The Antidumping Act: Comments for Business

After several decades of disuse, the Antidumping Act has been rediscovered in recent years by domestic producers. However, even as American manufacturers have resorted to the Act with increasing frequency, they have criticized it as being ineffective. Although American producers undoubtedly would be better served if the Antidumping Act were to be amended in response to these criticisms, the Act, as presently written and administered by the Treasury Department, can even now provide benefits for domestic producers that are frequently overlooked. An American manufacturer who initiates a proceeding under the Antidumping Act is usually seeking to force up prices for imported goods that compete with his own products, to reduce the flow of competing imported merchandise into his traditional domestic market areas, or both. If the facts are right-that is, if the manufacturer can win his dumping proceeding, and if the manufacturer\u27s injuries are sufficiently severe to justify the significant time and expense required to bring the proceeding to a successful conclusion, then the manufacturer will usually achieve his goals. In addition, the manufacturer will usually begin to derive benefits from the Antidumping Act long before the dumping proceeding is concluded. Furthermore, the Antidumping Act is frequently preferable to other options open to the manufacturer for combating import competition

John Cutler to Dear Mr. Meredith (Undated)

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A compatibilist theory of justice and desert

This thesis argues against the asymmetry of desert observed across theories of distribution and retribution. While distributive theories have downplayed the significance of desert, retributive theories have outwardly embraced the role of desert in punishment. At the heart of this imbalance rests an unresolved tension between determinism and freedom. In the interest of bringing symmetry to theories of justice, this thesis reconciles determinism and freedom as two compatible notions of human actions and traits. Additionally, this thesis argues for an increase in opportunities afforded to the least advantaged in order to balance punishments and benefits. This position stems from an acknowledgment of the empirical realities of crime and punishment in capitalist societies. Foremost among the empirical concerns of this thesis is the reality that criminality in capitalist societies is highly concentrated among those residing on the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic hierarchy. The compatibility of determinism and freedom and the rejection of the asymmetry of desert are utilized in making a case for the desert of opportunity as a priority of just societies

Seeing and Believing: The Emergent Nature of Extreme Weather Perceptions

Perceptions of environmental issues are influenced by a variety of factors. Sociological research on this topic has largely taken a social-psychological approach and as a result the effects of community and biophysical contexts on individual perceptions are given less attention than individual-level predictors, such as political party affiliation or measures of educational attainment. Using data from the Communities and Environment in Rural America (CERA) surveys, I employ a mixed-effects modeling technique to investigate the influence of individual- and county-level characteristics on public perceptions of unusual or extreme weather. In addition to the survey data, I also utilize county-level weather events data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u27s (NOAA) Storm Events Database (SED) and the Storm Prediction Center\u27s (SPC) Severe Thunderstorm Events Archive (STEA) in order to test whether the incidence and impact of severe weather influences public perceptions of unusual or extreme weather. This study adds to a growing body of literature on public perceptions of environmental issues by illuminating the socio-demographic and -contextual nature of individual-level perception formation through the use of integrated social and biophysical data

The Dean of Dime Novelists and the Merriwell Saga, or, The Life and Career of William Gilbert Patten

William Gilbert Patten is the last and greatest figure in the history of the dime novel. Representing, as he does, the transition of the dime novel writer to the field of the pulp paper magazines, he is the fitting climax to a period of prolific fictioneering unparalleled in the history of literature in any time or place. Of the school of fiction hacks who swamped the country with stories of wild adventure from the Civil War to the World War, not one stands on equal footing with the creator of Frank Merriwell. Judged by any standard he is easily the best, overshadowing such lofty figures as Edward Zane Carroll Judson and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham of Buffalo Bill fame. William Gilbert Patten, or Gilbert Patten, was born in Corinna, Maine, on October 25, 1866

New Coordinates for the Amplitude Parameter Space of Continuous Gravitational Waves

The parameter space for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) can be divided into amplitude parameters (signal amplitude, inclination and polarization angles describing the orientation of the source, and an initial phase) and phase-evolution parameters. The division is useful in part because the Jaranowski-Krolak-Schutz (JKS) coordinates on the four-dimensional amplitude parameter space allow the GW signal to be written as a linear combination of four template waveforms with the JKS coordinates as coefficients. We define a new set of coordinates on the amplitude parameter space, with the same properties, which is more closely connected to the physical amplitude parameters. These naturally divide into two pairs of Cartesian-like coordinates on two-dimensional subspaces, one corresponding to left- and the other to right-circular polarization. We thus refer to these as CPF (circular polarization factored) coordinates. The corresponding two sets of polar coordinates (known as CPF-polar) can be related in a simple way to the physical parameters. We illustrate some simplifying applications for these various coordinate systems, such as: a calculation of Jacobians between various coordinate systems; an illustration of the signal coordinate singularities associated with left- and right-circular polarization, which correspond to the origins of the two two-dimensional subspaces; and an elucidation of the form of the log-likelihood ratio between hypotheses of Gaussian noise with and without a continuous GW signal. These are used to illustrate some of the prospects for approximate evaluation of a Bayesian detection statistic defined by marginalization over the physical parameter space. Additionally, in the presence of simplifying assumptions about the observing geometry, we are able to explicitly evaluate the integral for the Bayesian detection statistic, and compare it to the approximate results.Comment: REVTeX, 18 pages, 8 image files included in 7 figure

The cost of the National Health Service : problem definition and policy response 1942-1960.

The thesis examines how public expenditure on the National Health Service (NHS) was constituted as a political 'problem' resulting in expenditure constraint throughout the 1950s. It argues that the 'problem' related to the influence of estimates made during wartime planning which were frequently used to judge current expenditure from the beginning of the Service to 1960. Such estimates understated the costs of a future NHS and gave an exaggerated view of the extent to which expenditure was 'out of control'. This approach to evaluating Service expenditure was challenged by 'social accounting' reflected in the Guillebaud Report (1956). Social accounting situated NHS expenditure in the context of National Income and demonstrated that NHS expenditure increases were modest in real terms. However, such findings were resisted, particularly within the Treasury, and forms of financial control inherited from the inter-war period, continued to be used in the 1950s. The thesis explores two responses to this 'problem'. Firstly, capital expenditure is examined as a case of expenditure control. It is demonstrated that, while increased investment in hospitals was seen as promoting operational efficiency, the Treasury concern with restraining current expenditure created resistance to a larger capital programme in the 1950s. Secondly, 'managerial' techniques to promote efficiency are examined by looking at attempts to change accounting practice in the Service during the 1950s. It is argued that this experiment was constrained by criticisms of the appropriateness of applying such techniques in health; and because of their implications for medical autonomy. The overall conclusion of the thesis is that there was a disjuncture between the radical shift in health policy which led to the creation of the NHS and the perpetuation of conservative approaches to financial control

MS 116 Guide to John Earl Cutler, MD Papers (1918-1922)

The John Earl Cutler, MD papers contains 5 ledgers and some loose business-related papers, including two ledger books in which Dr. Cutler recorded patient fees and fees he paid to suppliers. The ledgers cover the years 1918 to 1922. Dr. Cutler recorded the names of his patients and the companies that paid for his services. He also recorded the drugs dispensed and the cost. He rarely mentions symptoms, which he treats. There are some loose receipts for repairs to Dr. Cutler\u27s Franklin automobile and purchases from drug wholesalers. See more at MS 116

Magnetic Sensor Calibration and Residual Dipole Characterization for Application to Nanosatellites

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