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Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes
Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if there is consistent evidence suggesting that voters punish corrupt incumbents, it is unclear whether this translates into increased support for challengers and higher political participation. We provide experimental evidence that information about copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout, challengers' votes, and erodes voters' identification with the party of the corrupt incumbent. Our results suggest that while flows of information are necessary, they may be insufficient to improve political accountability, since voters may respond to information by withdrawing from the political process. We conclude with a discussion of the institutional contexts that could allow increased access to information to promote government accountability.
The field theoretic derivation of the contact value theorem in planar geometries and its modification by the Casimir effect
The contact value theorem for Coulomb gases in planar or film-like geometries
is derived using a Hamiltonian field theoretic representation of the system.
The case where the film is enclosed by a material of different dielectric
constant to that of the film is shown to contain an additional Casimir-like
term which is generated by fluctuations of the electric potential about its
mean-field value.Comment: Link between Sine-Gordon and Coulomb gas pressures via subtraction of
self interaction terms included. Discussion of results within Debye-Huckel
approximation included. Added reference
O. D. Edwards, Arnold O. Morgan, Decker S. Womack and Dean Gano to Gov. Ross Barnett, 28 September 1962
Senders state that for every border patrolman sent to carry out Bobby\u27s order they will send another Texan to face him. Message was forwarded to Jackson, MS.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/west_union_gov/1065/thumbnail.jp
Irrigation Efficiency and Uniformity, and Crop Water Use Efficiency
This Extension Circular describes various irrigation efficiency, crop water use efficiency, and irrigation uniformity evaluation terms that are relevant to irrigation systems and management practices currently used in Nebraska, in other states, and around the world. The definitions and equations described can be used by crop consultants, irrigation district personnel, and university, state, and federal agency personnel to evaluate how efficiently irrigation water is applied and/or used by the crop, and can help to promote better or improved use of water resources in agriculture.
As available water resources become scarcer, more emphasis is given to efficient use of irrigation water for maximum economic return and water resources sustainability. This requires appropriate methods of measuring and evaluating how effectively water extracted from a water source is used to produce crop yield. Inadequate irrigation application results in crop water stress and yield reduction. Excess irrigation application can result in pollution of water sources due to the loss of plant nutrients through leaching, runoff, and soil erosion
Irrigation Efficiency and Uniformity, and Crop Water Use Efficiency
This Extension Circular describes various irrigation efficiency, crop water use efficiency, and irrigation uniformity evaluation terms that are relevant to irrigation systems and management practices currently used in Nebraska, in other states, and around the world. The definitions and equations described can be used by crop consultants, irrigation district personnel, and university, state, and federal agency personnel to evaluate how efficiently irrigation water is applied and/or used by the crop, and can help to promote better or improved use of water resources in agriculture.
As available water resources become scarcer, more emphasis is given to efficient use of irrigation water for maximum economic return and water resources sustainability. This requires appropriate methods of measuring and evaluating how effectively water extracted from a water source is used to produce crop yield. Inadequate irrigation application results in crop water stress and yield reduction. Excess irrigation application can result in pollution of water sources due to the loss of plant nutrients through leaching, runoff, and soil erosion
Sawja: Static Analysis Workshop for Java
Static analysis is a powerful technique for automatic verification of
programs but raises major engineering challenges when developing a full-fledged
analyzer for a realistic language such as Java. This paper describes the Sawja
library: a static analysis framework fully compliant with Java 6 which provides
OCaml modules for efficiently manipulating Java bytecode programs. We present
the main features of the library, including (i) efficient functional
data-structures for representing program with implicit sharing and lazy
parsing, (ii) an intermediate stack-less representation, and (iii) fast
computation and manipulation of complete programs
Terahertz near-field microscopy using the self-mixing effect in a quantum cascade laser
We demonstrate terahertz (THz) apertureless near-field microscopy exploiting the self-mixing effect in a quantum cascade laser (QCL). A THz wave is scattered by a sharp needle positioned above an object and coupled back into the QCL cavity resulting in detection of the THz near-field signal through the self-mixing effect. Using this technique we demonstrate two-dimensional imaging at 2.53 THz with a spatial resolution of 1 ÎĽm - the highest image resolution achieved with a THz frequency QCL to date. This method offers an experimentally simple approach to coherent, high-resolution THz imaging
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