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[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Developing risk and safety management methods for complex socio-technical systems: from Newtonian reasoning to Resilience Engineering
No full textThe nature of work in modern societies calls for a reconsideration of the notion of risk and safety. Technology terribly evolved to deal with fast-moving competitive systemic requirements. The subsequent dynamic interactions among technical, human, procedural and organizational aspects of work contribute to increase the inherent complexity of technological systems, which become symbiotically interrelated to human components.
This thesis adopts a design research perspective to develop methods for risk and safety management in complex socio-technical systems, abandoning the Newtonian notion of bimodality and individual failure, in favour of systemic and holistic analyses in line with Resilience Engineering. The research focuses on understanding how systems behave in an ever-changing hardly predictable work environment, not limiting the analysis to fragments of behaviour, i.e. errors. The thesis introduces a Newtonian-oriented method for assessing safety levels. The limitations of this method motivates the exploration of the concept of adaptation and resilience, and thus the field of Resilience Engineering. Combined with a literature review of the research field of Resilience Engineering, the thesis suggests two resilience-oriented methods. The first method adopts a holistic top-down perspective to propose a semi-quantitative framework for analysing systems’ resilient potential. The second method - oriented to local analysis of work domains - aims at exploring functional properties of a system through a multi-layer semi-quantitative framework in order to analyse inter-related patterns of events, rather than simple causal sequences. In sum, this thesis adds methodological contributions to the field of risk and safety management through structured analyses of socio-technical systems.
The thesis has a publication-based structure, including a design-oriented summary of the abstract artefacts developed, i.e. the methods, which have been extensively discussed in the appended eleven papers, all published in international peer-reviewed journals
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Transformationen des Kapitalismus: Festschrift für Wolfgang Streeck zum sechzigsten Geburtstag
No full textDie Entwicklung moderner Gesellschaften wird durch die Dynamik des Zusammenwirkens von Märkten und marktkorrigierenden Institutionen, von Wirtschaft und Politik bestimmt. Wirtschaftlicher Erfolg, soziale Ordnung, politische Stabilität hängen wesentlich von ihrem Zusammenspiel ab. Die Steuerung gesellschaftlicher Prozesse setzt daher ein Verstehen des Zusammenwirkens von offenen Märkten und sozialen Institutionen voraus. In diesem Band werden die Spannungen zwischen demokratischer Selbstbestimmung und wirtschaftlicher Eigendynamik analysiert anhand von Fragen wie: Bedroht die Globalisierung koordinierte Marktwirtschaften? Wie überlebensfähig ist das "Modell Deutschland"? Was sind die spezifischen Probleme konservativer Wohlfahrtsstaaten? Wie wandeln sich soziale Institutionen? Wie wandeln sich Staat-Verbände-Beziehungen? Wer zügelt den Kapitalismus?Vorwort Einleitung Glanz und Elend des »deutschen Modells«: Wolfgang Streeck zum sechzigsten Geburtstag Anke Hassel und Martin Höpner Teil I Der Wandel des deutschen Korporatismus Germany's Employment Problem in Comparative Perspective Lane Kenworthy Leistungs- und Innovationsprobleme konservativer Sozialstaaten mit koordinierten Marktwirtschaften Herbert Kitschelt Christliche Antworten auf geöffnete Märkte: Die Idee der betrieblichen Produktionsgemeinschaft in der Geschichte der deutschen Arbeitsbeziehungen Britta Rehder Verbände und Parteien: Die Dynamik von Parteikonflikten und die Erosion des Korporatismus Anke Hassel und Christine Trampusch Teil II Kapitalismusmodelle im Vergleich What Is the Future for Codetermination and Corporate Governance in Germany? Robert Boyer Diversity in Employment Patterns in North-West Europe: A Regional and Sectoral Approach Colin Crouch Stabilität und Wandel in den Spielarten des Kapitalismus Peter A. Hall Comparing Capitalisms through the Lens of Classical Sociological Theory Gregory Jackson Europäische Sozialmodelle à la carte: Gibt es institutionelle Wahlverwandtschaften zwischen Wohlfahrtsstaat und Arbeitsbeziehungen? Bernhard Ebbinghaus und Bernhard Kittel Teil III Internationalisierung und Europäisierung Mitbestimmung für die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft: Nützliche Lehren aus mehr als dreißig Jahren Seifenoper Arndt Sorge Beneficial constraints bei offenen Grenzen Fritz W. Scharpf A Prolegomenon to a Theory of Interest Politics Philippe C. Schmitter The Five Pillars of the European Social Model of Labor Relations Jelle Visser Elektorale Effekte negativer Integration? Die Europäische Gemeinschaft und die Europawahlen, 1979 bis 2004 Philip Manow Teil IV Institutioneller Wandel The Dynamics of American Science: An Institutional and Organizational Perspective on Major Discoveries J. Rogers Hollingsworth Systemkohärenz, institutionelle Komplementarität und institutioneller Wandel Renate Mayntz Institutionen und sozialer Wandel: Die Entwicklung der beruflichen Bildung in Deutschland Kathleen Thelen Wer zähmt den Kapitalismus? Jens Beckert Wolfgang Streeck - Wissenschaftliche Publikationen 1972 bis 200
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
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