East Midlands strategic distribution study

This study assesses the importance of the logistics sector to the economy of the East Midlands and provides an understanding of land requirements and demand for sites from logistics companies in the region in the short, medium and long term

The Monopole Equations in Topological Yang-Mills

We twist the monopole equations of Seiberg and Witten and show how these equations are realized in topological Yang-Mills theory. A Floer derivative and a Morse functional are found and are used to construct a unitary transformation between the usual Floer cohomologies and those of the monopole equations. Furthermore, these equations are seen to reside in the vanishing self-dual curvature condition of an $OSp(1|2)$-bundle. Alternatively, they may be seen arising directly from a vanishing self-dual curvature condition on an $SU(2)$-bundle in which the fermions are realized as spanning the tangent space for a specific background.Comment: 7 pgs., LaTeX (fullpage

Hermiticity and the Cohomology Condition in Topological Yang-Mills Theory

The symmetries of the topological Yang-Mills theory are studied in the Hamiltonian formalism and the generators of the twisted N=2 superPoincar\'e algebra are explicitly constructed. Noting that the twisted Lorentz generators do not generate the Lorentz symmetry of the theory, we relate the two by extracting from the latter the twisted version of the internal SU(2) generator. The hermiticity properties of the various generators are also considered throughout, and the boost generators are found to be non-hermitian. We then recover the BRST cohomology condition on physical states from representation theory arguments.Comment: 19 pages, MIT-CTP 223

Tax Contracts and Elections

In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We consider a political game in which three parties compete to form the government. Parties have policy preferences about the level of public-good provision and benefit from perks when in office. A government raises taxes for both purposes. We show that tax contracts yield moderate policies and lead to lower perks by avoiding the formation of grand coalitions in order to win government. Moreover, in polarized societies they unambigously improve the welfare of the median voter.political contracts, elections, government formation, tax promise

Crossing the Borders of Language and Culture: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

The aim of the paper is to compare four versions of the text of Waitingfor Godot: the French original, Beckett’s own translation into English and two Polish renderings done by Julian Rogoziński and Antoni Libera. The article starts with a short discussion concerning rules governing the translation process and then its evaluation. While working on the transposition of the French original into English, Beckett introduced numerous changes, this being due to his sensitivity to the very quality of each of the languages and specific references characteristic of the two cultures. Antoni Libera, an expert in Beckett’s oeuvre, argues that Beckett’s translations should be more adequately described as second language versions and that the artist recommended further translations based on his two language versions. Libera himself followed this recommendation while translating Beckett’s works into Polish. Upon publication, he provided illuminating notes, shedding light on the differences in Beckett’s versions and providing critical insight into the texts. Julian Rogoziński, on the other hand, based his translation of Waiting for Godot only on the French original. This accounts for the fact that, at times, his rendering of the text lacks precision and may not even be quite understandable. Rogoziński’s version is less satisfactory than that of Libera due to the fact that it was written earlier and by an older man, which at times results in the use of old-fashioned, outdated Polish diction and structures

Taize jako przyklad dialogu kultur we wspolczesnym swiecie.Wplyw programu na zycie mlodziezy (Taize as an Example of Cultural Dialogue in a ContemPorary World. Influence of the Programme on the Life of Youth)

Стаття присвячена програмі Taizé та її впливу на сучасне життя молоді. Авторка намагається показати, що існують інші можливості порозуміння, ніж просто слова. Коли Брат Роже зібрав Спільноту, вона складалася з кількох братів. Він зробив, здавалося б, неможливе – тепер завдяки йому тисячі молодих людей з цілого світу збираються разом, щоб молитися та пізнати інші культури. Як йому це вдалося, що є секретом його успіху і що про це говорять звичайні люди – про це розповідається в цій статті. (Topic is describing Taizé programme and its influence on the present-day life of youth. Author is trying to show the possibilities of communication on completely different level than just by words. When Brother Roger gathered the community it counted just a few brothers. He managed to gain such success that now thousands of young people are gathering to pray and get into the cultural dialogue. How come he did it, what is the secret of his success and what real people say about it – all of these is described in the article.

Mechanisms of urban change: Regeneration companies or development corporations?

This article is an early assessment of the role and performance of URCs, benchmarked against the UDC model. It identified weaknesses and vulnerability of URCs in relation to control over land

Wieczne choro za Bałkanem – „Rycerz” Wery Mutafczijewej w korowodzie bułgarskich diabłów

Kim jest Romajos? Materiały z konferencji studencko-doktoranckiej, 25-26 kwietnia 2014 r., ŁódźPublikacja sfinansowana ze środków przyznanych przez Prorektora UŁ ds. studenckich i toku studió

Public perceptions of tidal energy: Can you predict social acceptability across coastal communities in England?

Early consideration of potential societal issues faced by the nascent tidal industry is important to facilitate public engagement and potentially avoid levels of conflict that have arisen within other renewable energy sectors; general expressions of public support (as reported in national-scale attitude surveys) do not always translate into approval for local developments. It is a very appealing idea that the likely response of different types of communities to marine energy developments can be mapped and used to support planning. This study examined the attitudes of 963 people in South West England to hypothetical local tidal energy projects, analysing the results both by geographic location and according to the coastal community typology developed for England by the Marine Management Organisation. With the exception of age, demographic variables had little influence on the level of opposition to tidal energy, which instead was affected more by factors such as attitudes towards tidal energy in general (in particular its likely environmental impact), activities undertaken at the coast, and place attachment. These significant factors are typically not captured by the national census data used to determine community types. Any predictions about the acceptability of energy projects made as a result of community mapping based on demographic variables will not be a substitute for thorough public engagement and consultation, which should centre on the implications of tidal developments for the environment