Hybrid Level Aspect Subconvexity for GL(2)×GL(1)GL(2)\times GL(1) Rankin-Selberg LL-Functions

Let $M$ be a squarefree positive integer and $P$ a prime number coprime to $M$ such that $P\sim M^\eta$ with $0 < \eta < 2/5$. We simplify the proof of subconvexity bounds for $L(\frac{1}{2},f\otimes\chi)$ when $f$ is a primitive holomorphic cusp form of level $P$ and $\chi$ is a primitive Dirichlet character modulo $M$. These bounds are attained through an unamplified second moment method using a modified version of the delta method due to R. Munshi. The technique is similar to that used by Duke-Friedlander-Iwaniec save for the modification of the delta method.Comment: Correct bounds for j-Bessel functions and add definition of Kloosterman sum associated to cups. Main result is not change

AUSSAT mobile satellite services

An overview of AUSSAT's planned mobile satellite system is given. The development program which is being undertaken to achieve the 1992 service date is described. Both business and technical aspects of the development program are addressed

Birth Outcomes as a Lens to Understanding the Hispanic Health Paradox

The research investigates the “Latino health paradox” through the health determinant of birth outcomes and two levels of intersectionality expressed within the context of the cultural, the economic, and the political. The first level of intersection identifies that there are factors behind the identifier “Mexican migrant mother” which provide a more comprehensive understanding of the health paradox. The second level of intersection defines the component of “health”. It classifies “life” into three tailored spheres, cultural, economic, and political, seeking to understand the impact of these spheres on the health of the subject, Mexican Migrant Mothers. The cultural sphere embodies nutritional practices, the family, and religiosity. The economic sphere encompasses socioeconomic status, residential enclaves, and income stability. Lastly, the political sphere is associated with affordable healthcare, internal bordering, and access to citizenship. This research found there are multiple reasons why un-acculturated Mexican women with lower socioeconomic status have healthier babies compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts; however, there is one prevalent factor that appears as a causal factor… diet. Newly migrated families tend to adhere to a more traditional diet consisting of less processed foods, more vegetables, and whole foods than their fellow immigrant counterparts who have resided within the United States for greater periods of time. Prompting the correlation that this diet is related to healthier babies. There are multiple social, physiological, political, and economic factors why immigrants acclimatize to the American diet. Clearly, this is an area for additional future longitudinal study designs and qualitative research to determine a timeframe and factors for American diet acclimatization and its effects on birth outcomes over generations of migrants. This additional study could improve the long-term health of the entire Mexican American culture and reduce the debilitating effects the American diet creates with diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and overall quality of life

A Review of Third Sector Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: 1990–2016

This is the first comprehensive overview of third sector research in Australasia, prepared by leading researchers, Jenny Onyx in Australia and Garth Nowland-Foreman in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines both the current state of knowledge of the sector and also the research infrastructure behind the sector. Part one documents the size and scope of the sector, as well as the development of the organisation ANZTSR and its journal. Part two examines relations with the state in each country, the rapid growth in funding services, but also effects of neo-liberal ideological and policy constraints. Part Three documents the current state of volunteering and philanthropy (giving) in both countries. Part Four examines the world of citizen action, building social capital within local communities, and also advocacy and political protest. The concluding Part Five examines some of the current developments in civil society, new emerging forms, and challenges for the future

Influence of loneliness and rejection sensitivity on threat sensitivity in romantic relationships in young and middle-aged adults

There are individual differences in sensitivity to threats, but no research has examined risk factors for threat sensitivity in romantic relationships (RTS). Both loneliness and rejection sensitivity are associated with threat sensitivity, but no studies have examined whether these factors are associated with RTS in particular. The current study examined the influence of loneliness and rejection sensitivity (RS) on RTS in two cohorts: 18-35 (n = 166) and over 35 year olds (n = 153). We examined relationships between the variables, but also examined whether RS had mediating and/or moderating effects on the relationship between loneliness and RTS. Results showed (1) loneliness and RS were positively associated with RTS, (2) RS mediated the relationship between loneliness and RTS, (3) loneliness was higher in the older group, and (4) for women loneliness was not dependent on relationship status, but men were lonelier and more sensitive to rejection if they were not in a romantic relationship. The results indicate that those who are lonely and higher on rejection sensitivity may need support in their romantic relationships to avoid a hypersensitivity to threats; this is particularly important for men, whose loneliness and RS were dependent on relationship status

Should I trust you? Neural processing of unconscious influences on trustworthiness judgements

Should I trust you? Neural processing of unconscious influences on trustworthiness judgement

Domesticating San Francisco: Home, Women, and Womanhood in a Settler Colonial City, 1849 – 1900

This thesis examines how white, middle class, Protestant American women and their allies transported the East coast’s leading nineteenth-century value system – domesticity – westward and enlisted it in a settler colonial project between 1849 and 1900. By linking home building and benevolent labour to discourses of race, empire, and civilization, it reveals the crucial role reserved for women and concepts of ‘womanhood’ in ‘Americanising’ a Far Western city that was largely populated in early years of U.S. rule by a heterogeneous, homosocial, and often unruly male population. San Francisco’s isolation from established Eastern communities led to an adjusted, pliable version of domestic ideology developing in the West that has received little scholarly attention. In a gendered inversion of Frederick Jackson Turner’s infamous and male-dominated 1893 frontier thesis, this is termed ‘frontier domesticity’. The thesis sheds light on the transformation domestic ideology underwent as, like thousands of hopeful settlers, it travelled across recently annexed lands to San Francisco. Employing ideas about women, womanhood, and homes in efforts to reform what I term the anti-domestic orders of miners and sailors – and violently exclude California’s Chinese – reveal San Francisco’s ‘Americanisation’ hinged on understandings of the city’s private sphere, alongside the better-known public realm of politics and mass culture that have predominantly been scholars’ focus. Domesticity is treated as a protean discourse which, while resting on the idealisation of pure white womanhood, proved malleable enough to justify ambitious schemes for female emigration, women’s interventions in debates over men’s work and play, and racist assaults on immigrant enclaves. Its class, race, and religious limits, though, made advocates of transplanting domesticity to the West prone to contradiction. The thesis encourages historians to conceptualise women’s efforts in domestic reform in San Francisco and the wider West as an important component of the nation’s imperialist and expansionist vision

How does the brain encode distinct values? Electrophysiological evidence for the common currency hypothesis

How does the brain encode distinct values? Electrophysiological evidence for the common currency hypothesi