Neighborhood Dynamics and Price Effects of Superfund Site Clean-Up

This report uses census data to analyze the price effects of superfund site clean-up, inclusive of both direct price effects and indirect effects through clean-up's effect on neighborhood demographic transitions and reinvestment in the housing stock. FRC Report 11

Electromagnetism with Magnetic Charge and Two Photons

The Dirac approach to include magnetic charge in Maxwell's equations places the magnetic charge at the end of a string on which the the fields of the theory develop a singularity. In this paper an alternative formulation of classical electromagnetism with magnetic and electric charge is given by introducing a second pseudo four-vector potential, C_mu, in addition to the usual four- vector potential, A_mu. This avoids the use of singular, non-local variables (i.e. Dirac strings) in electrodynamics with magnetic charge, and it makes the treatment of electric and magentic charge more symmetric, since both charges are now gauge charges.Comment: 20 page, 0 figures. Published in AJP. Proposes the possiblity of an additional U(1) magnetic, gauge boso

The lure of texts and the discipline of praxis: cross-cultural history in a post-empirical world

The main aim of this paper is to tell stories about interactions between European voyagers and Aboriginal people in New Holland (mainland Australia) and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) at the end of the eighteenth century

Looks of Love and Loathing:Cultural Models of Vision and Emotion in Ancient Greek Culture

International audienceThis paper considers the intersection of cultural models of emotion, specifically love and envy, with folk and scientific models of vision in Greek antiquity. Though the role of the eyes in the expression of these emotions can intersect with widespread beliefs in vision as a «haptic», material process, analogous to touch and involving physical contact between perceiver and perceived, none the less the emotional concepts resist absorption into a single over-arching theory of the physical effects of seeing and being seen. The specific cultural models of vision («active», «passive», and «interactive») are enlisted in support of cultural models of emotion where they fit, modified where they fit less well, and ignored when they do not fit at all.Cette étude s’occupe de l’interaction des modèles culturels de l’émotion. Plus particulièrement elle examine l’amour et la jalousie, notamment en rapport avec les modèles populaires et scientifiques de la vision tels qu’ils étaient perçus dans l’antiquité. Alors que le rôle joué par les yeux dans l’expression des émotions s’entrelace avec les croyances largement répandues sur la vision comme processus matériel tactile équivalent au touché et provoquant un contact physique direct entre celui qui perçoit et celui qui est perçu, les concepts émotionnels semblent résister à une théorie unique et globalisante couvrant les effets physiques du regard et de la vue. Les modèles culturels spécifiques de la vision (« active », « passive » ou « interactive ») sont ici catalogués à l’aide des formes culturelles de l’émotion là où ils sont appropriés ; ils sont modifiés là où ils sont moins adéquats, voire négligés quand ils n’ont pas de pertinence

James Nayler and the Lamb\u27s War

James Nayler was perhaps the most articulate theologian and political spokesman of the earliest Quaker movement. He was part of a West Yorkshire group of radicals who added revolutionary impetus to George Fox\u27s apocalyptic preaching of Christ\u27s coming in the bodies of common men and women. With other Quaker leaders, Nayler insisted upon disestablishment of the Church, abolition of tithes, and disenfranchisement of the clergy, in order that Christ might rule in England, through human conscience. For early Friends, Christ\u27s sovereignty in the conscience was less a principle of individual freedom to dissociate religiously than a basis for collective practices of revolutionary worship, moral reform, social equality, and economic justice. All these were features of the nonviolent struggle Nayler called the \u27Lamb\u27s War\u27. His meteoric career is outlined in this study, a movement from apocalyptic prophet, to stigmatized Christ-figure, to withdrawn quietist

Response to Daniel A. Siedell\u27s Art and the Practice of Evangelical Faith-A Review Essay

Excerpt: My first response to Daniel A. Siedell\u27s review of my book Seeing: When Art and Faith Intersect was anger. I thought his treatment of my book was unfair. Even now, after some amount of time has elapsed, I still believe his analysis of my book ignored context, was unkind, misleading and inaccurate. My allotted space for response is, however, inadequate to the task of countering his assertions point for point