123 research outputs found
Out-of-hospital adult cardiac arrests in a university hospital in central Saudi Arabia
No full textBatt, AM ORCiD: 0000-0001-6473-5397Letter to the editor and response from the author
Noting the notae in Jesus College, Oxford, MS 39
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brepols via the DOI in this record
Explaining Wage Inequality in Telecommunications Services: Customer Segmentation, Human Resource Practices, and Union Decline
No full textThis study examines factors related to within-occupation wage inequality among service and sales workers in the telecommunications industry. The author draws on a 1998 survey of a nationally representative sample of 354 service and sales centers in the industry to examine the importance of management practices and union institutions in shaping wage variation. The results strongly indicate that business strategies of customer segmentation and human resource practices explain variation in wages over and above that explained by the human capital of the work force. In addition, despite extensive deregulation and de-unionization of the industry, the union wage premium is 22%
06161 Working Groups' Report: The Challlenge of Combining Simulation and Verification
No full textSimulation has found widespread use for experimentation and exploration
of the possible impacts of a variety of conditions on a system. In contrast,
formal verification is concerned with proving or disproving the correctness of
a system with respect to a certain property, using mathematical and logical
methods
Diversity in thermal affinity among key piscivores buffersimpacts of ocean warming on predator–prey interactions
No full textAsymmetries in responses to climate change have the potential to alter importantpredator–prey interactions, in part by altering the location and size of spatial refugiafor prey. We evaluated the effect of ocean warming on interactions between fourimportant piscivores and four of their prey in the U.S. Northeast Shelf by examiningspecies overlap under historical conditions (1968–2014) and with a doubling in CO2.Because both predator and prey shift their distributions in response to changingocean conditions, the net impact of warming or cooling on predator–prey interac-tions was not determined a priori from the range extent of either predator or preyalone. For Atlantic cod, an historically dominant piscivore in the region, we foundthat both historical and future warming led to a decline in the proportion of preyspecies’ range it occupied and caused a potential reduction in its ability to exerttop-down control on these prey. In contrast, the potential for overlap of spiny dog-fish with prey species was enhanced by warming, expanding their importance aspredators in this system. In sum, the decline in the ecological role for cod thatbegan with overfishing in this ecosystem will likely be exacerbated by warming, butthis loss may be counteracted by the rise in dominance of other piscivores withcontrasting thermal preferences. Functional diversity in thermal affinity within thepiscivore guild may therefore buffer against the impact of warming on marineecosystems, suggesting a novel mechanism by which diversity confers resilience.Peer reviewe
Marine assemblages respond rapidly to winter climate variability
No full textEven species within the same assemblage have varied responses to climate change, and there is a poor understanding for why some taxa are more sensitive to climate than others. In addition, multiple mechanisms can drive species’ responses, and responses may be specific to certain life stages or times of year. To test how marine species respond to climate variability, we analyzed 73 diverse taxa off the southeast US coast in 26 years of scientific trawl survey data and determined how changes in distribution and biomass relate to temperature. We found that winter temperatures were particularly useful for explaining interannual variation in species’ distribution and biomass, although the direction and magnitude of the response varied among species from strongly negative, to little response, to strongly positive. Across species, the response to winter temperature varied greatly, with much of this variation being explained by thermal preference. A separate analysis of annual commercial fishery landings revealed that winter temperatures may also impact several important fisheries in the southeast United States. Based on the life stages of the species surveyed, winter temperature appears to act through overwinter mortality of juveniles or as a cue for migration timing. We predict that this assemblage will be responsive to projected increases in temperature and that winter temperature may be broadly important for species relationships with climate on a global scale.Peer reviewe
Letter from Setsuo Horita to Toshiko Horita
No full textA letter from Setsuo Horita to his sister, Toshiko Horita. He recounts receiving a baseball batt and ball from their father, Chitoshi, as well as going to Japanese school.The Horita Family Papers (1940-2010, undated) collection contains documents from the Horita family, a Japanese American family from the Los Angeles area. The collection focuses on married couple Chitoshi "Harry" Horita (1896-1990) and Marue Nakashima Horita (1901-1982) and their extended family and includes records of the family's incarceration at the Poston (Colorado River) incarceration camp, research into the family's history, photographs, and correspondence
The Fear of Excess: An Intellectual History of Paper Money in the Eighteenth-Century Britain
No full textPaper money occupied a deeply ambivalent place in works of British monetary writers in the eighteenth century. On the one hand, wrote Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, paper money’s ability to represent wealth in exchange without itself containing any intrinsic value was an unparalleled benefit to commerce and industry. On the other hand, having disburdened itself of any intrinsically valuable commodity, the abstract monetary sign of paper money would give rise to a fear of excess, a fear that in essence there was nothing which could limit its growth. In this paper, I will discuss the concept of paper money as it took shape in the writings of eighteenth-century monetary writers as an abstract monetary sign, introducing the idea of general economy of notes to help explore the ambivalent place occupied by paper money. What will become clear is the special role played by what I call the virtual character of paper money in giving rise to its ambivalent place within eighteenth-century discourse. For it was paper money’s virtual character which was the reason it could be so beneficial to commerce and industry while at the same time constantly threatening to explode into excess.
Keywords: Excess, Paper Money, Bataille, History of Economic Thought, History of Mone
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