Dilepton Production at Fermilab and RHIC

Some recent results from several fixed-target dimuon production experiments at Fermilab are presented. In particular, we discuss the use of Drell-Yan data to determine the flavor structure of the nucleon sea, as well as to deduce the energy-loss of partons traversing nuclear medium. Future dilepton experiments at RHIC could shed more light on the flavor asymmetry and possible charge-symmetry-violation of the nucleon sea. Clear evidence for scaling violation in the Drell-Yan process could also be revealed at RHIC.Comment: 5 pages, talk presented at the RIKEN-BNL Workshop on 'Hard Parton Physics in Nucleus-Nucleus collisions, March 199

Ending shareholder monopoly: why workers’ votes promote good corporate governance

A consensus is emerging that votes at work promote good corporate governance, argues Ewan McGaughey. Here he outlines behavioural, qualitative and quantitative evidence, and explains that votes at work in Britain have among the longest, richest histories in the world

The codetermination bargains: the history of German corporate and labour law

Why does codetermination exist in Germany? Law and economics theories have contended that if there were no legal compulsion, worker participation in corporate governance would be ‘virtually nonexistent’. This positive analysis, which flows from the ‘nexus of contracts’ conception of the corporation, supports a normative argument that codetermination is inefficient because it is supposed that it will seldom happen voluntarily. After discussing competing conceptions of the corporation, as a ‘thing in itself’, and as an ‘institution’, this article explores the development of German codetermination from the mid-19th century to the present. It finds the inefficiency argument sits at odds with the historical evidence. In its very inception, the right of workers to vote for a company board of directors, or in work councils with a voice in dismissals, came from collective agreements. It was not compelled by law, but was collectively bargained between business and labour representatives. These ‘codetermination bargains’ were widespread. Laws then codified these models. This was true at the foundation of the Weimar Republic from 1918 to 1922 and, after abolition in 1933, again from 1945 to 1951. The foundational codetermination bargains were made because of two ‘Goldilocks’ conditions (conditions that were ‘just right’) which were not always seen in countries like the UK or US. First, inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers was temporarily less pronounced. Second, the trade union movement became united in the objective of seeking worker voice in corporate governance. As the practice of codetermination has been embraced by a majority of EU countries, and continues to spread, it is important to have an accurate positive narrative of codetermination’s economic and political foundations

Churches of Christ Salute You with a Herald of Truth

HoT Sermon #023 - The New Testament Churc

Development of a generic multi-analyte optical sensor platform for fluorescence-based sensing

This work describes the development of two advanced sensor platforms based on different spectroscopic techniques. The first, and the primary focus of this work, is an enhanced generic multi-analyte sensor platform for fluorescence-based sensors and the second is an absorbance-based portable sensor for the detection of nitrates in groundwater. A generic multi-analyte sensor platform can be applied to a broad range of areas such as food packaging and blood gas analysis. A multi-analyte optical sensor platform for enhanced capture of fluorescence was modelled, designed and fabricated. The sensor platform was developed using a range of microfabrication techniques. Films sensitive to oxygen, relative humidity and carbon dioxide respectively were developed for the context of indoor air-quality monitoring. Deposition methods for printing the sensor solutions onto the sensor platforms were also investigated. The sensor films and platforms were integrated into a working sensor chip with both a fluorescence intensity and phase fluorometric detection system. An absorbance-based portable sensor for the detection of nitrates in groundwater was also developed. This was based on the direct absorbance of UV-light by the nitrate ion. Other contaminants, which could be found in groundwater and interfere with the nitrate detection, such as humic acid and chlorides, were investigated and compensated for

Pension strike: university staff are getting a 'die quickly' pension plan. It won't work.

What is at stake in the ongoing university strikes? To answer this question, Ewan McGaughey explains how the pension system works, who governs it, and their conflicts of interest. He argues that there is a need to rebuild the university and pension governance system so that it is more democratic and just. Otherwise the same issues will keep returning