The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Imposing an American Definition of Corruption on Global Markets

Mateo de la Torre’s research had an international focus in examining the cross-cultural implications of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). de la Torre’s research required a comparative analysis of foreign laws that are similar to the United States’ FCPA and included statutes, legislative histories, and commentary from Brazil, Japan, and the United Kingdom. He also consulted extensively with several members of the Cornell Law faculty. de la Torre’s findings provided the basis for his examination of the FCPA’s impact on nondomestic actors and markets, arguing that the United States’ aggressive stance belies the Act’s original purpose. He then presented frameworks for challenging FCPA prosecutions on jurisdictional and choice-of-law grounds. “The challenges that international sources present enhanced my ability to be a resourceful researcher,” de la Torre said. “And on a broader level, I discovered that researching international law and foreign legal topics presents an intricate and fascinating cross-section of law, politics, and culture.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Imposing an American Definition of Corruption on Global Markets

Mateo de la Torre’s research had an international focus in examining the cross-cultural implications of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). de la Torre’s research required a comparative analysis of foreign laws that are similar to the United States’ FCPA and included statutes, legislative histories, and commentary from Brazil, Japan, and the United Kingdom. He also consulted extensively with several members of the Cornell Law faculty. de la Torre’s findings provided the basis for his examination of the FCPA’s impact on nondomestic actors and markets, arguing that the United States’ aggressive stance belies the Act’s original purpose. He then presented frameworks for challenging FCPA prosecutions on jurisdictional and choice-of-law grounds. “The challenges that international sources present enhanced my ability to be a resourceful researcher,” de la Torre said. “And on a broader level, I discovered that researching international law and foreign legal topics presents an intricate and fascinating cross-section of law, politics, and culture.

Quantum magnetic flux lines, BPS vortex zero modes, and one-loop string tension shifts

Spectral heat kernel/zeta function regularization procedures are employed in this paper to control the divergences arising from vacuum fluctuations of Bogomolnyi-Prasad-Sommerfield vortices in the Abelian Higgs model. Zero modes of vortex fluctuations are the source of difficulties appearing when the standard Gilkey-de Witt expansion is performed. A modified GdW expansion is developed to diminish the impact of the infrared divergences due to the vortex zero modes. With this new technique at our disposal we compute the one-loop vortex mass shift in the planar AHM and the quantum corrections to the string tension of the magnetic flux tubes living in three dimensions. In both cases it is observed that weak repulsive forces surge between these classically non interacting topological defects caused by vacuum quantum fluctuations.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figure

Elementos semiinfinitos de flexión

Existen situaciones para las que los resultados de interés corresponden a una zona pequeña de la estructura en comparación con su totalidad. La utilización de elementos infinitos constituye posibilidad que evita un esfuerzo excesivo de cálculo. Esta idea se aplica en este artículo al mLsas estático de la flexión de placas, desarrollando un elemento finito rectangular con un lad,) situado a distancia infinita. La función de decrecimiento de los movimientos en el interior del elemento es exponencial con un parámetro cuyo valor se deteimina mediante minirnixaclón de la energía potencial total. Se presentan resultados obtenidos con el elemento, contrastando su bondad y eficacia en comparación con un cálculo convencional. Se comentan finalmente distintas extensiores posibles del elemento.Peer Reviewe