136 research outputs found
Critical oppositions : realism, postmodernism and the reception of contemporary American fiction.
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Beyond Money: A Study of Funding Plus in the UK
This report examines different approaches to funding plus used by UK charitable foundations. In addition, the survey tries to uncover the principal benefits, challenges and risks of these approaches in order to generate practically useful learning about funding plus.In this regard, the research found that the funding plus field comprises a broad range of definitions, purposes and activity. Within this we were able to identify five overarching preconditions for success in funding plus:- strong personal relationships- good knowledge of grantees and the sector in which they operate- grantees that are ready and willing for an engaged relationship with a funder- bespoke rather than standardised or prescriptive approaches- careful and responsible management of power relationships between funder and grante
Direct Evidence for Octupole Deformation in Ba and the Origin of Large Moment Variations in Reflection-Asymmetric Nuclei
Despite the more than one order of magnitude difference between the measured
dipole moments in Ba and Ba, the strength of the octupole
correlations in Ba are found to be as strong as those in Ba
with a similarly large value of determined as
48() W.u. The new results not only establish unambiguously the
presence of a region of octupole deformation centered on these neutron-rich Ba
isotopes, but also manifest the dependence of the electric dipole moments on
the occupancy of different neutron orbitals in nuclei with enhanced octupole
strength, as revealed by fully microscopic calculations.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
The Human Element of Decision Making in Systems Engineers: A Focus on Optimism
Biases continue to be an important aspect of human judgment and decision making
because they can lead to unfavorable outcomes. Optimism bias is one type of bias that is often overlooked because of its association with good health and positive outcomes. However, the existence of optimism bias in human judgment can be very damaging especially when it distorts a personâs view of future events.
In order to better understand optimism bias we explore the benefits and downsides of optimism
as well as some empirically-based origins of both optimism and pessimism. This provides a backdrop for a methodology for quantifying optimism and pessimism using the Brier score developed for calibrating weather reporters and a discussion about how sports bookies make well-calibrated decisions. Results are explored from an optimism survey given to a cohort of eighty systems engineers, which ultimately portray the degree to which optimism bias influences decision making in large projects. Further exploration of the key differences in optimism across professions helps distinguish motivational factors and characteristics of well-calibrated professions. We also present results from a calibration exercise, designed to infer if such activities can be adopted to assist systems engineering estimation. Finally, we provide prescriptive advice on how individual decision makers can better manage their optimism and become more realistic
Edward Thompson's Ethics and Activism 1956â1963: Reflections on the Political Formation of The Making of the English Working Class
As well as a work of history, E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Class (London: Gollancz, 1963) was written as a strategic intervention in wider political debates of the late 1950s about working class consciousness, identity, agency and organisation, and as a sustained expression and application of âsocialist humanismâ to historical subjects. This essay situates the book within these debates, moving between The Making and Thompson's writings within the New Left, to show how the characteristic themes of his workâmoral choice and agency, the complexities of working-class consciousness and culture, the role of intellectuals and of an âorganised minorityââwere developed through both. This provides us with a richer context for understanding both the moral sensibility that animates the book and key elements of its historiographical standpoint
Galaxy Zoo: The Environmental Dependence of Bars and Bulges in Disc Galaxies
We present an analysis of the environmental dependence of bars and bulges in
disc galaxies, using a volume-limited catalogue of 15810 galaxies at z<0.06
from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with visual morphologies from the Galaxy Zoo
2 project. We find that the likelihood of having a bar, or bulge, in disc
galaxies increases when the galaxies have redder (optical) colours and larger
stellar masses, and observe a transition in the bar and bulge likelihoods, such
that massive disc galaxies are more likely to host bars and bulges. We use
galaxy clustering methods to demonstrate statistically significant
environmental correlations of barred, and bulge-dominated, galaxies, from
projected separations of 150 kpc/h to 3 Mpc/h. These environmental correlations
appear to be independent of each other: i.e., bulge-dominated disc galaxies
exhibit a significant bar-environment correlation, and barred disc galaxies
show a bulge-environment correlation. We demonstrate that approximately half
(50 +/- 10%) of the bar-environment correlation can be explained by the fact
that more massive dark matter haloes host redder disc galaxies, which are then
more likely to have bars. Likewise, we show that the environmental dependence
of stellar mass can only explain a small fraction (25 +/- 10%) of the
bar-environment correlation. Therefore, a significant fraction of our observed
environmental dependence of barred galaxies is not due to colour or stellar
mass dependences, and hence could be due to another galaxy property. Finally,
by analyzing the projected clustering of barred and unbarred disc galaxies with
halo occupation models, we argue that barred galaxies are in slightly
higher-mass haloes than unbarred ones, and some of them (approximately 25%) are
satellite galaxies in groups. We also discuss implications about the effects of
minor mergers and interactions on bar formation.Comment: 20 pages, 18 figures; references updated; published in MNRA
On the Existence and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in the Bottleneck Model with Atomic Users
Be prepared: communism and the politics of scouting in 1950s Britain
This article examines the exposure, and in some cases dismissal, of Boy Scouts who belonged or sympathised with the Young Communist League in Britain during the early 1950s. A focus on the rationale and repercussions of the organisation's approach and attitudes towards âRed Scoutsâ found within their âranksâ extends our understanding of youth movements and their often complex and conflicting ideological foundations. In particular, the post-World War Two period presented significant challenges to these spaces of youth work in terms of broader social and political change in Britain. An analysis of the politics of scouting in relation to Red Scouts questions not only the assertion that British McCarthyism was âsilentâ, but also brings young people firmly into focus as part of a more everyday politics of communism in British society
Strong convergence of extragradient method for generalized variational inequalities in Hilbert space
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