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A Critique of the Marital Privileges: An Examination of the Marital Privileges in the United States Military Through the State and Federal Approaches to the Marital Privileges
Scale economies in nonprofit provision, technology adoption and entry
We study competition between nonprofit providers that supply a collective
service through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies under conditions
of free entry. When providers adopt a not-for-profit mission, the
absence of a residual claimant can impede entry, protecting the position
of an inefficient incumbent. Moreover, when providers supply goods
that are at least partly public in nature, they may be unable to sustain the
adoption of more efficient technologies that feature fixed costs, because
buyers (private donors) face individual incentives to divert donations towards
charities that adopt inferior, lower-fixed-cost technologies. These
incentives may give rise to a technological race to the bottom, where nonprofit
providers forgo opportunities to exploit scale economies. In these
situations, government grants in support of core costs can have a nonneutral
effect on entry, technology adoption, and industry performance
Social Movements and Memory: Education, Age, and Memories of the Women\u27s Movement
Past research in memory studies has indicated that there are social factors that influence who are more or less likely to recall certain events as important. Past research emphasizes age as one of the most important variables; however, when regarding memories of social movements, additional demographic factors such as gender, race, region, and education may have potential impacts. More so, past research has not studied the importance of these factors over time. This study re-analyzes the data collected by Schuman and Rodgers (2004) combined with the data collected by Schuman and Scott (1985), in which 5,294 people were asked to name two significant events in United States history since 1930. By studying the group that recalled the Womenâs Movement of the 1960s and 1970s as significant, age was shown to be of slight significance in the 1985 survey, and of no significance in the 2000-2001 data. The influence of education, however, increased in significance by the later survey. Demographic factors such as gender, race, and region also were shown to have varying levels of influence. Together these findings indicate that demographic factors are important to consider when discussing the formation of memories of social movements. Secondly, as the temporal horizon increases, the importance of having experienced the particular social movement at a specific age decreases while the importance of education increases
Private provision of public goods and information diffusion in social groups
We describe a model of fundraising in social groups, where private information about quality of provision is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals engage in voluntary provision of a pure collective good that is consumed by both neighbours and non-neighbours. We show that, unlike in the case of private goods, better informed individuals face positive incentives to incur a
cost to share information with their neighbours. These incentives are stronger, and provision of the pure public good greater, the smaller are individualsâ social
neighbourhoods
Jews, Jesus, and the problem of postcolonial French identity
In 2004 a French Jewish student union ran an ad against anti-Semitism using defaced images of Jesus and Mary. Denounced by an antiracist organization affiliated with Jewish interests, the ad was immediately pulled. Why? While the union intended the campaign to be provocative for what it suggested about anti-Semitism, it may ultimately have been most problematic for what it implied about âFrenchness.â This article argues that the campaignâs polysemy and ambiguity destabilized religious and national differences presumed to be self-evident in contemporary France. In doing so, it may have undermined mainstream Jewish institutional strategies that relied on the evocation of a stable French national âidentityâ to both fight anti-Semitism and produce Jewish belonging in France
China\u27s Unethical Economic Development Practices
The purpose of this research paper is to inform the public about some of the unethical economic development practices that China is performing with their citizens and global partners. These activities include escalating the national GDP at the detriment of their citizens through forced relocations in order to build new cities, dividing families with harmful public policies, and the imbalance between their citizensâ annual earnings and housing costs. Also discussed is the environmental pollution of the air, water, and soil, and poorly treating their international constituents when asked to provide consulting services to their nation
Engine exhaust characteristics evaluation in support of aircraft acoustic testing
NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility and NASA Langley Research Center completed a joint acoustic flight test program. Test objectives were (1) to quantify and evaluate subsonic climb-to-cruise noise and (2) to obtain a quality noise database for use in validating the Aircraft Noise Prediction Program. These tests were conducted using aircraft with engines that represent the high nozzle pressure ratio of future transport designs. Test flights were completed at subsonic speeds that exceeded Mach 0.3 using F-18 and F-16XL aircraft. This paper describes the efforts of NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility in this flight test program. Topics discussed include the test aircraft, setup, and matrix. In addition, the engine modeling codes and nozzle exhaust characteristics are described
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