Anchoring, Information, Expertise, and Negotiation: New Insights from Meta-Analysis

Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio

Unlikely intersections with ExCM curves in A2

The Zilber--Pink conjecture predicts that an algebraic curve in A2 has only finitely many intersections with the special curves, unless it is contained in a proper special subvariety. Under a large Galois orbits conjecture, we prove the finiteness of the intersection with the special curves parametrising abelian surfaces isogenous to the product of two elliptic curves, at least one of which has complex multiplication. Furthermore, we show that this large Galois orbits conjecture holds for curves satisfying a condition on their intersection with the boundary of the Baily--Borel compactification of A2. More generally, we show that a Hodge generic curve in an arbitrary Shimura variety has only finitely many intersection points with the generic points of a Hecke--facteur family, again under a large Galois orbits conjecture

Corruption in Natural Disaster Aid: The 2004 Indonesian Tsunami

The tsunami that affected Asia and African countries in December 2004 was one of the most destructive natural disasters in recent time s. Aceh alone suffered an estimated 167,000 deaths and 566,000 displaced persons (USAID, 2005). The response by donor countries and individuals was swift and unprecedented in magnitude, however, after more than one year, thousands of families remained effected by corruption and were forced to huddle in tents instead of living in permanent housing (TI, 2010). Review studies such as Mitchell (2010), show that the outcomes achieved through the aid response we re inefficient and inequitable. Natural disasters, especially when they occur in developing countries, strain government budgets significantly. With large populations (among donors or beneficiaries) believing provisional aid is substantial when in reality it is small (Mitchell, 2010), powers amongst NGO lobbyists growing, and the media’s willingness and ability to distribute damaging stories about corrupt aid practices (Oxfam , 2010), it is easy to see why national governments, eager to appease electorates (presuming they are democratic of course) and the international community, are motivated to provide effective natural disaster aid. In this context, giving aid to countries plagued wi th corruption poses a difficult dilemma. This paper highlights market failures in natural disaster aid using the case of Aceh, and recommends a strategy that adjusts government agents’ incentives to take a path that could arguably assuage the problem of corrupt ion by reducing the severity of the moral hazard problem in an afflicted government

Collaborative Complexities: Co-Authorship, Voice, and African American Rhetoric in Oral History Community Literacy Projects

This co-authored article describes a community literacy oral history project involving 14 undergraduate students. It is intellectually situated at the intersection of writing studies, oral history, and African American rhetoric and distinguished by two features: 1) we were a combined team of 20 collaborators, and 2) our narrator, Frank Gilyard, the founder and former director of the Central Pennsylvania African American Museum (CPAAM), was deceased. Because oral history is narrator-driven, Gilyard’s death required us to remain especially attentive to the epistemic value of his voice

Knowledge Utilisation Mapping Study: Scottish Education System

This report presents the findings from the Knowledge Utilisation Mapping Study project conducted by the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change and commissioned by Scottish Government. The research was undertaken from April to October 2018. It responds to commitments made within the Research Strategy for Scottish Education and builds on previous research on what works regarding mobilising Knowledge into Action in education (Chapman et al 2015)