Russian Roulette- Expenditure Inequality and Instability in Russia, 1994-1998

This paper uses the second phase of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to investigate the changes in expenditure inequality and instability in Russia between the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1998. The expenditure distribution is stable in spite of the economic and political turmoil Russia is going through. However, that does not imply much economic stability. Households' expenditure fluctuated considerably, with over 60 percent of the population's expenditure either more than doubling or falling to less than half their previous levels. Only about 10 percent of all households experienced an expenditure shock of less than 10 percent. The measured level of expenditure mobility is very high. This raises the question whether the observed mobility is in fact the expenditure instability. Distinguishing between the two is crucial for policy makers. While the mobility is often viewed as favorable, the high instability may affect the incentives of Russians to support the economic reforms, acquire human capital, and undertake entrepreneurial activities.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39742/3/wp358.pd

Marlon Brando. The Conceptualization of Tennessee Williams’ characters

La figura de Marlon Brando dentro de la historia del cine universal, supone un referente global sobre determinados personajes icónicos. Brando se convirtió en el símbolo del personaje y transgresor y maldito, como se puede observar en la mayoría de su filmografía. Ese tipo de personajes cuentan con un referente en la obra teatral de Tenessee Williams. Brando obtuvo uno de sus primeros éxitos, justo al inicio de su carrera, en la película Un tranvía llamado deseo, inspirada en la obra homónima de Williams. A partir de ese momento el actor conceptualizó, dio forma y expresión a esos seres malditos y transgresores de la obra williamsiana, que ya nunca abandonó y que reflejó en muchas de sus posteriores intervenciones fílmicas como La jauría humana (1966) o Apocalipse Now (1979).The figure of Marlon Brando in the history of the universal film, is a benchmark global envelope certain iconic characters. Brando became the symbol of the character and transgressor and cursed, as seen in the majority of his filmography. This type of characters have a reference in the play by Tennessee Williams. Brando was one of their early hits right at the beginning of his career in the film A streetcar named desire, inspired by the eponymous Williams work. From is currently the actor conceptualised, form and expression gave those cursed and transgressors beings work wiliansiana, already neck left and reflected in many of his later film interventions such as The Chase (1966) or Apocalipse Now (1979)

Softness and Amplitudes' Positivity for Spinning Particles

We derive positivity bounds for scattering amplitudes of particles with arbitrary spin using unitarity, analyticity and crossing symmetry. The bounds imply the positivity of certain low-energy coefficients of the effective action that controls the dynamics of the light degrees of freedom. We show that low-energy amplitudes strictly softer than $O(p^4)$ do not admit unitary ultraviolet completions unless the theory is free. This enforces a bound on the energy growth of scattering amplitudes in the region of validity of the effective theory. We discuss explicit examples including the Goldstino from spontaneous supersymmetry breaking, and the theory of a spin-1/2 fermion with a shift symmetry.Comment: 28 pages + refs and 3 appendices, 2 figures; v2: extra refs, improved discussions, typos fixed, accepted on JHE

Marlon Brando. La conceptualización de los personajes de Tennessee Williams

The figure of Marlon Brando in the history of the universal film, is a benchmark global envelope certain iconic characters. Brando became the symbol of the character and transgressor and cursed, as seen in the majority of his filmography. This type of characters have a reference in the play by Tennessee Williams. Brando was one of their early hits right at the beginning of his career in the film A streetcar named desire, inspired by the eponymous Williams work. From is currently the actor conceptualised, form and expression gave those cursed and transgressors beings work wiliansiana, already neck left and reflected in many of his later film interventions such as The Chase (1966) or Apocalipse Now (1979).La figura de Marlon Brando dentro de la historia del cine universal, supone un referente global sobre determinados personajes icónicos. Brando se convirtió en el símbolo del personaje y transgresor y maldito, como se puede observar en la mayoría de su filmografía. Ese tipo de personajes cuentan con un referente en la obra teatral de Tenessee Williams. Brando obtuvo uno de sus primeros éxitos, justo al inicio de su carrera, en la película Un tranvía llamado deseo, inspirada en la obra homónima de Williams. A partir de ese momento el actor conceptualizó, dio forma y expresión a esos seres malditos y transgresores de la obra williamsiana, que ya nuca abandonó y que reflejó en muchas de sus posteriores intervenciones fílmicas como La jauría humana (1966) o Apocalipse Now (1979)

Three Cheers for You, Mr. Brando: A Dramatistic Analysis of \u3cem\u3eListen to Me Marlon\u3c/em\u3e

This study focuses on actor and activist Marlon Brando and his attempts to deal with fame. His career spanned over fifty years. Over that time the media loved and hated him. Brando saw both sides of fame and loathed the way it threatened his privacy. Through a dramatistic analysis of the documentary Listen to Me Marlon, this study explores Brando’s feelings about and dealings with fame and fan expectations. The paper upon which this poster is based was written for the Senior Seminar course in Communication Arts. The paper was competitively selected for presentation at the Northwest Communication Association Conference in April 2018

I meccanismi del potere. Queimada

La genesi di Queimada, le suggestioni del ’68 e la parziale delusione di Pontecorvo di fronte ad alcune premesse in parte frustrate. La necessità di coniugare la narrazione al passato per parlare del presente. Ancora uno sguardo sul colonialismo. La contrapposizione tra i personaggi di William Walker di José Dolores, e tra i rispettivi interpreti: la preparazione accademica di Marlon Brando contro l’istintivo naturalismo di Evaristo Márquez. Il discorso sulla rappresentazione e sulla messa in scena, metaforizzato dalla duplice dicotomia Walker/Dolores e Brando/Márquez. Problemi distributivi con la United Artists. Un’accoglienza critica controversa e una tardiva rivalutazione

2017-2018 BIC Teaching Guide

Teaching guide for the 2017-2018 Book-in-Common: Take this Man: A Memoir, by Brando Skyhorse

Composite Higgses

We present an overview of composite Higgs models in light of the discovery of the Higgs boson. The small value of the physical Higgs mass suggests that the Higgs quartic is likely loop generated, thus models with tree-level quartics will generically be more tuned. We classify the various models (including bona fide composite Higgs, little Higgs, holographic composite Higgs, twin Higgs and dilatonic Higgs) based on their predictions for the Higgs potential, review the basic ingredients of each of them, and quantify the amount of tuning needed, which is not negligible in any model. We explain the main ideas for generating flavor structure and the main mechanisms for protecting against large flavor violating effects, and present a summary of the various coset models that can result in realistic pseudo-Goldstone Higgses. We review the current experimental status of such models by discussing the electroweak precision, flavor and direct search bounds, and comment on UV completions and on ways to incorporate dark matter.Comment: 58 Pages, 5 Figures, 5 Tables. Invited review article accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal

The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia.

Wildfires, exacerbated by extreme weather events and land use, threaten to change the Amazon from a net carbon sink to a net carbon source. Here, we develop and apply a coupled ecosystem-fire model to quantify how greenhouse gas-driven drying and warming would affect wildfires and associated CO2 emissions in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Regional climate projections suggest that Amazon fire regimes will intensify under both low- and high-emission scenarios. Our results indicate that projected climatic changes will double the area burned by wildfires, affecting up to 16% of the region's forests by 2050. Although these fires could emit as much as 17.0 Pg of CO2 equivalent to the atmosphere, avoiding new deforestation could cut total net fire emissions in half and help prevent fires from escaping into protected areas and indigenous lands. Aggressive efforts to eliminate ignition sources and suppress wildfires will be critical to conserve southern Amazon forests