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Institutions or resources and capabilities? Explaining engagement in European sectoral social dialogue
We analyse social partner engagement in European sectoral social dialogue, testing two prominent theories to disentangle sector and country dynamics: institutional and resources and capabilities theories. While institutional theory accounted for certain social partner preferences, resources and capability theory proved stronger in predicting participation and provided insight into regulatory preferences. We conclude that resources and capability theory better explains our case, associating it with weaknesses of transnational governance. Specifically, limited incentives for participation mean that social partners with fewer resources forego participation, entailing pre-eminence of social partners with greater resources and hindering outcomes reflecting national institutional influences
‘You see similarities more than differences after a while’. Communities of Practice in European industrial relations. The case of the hospital European Sectoral Social Dialogue
This article looks at the hospital European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee (SSDC) through a Community of Practice (CoP) theoretical lens. Based on a 2-year project, qualitative in-depth interviews at the European level and in five Member states, and participant observation of the hospital SSDC, we propose a shift from traditional institutional and resource-based accounts and provide a learning and knowledge-focused understanding of this specific area of European industrial relations. Interpreting the SSDCs as a CoP sheds new light on the role of power relations, participation and informal activities among members and on how they work together; this, we find, can alert those interested in more effective functioning of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue on how to strengthen this supra-national level of industrial relations
Opening the black box: actors and interactions shaping European sectoral social dialogue
This article highlights the importance of organizational resources and individual capabilities for interactions and relationships among social partners in European sectoral social dialogue committees (SSDCs). We use an actor-centred approach to investigate work programme setting in the hospital and metalworking SSDCs. Our research reveals differences in how European social partner organizations coordinate and integrate members in SSDCs. In hospital, European Union (EU)-social partners build bridges that span otherwise separate actors or groups. The findings suggest that the absence of bridging efforts can lead to the dominance of a few actors. In metalworking, small cohesive groups are more effective in forming close networks and determining work programmes. While work programmes in hospital represent issues which are on national agendas, in metalworking, they focus mainly on EU policy areas
Implicit representations of luminance and the temporal structure of moving stimuli in multiple regions of human visual cortex revealed by multivariate pattern classification analysis
U-duality covariant membranes
We outline a formulation of membrane dynamics in D=8 which is fully covariant
under the U-duality group SL(2,Z) x SL(3,Z), and encodes all interactions to
fields in the eight-dimensional supergravity, which is constructed through
Kaluza-Klein reduction on T^3. Among the membrane degrees of freedom is an
SL(2,R) doublet of world-volume 2-form potentials, whose quantised electric
fluxes determine the membrane charges, and are conjectured to provide an
interpretation of the variables occurring in the minimal representation of
E_{6(6)} which appears in the context of automorphic membranes. We solve the
relevant equations for the action for a restricted class of supergravity
backgrounds. Some comments are made on supersymmetry and lower dimensions.Comment: LaTeX, 21 pages. v2: Minor changes in text, correction of a sign. v3:
some changes in text, a sign convention changed; version to appear in JHE
Ferromagnetic Domain Wall and Primeval Magnetic Field
We show that coherent magnetic field is generated spontaneously when a large
domain wall is created in the early universe. It is caused by two dimensional
massless fermions bounded to the domain wall soliton. We point out that the
magnetic field is a candidate of primordial magnetic field.Comment: zero point energy missed in previous version is include
A lung recruitment maneuver immediately before rescue surfactant therapy does not affect the lung mechanical response in immature lambs with respiratory distress syndrome.
Near-infrared evolution of the equatorial ring of SN 1987A
We use adaptive-optics imaging and integral field spectroscopy from the Very
Large Telescope, together with images from the \emph{Hubble Space Telescope},
to study the near-infrared (NIR) evolution of the equatorial ring (ER) of
SN~1987A. We study the NIR line and continuum flux and morphology over time in
order to lay the groundwork for \emph{James Webb Space Telescope} observations
of the system. We also study the differences in the interacting ring structure
and flux between optical, NIR and other wavelengths, and between line and
continuum emission, to constrain the underlying physical processes. Mostly the
evolution is similar in the NIR and optical. The morphology of the ER has been
skewed toward the west side (with roughly 2/3 of the NIR emission originating
there) since around 2010. A steady decline in the ER flux, broadly similar to
the MIR and the optical, is ongoing since roughly this time as well. The
expansion velocity of the ER hotspots in the NIR is fully consistent with the
optical. However, continuum emission forms roughly 70 per cent of the NIR
luminosity, and is relatively stronger outside the hotspot-defined extent of
the ER than the optical emission or NIR line emission since 2012--2013,
suggesting a faster-expanding continuum component. We find that this outer NIR
emission can have a significant synchrotron contribution. Even if emission from
hot (2000~K) dust is dominant within the ER, the mass of this dust must
be vanishingly small (a few ~M) compared to the total
dust mass in the ER (~M) to account for the observed
flux. The NIR continuum emission, however, expands slower than the more
diffuse 180-K dust emission that dominates in the MIR, indicating a different
source, and the same hot dust component cannot account for the -band
emission.Comment: 17 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy &
Astrophysic
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