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Future Facilities Summary
For the session on future facilities at DIS09 discussions were organized on
DIS related measurements that can be expected in the near and medium - or
perhaps far - future, including plans from JLab, CERN and FNAL fixed target
experiments, possible measurements and detector upgrades at RHIC, as well as
the plans for possible future electron proton/ion colliders such as the EIC and
the LHeC project.Comment: Summary of the parallel sessions on future facilities and the plenary
discussion session on possible future electron proton/ion colliders such as
the EIC and the LHeC project at the Deep Inelastic Scattering workshop in
Madrid, April 200
Studying the Higgs Sector at the CLIC Multi-TeV Collider
In this paper, we review the role of a multi-TeV linear collider to
complete the mapping of the Higgs boson profile and studying heavier bosons in
extended scenarios with more than one Higgs doublet.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, to appear on the Proceedings of the Int. Workshop
on Linear Colliders, LCWS2002, Jeju Island (Korea
g_1 at low x and low Q^2 with Polarized ep Colliders
Measurements of g_1 at low x and low Q^2 are expected to provide a sensitive
probe of the transition from Regge to perturbative QCD dynamics, offering a new
testing ground for models of small x physics. We discuss the potential of
polarized ep colliders (Polarized HERA and eRHIC) to investigate this physics
--- varying Q^2 between 0.01 and 1 GeV^2 --- and to constrain the high-energy
part of the Drell-Hearn-Gerasimov sum-rule for polarized photoproduction.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figure
A Role for the prefrontal cortex in supporting singular demonstrative reference
One of the most pressing questions concerning singular demonstrative mental contents is what makes their content singular: that is to say, what makes it the case that individual objects are the representata of these mental states. Many philosophers have required sophisticated intellectual capacities for singular content to be possible, such as the possession of an elaborate scheme of space and time. A more recent reaction to this strategy proposes to account for singular content solely on the basis of empirical models of visual processing. We believe both sides make good points, and offer an intermediate way of looking into singular content. Our suggestion is that singular content may be traced to psychological capacities to form flexible, abstract representations in the prefrontal cortex. This allows them to be sustained for increasingly longer periods of time and extrapolated beyond the context of perception, thus going beyond lowlevel sensory representations while also falling short of more sophisticated intellectual abilities
Physics Motivations for Future CERN Accelerators
We summarize the physics motivations for future accelerators at CERN. We
argue that (a) a luminosity upgrade for the LHC could provide good physics
return for a relatively modest capital investment, (b) CLIC would provide
excellent long-term perspectives within many speculative scenarios for physics
beyond the Standard Model, (c) a Very Large Hadron Collider could provide the
first opportunity to explore the energy range up to about 30 TeV, (d) a
neutrino factory based on a muon storage ring would provide an exciting and
complementary scientific programme and a muon collider could be an interesting
later option.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure, Prepared for the CERN Scientific Policy Committee
in September 2001, and presented to the CERN Council in December 200
Proceedings of the Conference on Globalization and Its Discontents
This paper addresses the discussion about the desirability of international trade. It starts out from the stylized observation that trade economists and ‘anti-globalists’ not only reject each others conclusions, but also the validity of the reference frame in which the other side makes its arguments. We mend for this problem, constructing a rational dialogue between the various parties by making differences in criteria and modes of analysis explicit. Instead of seeking to develop a comprehensive common framework, we adopt a ‘pluralist’ position, in which we only create a common structure in so far as necessary for meaningful dialogue. We judge the effects of trade as they follow from both the analytical models used by proponents and opponents and from the perspectives of both the criteria used by proponents and opponents. Applying different criteria to both standard and poverty-sensitive trade models, we find that both camps have valid cases, but also that diagonally opposite positions do not necessarily lead to different judgements regarding the desirability of trade. Once differences in preconceptions and criteria are cleared, a fruitful debate is therefore possible. We conclude that the debate about free trade cannot be settled by economics and should in the end take place in the moral and political arena.international trade, globalization,
Analyzing inter-organizational systems from a power and interest perspective
Inter-organizational systems (IOS) are ICT-based systems that enable organizations to share information and to electronically conduct business across organizational boundaries. Especially since the increasing availability of the Internet, there have been less technological barriers to implement IOS. However, that does not imply that IOS-possibilities are implemented successfully in all occasions: other barriers may remain. Innovation is not only a technical process of ?solving problems?, it also involves economic and political processes in which interests are articulated, alliances are built and outcomes are struggled over. To explore this observation, this paper presents a model that helps to describe and analyze IOS from a power and interest perspective of multiple parties. To illustrate this model, eight case studies of IOS are discussed, of which two in more depth. After that, we will put the findings of the analysis in a broader perspective. The paper concludes with the assertion that the scope for the design of an effective IOS depends on a combination of technical, economic and social
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