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Heterogeneous decision-making and market power: an application to Eurozone banks
Get PDFWe provide a structural model wherein the decision-makers are payoff maximizers in a general game theoretic setting in which heterogeneity is formally factored into the decisions of the players. The decision-makers are allowed to have different groups; and parameters are the same within each group but they differ across group. Using insights from our treatment of heterogeneous and strategic decision-making, we estimate the conducts (market powers) of Eurozone banks for years 2002-2015. We find that Eurozone banks are fairly competitive. However, banks in peripheral countries have more market power compared to the core of Eurozone
Beyond language: the unspoken sensory-motor representation of the tongue in non-primates, non-human and human primates
Get PDFThe English idiom “on the tip of my tongue” commonly acknowledges that something is known, but it cannot be immediately brought to mind. This phrase accurately describes sensorimotor functions of the tongue, which are fundamental for many tongue-related behaviors (e.g., speech), but often neglected by scientific research. Here, we review a wide range of studies conducted on non-primates, non-human and human primates with the aim of providing a comprehensive description of the cortical representation of the tongue’s somatosensory inputs and motor outputs across different phylogenetic domains. First, we summarize how the properties of passive non-noxious mechanical stimuli are encoded in the putative somatosensory tongue area, which has a conserved location in the ventral portion of the somatosensory cortex across mammals. Second, we review how complex self-generated actions involving the tongue are represented in more anterior regions of the putative somato-motor tongue area. Finally, we describe multisensory response properties of the primate and non-primate tongue area by also defining how the cytoarchitecture of this area is affected by experience and deafferentation
Transubstantiation
No full textMade in close collaboration with the artist, and incorporating perspectives from a wide range of contributors, this stunning paperback exhibition book is an absorbing survey that encompasses all aspects of Parker’s career, from the late 1970s to the new work being made today.
Cornelia Parker’s art is about destruction, resurrection and transformation. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures familiar objects to question our relationship with the world, and engage with the important issues of our time, be it violence, ecology or human rights. No other contemporary artist has worked so closely with such a wide range of individuals, groups and institutions: the British Army, The Royal Mint, Abbey Road Studios, prisoners, school children, The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, whistleblowers and the UK Parliament among many others.
Charting Cornelia Parker’s career to date, from her early work in the 1980s, to the iconic installations Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, Perpetual Canon, and the immersive War Room, to her new work, including Island and Flag, the book explores the full range of her practice, from her monumental collective embroidery Magna Carta (An Embroidery), as well as her films and a wealth of her innovative drawings, prints and photographs. Featuring a new, extended interview with Tate Britain Director of Exhibitions and Displays Andrea Schlieker, as well as insights and reflections from a selection of writers and collaborators, Cornelia Parker is an authoritative and captivating survey of one of Britain’s best-loved and most acclaimed artists.
Andrea Schlieker, Director of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Britain, a lecturer and writer. She conceived the Folkestone Triennial, the UK's largest exhibition of newly commissioned works in the public realm by acclaimed and emerging international artists
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study
Get PDFUnder the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) in England and Wales, the participation of persons in making decisions that affect their lives is embedded within the legislation and has also been addressed directly in Court of Protection (CoP) rules and guidelines. Various studies and reports nonetheless have indicated a potential gap between practice on the ground and the participatory aspirations of the MCA. This paper presents an analysis of semi-structured interviews with 56 legal professionals (lawyers and retired judges) specialising in mental capacity law to examine how they envisage the substantive meaning and function of P’s effective participation. The study reveals deeper legal and ethical justifications behind why P’s participation matters and also suggests that interpersonal barriers, such as communicating and engaging with P, can hinder its realisation in practice
Internationalists in European History
No full textBook synopsis: Representing a crucial intervention in the history of internationalism, transnationalism and global history, this edited collection examines a variety of international movements, organisations and projects developed in Europe or by Europeans over the course of the 20th century. Reacting against the old Eurocentricism, much of the scholarship in the field has refocussed attention on other parts of the globe. This volume attempts to rethink the role played by ideas, people and organisations originating or located in Europe, including some of their consequential global impact.
The chapters cover aspects of internationalism such as the importance of language, communication and infrastructures of internationalism; ways of grappling with the history of internationalism as a lived experience; and the roles of European actors in the formulation of different and often competing models of internationalism. It demonstrates that the success and failure of international programmes were dependent on participants' ability to communicate across linguistic but also political, cultural and economic borders.
By bringing together commonly disconnected strands of European history and 'history from below', this volume rebalances and significantly advances the field, and promotes a deeper understanding of internationalism in its many historical guises. The volume is conceived as a way of thinking about internationalism that is relevant not just to scholars of Europe, but to international and global history more generally
Being single, being ‘wrong’: pain and the remaking of gendered subjectivity in Delhi
No full textThis paper seeks to examine the role of social pain in the unmaking and remaking of urban subjectivities in a context of cultural change. I argue that doubt and uncertainty generated by shifting cultural boundaries underpins a drive to reassert extant social order, including gendered expectations, generating pain in the unmaking of subjectivities for those who are different or ‘other’. In the case of this study, the different are single, middle-aged, women in Delhi, standing outside normative familial structures and forced to answer the question ‘what’s wrong with you?’. However, everyday practices of repair and ‘swallowing’ pain could also work to remake a sense of self. Demonstrating invention as well as the politics of pain in their reclamations of space, these ‘wrong’ women reconfigured subjectivity as a form of cosmopolitanism often defined in opposition to ‘parochial’ others, particularly male migrant workers and cultural nationalists, who are made to lie beyond imagined urbane boundaries. The mirroring of exclusions highlights Elaine Scarry’s work on the incommunicability of pain that results, under conditions of neo-liberal and patriarchal social relations, in both women and working-class men being excluded from city spaces
ExploitGen: template-augmented exploit code generation based on CodeBERT
No full textExploit code is widely used for detecting vulnerabilities and implementing defensive measures. However, automatic generation of exploit code for security assessment is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel template-augmented exploit code generation approach ExploitGen based on CodeBERT. Specifically, we first propose a rule-based Template Parser to generate template-augmented natural language descriptions (NL). Both the raw and template-augmented NL sequences are encoded to context vectors by the respective encoders. For better learning semantic information, ExploitGen incorporates a semantic attention layer, which uses the attention mechanism to extract and calculate each layer’s representational information. In addition, ExploitGen computes the interaction information between the template information and the semantics of the raw NL and designs a residual connection to append the template information into the semantics of the raw NL. Comprehensive experiments on two datasets show the effectiveness of ExploitGen after comparison with six state-of-the-art baselines. Apart from the automatic evaluation, we conduct a human study to evaluate the quality of generated code in terms of syntactic and semantic correctness. The results also confirm the effectiveness of ExploitGen
Evaluating and supporting Neurodifferences* at work
No full textA new guide Evaluating and supporting Neurodifferences at work is now available from The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM). It is a product of the SOM Occupational Health Psychology Special Interest Group (SIG) and has been launched during Neurodiversity Celebration Week.
The guide is aimed at occupational health (OH) practitioners, Human Resources professionals and employers, who are considering referring their staff for a diagnostic assessment of or services to support ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette's Syndrome and/or similar. It outlines what to look out for in staff, different options available for support and legal duties of employers. The guide presents recommendations informed by research evidence, the latest guidance from regulatory bodies, current practice, and case law. The group are now looking to produce a guide on leadership in wellbeing.
"Navigating services for neurodiversity can be confusing - there's a lot of options for support and it's hard to pin point which you need at which point. This guidance explores the topic of identification and diagnosis, with advice for occupational health and employers on remit and commissioning. We hope it will de-mystify some of the terms and processes available, and lead to confidence in raising what can be a tricky and emotional topic."
Dr Nancy Doyle, Occupational Health Psychologist and member of SOM Occupational Health Psychology SIG
With thanks to contributors Dr Nancy Doyle, Dr Belinda Medhurst and Dr Gail Kinman
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