Untapped potential: How the G20 can strengthen global governance

The G20 has two distinctive features that make it a unique forum in global politics. First, it is one of the few existing global platforms where different international institutions and regional organisations can coordinate across a vast array of issue areas and emergent policy fields. Second, it is an institution that brings together heads of government which control roughly 80% of world GDP. Despite these features, the G20 lacks constitutive authority of its own, bound by a consensus principle which sharply delimits its scope of action. Notwithstanding its circumspect authority, no recent international body has garnered more attention from transnational civil society groups and advocacy networks than the G20. Most of this attention is critical and points to legitimacy problems. We argue that these legitimacy problems derive from a perception of untapped potential and undue privilege for great powers. Against this backdrop, we submit that a more active and institutionalised forum – with clear decision-making procedures for exercising authority – could help mitigate resistance and contribute to a more legitimate global governance system overall

A Counterexample for Lightning Flash Modules over E(e1,e2)

We give a counterexample to Theorem 5 in Section 18.2 of Margolis' book, "Spectra and the Steenrod Algebra", and make remarks about the proofs of some later theorems in the book that depend on it. The counterexample is a module which does not split as a sum of lightning flash modules and free modules.Comment: 2 pages. Revision corrects a typo in the definition of M(n

Prenatal Injury: Recovery or Anomaly?

Prenatal Injury: Recovery or Anomaly

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Priorities Survey Report: The Medical System and the Uninsured

Presents results of a survey on the healthcare system, priorities for reform, and views on the uninsured, a public insurance plan, and individual mandates, compared with other surveys. Analyzes how the way reform elements are described affects responses

Antigen-presenting cells and antigen presentation in tertiary lymphoid organs

Tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) form in territorialized niches of peripheral tissues characterized by the presence of antigens; however, little is known about mechanism(s) of antigen handling by ectopic lymphoid structures. In this mini review, we will discuss the role of antigen-presenting cells and mechanisms of antigen presentation in TLOs, summarizing what is currently known about this facet of the formation and function of these tissues as well as identifying questions yet to be addressed

Towards the Synthesis of IPv7

The understanding of IPv6 has refined wide-area networks, and current trends suggest that the emulation of extreme programming will soon emerge. After years of typical research into suffix trees, we prove the study of symmetric encryption, which embodies the significant principles of steganography. In this position paper, we validate that while checksums and spreadsheets can agree to fix this issue, cache coherence and A* search can interact to achieve this purpose