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Where to go in the near future: diverging perspectives on online public service delivery
Although the electronic government is under heavy development, a clear vision doesnât seem to exist. In this study 20 interviews among leaders in the field of e-government in the Netherlands resulted in different perspectives on the future of electronic public service delivery. The interviews revealed different objectives and interpretations of the presuppositions regarding citizensâ desires. Opinions about channel approaches and âtrigger servicesâ appeared to vary. Furthermore, the respondents didnât agree on the number of contact moments between citizen and government, had different opinions about digital skills, pled for various designs of the electronic government and placed the responsibility for electronic service delivery in different hands. Conclusion is that there is a lack of concepts on how to do things. Everybody talks about eGovernment, but all have different interpretations. \u
The effective mass of two--dimensional 3He
We use structural information from diffusion Monte Carlo calculations for
two--dimensional 3He to calculate the effective mass. Static effective
interactions are constructed from the density-- and spin structure functions
using sumrules. We find that both spin-- and density-- fluctuations contribute
about equally to the effective mass. Our results show, in agreement with recent
experiments, a flattening of the single--particle self--energy with increasing
density, which eventually leads to a divergent effective mass.Comment: 4 pages, accepted in PR
Intelligence within BAOR and NATO's Northern Army Group
During the Cold War the UK's principal military role was its commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) through the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), together with wartime command of NATO's Northern Army Group. The possibility of a surprise attack by the numerically superior Warsaw Pact forces ensured that great importance was attached to intelligence, warning and rapid mobilisation. As yet we know very little about the intelligence dimension of BAOR and its interface with NATO allies. This article attempts to address these neglected issues, ending with the impact of the 1973 Yom Kippur War upon NATO thinking about warning and surprise in the mid-1970s. It concludes that the arrangements made by Whitehall for support to BAOR from national assets during crisis or transition to war were - at best - improbable. Accordingly, over the years, BAOR developed its own unique assets in the realm of both intelligence collection and special operations in order to prepare for the possible outbreak of conflict
Nodes of the Gap Function and Anomalies in Thermodynamic Properties of Superfluid He
Departures of thermodynamic properties of three-dimensional superfluid He
from the predictions of BCS theory are analyzed. Attention is focused on
deviations of the ratios and
from their BCS values, where is the pairing gap at zero
temperature, is the critical temperature, and and are the
superfluid and normal specific heats. We attribute these deviations to the
momentum dependence of the gap function , which becomes well
pronounced when this function has a pair of nodes lying on either side of the
Fermi surface. We demonstrate that such a situation arises if the P-wave
pairing interaction , evaluated at the Fermi surface, has a sign
opposite to that anticipated in BCS theory. Taking account of the momentum
structure of the gap function, we derive a closed relation between the two
ratios that contains no adjustable parameters and agrees with the experimental
data. Some important features of the effective pairing interaction are inferred
from the analysis.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
Spectrum of Neutral Helium in Strong Magnetic Fields
We present extensive and accurate calculations for the excited state spectrum
of spin-polarized neutral helium in a range of magnetic field strengths up to
G. Of considerable interest to models of magnetic white dwarf stellar
atmospheres, we also present results for the dipole strengths of the low lying
transitions among these states. Our methods rely on a systematically saturated
basis set approach to solving the Hartree--Fock self-consistent field
equations, combined with an ``exact'' stochastic method to estimate the
residual basis set truncation error and electron correlation effects. We also
discuss the applicability of the adiabatic approximation to strongly magnetized
multi-electron atoms.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, 10 table
From bulletins to bullets to blogs and beyond: The Karenâs ongoing communication war
Geff Green focuses on the communication approaches taken by the Karen communities displaced from Burma and who live in diaspora. Apparent control and empowerment provided by new technologies may be illusive. When using media for warfare or perhaps for more innocuous public relations purposes, activists may actually create âammunitionâ for opponents. Targeted attacks on specific communities or âaudiencesâ have a high impact by reifying discourse in a devastating way by connecting to lived experience in the victim
Learning From Early Attempts to Generalize Darwinian Principles to Social Evolution
Copyright University of Hertfordshire & author.Evolutionary psychology places the human psyche in the context of evolution, and addresses the Darwinian processes involved, particularly at the level of genetic evolution. A logically separate and potentially complementary argument is to consider the application of Darwinian principles not only to genes but also to social entities and processes. This idea of extending Darwinian principles was suggested by Darwin himself. Attempts to do this appeared as early as the 1870s and proliferated until the early twentieth century. But such ideas remained dormant in the social sciences from the 1920s until after the Second World War. Some lessons can be learned from this earlier period, particularly concerning the problem of specifying the social units of selection or replication
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Mitigation of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Venture Capital Financing: The Influence of the Countryâs Institutional Setting
A venture capitalist (VC) needs to trade off benefits and costs when attempting to mitigate agency problems in their investor-investee relationship. We argue that signals of ventures complement the VCâs capacity to screen and conduct a due diligence during the pre-investment phase, but its attractiveness may diminish in institutional settings supporting greater transparency. Similarly, whereas a VC may opt for contractual covenants to curb potential opportunism by ventures in the post-investment phase, this may only be effective in settings supportive of shareholder rights enforcement. Using an international sample of VC contracts, our study finds broad support for these conjectures. It delineates theoretical and practical implications for how investors can best deploy their capital in different institutional settings whilst nurturing their relationships with entrepreneurs
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