According to a study conducted by Lofstedt, Shusheng, and Johansson (2004), in China high gender ratios of males at birth are due to abortion practices. Between 1984 and 1987 rates of abortions for female fetuses in Huaning County, Yunnan Province, in China increased, creating a ratio of 107 males to 100 females, while between the period from 1988-2000 the ratio rose again to 110 males to 100 females.

Not only did the general Tauberian theorem give a unifying view on questions involving summations and limits, but it introduced a paradigm for what was called abstract harmonic analysis a few years later. […] Generalized harmonic analysis is the subject-matter of the last chapter, though it was conceived before the Tauberian theorems.

It is presumed that the stimulus-response sequences set up by learning depend, just as maturationally established sequences do, […]

If the presentee of a lay patron be refused by the ordinary, in most cases (as for simony, adultery, or illiterature) the patron is entitled to notice; […]