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Motivating management: corporate compliance with safety, health and environmental regulation
Based on interviews with facility managers in the electroplating and chemical industries, this study examines regulated firmsâ perceptions of how various instrumental, normative and social factors motivated their firms' safety, health and environmental actions. We found that âimplicit general deterrenceâ (the overall effect of sustained inspection and enforcement activity) was far more important than either specific or general deterrence, and that deterrence in any form was of far greater concern to small and medium sized enterprises than it was to large ones. Most reputation-sensitive firms in the chemical industry chose to go substantially beyond compliance for reasons that related to risk management and to the perceived need to protect their social license to operate. Almost half our respondents also provided normative explanations for why they complied. Overall, we conclude that there are various, often interwoven strands that must be taken into account in understanding what motivates corporate safety, health and environmental behavior, and how they play out depends very much on the size and sophistication of companies themselves and on the characteristics of the industry sector within which they are located
The Evolution of State Supreme Courts
Part I of this Article describes in broad quantitative terms the changing relationship between the caseload of supreme courts and the population of the states in which these courts sit. Part II examines the various means states used to control supreme court caseloads, the political problems involved, and the types of courts that have resulted. Part III presents evidence that changes in court organization in response to caseload pressure are accompanied by changes in the kinds of cases state supreme courts hear, the style of their opinions, and the results of the cases
Statistical Properties of Interacting Bose Gases in Quasi-2D Harmonic Traps
The analytical probability distribution of the quasi-2D (and purely 2D) ideal
and interacting Bose gas are investigated by using a canonical ensemble
approach. Using the analytical probability distribution of the condensate, the
statistical properties such as the mean occupation number and particle number
fluctuations of the condensate are calculated. Researches show that there is a
continuous crossover of the statistical properties from a quasi-2D to a purely
2D ideal or interacting gases. Different from the case of a 3D Bose gas, the
interaction between atoms changes in a deep way the nature of the particle
number fluctuations.Comment: RevTex, 10pages, 4 figures, E-mail: [email protected]
Collapse dynamics of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
We analyze the implosion and subsequent explosion of a trapped condensate
after the scattering length is switched to a negative value. Our results
compare very well qualitatively and fairly well quantitatively with the results
of recent experiments at JILA.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Flavor Symmetries and The Problem of Squark Degeneracy
If supersymmetry exists at low energies, it is necessary to understand why
the squark spectrum exhibits sufficient degeneracy to suppress flavor changing
neutral currents. In this note, we point out that gauged horizontal symmetries
can yield realistic quark mass matrices, while at the same time giving just
barely enough squark degeneracy to account for neutral -meson phenomenology.
This approach suggests likely patterns for squark masses, and indicates that
there could be significant supersymmetric contributions to and
mixing and CP violation in the and systems.Comment: preprint SCIPP 93/04,SLAC-PUB-6147, 14 pages, 4 tables included; uses
macro package TABLES.TEX and phyzzx forma
Expansion of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an atomic waveguide
The expansion of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an atomic waveguide is
analyzed. We study different regimes of expansion, and identify a transient
regime between one-dimensional and three-dimensional dynamics, in which the
properties of the condensate and its further expansion can be well explained by
reducing the transversal dynamics to a two-level system. The relevance of this
regime in current experiments is discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figs, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Exploring the dynamics of compliance with community penalties
In this paper, we examine how compliance with community penalties has been theorized hitherto and seek to develop a new dynamic model of compliance with community penalties. This new model is developed by exploring some of the interfaces between existing criminological and socio-legal work on compliance. The first part of the paper examines the possible definitions and dimensions of compliance with community supervision. Secondly, we examine existing work on explanations of compliance with community penalties, supplementing this by drawing on recent socio-legal scholarship on private individualsâ compliance with tax regimes. In the third part of the paper, we propose a dynamic model of compliance, based on the integration of these two related analyses. Finally, we consider some of the implications of our model for policy and practice
concerning community penalties, suggesting the need to move
beyond approaches which, we argue, suffer from compliance myopia; that is, a short-sighted and narrowly focused view of the issues
Classical quasi-particle dynamics in trapped Bose condensates
The dynamics of quasi-particles in repulsive Bose condensates in a harmonic
trap is studied in the classical limit. In isotropic traps the classical motion
is integrable and separable in spherical coordinates. In anisotropic traps the
classical dynamics is found, in general, to be nonintegrable. For
quasi-particle energies E much smaller than thechemical potential, besides the
conserved quasi-particle energy, we identify two additional nearly conserved
phase-space functions. These render the dynamics inside the condensate
(collective dynamics) integrable asymptotically for E/chemical potential very
small. However, there coexists at the same energy a dynamics confined to the
surface of the condensate, which is governed by a classical Hartree-Fock
Hamiltonian. We find that also this dynamics becomes integrable for E/chemical
potential very small, because of the appearance of an adiabatic invariant. For
E/chemical potential of order 1 a large portion of the phase-space supports
chaotic motion, both, for the Bogoliubov Hamiltonian and its Hartree-Fock
approximant. To exemplify this we exhibit Poincar\'e surface of sections for
harmonic traps with the cylindrical symmetry and anisotropy found in TOP traps.
For E/chemical potential very large the dynamics is again governed by the
Hartree-Fock Hamiltonian. In the case with cylindrical symmetry it becomes
quasi-integrable because the remaining small chaotic components in phase space
are tightly confined by tori.Comment: 13 pages Latex, 6 eps.gz-figure
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