Regulatory Agencies, the State and Markets: A Franco-British Comparison

The article examines whether and how independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) have altered the strategies, relationships and power of French policy makers in markets and whether they led to convergence with Britain in state-market relations. It relates these questions to broader debates about the extent to which previous policy-making systems have been transformed, whether Europe has one regulatory state or several, whether France has become a form of 'liberal market economy' and the power of the state after reform of markets. It argues that although, as in Britain, France has established IRAs with responsibilities for ensuring competition in key economic domains, French state strategies remained very different from British ones and markets operate very differently in the two countries. Moreover, the break with the past has been limited: public policy makers continue to have significant capacities to mould markets and delegation to IRAs has often reinforced the power of existing elites and aided the adaptation of traditional French industrial strategies to new conditions. Thus even if France has adopted the formal institutions of competitive markets, it has not converged with a liberal market economy such as Britain in terms of strategies and behaviour. State forms and instruments may have altered, but an activist French industrial policy is alive and well.regulation, independent regulatory agencies, electricity, 3G mobiles

Facilitating Tino Rangatiratanga in Māori sport and recreation : a case study of Māori Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Whātōtō : 'Kaua e mate wheke, me mate Uroroa' Don't die like an octopus, die like a hammerhead shark : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Māori Studies at Massey University,Albany, New Zealand

This thesis examines Tino ‘Rangātiratanga (self-determination) of Māori Sport and Recreation (MS&R) in Aotearoa (New Zealand) in particular Māori Brazilian Jiu Jitsu movement (MBJJ) Whātōtō in Aotearoa. For the purpose of this thesis Sport and ‘recreation acts as a reference to all organized physical and recreational activities inclusive of Whātōtō Māori BJJ movement. Whātōtō is an ancient Māori wrestling pastime; its origins go back to the creation story of ‘Ranginui and Papatuanuku sky father and earth mother. This research does not examine the origins or history of Whātōtō but explores the potential influence Whātōtō Māori BJJ has on the development of Māori sport and recreation and the role of Māori organizations as facilitators of MS&R development. Within the broader development context MS&R‘ development, Māori development and Māori Community Development will be explored within a Māori organizational framework. The theories of Community Development and Empowerment are explored to counteract the further disenfranchising of Tino Rangatiratanga. This will provide a historical context by which a review of multiple challenges MS&R are confronted with in New Zealand’s political, economic, social and cultural environment. The Treaty of Waitangi will be explored as a primary tool to support the case for greater investment and equal representation of Māori not only on the playing field but on all levels of sport and recreation development in Aotearoa. The literature will look at the impacts of institutional racism and racism in sport in New Zealand and how Maori are reorganising and strategizing to empower their whanau, hapu and Iwi aspirations. The research explores Māori philosophies and practices and how these are applied to Maori sport and recreation development. The methodological processes used in this study are Kaupapa Māori theory and grounded theory. The data will be analyzed using grounded theory and content analysis to provide the researcher with themes from which to provide further discussion of the findings in the research

A parasitic copepod, Perulernaea gamitanae gen. et sp. nov. (Cyclopoida: Lernaeidae), from the nasal fossae of a Peruvian Amazon food fish

The female of Perulernaea gamitanae gen. et sp. nov. (Copepoda: Cyclopoida: Lernaeidae) is described from the nasal fossae of an important food fish, Colossoma macropomum (CUVIER), collected in the Peruvian Amazon near lquitos. The new genus differs from others in the family by having blunt head anchors, a well defined slender "neck", a fusiform hindbody, uropods, four pairs of well separated legs, genital pores which are post-equatorial in the hindbody and multiseriate egg sacs. The host is one of the largest freshwater fish of the Amazon region and is of considerable economic importance

Cryptographic Methods with a Pli Cachete: Towards the Computational Assurance of Integrity

Unreproducibility stemming from a loss of data integrity can be prevented with hash functions, secure sketches, and Benford's Law when combined with the historical practice of a Pli Cacheté where scientific discoveries were archived with a 3rd party to later prove the date of discovery. Including the distinct systems of preregistation and data provenance tracking becomes the starting point for the creation of a complete ontology of scientific documentation. The ultimate goals in such a system--ideally mandated--would rule out several forms of dishonesty, catch computational and database errors, catch honest mistakes, and allow for automated data audits of large collaborative open science projects

Precision heat forming of tetrafluoroethylene tubing

An invention that provides a method of altering the size of tetrafluoroethylene tubing which is only available in limited combination of wall thicknesses and diameter are discussed. The method includes the steps of sliding the tetrafluoroethylene tubing onto an aluminum mandrel and clamping the ends of the tubing to the mandrel by means of clamps. The tetrafluorethylene tubing and mandrel are then placed in a supporting coil which with the mandrel and tetrafluorethylene tubing are then positioned in a insulated steel pipe which is normally covered with a fiber glass insulator to smooth out temperature distribution therein. The entire structure is then placed in an event which heats the tetrafluorethylene tubing which is then shrunk by the heat to the outer dimension of the aluminum mandrel. After cooling the aluminum mandrel is removed from the newly sized tetrafluorethylene tubing by a conventional chemical milling process

Fracturing Jazz, Freeing Fusion: Miles Davis’s Role in Counterculture Rock

The paper details Miles Davis\u27s influence in the counterculture rock and roll movement through his development of jazz fusion and his personal connections with rock musicians of the period, as well the overlap in musical ideology that occurred when both rock and jazz began to incorporate elements of each others\u27 styles

Birefringent Electroweak Textures

The behaviour of electromagnetic waves propagating through an electroweak homilia string network is examined. This string network is topologically stable as a cosmic texture, and is characterized by the spatial variation of the isospin rotation of the Higgs field. As a consequence the photon field couples to the intermediate vector bosons, producing a finite range electromagnetic field. It is found that the propagation speed of the photon depends on its polarization vector, whence an homilia string network acts as a birefringent medium. We estimate the birefringent scale for this texture and show that it depends on the frequency of the electromagnetic wave and the length scale of the homilia string network.Comment: 10 page

The parasitic crustaceans of fishes from the Brazilian Amazon. 10 - Acusicola pellonidis n.sp. (Copepoda: Cyclopidae) from Pellona castelnaeana (VALENCIENNES)

The female of Acusicola pellonidis n. sp. (Copepoda : Cyclopidea) is described from the gills of an Amazonian fish, Pellona castelnaeana (VALENCIENNES). The new species is distinguished from all others known for the genus by its larger size, longer antennae, sparse pigmentation and by the presence of a Y-shaped reinforcing structure in the dorsal wall of the cephalothorax. Keywords : parasitism, Crustaceans, fishes, Amazo