Consumer Welfare of the Future: Harm to Innovation as an Antitrust Injury

This Comment will discuss pertinent background information regarding American antitrust jurisprudence. Second, this Comment will define Big Tech and discuss its rise to a dominant market position in the American economy. Third, this Comment will break down the District of Columbia District Court’s decision in United States v. Microsoft Corp. and will discuss how the courts’ reasoning can establish a new standard of harm to innovation under the consumer welfare standard. Fourth, this Comment will discuss two different situations in which the harm to innovation standard works to espouse antitrust goals. In summation, this Comment will address objections to the proposed harm to innovation standard

Correlational Analysis of Mammals and Residential Land Use: Amherst, MA

Mammal diversity varies in different types of land uses. Residential land use oftentimes interferes with the natural occurrence of mammal species. This study conducts a correlational analysis using camera trap data from Excel and land use data in GIS to uncover whether humans have disrupted mammal occurrence in residential land use areas in Amherst, MA. Results reveal that human activity in residential land use areas in Amherst did not strongly influence the occurrence of these mammals

Kennedy Space Center Polygeneration Facility

This is a report on the status of the polygeneration feasibility study conducted by the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Polygeneration is an innovative approach to reducing cost per flight for the Shuttle by reducing propell ant and other costs. Cost of LH2 is expected to be adversely affected by sharp increases in natural gas pricing as well as other costs such as electricity and transportation. The polygeneration concept is to produce liquid hydrogen (LH2) for the Shuttle and gaseous nitrogen (GN2), electricity and thermal energy to meet KSC requirements by means of an integrated coal gasification plant. Conclusions of the initial feasibility study will be presented as well as the status of on-going activities

Sovereign illiquidity and recessions

Motivated by the striking increase in sovereign spreads and the subsequent recession in Europe during 2011, I examine the importance of sovereign debt liquidity in a New Keynesian environment with wage rigidities and nancial frictions a la Kiyotaki and Moore (2012). My main ndings imply that, independently of credit risk, a decrease in the liquidity of government bonds has signi cant detrimental e ects on output, employment, investment, and equity prices. Therefore, this framework suggests that ECB policies taken in 2012 aimed at introducing liquidity seem to be the desired measures, at least temporally until conventional monetary policy became e ective again

Compound strip method for the analysis of continuous elastic plates

Item deaccessioned after digitization.A finite strip method (FSM) is developed for the analysis of Iinear elastic flat plate systems which are continuous over deflecting supports. The approach presented incorporates the effect of the support elements in a direct stiffness methodology. The stiffness contribution of the support elements have been derived and are given In the form of strip matrices which are directly added to the plate strip stiffness matrix at the element level. This summation of plate and support stiffness contributions constitutes a substructure which is termed a compound strip. The validity of the compound strip method is demonstrated in several illustratlve problems which include single and muitlpanel plates continuous over flexible and rigid beams and columns. The FSM and finite element method (FEM) compare favorably for displacement and moment. The rate of convergence of the compound strip method was studied and results are given for a continuous multipanel system. The FSM is shown to be computationally more efficient than the FEM when maximum values for moment or deflection are required. The FEM exhibits favorable convergence characteristics in locations where the magnitudes of displacement and moment are relatively small

Poly[[tetra-μ3-acetato-hexa-μ2-acetato-diaqua- μ2-oxalato-tetra-praseodymium(III)] dihydrate]

The title complex, {[Pr4(C2H3O 2)10(C2O4)(H2O)2] ·2H2O} n , was synthesized under hydro-thermal conditions from praseodymium acetate and the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium chloride via an in situ oxalate-ligand synthesis. The compound is a two-dimensional polymer and in the structure presents tightly bound planes parallel to (100), which are in turn linked into a three-dimensional network by hydrogen bonds involving both coordinated and solvent water mol-ecules. The oxalate anion lies across an inversion centre and acts as a bridge between pairs of Pr atoms within a tetra-nuclear segment of the polymer.Fil: Gutkowski, Karin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Centro Atómico Constituyentes; ArgentinaFil: Freire Espeleta, Eleonora. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Centro Atómico Constituyentes; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnología; ArgentinaFil: Baggio, Ricardo. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Centro Atómico Constituyentes; Argentin

Las madres y la publicidad de alimentos dirigida a niños y niñas: percepciones y experiencias

El objetivo de la investigación es analizar cómo las publicidades de alimentos son percibidas por madres de distintos sectores socioeconómicos del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (AMBA), Argentina. Entre mayo y noviembre de 2015, se realizaron ocho grupos focales en los que participaron un total de 49 madres de la región del AMBA, con distinto nivel educativo. La investigación ha dado cuenta de cómo las decisiones de compra de las madres son afectadas por los pedidos de los niños y niñas impulsados por la publicidad y las promociones. También mostró cómo estas publicidades y promociones se combinan con otros elementos del contexto (mayor oferta de productos, niños “más demandantes”) que afectan el proceso de toma de decisiones de las madres respecto a la alimentación de sus hijos y permiten instalar el consumo de determinados productos no saludables. Esta situación se ha observado en el conjunto de madres, sin diferir según el nivel educativo alcanzado.The objective of this study is to analyze how food advertising is perceived by mothers from different socioeconomic sectors of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Between May and November 2015, eight focus groups were conducted with the participation of 49 mothers of different education levels living in the study area. The results show how the purchasing decisions of mothers are influenced by the requests of their children, which are in turn prompted by food advertising and promotion. The study also shows how food advertising and promotion are combined with other environmental factors (greater supply of food products, “more demanding” children) that affect the decision-making process of mothers regarding their children’s nutrition and foster the consumption of certain unhealthy products. This situation was observed in all the focus groups, without differences among education levels

Sprawozdanie z XII Konferencji Polsko-Białorusko-Ukraińskiej Grupy Roboczej PTChP w Grodnie (Białoruś)

Grupa Robocza została powołana do życia w Łodzi w 2004 roku podczas XXVIII Zjazdu Polskiego Towarzystwa Chorób Płuc [...

Angular correlation of scattered annihilation photons, to test the possibility of hidden variables in quantum theory

Angular correlations of the annihilation photons, Compton scattered by plastic scintillators and detected by means of NaI (T1) crystals, have been measured in order to test the possibility of deviations of the experimental results from the predictions of the quantum theory

Repair of Full-scale Timber Bridge Chord members by Shear Spiking

The addition of vertically-oriented shear spikes (fiberglass reinforced polymer rods) was shown to increase the effective stiffness of the stringers of a full-scale timber bridge chord specimen. Results found from the flexural load testing of a full-scale timber bridge chord laboratory specimen are presented. Reinforcement was provided with 19 mm diameter shear spikes bonded to the wood by an epoxy resin. The bridge chord specimen was intentionally damaged to simulate degradation. Shear spikes were then installed from the top of the member into pre‑drilled holes to provide horizontal shear resistance and to improve the flexural effective stiffness. Results from the testing showed that with the insertion of five sets of shear spikes the average flexural effective stiffness recovered in the four stringers of the chord was 91.6%