Mahatma Gandhi and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Strategic Civil Disobedience and Great Britain’s Great Loss of Empire in India

This paper examines the relationship between statutory monopoly and collective action as a multi-person assurance game culminating in an end to British Empire in India. In a simple theoretical model, it is demonstrated whether or not a collective good enjoys (or is perceived to enjoy) pure jointness of production and why the evolutionary stable strategy of non-violence was supposed to work on the principle that the coordinated reaction of a ethnically differentiated religious crowd to a conflict between two parties (of colonizer and colonized) over confiscatory salt taxation would significantly affect its course. Following Mancur Olson (1965) and Dennis Chong (1991), a model of strategic civil disobedience is created which is used to demonstrate how collective action can be used to produce an all-or-nothing public good to achieve economic and political independence

Well-Defined and Robust Rhodium Catalysts for the Hydroacylation of Terminal and Internal Alkenes

A Rh-catalyst system based on the asymmetric ligand tBu2PCH2P(o-C6H4OMe)2 is reported that allows for the hydroacylation of challenging internal alkenes with β-substituted aldehydes. Mechanistic studies point to the stabilizing role of both excess alkene and the OMe-group

Rhodium-catalyzed branched-selective alkyne hydroacylation : a ligand-controlled regioselectivity switch

It's all in the ligand: By choice of the appropriate diphosphine ligand a previously linear-selective alkyne hydroacylation process can be “switched” to be highly branched-selective (see scheme, l=linear, b=branched). Structural data for the ortho-iPr-dppe–rhodium catalyst suggest restricted rotation of the phosphine aryl units may be responsible for the observed selectivity

Exploring (Ph2PCH2CH2)2E ligand space (E = O, S, PPh) in RhI alkene complexes as potential hydroacylation catalysts

The ligands (Ph2PCH2CH2)2E (E = O, S, PPh) have been used to form a variety of RhI cations [Rh{(Ph2PCH2CH2)2E}(alkene)]+ (alkene = methyl acrylate, trimethylvinylsilane). Variable-temperature NMR spectroscopy shows that the methyl acrylate ligands undergo a fluxional process on the metal, via a κ1-carbonyl intermediate, while the trimethylvinylsilane complexes cannot access this intermediate and do not undergo the same process. Their reactivity in hydroacylation reactions with 1-pentanal have been investigated, and these studies further suggest the important role that a chelating substituent next to the aldehyde might play in productive hydroacylation

Review of transnational nursing education programme curricula : process, findings, and recommendations

Background: The University of Wollongong (UOW) delivers two Transnational International Programmes (TNEP) in Hong Kong (HK): a 1-year undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing (Conversion) degree and a 2-year postgraduate Master of Nursing degree. A curriculum review of these programmes has been undertaken to ensure the quality of the programme remains consistently high and competitive in an international environment. Aim: The aim of the Curriculum Review Project was to utilise the experience of expert academic staff to review the TNEP curricula delivered by an Australian University in Hong Kong (HK) to ensure it met contemporary needs of students, the university, and the Hong Kong Authority. Methods: The curriculum review projects followed a qualitative research methodology. Thematic analysis was undertaken utilising Braun and Clarke's six-phase method (2006), as this method facilitated an inductive semantic approach where themes are strongly linked to the data and sourced from the explicit meaning of the discourse within the interview (Braun and Clarke, 2006). Results: In total, there were 6 participants who were all permanent academic staff members within the School of Nursing at the UOW. The results of this project have been reported within a strengths, weaknesses, opportunity, and threats (SWOT) framework. Participants recognised the value and challenges to both individual students and the broader nursing profession in HK. Overall, there was a perception that being involved as an academic staff member in a TNEP developed both their subject knowledge and teaching skills. Conclusions: This project has demonstrated that the TNEP makes an important contribution to the nursing profession in HK, while also facilitating the growth and development of academic staff at UOW