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This essay argues that L. P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between (1953) fits into the critical tradition of the Bildungsroman in one specific sense: its attention to matters of deception. First, this plot of formation and development involves a necessary apprenticeship in deception: a moral training that has links with everyday practices of concealment in linguistic construal, social etiquette, and interpersonal trust, whose presence I track in the novel. Second, the novel's framing screens the salient context of its production, the 'angry decade' of 1950s Britain. I consider Hartley's conservative distance from other writing on childhood and youth in the period, suggesting that his representation of deception relates to his critique of social and moral erosion in the postwar period. In the loose vehicle of a Bildungsroman where development is compromised, Hartley presents a novel whose formal structure, in its use of deceptive tropes, affords both its turning away from historical difficulties and its indirect critique of failing morals.

Informational masking was not involved in the WIN paradigm. The Sperry et al results were not replicated, which is thought to be related to the way in which the Sperry et al BB condition was produced.

Biorefineries require a consistent biomass feedstock to ensure optimal processing efficiency and a convenient method to evaluate biomass delivered at the factory gate. The combination of fractionation, selective blending of biomass streams, and densification is one strategy of ensuring feedstock with uniform quality attributes. In this study, dry mass fraction and compositional variability of botanical fractions of Miscanthus £ giganteus harvested post-senescence were determined. Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy was used to monitor composition of blends. Results showed that the majority of miscanthus stalks were composed of rind (48À63%) followed by sheath (17À28%), nodes (10À16%), and pith (8À13%). Rind had the highest glucan content (46.1%) while lignin content was highest in node (25.5%) and rind fractions (24.2%). Ash content was highest in blade fractions (8.9%) and was less than 1% in rind, pith, and nodes. Variability in composition was reflected in the 4250À4350 cm ¡1 and 5500À6000 cm ¡1 regions of the botanical fractions' FT-NIR spectra. Principal components analysis (PCA) of FT-NIR spectra of rind-blade blends were useful in screening blends based on structural carbohydrates, lignin and ash contents demonstrating the use of NIR spectroscopy in monitoring feedstock formulation.

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