CIRPASS: a NIR integral field and multi-object spectrograph

We describe CIRPASS which is currently being completed at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. The optical design is presented and contrasted with more conventional software- suppression designs. The limiting magnitudes on Gemini are expected to be J 22.6 and H 21.7 in a 3 hour exposure

Mammography Services Quality Assurance: Baseline Standards for Latin America and the Caribbean

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The trouble with Q

Q theory predicts not just an absolute increase in new investment during stock market booms but a relative increase compared to buying companies on the stock market and a relative decline in new investment expenditures compared to buying companies on the stock market during a stock market decline. The facts concerning the ratio of new investment to mergers and acquisitions not only do not corroborate Q theory but would constitute strong evidence for any theory that would predict the exact opposite of what Q theory predicts.MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, TOBIN'S Q.,

The Failure of Markets: Energy, Housing and Health

The core thesis of this book is that the major economic issues of renewable energy, housing, health and income disparities could best be addressed through direct government in kind production and redistributive measures. It is argued that this governmental in kind production of essential needs would allow a rapid movement towards solutions that the market cannot possibly match. The market works through indirect means. So, it is no mystery why in the areas of energy, housing and health, problems are not only formidable but in many respects are getting worse. In contrast, governmental in kind production would be direct. Outcomes could be explicitly planned and managers would be publicly accountable. This shift in production should be accompanied by redistributive measures through higher taxes on corporations and the rich and the possible adoption of monetary policies in line with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Relatedly, the book demonstrates that the current lack of imaginative solutions results from a paralysis of imagination, rooted deeply in nineteenth century liberalism that held that the market was to serve all issues. A progressive agenda today needs to separate out needs from wants and to engage government production in the service of collectivist needs. In kind production would infuse a democratic component within the economy. The last chapter of the book also deals with how the ideology of neoliberalism blocks even the contemplation of governmental production in the service of people’s needs. This accessible work will be of significant interest to anyone seeking original solutions to age-old problems, particularly readers of public policy, heterodox economics, progressive politics and MMT.https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/1564/thumbnail.jp

Free Cash, the Current Account and Bubble Creation

The present paper explores the relationship between corporations' ability to generate free cash, the lopsided current account, and recent speculation in stocks and housing. It argues that some portion of recently generated free cash is related to the outsourcing of production. Over the last two decades, foreign saving, consequent on the lopsided U.S. current account could not be absorbed by a corporate world beset by its own plethora of saving. Consequently, excess saving, both domestically grown and imported flowed toward speculative avenues â in the 1990s in stocks and more recently in housing.outsourcing, current account, housing bubble,