498 research outputs found
The Conscious Closet
No full textSustainability Seminar Speaker: The Conscious Closet with Elizabeth Cline
A discussion between Dr. Addie Martindale, Assistant Professor of Fashion Merchandising and Apparel Design, and Elizabeth Cline, author of the Conscious Closet.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sustainability-seminar-series/1001/thumbnail.jp
Sustainability Seminar Speaker: The Conscious Closet with Elizabeth Cline
No full textJoin us for this discussion between Dr. Addie Martindale, Assistant Professor of Fashion Merchandising and Apparel Design, and Elizabeth Cline, author of the Conscious Closet
Restoring economic growth in Argentina
No full textThe author reviews the debate on the causes of Argentina?s economic collapse in late 2001 and 2002 and examines the measures needed to help restore sustainable growth. Some analysts stress fiscal imbalances, others overvaluation of the peso under the convertibility plan, and others external shocks. Cline judges that all three contributed substantially, but that it was their inflammatory interaction with domestic political unraveling that forced the bad-equilibrium outcome. He reviews the nascent recovery since the second half of 2002 and the important success of avoiding hyperinflation. Looking forward, the author?s analysis underscores the importance of strengthening fiscal performance, in part by increasing relatively low collections of value added taxes. He stresses the need for reform of the system of revenue sharing with the provinces; the importance of strengthening the banking system, which was severely weakened by asymmetric conversion of assets and liabilities from dollars to pesos; and the need to arrive at equitable restructuring of utility tariffs to reestablish confidence of foreign direct investors in the rules of the game. Restructuring government debt is also central to restoring growth. A simple model indicates that a relatively ambitious target for the primary fiscal surplus and a restricted set of senior-status debt will be needed to limit the haircut on junior debt to amounts compatible with longer-term creditor perceptions of fairness. The author also considers the new dynamics of bargaining with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He judges that although conditionality is arguably appropriately less stringent as only rollover is involved, and despite the large outstanding debt to the IMF, there are limits to how lenient the Fund can and should be in key areas with potential for setting international precedents.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Stabilization
J.N. et al. v. Oregon Department of Education et al., United States District Court for the District of Oregon, Case No. 6:19-cv-00096-AA
No full textDavid Bateman, PhD, Jenifer Cline, MA CCC SLP, Sonja de Boer, PhD, BCBA-D, Stacey Gahagan, Esq.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 7, 2022).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
True and False Chirality, CP Violation, and the Breakdown of Microscopic Reversibility in Chiral Molecular and Elementary Particle Processes
No full textThe concept of chirality is extended to cover systems that exhibit enantiomorphism on account of motion. This is achieved by applying time reversal in addition to space inversion and leads to a more precise definition of a chiral system. Although spatial enantiomorphism is sufficient to guarantee chirality in a stationary system such as a finite helix, enantiomorphous systems are not necessarily chiral when motion is involved, which leads to the concept of true and false chirality associated with time‐invariant and time‐noninvariant enantiomorphism, respectively. Only a truly chiral influence can induce an enantiomeric excess in a reaction that has reached true thermodynamic equilibrium (i.e., when all possible interconversion pathways have equilibrated); however, false chirality can suffice in a reaction under kinetic control due to a breakdown of microscopic reversibility analogous to that observed in particle‐antiparticle processes involving the neutral K‐meason as a result of CP violation, with the apparently contradictory kinetic and thermodynamic aspects being reconciled by an appeal to unitarity. This reveals that CP violation is analogous to chemical catalysis since it affects the rates of certain particle‐antiparticle interconversion pathways without affecting the initial and final particle energies and hence the equilibrium thermodynamics. Consideration of falsely chiral influences, including the ‘ratchet effect’ arising from the associated breakdown in microscopic reversibility, greatly enlarges the range of possible chiral advantage factors in prebiotic chemical processes if far from equilibrium
Detecting Ultra High Energy Neutrinos by Upward Tau Airshowers and Gamma Flashes
No full textThe rarest cosmic rays above the GZK cut'off are probably born at cosmic distances ( tens Mpc) by AGNs (QSRs, BLac, Blazars...). Their puzzling survival over BBR radio waves opacities (the ``GZK cut off'') might find a natural explanation if the traveling primordial cosmic rays were UHE neutrinos (born by UHE photopion decay) which are transparent to or BBR. These UHE might scatter onto those (light and cosmological) relic neutrinos clustered around our galactic halo.
The branched chain reactions from a primordial nucleon (via photoproduction of pions and decay to UHE neutrinos) toward the consequent beam dump scattering on galactic relic neutrinos is at least three order of magnitude more efficient than any known neutrino interactions with Earth atmosphere or direct nucleon propagation. Therefore the rarest cosmic rays (as the 320 EeV event) might be originated at far distances (as Seyfert galaxy MCG 8-11-11). The needed UHE radiation power is in rough agreement with the NCG 8-11-11 observed in MeV gamma energy total output power. The final chain products observed on Earth by the Fly's Eye detector might be mainly neutron and antineutrons as well as, at later stages, protons and antiprotons. These hadronic products are most probably secondaries of or pair productions and might be consistent with the last AGASA discoveries of 6 doublet and one triplet event
Restoring Economic Growth in Argentina
No full textThe author reviews the debate on the
causes of Argentina�s economic collapse in late 2001 and
2002 and examines the measures needed to help restore
sustainable growth. Some analysts stress fiscal imbalances,
others overvaluation of the peso under the convertibility
plan, and others external shocks. Cline judges that all
three contributed substantially, but that it was their
inflammatory interaction with domestic political unraveling
that forced the bad-equilibrium outcome. He reviews the
nascent recovery since the second half of 2002 and the
important success of avoiding hyperinflation. Looking
forward, the author�s analysis underscores the importance of
strengthening fiscal performance, in part by increasing
relatively low collections of value added taxes. He stresses
the need for reform of the system of revenue sharing with
the provinces; the importance of strengthening the banking
system, which was severely weakened by asymmetric conversion
of assets and liabilities from dollars to pesos; and the
need to arrive at equitable restructuring of utility tariffs
to reestablish confidence of foreign direct investors in the
rules of the game. Restructuring government debt is also
central to restoring growth. A simple model indicates that a
relatively ambitious target for the primary fiscal surplus
and a restricted set of senior-status debt will be needed to
limit the haircut on junior debt to amounts compatible with
longer-term creditor perceptions of fairness. The author
also considers the new dynamics of bargaining with the
International Monetary Fund (IMF). He judges that although
conditionality is arguably appropriately less stringent as
only rollover is involved, and despite the large outstanding
debt to the IMF, there are limits to how lenient the Fund
can and should be in key areas with potential for setting
international precedents
A Palo Alto writer who should have lived in another time
No full textInformation on local detective story author Ed Cline. Review of author's Whisper the Gun
The High Cost of Cheap Fashion
No full textActing assistant dean for the School of Art and Design Sass Brown and journalist Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, will discuss how fast fashion affects not only the fashion industry but also the environment. They will also trace the development of cheap fashion, considering its ramifications and issues that have been raised by its emergence. Moderated by Ariele Elia and Emma McClendon. Presented by The Museum at FIT. March 27, 2014
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