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Football intermediaries and self‑regulation: the need for greater transparency through disciplinary law, sanctioning and qualifying criteria
This paper was first presented at the International Sports Law Conference in The Hague in October 2018. It summarises the author’s work and wider research on the introduction of new proposals for the regulation of football intermediaries (a term which the author finds unworkable and unorthodox). The author’s research critically analyses the current regulatory framework and identifies the elements that form the basis for the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of the regulations currently in force. With the use of case studies and examples drawn from the author’s private practice, recommendations are produced for new regulations that would promote transparency, equality and consistency. The author concludes that this can only be achieved via a blending of self-regulation and external regulation at an international setting
Combined ion and atom trap for low temperature ion-atom physics
We report an experimental apparatus and technique which simultaneously traps
ions and cold atoms with spatial overlap. Such an apparatus is motivated by the
study of ion-atom processes at temperatures ranging from hot to ultra-cold.
This area is a largely unexplored domain of physics with cold trapped atoms. In
this article we discuss the general design considerations for combining these
two traps and present our experimental setup. The ion trap and atom traps are
characterized independently of each other. The simultaneous operation of both
is then described and experimental signatures of the effect of the ions and
cold-atoms on each other are presented. In conclusion the use of such an
instrument for several problems in physics and chemistry is briefly discussed.Comment: 24 pages, 13 figures. Figures Fixe
The politics of valuation and payment for regenerative medicine products in the UK
The field of regenerative medicine (RM) faces many challenges, including funding. Framing the analysis in terms of institutional politics, valuation studies and ‘technologies of knowledge’, the paper highlights growing debates about payment for RM in the UK, setting this alongside escalating policy debates about ‘value’. We draw on interviews and publicly available material to identify the interacting and conflicting positions of institutional stakeholders. It is concluded that while there is some common ground between institutional stakeholders such as industry and health system gatekeepers, there is significant conflict about reward systems, technology assessment methodologies and payment scenarios; a range of mostly conditional payment schemes and non-mainstream routes are being experimented with. We argue that current developments highlight a fundamental conflict between a concern for the societal value of medical technologies in a resource-limited system and a concern for engineering new reward and payment models to accommodate RM innovations
Toward a Social Practice Theory of Relational Competing
This paper brings together the competitive dynamics and strategy-aspractice literatures to investigate relational competition. Drawing on a global ethnography of the reinsurance market, we develop the concept of micro-competitions, which are the focus of competitors’ everyday competitive practices. We find variation in relational or rivalrous competition by individual competitors across the phases of a micro-competition, between competitors within a micro-competition, and across multiple micro-competitions. These variations arise from the interplay between the unfolding competitive arena and the implementation of each firm’s strategic portfolio. We develop a conceptual framework that makes four contributions to: relational competition; reconceptualizing action and response; elaborating on the awareness-motivation-capability framework within competitive dynamics; and the recursive dynamic by which implementing strategy inside firms shapes, and is shaped by, the competitive arena
Academic "Centres", Epistemic Differences and Brain Circulation
This article investigates the factors that shape how migrant academics engage with fellow scholars within their countries of origin. We focus specifically on the mobility of Asian‐born faculty between Singapore, a fast‐developing education hub in Southeast Asia, and their "home" countries within the region. Based on qualitative interviews with 45 migrant academics, this article argues that while education hubs like Singapore increase the possibility of brain circulation within Asia, epistemic differences between migrant academics and home country counterparts make it difficult to establish long‐term collaboration for research. Singapore institutions also look to the West in determining how research work is assessed for tenure and promotion, encouraging Singapore‐based academics to focus on networking with colleagues and peers based in the US and Europe rather than those based in origin countries. Such conditions undermine the positive impact of academic mobility between Singapore and surrounding countries within the region
Transport of charged particles by adjusting rf voltage amplitudes
We propose a planar architecture for scalable quantum information processing
(QIP) that includes X-junctions through which particles can move without
micromotion. This is achieved by adjusting radio frequency (rf) amplitudes to
move an rf null along the legs of the junction. We provide a proof-of-principle
by transporting dust particles in three dimensions via adjustable rf potentials
in a 3D trap. For the proposed planar architecture, we use regularization
techniques to obtain amplitude settings that guarantee smooth transport through
the X-junction.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figure
Sympathetic and swap cooling of trapped ions by cold atoms in a MOT
A mixed system of cooled and trapped, ions and atoms, paves the way for ion
assisted cold chemistry and novel many body studies. Due to the different
individual trapping mechanisms, trapped atoms are significantly colder than
trapped ions, therefore in the combined system, the strong binary ionatom
interaction results in heat flow from ions to atoms. Conversely, trapped ions
can also get collisionally heated by the cold atoms, making the resulting
equilibrium between ions and atoms intriguing. Here we experimentally
demonstrate, Rubidium ions (Rb) cool in contact with magneto-optically
trapped (MOT) Rb atoms, contrary to the general expectation of ion heating for
equal ion and atom masses. The cooling mechanism is explained theoretically and
substantiated with numerical simulations. The importance of resonant charge
exchange (RCx) collisions, which allows swap cooling of ions with atoms,
wherein a single glancing collision event brings a fast ion to rest, is
discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
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