Projective representations and spin characters of complex reflection groups G(m,p,n)G(m, p, n) and G(m,p,∞)G(m, p, \infty), III

This paper is a continuation of two previous papers in MSJ Memoirs, Vol.\,29 (Math. Soc. Japan, 2013) with the same title and numbered as I and II. Based on the hereditary property given there, from mother groups $G(m,1,n)$, the generalized symmetric groups, to child groups $G(m,p,n)$, the complex reflection groups, we study in detail classification and construction of irreducible projective representations (= spin representations) and their characters of $G(m,1,n)$ for $n$ finite. Then, taking limits as $n$ tends to infinity, we obtain spin characters of the inductive limit groups $G(m,1,\infty)$. By the heredity studied further, this gives the main kernel of the results for $G(m,p,\infty)$ with $p|m, p>1$.Comment: 88 pages, typos corrected, references correcte

Places of empire:The making of an imperial environment in Western Europe, 1860-1960

Nederlands (for English, see below) Dit proefschrift beargumenteert dat architectuur een imperiale omgeving creëerde waarin Europeanen op allerlei manieren werden betrokken met overzees imperialisme, tussen 1860 en 1960. Imperialisme is lang gezien als iets dat uitsluitend buiten Europa effect had. Aansluitend bij recente inzichten illustreert dit onderzoek dat de koloniale impact ook in Europa groot en concreet was - zo concreet, dat het imperialisme in de 19e en 20e eeuw de gebouwde omgeving van Europese steden mede vormde. In de context van hechter wordende banden tussen moederland en kolonie, een globaliserende wereldeconomie, en architectonische innovatie verrezen in Europa talloze gebouwen met imperiale connecties: monumenten, musea en ministeries, maar ook fabrieken, havens, kantoren, en missie- en zendingshuizen. Samen betrokken deze gebouwen allerlei groepen in Europese samenlevingen bij de expansie overzee, van politici en industriëlen tot arbeiders en toeristen. Beeldhouwwerk en schilderingen, maar ook posters, advertenties, en de namen van de gebouwen verwezen naar hun koloniale verwikkelingen. Bovendien versterkte deze verwikkeling ook stedelijke, nationale, en Europese identiteiten. Op stedelijk en landelijk niveau ontleenden steden en naties hun identiteit aan hun koloniale rol. Op Europees niveau groeide de overtuiging dat de koloniserende landen een dominante Europese beschaving vormden met een gezamenlijke koloniale missie. De revue passeren onder andere de rijstpellerijen van de Zaanstreek en het Koloniaal Instituut in Amsterdam, maar ook de koloniale connecties van steden als Parijs, Glasgow, Hamburg en Londen. English This dissertation argues that between 1860 and 1960, architecture created an imperial environment in which Europeans were involved with overseas empire in manifold ways. Imperialism has long been seen as something that affected only ‘colonial’ regions outside of Europe. Following recent insights, however, this study shows that the imperial impact was large and concrete in Europe, too – so concrete that imperialism helped shape the built environment of European cities in the. In the context of intensifying connections between metropole and colonies, a globalising world economy, and architectural innovation, countless buildings with imperial connections were erected in Europe: monuments, museums, and ministries, but also factories, docks, offices, and mission houses. Together, these buildings involved various groups in European societies with overseas expansion, from politicians and industrialists to workers and tourists. Sculpture and murals, but also posters, advertisements, and the names of buildings referred to their imperial entanglements. Furthermore, this entanglement reinforced civic, national, and European identities. On the urban and national level, cities and nations derived their identity from their imperial role. On the European level, the conviction grew that the colonising countries formed a dominant European civilisation with a collective colonial mission

M. P. Lewis

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Implicit Partner Evaluations: How They Form and Affect Close Relationships

For decades, research on couples has attempted to understand the source of relationship decay by explicitly asking people how they evaluate their relationships. Ironically, however, relationship science also indicates that people seem largely indisposed to acknowledge some aspects of their relationships in self-report questionnaires, particularly when those are undesirable. To circumvent these limitations, a growing body of work has started to employ more indirect measurement tools (the so-called ‘implicit measures’) to capture people’s spontaneous evaluative associations, or gut-feeling reactions, toward their partner: their implicit partner evaluations. Recent evidence suggests that implicit partner evaluations, as assessed by implicit measures, differ quite sharply from self-reported explicit evaluations and predict later relationship quality and stability, even when explicit evaluations do not. To date, however, little is known about the sources of implicit partner evaluations and the reasons why they have such powerful predictive power. The present dissertation contributes to this growing field of research in many ways by examining how implicit partner evaluations form and affect close relationships in everyday life. First, using a combination of longitudinal and observational methods, Chapter 2 provides evidence that, compared to their explicit counterparts, implicit partner evaluations remain more stable over time, are more resistant to day-to-day relationship experiences, and update gradually as relationship experiences accumulate in time. Second, Chapters 3 and 4 capitalize on diary and experimental designs to show that one of the reasons why implicit partner implicit partner evaluations have important implications for relationship maintenance is because, under specific yet prevalent conditions (i.e., when opportunities to deliberate are limited), they determine daily behaviors that are critical for long-term relational well-being, such as nonverbal communication in problem-solving conversations and forgiveness toward the partner’s offense. Third, drawing on a large dyadic sample of newlyweds, Chapter 5 further extends these findings by showing that having ambivalent implicit partner evaluations can also affect relationship functioning over time by motivating spouses to make behavioral efforts that may improve their marital problems. Last, Chapter 6 describes how studying implicit evaluations in close relationship contexts can also invigorate basic implicit social cognition research on how attitudes change and affect behavior in the real world, and inform interventions for society. Taken together, the findings from the present dissertation provide novel insights about the key role of implicit partner evaluations in relational contexts, and further illustrate the scientific and practical value of integrating research in relationship science and implicit social cognition