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The Efficiency of the Japanese Government’s Revenue Projections
No full textThis paper evaluates the efficiency of the Japanese fiscal authority’s revenue projections using real-time data from 1960 to 2022. While their one-year-ahead projections are not efficient, their accuracy can be significantly improved by adjusting the forecasts based on the results
Energy in American History: A Political, Social, and Environmental Encyclopedia
No full textFocusing on the major energy transitions in U.S. history, from the pre-industrial era to the present day, this two-volume encyclopedia captures the major advancements, events, technologies, and people synonymous with the production and consumption of energy in the United States. Expert contributors show how, for example, the introduction of electricity and petroleum into ordinary American life facilitated periods of rapid social and political change, as well as profound and ongoing impacts on the environment. These developments have in many ways defined and accelerated the pace of modern life and led to vast improvements in living conditions for millions of people, just as they have also brought new fears of resource exhaustion and fossil-fuel induced climate change. Today, as America begins to move beyond the use of fossil fuels toward a greater reliance on renewables, including wind and solar energy, there is a pressing need to understand energy in America\u27s past in order to better understand its energy future.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1210/thumbnail.jp
Emergent AI
Get PDFFor many years, artificial intelligence (AI) was considered to be limited in its abilities due to being confined to a pre-defined set of data. Currently, however, AI models have grown in complexity and size, leading to some previously impossible behaviors. These behaviors, known as emergent AI behaviors, are unpredictable and not pre-programmed. Their existence suggests that AI is expanding in adaptability and may one day rival human intelligence. Media often portrays AI as having emotions and having the ability to operate autonomously, but what behaviors are AI really capable of
Is Ignorance Bliss?
Get PDFThis project explores the ethics of telling someone factual information, even if it could hurt them. Specifically, the main question is: If a person were to learn that our world was just The Matrix, would they be obligated to tell people to be truthful or keep it to themselves to spare the feelings of others
The Spotted Lanternfly in Gettysburg and Public Mobilization Through an Awareness Campaign
Get PDFThe invasive Spotted Lanternfly poses a significant risk to the environment and fruit industry of Adams County PA. This project involves the creation of an informational poster campaign to inform the geographically diverse daily population of Gettysburg about the spotted lanternfly and mobilize them to take action against it
The Polyglutamine Domain Is the Primary Driver of Seeding in Huntingtin Aggregation
Get PDFHuntington’s Disease (HD) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by aggregation of the huntingtin protein (htt) with an expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) domain into amyloid fibrils. Htt aggregation is modified by flanking sequences surrounding the polyQ domain as well as the binding of htt to lipid membranes. Upon fibrillization, htt fibrils are able to template the aggregation of monomers into fibrils in a phenomenon known as seeding, and this process appears to play a critical role in cell-to-cell spread of HD. Here, exposure of C. elegans expressing a nonpathogenic N-terminal htt fragment (15-repeat glutamine residues) to preformed htt-exon1 fibrils induced inclusion formation and resulted in decreased viability in a dose dependent manner, demonstrating that seeding can induce toxic aggregation of nonpathogenic forms of htt. To better understand this seeding process, the impact of flanking sequences adjacent to the polyQ stretch, polyQ length, and the presence of model lipid membranes on htt seeding was investigated. Htt seeding readily occurred across polyQ lengths and was independent of flanking sequence, suggesting that the structured polyQ domain within fibrils is the key contributor to the seeding phenomenon. However, the addition of lipid vesicles modified seeding efficiency in a manner suggesting that seeding primarily occurs in bulk solution and not at the membrane interface. In addition, fibrils formed in the presence of lipid membranes displayed similar seeding efficiencies. Collectively, this suggests that the polyQ domain that forms the amyloid fibril core is the main driver of seeding in htt aggregation
Art and Propaganda :The Formation of Habsburg Absolutism
Get PDFHabsburgian propaganda is most often understood within the context of the 17th and 18th centuries, during the monarchy\u27s period of baroque absolutism, causing earlier attempts at propaganda and centralization to be seen as ineffective in comparison. However, through analyzing royal, propagandistic art in the 16th century empire, produced by monarchs beginning as early as Maximilian I, it becomes clear that a unified foundation of an absolutist policy was developed and fostered within this era, one which was a necessity in the success of the absolutist ideologies two centuries later. Through analyzing trends of royal, propagandistic art in the 16th century empire, not only is the root of the Habsburg family’s rise to power better understood, but the foundation of an absolutist ideology and public policy that would become central to Habsburg rule until its dissolvement in 1918