Perceptual Consciousness, Short-Term Memory, and Overflow: Replies to Beck, Orlandi and Franklin, and Phillips

A reply to commentators -- Jake Beck, Nico Orlandi and Aaron Franklin, and Ian Phillips -- on our paper "Does perceptual consciousness overflow cognitive access?"

Economic techniques to estimate the demand for sustainable products: a case study for fair trade and organic coffee in the United Kingdom

The hedonic approach is used in this paper to estimate how much is paid for the fair trade/organic characteristic of the coffee in the British market. This information is later combined with the Quantity Based Demand System (QBDS) model -developed by the authors- and the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) (Deaton and Muellbauer, 1980) to completely determine the demand function for different coffees. The QBDS model is easier to handle and less data demanding than the AIDS model in this study. Resumen El presente artículo se basa en la utilización del método hedónico para la estimación de la cantidad que se paga por la característica de "Orgánico/Comercio Justo" del café en el mercado británico. La información obtenida se combina después con el modelo Sistema de Demanda Basado en Cantidades (QBDS) - desarrollado por los autores- y el Sistema de Demanda Casi Ideal (AIDS) (Deaton and Muellbauer, 1980) para determinar por completo la función de demanda de los diferentes tipos de café. El modelo QBDS es más sencillo en su utilización y necesita de menos datos que el modelo AIDS. Palabras clave: sistemas de demanda, método hedónico, demanda de café, etiquetadodemand systems, hedonic method, coffee demand, labelling, C13, C21, D12,

Nico Castel Performance Class, January 22, 1994

This is the concert program of the Nico Castel Performance Class performance on Saturday, January 22, 1994 at 1:00 p.m., at the Boston University Opera Institute, 808 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were "Donne mie, la fate a tanti," from "Così fan tutte" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Vainemant, ma bien-aimée," from "Le Roi D'ys" by Édouard Lalo, O del mio dolce ardor by Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Una lagrima by Gaetano Donizetti, "Colloque sentimental," from "Fêtes Galantes II" by Claude Debussy, "Volta la terrea fronte alle stelle," from "Un ballo in maschera" by Giuseppe Verdi, and "Tu fosti tradito," from "La Clemenza di Tito" by W. A. Mozart. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Mondelinge geschiedenis in België en de (de-)constructie van collectieve herinnering

Wouters Nico, Aerts Koen. Mondelinge geschiedenis in Belgie en de (de-)constructie van collectieve herinnering. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 92, fasc. 2, 2014. Histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine Middeleeuwse, moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp. 503-511

Characterization of a Li-6 loaded liquid organic scintillator for fast neutron spectrometry and thermal neutron detection

The characterization of a liquid scintillator incorporating an aqueous solution of enriched lithium chloride to produce a scintillator with 0.40% Li-6 is presented, including the performance of the scintillator in terms of its optical properties and neutron response. The scintillator was incorporated into a fast neutron spectrometer, and the light output spectra from 2.5 MeV, 14.1 MeV, and Cf-252 neutrons were measured using capture-gated coincidence techniques. The spectrometer was operated without coincidence to perform thermal neutron measurements. Possible improvements in spectrometer performance are discussed.Comment: Submitted to Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 11 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Revision addresses reviewers' comment

Performe Emotionalität!« Emotion und/als (geschlechtsspezifische) Arbeit in Inscourcing des Zuhause. Menschen in Scheiss-Hotels (2001) und SEX nach Mae West (2002) von René Pollesch

Als ein Exempel zeitgenössischer Auseinandersetzung mit Emotionen auf der Bühne wird in diesem Artikel der Autor-Regisseur René Pollesch herangezogen werden, der ausgesprochen energetische Theaterproduktionen realisiert (hat), wie nicht nur der Schrei (überwiegend) in seinen frühen Inszenierungen, die rhythmisch-melodische Ausrichtung schnell geäußerter Textfluten oder etwa das komische Potential und der Unterhaltungscharakter der Stücke verdeutlichen. Pollesch erinnert bei seiner praktischen Annäherung an das Thema der Emotionen an Bertolt Brechts Episches Theater sowie dessen Diktum der Rücknahme gefühlsmäßiger Darstellung zum Zweck der Tilgung illusionistischer Verklärung. Mit diesem Vorgehen versucht Pollesch auch, einer universalistischen »Repräsentationsfalle« zu entkommen, in der er eines seiner großen Feindbilder, das Hollywood-Kino, sieht. Die dort präsentierten Liebesgeschichten oder »Schnulzen« werden bei Pollesch auf deren geschlechtsspezifische Verabredungen hin geprüft, da sie meist Heterosexualität normalisieren, Sexismen oder auch rassistische Konnotationen (re)produzieren. Bei Pollesch lässt sich dagegen beobachten, wie diese Heteronormativität als eigentliches soziales Problem (auch im Rahmen theatraler Darstellungsweisen) exponiert und diskursiv verhandelt wird

A principal-agent model of corruption

One of the new avenues in the study of political corruption is that of neo-institutional economics, of which the principal-agent theory is a part. In this article a principal-agent model of corruption is presented, in which there are two principals (one of which is corrupting), and one agent (who is corrupted). The behaviour of these principals and agent is analysed in terms of the costs and benefits associated with different actions. The model is applied to political corruption in representative democracies, showing that, contrary to common belief, the use of principal-agent models is not limited to bureaucratic corruption

Clubs within clubs: The Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the Benelux as Macro-regions within the EU

This paper deals with two examples of macro-regions in the EU: the Benelux and the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). Building on the distinction between “old” and “new” regionalism, it discusses some characteristics of regions in general, and of sub-integration schemes within the EU in particular. These characteristics are applied to the two regions at hand. From this application it follows that the CBSS can be regarded as a “new” region, whereas the Benelux is an “old” region with some elements from new regionalism.\ud The paper subsequently discusses some explanations for the emergence of macro-regions in the EU as well as the implications of this phenomenon for research on European integration

A search for massive neutral bosons in orthopositronium decay

We have searched for an exotic decay of orthopositronium into a single photon and a short-lived neutral boson in the hitherto unexplored mass region above 900 ${\rm keV}/{\it c}^{2}$, by noting that this decay is one of few remaining candidates which could explain the discrepancy of the orthopositronium decay-rate. A high-resolution measurement of the associated photon energy spectrum was carried out with a germanium detector to search for a sharp peak from this two-body decay. Our negative result provides the upper-limits of\mbox{ }$2.0 \times 10^{-4}$ on the branching ratio of such a decay in the mass region from 847 to 1013 ${\rm keV}/{\it c}^{2}$, and excludes the possibility of this decay mode explaining the discrepancy in the orthopositronium decay-rate.Comment: a LaTeX file (text 7 pages) and a uuencoded gz-compressed PostScript file (text 7 pages + figures 4 pages