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Viable tax constitutions
Taxation is only sustainable if the general public complies with it. This observation is uncontroversial with tax practitioners but has been ignored by the public finance tradition, which has interpreted tax constitutions as binding contracts by which the power to tax is irretrievably conferred by individuals to government, which can then levy any tax it chooses. However, in the absence of an outside party enforcing contracts between members of a group, no arrangement within groups can be considered to be a binding contract, and therefore the power of tax must be sanctioned by individuals on an ongoing basis. In this paper we offer, for the first time, a theoretical analysis of this fundamental compliance problem associated with taxation, obtaining predictions that in some cases point to a re-interptretation of the theoretical constructions of the public finance tradition while in others call them into question
Faunal Remains: Results by Species
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-2635This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial 4.0 license. Copyright is retained by the author(s). The attached file is the published version of the article
Story in health and social care
This paper offers a brief consideration of how narrative, in the form of people‟s own stories, potentially figures in health and social care provision as part of the impulse towards patient-centred care. The rise of the epistemological legitimacy of patients‟ stories is sketched here. The paper draws upon relevant literature and original writing to consider the ways in which stories can mislead as well as illuminate the process of making individual treatment care plans
Coordinated Adenine Nucleotide Phosphohydrolysis and Nucleoside Signaling in Posthypoxic Endothelium: Role of Ectonucleotidases and Adenosine A2B Receptors
Limited oxygen delivery to tissues (hypoxia) is common in a variety of disease states. A number of parallels exist between hypoxia and acute inflammation, including the observation that both influence vascular permeability. As such, we compared the functional influence of activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) on normoxic and posthypoxic endothelial cells. Initial studies indicated that activated PMN preferentially promote endothelial barrier function in posthypoxic endothelial cells (>60% increase over normoxia). Extension of these findings identified at least one soluble mediator as extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Subsequent studies revealed that ATP is coordinately hydrolyzed to adenosine at the endothelial cell surface by hypoxia-induced CD39 and CD73 (>20-and >12-fold increase in mRNA, respectively). Studies in vitro and in cd39-null mice identified these surface ecto-enzymes as critical control points for posthypoxia-associated protection of vascular permeability. Furthermore, insight gained through microarray analysis revealed that the adenosine A2B receptor (AdoRA2B) is selectively up-regulated by hypoxia (>5-fold increase in mRNA), and that AdoRA2B antagonists effectively neutralize ATP-mediated changes in posthypoxic endothelial permeability. Taken together, these results demonstrate transcription coordination of adenine nucleotide and nucleoside signaling at the vascular interface during hypoxia
Radiative decays of decuplet hyperons
We calculate the radiative decay widths of decuplet hyperons in a chiral
constituent quark model including electromagnetic exchange currents between
quarks. Exchange currents contribute significantly to the E2 transition
amplitude, while they largely cancel for the M1 transition amplitude.
Strangeness suppression of the radiative hyperon decays is found to be weakened
by exchange currents. Differences and similarities between our results and
other recent model predictions are discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 1 eps figure, revtex, accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
NN interaction in a Goldstone boson exchange model
Adiabatic nucleon-nucleon potentials are calculated in a six-quark
nonrelativistic chiral constituent quark model where the Hamiltonian contains a
linear confinement and a pseudoscalar meson (Goldstone boson) exchange
interaction between quarks. Calculations are performed both in a cluster model
and a molecular orbital basis, through coupled channels. In both cases the
potentials present an important hard core at short distances, explained through
the dominance of the [51]_{FS} configuration, but do not exhibit an attractive
pocket. We add a scalar meson exchange interaction and show how it can account
for some middle-range attraction.Comment: 32 pages with 12 eps figures incorporated, RevTeX. Final version
published in PR
Nucleation of Al3Zr and Al3Sc in aluminum alloys: from kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to classical theory
Zr and Sc precipitate in aluminum alloys to form the compounds Al3Zr and
Al3Sc which for low supersaturations of the solid solution have the L12
structure. The aim of the present study is to model at an atomic scale this
kinetics of precipitation and to build a mesoscopic model based on classical
nucleation theory so as to extend the field of supersaturations and annealing
times that can be simulated. We use some ab-initio calculations and
experimental data to fit an Ising model describing thermodynamics of the Al-Zr
and Al-Sc systems. Kinetic behavior is described by means of an atom-vacancy
exchange mechanism. This allows us to simulate with a kinetic Monte Carlo
algorithm kinetics of precipitation of Al3Zr and Al3Sc. These kinetics are then
used to test the classical nucleation theory. In this purpose, we deduce from
our atomic model an isotropic interface free energy which is consistent with
the one deduced from experimental kinetics and a nucleation free energy. We
test di erent mean-field approximations (Bragg-Williams approximation as well
as Cluster Variation Method) for these parameters. The classical nucleation
theory is coherent with the kinetic Monte Carlo simulations only when CVM is
used: it manages to reproduce the cluster size distribution in the metastable
solid solution and its evolution as well as the steady-state nucleation rate.
We also find that the capillary approximation used in the classical nucleation
theory works surprisingly well when compared to a direct calculation of the
free energy of formation for small L12 clusters.Comment: submitted to Physical Review B (2004
Moment Closure - A Brief Review
Moment closure methods appear in myriad scientific disciplines in the
modelling of complex systems. The goal is to achieve a closed form of a large,
usually even infinite, set of coupled differential (or difference) equations.
Each equation describes the evolution of one "moment", a suitable
coarse-grained quantity computable from the full state space. If the system is
too large for analytical and/or numerical methods, then one aims to reduce it
by finding a moment closure relation expressing "higher-order moments" in terms
of "lower-order moments". In this brief review, we focus on highlighting how
moment closure methods occur in different contexts. We also conjecture via a
geometric explanation why it has been difficult to rigorously justify many
moment closure approximations although they work very well in practice.Comment: short survey paper (max 20 pages) for a broad audience in
mathematics, physics, chemistry and quantitative biolog
A partial wave analysis of the centrally produced pi0pi0 system in pp interactions at 450 GeV/c
A partial wave analysis of the centrally produced pi0pi0 channel has been
performed in pp collisions using an incident beam momentum of 450 GeV/c. An
unambiguous physical solution has been found. Evidence is found for the
f0(980), f0(1300) and f0(1500) in the the S-wave. and the f2(1270) is observed
dominantly in the D0-wave. In addition, there is evidence for a broad
enhancement in the D-wave below 1 GeV.Comment: 12 pages, Latex, 4 Figure
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