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Competition policy. by Brian Ellis
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tag=10 data=Examines the Government's National Competition Policy in relation to encouraging R&D, and the corporisation of public services and utilites. The author is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe UNiversity and Vice-President of the Rationalist Society of Australia. Article Taken from What's New.
tag=13 data=CABExamines the Government's National Competition Policy in relation to encouraging R&D, and the corporisation of public services and utilites. The author is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe UNiversity and Vice-President of the Rationalist Society of Australia. Article Taken from What's New
Interview with Monty Alexander and Herb Ellis / interviewed by Felix Grant, June 3, 1981
No full textMonty Alexander and Herb Ellis discuss their careers with interviewer and radio host Felix Grant. Alexander and Ellis are featured on excerpts from recordings selected by Grant.Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-09T17:33:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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manifest.xml: 3435 bytes, checksum: 7a34548eeb27a12344f633bac978bec0 (MD5)Sister Sadie / H. Silver (02:57-06:59) -- Captain Bill / M. Alexander, R. Brown, H. Ellis (17:13-20:18) -- Limehouse blues / P. Braham, D. Furber (23:56-27:18)Monty Alexander and Herb Ellis interviewed by Felix Grant on WMAL. Recorded June 3, 1981. Reproduction of radio interview produced at Washington, D.C. Station WMAL for broadcast on The Album Sound. Forms part of the Felix Grant Collection at the Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives. Original format: 1 sound tape reel (28 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips., full track mono; 7 in
What Determines Overseas R&D Activities? The Case of Japanese Multinational Firms
No full textThis paper explores what factors determine the nature, extent, and location of Japanese multinationals' R&D activities abroad. Taking advantage of a rich micro-level dataset from the survey on Japanese overseas subsidiaries, the study distinguishes between two types of overseas R&D: innovative and adaptive. We find several differences between the determinants of overseas innovative and adaptive R&D. These differences confirm the view that overseas innovative R&D aims at the exploitation of foreign advanced knowledge, whereas overseas adaptive R&D is mostly influenced by the market size of the host country. Our results provide a convincing and comprehensive explanation of the geographical distribution of overseas R&D by Japanese MNEs.
Product Market Competition, R&D Effort and Economic Growth
No full textEmpirical evidence has recently pointed to the lack of any relationship between R&D intensity (variously defined and measured) and economic growth in the post-war period in the United States and other OECD countries. Using a framework that integrates human capital accumulation and purposive (horizontal) innovation activity, this paper looks at product market competition as a possible solution to this puzzle. Indeed, we find that changes in product market competition may well have no influence on human capital investment (the growth engine), while affecting R&D effort.Endogenous Growth; R&D Investment; Human Capital Accumulation; Product Market Competition
Interview with Richard Ellis
No full textInterview in eight sessions (January–February 2014) with Steele Professor of Astronomy Richard Ellis, whose life has taken him from a small coastal town in Wales to the edge of the universe. He recounts that trajectory in this oral history, starting with his upbringing and education in Wales and his youthful enthusiasm for astronomy, which he pursued through studies at University College London (B.Sc. 1971) and Oxford University (D.Phil. 1974). Having the good fortune to begin his career at the dawn of the “golden era” of British astronomy, he describes his years on the faculty of the University of Durham, where he worked with physics department head and future UK Astronomer Royal A. Wolfendale to develop the “Durham group” into an internationally recognized astronomy program. He talks about his work at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, his galactic and extragalactic studies carried out at British observatories and elsewhere, most notably the Anglo-Australian Telescope, and his involvement in mapping the future of British astronomy.
In 1993, he became the Plumian Professor at the University of Cambridge and director of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, and in 1999 he joined the faculty of Caltech, where he served as director of Palomar Observatory/Caltech Optical Observatories (2000–05), carried out pioneering observations at the W. M. Keck Observatories and Hubble Space Telescope, and was centrally involved in still-ongoing efforts to build the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
Ellis details his years of research in observational cosmology, probing galactic evolution and distribution at ever-higher redshifts, and his work on gravitational lensing and dark matter, the cosmic “dark ages” and cosmic dawn, and the pursuit of the most distant objects in the universe. He recalls his role in the 1987 discovery of the first cosmologically distant supernova and subsequent involvement in the supernova cosmology project, an investigation that won the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for three of its principal scientists. He talks about his collaborations and interactions with numerous colleagues and students, including D. Axon, R. Blandford, A. Boksenberg, G. Efstathiou, D. Lynden-Bell, J. Peebles, M. Rees, W. Sargent, D. Saxon, B. Tinsley, and T. Tombrello, and shares his perspectives on the science and sociology of the astrophysical communities in Great Britain and the United States. Recaps of his election to the UK Royal Society and his designation as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE)—the latter formalized at a Buckingham Palace reception with HRH Prince Charles—also form part of this oral history.
Note: Occasional allusions in this manuscript to a Royal Society memoir or biography refer to an autobiography that Ellis was asked to prepare for the Royal Society at the time he was elected a Fellow in 1995. A copy of the bio is appended to this oral history
An Interview Regarding Enactivism
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Ralph D. Ellis interviewed by Samuel Maruszewski / Ralph D. Ellis, one of the strongest advocates of the enactivist approach to consciousness and cognitive theory, began his academic career as a phenomenologist, earning the Ph.D. at Duquesne University under Andre Schuwer, John Sallis and Amedeo Giorgi, and has taught at Clark Atlanta University since 1985. He subsequently received a post-doctoral M.S. in Public Affairs at Georgia State University, and worked also as a social worker in both Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Partly as a result of those experiences, as well as being a life-long practitioner of Gene Gendlin’s focusing method, he gravitated toward emotion research and the intersection of philosophy, psychology and the brain sciences from the enactivist perspective, arguing that action, as opposed to mere reaction, has to be emotionally motivated, and that the understanding of all modalities of consciousness should include that perspective. The author of many books and articles on these topics, he is interested in integrating the social sciences with phenomenology, ethics, and philosophy of mind. He is now trying to integrate enactive consciousness theory with moral and social philosophy, with relevance to our current world-wide crisis of internet disinformation. The Moral Psychology of Internal Conflict (Cambridge University Press 2018) is an attempted beginning in that direction. His latest book, Action, Embodied Mind, and Life-World (SUNY Press 2022) is a continuation of that project. His various books in these areas are listed at the Ralph D. Ellis page of Amazon.com
Loss of groudwater resources following major quarrying activiy in urban areas: the Galeria-Magliana quarry basin (Rome, Italy)
No full textI this paper we present the results of a study aimed to define the environmental impacts of quarry activities in the suburban belt of Rome. The hydrological and hydrogeological modificatios induced by the quarry activities rceive particular attention and can be summarized as: (a) disruptive groundwater lowering as a result of quarrying activity below groundwater level; (b) dewatering of parts of the area as a consequence of quarry site back-filling with low permeability materials, morphological alteration and soil degradation, with consequent loss of environmental structure in large parts of the area; and (c) river system alteration or its complete distruption as a result of dispersed and unplanned site development. The study has been developed through a multidisciplinary approach using sedimentological, geomorphological and hydrogeological methods
The Gravity of R&D FDIs.
No full textThe negative effect of distance is justified by the existence of transport costs which hamper the international exchange of final and intermediate goods, and by higher uncertainty about local markets. We submit that distance plays a remarkably different role in the case of R&D FDIs since they mainly involve the international transfer, absorption and use of knowledge. Using data on bilateral investment projects in R&D, manufacturing and other business activities between 58 countries, we find that geographic distance does not hinder R&D FDIs as much as in the case of production and other investment activities. Furthermore, once we control for institutional and psychic distance, in particular language and religious differences, the negative effect of geographic distance vanishes.Multinational Firms, International Business, Technological Change, Choices and Consequences, Diffusion Processes.
Affect, Albert Ellis, and Rational-Emotive Therapy
No full textThe theme is advanced that affect is an integral component of the Rational-Emotive Therapy model. The affective aspect of the model is reviewed in terms of theoretical constructs and therapeutic techniques. Several references to author-observed interactions of Albert Ellis are made and the life-style of Albert Ellis is described to permit inferences regarding the role of affect.Le thème mis en avant dans cette étude est que le domaine affectif est une partie composante du modèle de la Thérapie Rationnelle-Emotive. L\u27auteur examine l\u27aspect affect if du modèle en ce qui concerne les concepts théoriques et les techniques thérapeutiques. Plusieurs références aux interactions d\u27Albert Ellis observées par l\u27auteur sont faites et la manière de vivre d\u27Albert Ellis est décrite afin de permettre des inferences concernant le rôle de l\u27affection
Microstructural Analysis From X-Ray CT Images of the Brae Formation Sandstone, North Sea
No full textDuring deposition and subsequent diagenesis, reservoir rocks develop sediment texture and cement phases are formed during the precipitation of secondary minerals such as microcrystalline quartz, calcite and clay fibrous over-growths that contain secondary porosity. The grain size distribution and presence of secondary microporous material can influence the reservoir porosity and permeability. Using 3D X-ray microtomographic images we analyze the grains and pore space in Brae Formation sandstones from the South Viking Graben in the North Sea. The samples—derived from two cored wells (16/7b-20 and 16/7b-23), and located within the depth interval between 4,040 m and 4,064 m—display mean grain sizes between 315 and 524 microns (1.78–1.05 φ units), classifying them as predominantly medium-grained sands, with moderate to well-sorting (0.51–0.7 φ units). From our models we calculate the upper and lower bounds of the micropores on the pore connectivity and permeability. Our samples show total porosities between 10 and 18% of which 6 and 13% are effective, leading to a permeability range between 1 and 400 mD through the effective macropore network. We found that the fraction of effective porosity and effective permeability shows a non-linear reduction with increase in microporous cement volume fraction. Above a threshold cement volume of approximately 5.5% the effective pore network is disconnected and percolation is no longer possible. Based on our observations and modeling results we propose that cement precipitation can be a positive consequence of mineral trapping from sequestered CO2, which can be important for reducing reservoir quality and ensuring efficient long term storage
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