capital stocks for the U.S., 1929–1966. With respect to total investment, the estimates show a marked increase in its ratio to GNP. All of the increase occurs in the intangible component comprising R & D, education and training, health, and mobility. The increase was concentrated in the government sector, although households increased the proportion of disposable personal income devoted to total investment.Consistent with the relative investment trends, the stock of intangible capital grew considerably faster than the tangible stock. The growth of total capital stocks was somewhat less than that of GNP, however, in both current and constant prices. Thus, the rate of return on total capital rose somewhat over the period. Average rates of return on human and nonhuman capital were closely similar.In real terms, the growth of total capital stocks accounted for two-thirds of the growth in real GNP, 1929–1966. One-third of the growth is attributed to residual forces, chiefly economies of scale, changes in inherent quality of human and natural resources, changes in values and motivations, and changes in rates of utilization of capacity.The growth of the ratio of real intangible stocks to real tangible stocks accounted for less than half of the increase in total factor productivity 1929–1966. This is significantly less than the contribution of intangibles as estimated by Denison, and the author adduces several reasons why his estimates may understate the contribution. Nevertheless, it seems that the net effect of the residual forces enumerated above must also have made a substantial contribution to the growth of tangible factor productivity and real GNP over the 37-year period.

Notes: The interpretation of Turam data is treated by means of a development of the conventional approach to this type of data. The development consists of a curve matching technique based upon a line current approximation to the true induced current pattern.The technique requires computation facilities which are readily available in modern programmable calculators.Practical examples of the use of the method illustrate that it can reveal information concerning the geometry of a conducting body which would not be gained by the conventional approach.

Notes: “Remote sensing” techniques have been used for many years as an exploration tool; broadly speaking, any method using sensors not directly connected to the earth's surface falls into this group.It is preferable, however, to use the term solely with reference to a number of new sensors which have recently become available to earth scientists for the detection of various radiations of the electromagnetic spectrum in the wave length range from 0.1 micron (UV) to some centimeters including the visible and infrared regions.Radiations artificially induced in the earth (active sensing) or spontaneous radiations (passive sensing) can be detected. Some of the bands investigated seem promising for application to geological surveys, especially using sensors on aircraft and satellites, which allow synoptic and large scale investigations.A brief account is given of the results already achieved and of future developments such as the ERTS and manned satellite (post Apollo) “earth observation” programmes.The potential role of Europe in the field is discussed.Details are given of some applications of thermal I.R. imagery to geological and vulcanological problems, with special emphasis on the research carried out in Italy.

Notes: In mathematical statistical filtering the deconvolution problem can be solved by two different methods:〈list xml:id="l1" style="custom"〉1by inverse filtering2by calculating the prediction error.Both methods are well known in the theory of Wiener filters.If, however, the generating process of the signal is known and can be described by a set of linear first order differential equations, then the Kalman filter can also be used to solve the deconvolution problem. In the case of the inverse filtering method this was shown by Bayless and Brigham (1970). But, while their method can only be used if the original signal is a colored random process, this paper shows that in the case of a white process the prediction error filtering method is a more appropriate approach. The method is extremely efficient and simple. This can be demonstrated by an example which maybe of special interest for seismic exploration.

Notes: The use of the electrical image method in calculating the potential of a source in the presence of a buried conductive sphere proves to be difficult because of the great number of terms making up the potential formula. The disadvantages contained by this method are avoided here by resorting to the theory of graphs. In view of this aim the “propagation” of the electrical images due to the sphere has been represented by an infinite graph to which an infinite matrix has been attached.Taking this as a basis several FORTRAN IV programs for the computation of resistivity pseudo-sections for various electrode configurations have been coded, and a great deal of such pseudo-sections have already been calculated with an IBM-360 computer. Using these results, recommendations regarding both the methodology of the geoelectrical prospecting of spherical shaped conductors and the most suitable way of building resistivity pseudo-sections are developed.

Notes: An account is given of the use of the square array technique in investigating the surface effects of rotational anisotropy when the axes of anisotropy are inclined to the surface. It is shown that, as with other arrays, two anisotropy parameters 〈inlineGraphic alt="inline image" href="urn:x-wiley:00168025:GPR249:GPR_249_mu1" location="equation/GPR_249_mu1.gif"/〉 and n can be derived by varying the array orientation.On the basis of these considerations, the effects of such anisotropy on the values of the mean apparent resistivity and azimuthal inhomogeneity ratio normally obtained in square array measurements is reviewed.Particular attention is paid to the variation of resistivity with orientation and it is noted that, in areas of moderate anisotropy, this variation is lower for the square than for the Schlumberger array.In addition to this advantage, the azimuthal inhomogeneity ratio obtained from square array measurements may be used to indicate the severity of anisotropy in an area and two field examples of this use are given.Where anisotropy is severe, gross variations of apparent resistivity with orientation are obtained with either square or collinear arrays. In these circumstances, the use of crossed measurements is considered and the particular stability of the crossed square array demonstrated.

Notes: Electrical resistivity sounding was attempted with success in 1960 on the surface of the Nile water in Khor Kundi El-Bahari, the starting place for the construction of the offset channel of the High Dam. The method was applied to determine the depth to the upper surface of the granite below the alluvium and Nile water. The success of the method conducted at two stations in the Khor is attributed to the favourable geological conditions of the section which consists of nearly homogeneous layers besides the good earthing conditions of electrodes dipped in water. The high resistivity contrast between water and granite facilitates interpretation of sounding curves. Factors interfering with the results of interpretation are mentioned.

Notes: This paper presents a dot chart for calculating gravity effects from two-dimensional bodies with the addition of a supplementary set of curves which can be used to determine the “end corrections” to modify the calculated effects when the length of the body is not relatively long with respect to the horizontal dimensions of the cross-section. The use of the chart is demonstrated by different examples. The results of theoretical cases amenable to mathematical treatment and computer results both compare favorably to those computed using the present chart.A fundamental incentive of constructing this chart, in a final form ready to use, is to make it available to gravity interpreters for utilization. Future effort in chart construction is thereby avoided.

Notes: By applying dynamic corrections a seismic trace recorded at a distance x from the energy source should be varied in such a way as to obtain a trace which would be recorded at zero-distance, i.e. at the source itself. Only such a zero-offset-trace contains the correct sequence of reflection coefficients (reflectivity function), whilst all other traces contain a distorted reflectivity function. In the simplest case, the reflectivity function is compressed over a shorter time whereas in more complicated cases a partial inversion of the reflectivity function results. This happens when some of the reflection hyperbolae intersect one another.The reconstruction of the true zero-offset reflectivity function by the application of dynamic corrections can only be an approximative process. In the first case mentioned we must expect a decrease in accuracy of the corrected trace in comparison with a zero-offset-trace. In the second case, where intersections of the hyperbolae occur, accurate reconstruction is clearly impossible.The problems are discussed with the help of theoretical and practical examples.

Notes: Fourier transform techniques have been used to calculate the theoretical filter (amplitude) response function of Nth order vertical derivative continuation operation. The amplitude response functions of the vertical gradient and its continuation follow from the same. These response functions are subsequently used to calculate the weighting coefficients suitable for two dimensional equispaced data. A shortening operator has been incorporated to limit the extent of the operator. For comparative study, some of the developed coefficient sets and the one presented in this paper are analysed in the frequency domain and their merits and demerits are discussed.

Notes: In this paper it is shown how one may obtain a generalized Ohm's law which relates the induced polarization electric field to the steady-state current density through the introduction of a fictitious resistivity defined as the product of the chargeability and the resistivity of a given medium.The potential generated by the induced polarization is calculated at any point in a layered earth by the same procedure as used for calculating the potential due to a point source of direct current.On the basis of the definition of the apparent chargeability ma, the expressions of ma for different stratigraphie situations are obtained, provided the IP measurements are carried out on surface with an appropriate AMNB array. These expressions may be used to plot master curves for IP vertical soundings.Finally some field experiments over sedimentary formations and the quantitative interpretation procedure are reported.