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Normal Limits in Relation to Age, Body Size and Gender of Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Aortic Root Dimensions in Persons ≥15 Years of Age.
No full textTwo-Dimensional Echocardiographic Aortic Root Dimensions in Adolescents and Adults: Normal limits in Relation to Age, Body Size and Gender
No full textThe Political Economy of Textbook Writing: Paul Samuelson and the making of the first ten Editions of Economics (1945-1976)
No full textOver the past two decades, numerous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson’s political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics. This literature, however, has provided no consensus about the location of Samuelson’s political ideas. While some authors believe that Samuelson has always had inclinations toward interventionism, others conclude that he more often acted as a pro-business advocate. The purpose of this paper is not to argue for one of these two interpretations but to depict the making of Economics itself as a political process. By ‘political’ it is not meant the conduct of party politics but the many political elements that a textbook author has to take into account if he wants to be published and favorably received. I argue that the “middle of the road” stance that Samuelson adopted in the book was consciously constructed by the MIT economist, with the help of his home institution and his publishing company, McGraw-Hill, to ensure both academic freedom and the success of the book. The reason for which the stance developed is related to pre-McCarthyist right-wing criticisms of the textbook and how Samuelson and the MIT department had to endure the pressures from members of the Corporation (MIT’s Board of Trustees), who tried to prevent the publication of the textbook and threatened Samuelson’s tenure at MIT as soon as 1947 – when early manuscripts were circulated. As a result, it was decided in accordance with both the Corporation and McGraw-Hill that the Readings volume would be published to balance conflicting ideas about state intervention. Following these early criticisms, the making of the subsequent editions relied on a network of instructors and referees all over the US in order to make it as successful and consensual as possible. This seemed to work quite well in the 1950s and for a good portion of the 1960s, until Economics became victim of its own success and was seen, in an ironical twist of fate, as a right wing text by younger, radical economists. From now on, Samuelson will try to have his book sent as often as possible to the radicals for referring process, with mixed results. Eventually, the book became criticized from both its left and its right.Paul Samuelson, Economics, Textbook, Politics, Economic Education
A SECURE AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE FOR GLOBAL INFORMATION GRID USERS VIA COOPERATING SPACE ASSETS
No full textThe views expressed in this dissertation are those of the author and do not reflect th
La polémica entre Franz Boas y Konrad Th. Preuss en torno al análisis sistémico de la mitología kwakiutl. Antropología. Boletín Oficial del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Viejas y nuevas religiosidades. Num. 68 Nueva Época (2002) octubre-diciembre
No full textAlcocer, Paulina, “La magia en las palabras. Tylor, Preuss y Malinowski. El debate inconcluso entre animismo y preanimismo”, tesina de maestría en Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia, México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Iztapalapa, 2000.——, “Elementos humboldtianos en la teoría de la religión y de la magia de Konrad Theodor Preuss”, ponencia presentada en la XXVI Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Zacatecas, 2001.Berman, Judith, “’The Culture as It Appears to the Indian Himself: Boas, George Hunt, and the Methods of Ethnography”, en Volksgeist as Method and Ethic. Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (George W. Stocking, Jr., ed.), Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, pp. 215-256.Boas, Franz (ed.), Handbook of American Indian Languages, Bulletin 40, Washington, D. C., Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1911.——, “Review of G. W. Locher, The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion: A Study in Primitive Culture”, en Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 1933, pp. 1182-1186.——, “The Study of Geography”, en Race, Language and Culture, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1940 [1887], pp. 639-647.——, “The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology”, en Race, Language and Culture, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1940 [1896], pp. 270-280.——, “The Aims of Anthropological Research”, en Race, Language and Culture, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1940 [1932], pp. 243-259.
Bunzl, Matti, “Franz Boas and the Humboldtian Tradition: From Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an Anthropological Concept of Culture”, en Volksgeist as Method and Ethic. Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (George W. Stocking, Jr., ed.), Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, pp. 17-78.Cole, Douglas, Franz Boas. The Early Years, 1858-1906, Seattle y Londres, m University of Washington Press, 1999.Dascal, Marcelo, “Epistemología, controversias y pragmática”, en Isegoria, 12 (1995), pp. 8-43.——, “The Study of Controversies and the Theory and History of Science”, en Science in Context, 11, 2 (1998), pp. 147-154.Effert, F.R., J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong, Curator and Archeologist. A Study of his Early Career (1910-1935), Together with a Bibliography of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong (1886-1964) by F.R. Effert and H.F. Vermeulen, Leiden, Leiden University, Center of Non-Western Studies Publication, number 7, 1992.Furst, Peter T., “Introduction to chapter 4 [Konrad Theodor Preuss (1869-1938) on the Huichols]”, en Stacey B. Schaefer y Peter T. Furst (eds.), People of the peyote. Huichol indian history, religion and survival, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1996.Jonaitis, Aldona, A Wealth of Thought. Franz Boas on Native American Art, Seattle y Londres, University of Washington Press, 1995.Josselin de Jong, J.P.B. de, “The Malay Archipielago as a Field of Ethnological Study”, en Structural Anthropology in the Netherlands. A Reader, P.E.Josselin de Jong, editor, Leiden, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde, 1983 [1935]; pp. 166-182.Lévi-Strauss, Claude, “Historia y etnología”, en Antropología estructural, Barcelona, Ediciones Paidós, 1992 [1958], pp. 49-72.Lévi-Strauss, Claude y Didier Eribon, Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss, Chicago y Londres, The University of Chicago Press, 1991 [1988].Locher, Gottfred Wilhelm, The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion. A Study in Primitive Culture, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1932.——, “The Reactions of Franz Boas and Konrad Theodor Preuss to a Structural Interpretation of Kwakiutl Mythology in 1933”, en Symbolic Anthropology in the Netherlands, P. E. de Josseling de Jong y Erik Schwimmer (eds.), La Haya, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982.Neurath, Johannes y Jesús Jáuregui, “La expedición de Konrad Theodor Preuss al Nayarit (1905-1907) y su contribución a la mexicanística”, en Preuss, Konrad Theodor, Fiesta, literatura y magia en el Nayarit, México, Instituto Nacional Indigenista - Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos,1998, pp. 15-60.Preuss, Konrad Th., “Der Kampf der Sonne mit den Sternen in Mexiko”, en Globus. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde, Brunswick, 87, 19 (1905), pp. 333-337.——, Die Nayarit-Expedition. Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter mexikanischen Indianern 1. Die Religion der Cora-Indianer in Texten nebst Wörterbuch Cora-Deutsch, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1912, pp. CVII + 396.——, Die geisitige Kultur der Naturvölker, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner (Aus Natur und Geisteswelt, Sammlung wissenschaftlich-gemeinverständlicher Darstellungen, 452), 1914.——, Die religiöse Gehalt der Mythen, Tübingen, J. B. Mohr, (Sammlung gemeinverständlicher Vorträge und Schriften aus den Gebieten der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft, 162), 1933——, “G. W. Locher, The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion. A Study in Primitive Culture, Leyden, 1932”, en Sociologus. Zeitschrift fürVölkerpsychologie und Sociologie, 9, Stuttgart, 1933, pp. 348- 351.——, Fiesta, literatura y magia en el Nayarit. Ensayos sobre coras, huicholes y mexicaneros de Konrad Theodor Preuss (Jesús Jáuregui y Johannes Neurath, comps.), México, Instituto Nacional Indigenista–Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos,1998.——, “Die Religion”, en Preuss, Konrad Th. y Richard Thurnwald (comps.), Lehrbuch der Völkerkunde, Stuttgart, Verlag Ferdinand Enke, 1939 [1937], pp. 57-123.Seler, Eduard, “Die Lichtbringer bei den Indianerstämmen der Nordwestküste”, Gesammelte Abhandlungen V, Berlín, Behrend & Co., 1915 [1892], pp. 9-43.Stocking, George W., Jr., “Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition” en Volksgeist as Method and Ethic. Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (George W.Stocking, Jr., ed.), Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, pp. 3-8
Reforming finance in transitional socialist economies : avoiding the path from shell money to shell games
No full textIn the late 1980s, transitional socialist economies (TSEs) in Central and Eastern Europe were only somewhat more sophisticated than shell money systems: savings books or currency had to be used for most transactions and there was no risk assessment, information monitoring and acquisition, or portfolio management. The TSEs have moved toward a two-tiered banking system but they lag in the development of competitive, market-based financial systems. In several TSEs the financial system seems to be part of a shell game to hide the losses of the real economy. The authors argue that rapid, successful economic reform requires putting the shell game to an end. They review several contentious issues of financial reform in the TSEs, especially issues involving macrofinance, corporate finance, the internal debt problems, and the need to build efficient banks. The authors contend that the banks should be"cleaned up"when they are privatized, to prevent the quick reemergence of debt problems. They believe that either of the proposed alternatives for shaping financial systems in the TSEs - very highly capitalized banking or narrow banking - would minimize the need for future support. Either alternative would reduce leverage in the TSEs and provide more financial stability. But taking concerns about moral hazard to an extreme - prohibiting debt finance - could starve new firms for credit and limit economic growth.Economic Theory&Research,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation
Bulletin BiblioDem 2024-21-08
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First observation of Bs → J/ψf0(980) decays
No full textUsing data collected with the LHCb detector in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, the hadronic decay is observed. This CP eigenstate mode could be used to measure mixing-induced CP violation in the system. Using a fit to the π+π− mass spectrum with interfering resonances gives . In the interval ±90 MeV around 980 MeV, corresponding to approximately two full f0 widths we also find , where in both cases the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively
Formation of Methane versus Benzene in the Reactions of (C5Me5)(2)Th(CH3)(2) with [CH3PPh3]X (X=Cl, Br, I) Yielding Thorium-Carbene or Thorium-Ylide Complexes
No full textbibtex: ISI:000412189700021 bibtex\location:'POSTFACH 101161, 69451 WEINHEIM, GERMANY',publisher:'WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH',type:'Article',affiliation:'Walensky, JR (Reprint Author), Univ Missouri, Dept Chem, Columbia, MO 65211 USA. Maron, L (Reprint Author), Univ Toulouse, 135 Ave Rangueil, F-31077 Toulouse, France. Maron, L (Reprint Author), LPCNO, CNRS, INSA, UPS,UMR,UMR 5215, 135 Ave Rangueil, F-31077 Toulouse, France. Rungthanaphatsophon, Pokpong; Bathelier, Adrien; Barnes, Charles L.; Walensky, Justin R., Univ Missouri, Dept Chem, Columbia, MO 65211 USA. Bathelier, Adrien; Castro, Ludovic; Maron, Laurent, Univ Toulouse, 135 Ave Rangueil, F-31077 Toulouse, France. Bathelier, Adrien; Castro, Ludovic; Maron, Laurent, LPCNO, CNRS, INSA, UPS,UMR,UMR 5215, 135 Ave Rangueil, F-31077 Toulouse, France.','author-email':'[email protected] [email protected]',da:'2018-12-05','doc-delivery-number':'FI7PR',eissn:'1521-3773','funding-acknowledgement':'U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Early Career Research Program [DE-SC-0014174]; Humboldt Foundation; Chinese Academy of Science; CalMip','funding-text':'J.R.W. gratefully acknowledges support for this work from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Early Career Research Program under Award Number DE-SC-0014174. L.M. is member of the Instiut Universitaire de France. The Humboldt Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Science and CalMip is acknowledged for either financial support or computing time.','journal-iso':'Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit.','keywords-plus':'CARBON MULTIPLE BOND; MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE; METALLA-ALLENES; URANIUM COMPLEX; TRANS-INFLUENCE; U-IV=C; REACTIVITY; LIGAND; CHEMISTRY; PH2PNSIME3','number-of-cited-references':'42',oa:'Bronze','orcid-numbers':'Walensky, Justin/0000-0003-0221-2675','research-areas':'Chemistry','times-cited':'5','unique-id':'ISI:000412189700021','usage-count-last-180-days':'0','usage-count-since-2013':'9','web-of-science-categories':'Chemistry, Multidisciplinary'\International audienceThe reaction of (C5Me5)(2)Th(CH3)(2) with the phosphonium salts [CH3PPh3]X (X=Cl, Br, I) was investigated. When X=Br and I, two equivalents of methane are liberated to afford (C5Me5)(2)Th[CHPPh3]X, rare terminal phosphorano-stabilized carbenes with thorium. These complexes feature the shortest thorium-carbon bonds (approximate to 2.30 angstrom) reported to date, and electronic structure calculations show some degree of multiple bonding. However, when X = Cl, only one equivalent of methane is lost with concomitant formation of benzene from an unstable phosphorus(V) intermediate, yielding (C5Me5)(2)Th[kappa(2)-(C,C')-(CH2)(CH2)PPh2]Cl. Density functional theory (DFT) investigations of the reaction energy profiles for [CH3PPh3]X, X = Cl and I showed that in the case of iodide, thermodynamics prevents the production of benzene and favors formation of the carbene
Scalar soliton quantization with generic moduli
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any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credArticle funded by SCOAP3. CP is
a Royal Society Research Fellow and partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
under grants DOE-SC0010008, DOE-ARRA-SC0003883 and DOE-DE-SC0007897. ABR
is supported by the Mitchell Family Foundation. We would like to thank the Mitchell
Institute at Texas A&M and the NHETC at Rutgers University respectively for hospitality
during the course of this work. We would also like to acknowledge the Aspen Center
for Physics and NSF grant 1066293 for a stimulating research environment which led to
questions addressed in this paper
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