Detroit to Flint and Back Again: Solidarity Forever

For several years the authors have been working in Detroit with grassroots coalitions resisting Emergency Management. In this essay, we focus on how community groups in Detroit and Flint advanced common struggles for clean, safe, affordable water as a human right, particularly during the period of 2014 to 2016. We explore how, through a series of direct interventions – including public meetings and international gatherings, independent journalism and social media, community-based research projects, and citizen-led policy initiatives – these groups contributed to challenging neoliberal governance, to undermining the legitimacy of state officials and their policies, and to shifting public consciousness around the human right to water

Moore’s Law and Space Exploration: New Insights and Next Steps

Understanding how technology changes over time is important for industry, science, and government policy. Empirical examination of the capability of technologies across various domains reveals that they often progress at an exponential rate. In addition, mathematical models of technological development have proven successful in deepening our understanding. One area that has not been shown to demonstrate exponential trends, until recently, has been space travel. This paper will present plots illustrating trends in the mean lifespan of satellites whose lifespans ended in a given year. Our study identifies both Wright’s law and Moore’s law regressions. For the Moore’s law regression, we found a doubling time of approximately 15 years. For Wright’s law we can see an approximate doubling of lifespan with every doubling of accumulated launches. We conclude by presenting a conundrum generated by the use of Moore’s law that is the subject of ongoing research

\u3ci\u3eMetaphasia\u3c/i\u3e: Shelley and the Language of Remoter Worlds

The aim of this project was to trace the evolution of Percy Shelley\u27s metaphasic narrative, or language of the dead, chronologically through the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Mont Blanc, and Prometheus Unbound. Proceeding from Earl Wasserman\u27s detailed map of Shelley\u27s mythopoeic structure, I charted this evolution while identifying a fifth discrete entity within the mythological hierarchy of what Harold Bloom has characterized as a mythopoeic trilogy (36). Concurrently, I examined the ongoing debate concerning Shelley\u27s influences, as well as the early formation of his personality, as it pertains to the poems in question, and his fascination with worlds beyond the grave

Metaphasia: Shelley and the Language of Remoter Worlds

The aim of this project was to trace the evolution of Percy Shelley\u27s metaphasic narrative, or language of the dead, chronologically through the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Mont Blanc, and Prometheus Unbound. Proceeding from Earl Wasserman\u27s detailed map of Shelley\u27s mythopoeic structure, I charted this evolution while identifying a fifth discrete entity within the mythological hierarchy of what Harold Bloom has characterized as a mythopoeic trilogy (36). Concurrently, I examined the ongoing debate concerning Shelley\u27s influences, as well as the early formation of his personality, as it pertains to the poems in question, and his fascination with worlds beyond the grave

Further investigations into the term structure of interest rates

Recent empirical term structure literature questions the usefulness of the standard three-parameter yield curve model in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and the widespread adoption of unconventional monetary policies, such as Large-scale Asset Purchases (LSAP). This thesis builds on these concerns by extracting a new parameter from the term structure that measures the position of the traditional hump in the yield curve along the maturity axis. My alternative decomposition of the term structure makes it easier to track-down the influence of quantities on interest rates. Given that Treasuries are held as safe assets by many investor types, I interpret the new parameter as a gauge of investors’ risk appetite. It is time-varying and pro-cyclical, leading the business cycle and indexes of financial stress by several months and forming part of the risk-taking policy transmission channel. My results contradict the widely-held view from event studies that LSAP reduce long-term Treasury yields. They can also explain the often divergent relative movements between Treasury term premia and the premia on risky assets, such as corporate credits

INFO 2009 Coursework 2 - Go Green - Group 7 - Green ICT

A Website on GREEN ICT by the Go Green Group as a part of the resource set made for the Info2009 2011-12 coursewor