The story of coinage in New Guinea between the world wars to an extent involved a clash of the symbolic meanings attached to money by Europeans and those of the indigenous people.

This paper looks critically at the contention that Australian governments of the intewar period consistently promoted motor vehicle manufacture for defence and national development.

Many widely used models, including proportional hazards models with un- observed heterogeneity, can be written in the form (Y ) = min[ 0 X + U; C], where is an unknown increasing function, the error term U has unknown distribution function and is independent of X, C is a random censoring...