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Growth, profits and technological choice: The case of the Lancashire cotton textile industry
Using Lancashire textile industry company case studies and financial records, mainly from the period just before the First World War, the processes of growth and decline are re-examined. These are considered by reference to the nature of Lancashire entrepreneurship and the impact on technological choice. Capital accumulation, associated wealth distributions and the character of Lancashire business organisation were sybiotically linked to the success of the industry before 1914. However, the legacy of that accumulation in later decades, chronic overcapacity, formed a barrier to reconstruction and enhanced the preciptious decline of a once great industry
Analytic continuation of the Hurwitz Zeta Function with physical application
A new formula relating the analytic continuation of the Hurwitz zeta function
to the Euler gamma function and a polylogarithmic function is presented. In
particular, the values of the first derivative of the real part of the analytic
continuation of the Hurwitz zeta function for even negative integers and the
imaginary one for odd negative integers are explicitly given. The result can be
of interest both on mathematical and physical side, because we are able to
apply our new formulas in the context of the Spectral Zeta Function
regularization, computing the exact pair production rate per space-time unit of
massive Dirac particles interacting with a purely electric background field.Comment: Replaced version, minor changes. 9 pages, to be published in J. Math.
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Conflict Management Strategies And Manifest Conflict: Do They Matter In Buyer/Seller Relationships?
This study addresses the gap in research concerning conflict and conflict management in buyer/seller relationships. Two types of manifest conflict, functional and dysfunctional, were tested to determine the distinct effect of each on the buyer/seller relationship and to determine if the two types of conflict are determined in some way by the choice of one of five management strategies available to the seller
Quantum corrections to Higher-Dimensional Theories
This is a non-technical summary of the subtleties of quantum corrections on
extra-dimensional theories: should one first renormalize and then mode expand,
or first expand in four-dimensional modes and then renormalize?Comment: 9 pages, based on a talk at IRGAC 2006, Barcelon
Radiative corrections to the Casimir effect for the massive scalar field
We compute the correction to the Casimir energy for the massive
model confined between a pair of parallel plates. The
calculations are made with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The
correction is shown to be sensitive to the boundary conditions, except in the
zero mass limit, in which case our results agree with those found in the
literature.Comment: 6 pages. Work presented at the XXIII Brazilian National Meeting on
Particles and Fields (Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil, 15-19 Oct 2002). Also
available at http://www.sbf1.if.usp.br/eventos/enfpc/xxiii/procs/RES142.pd
Neck atonia with a focal stimulation-induced seizure arising from the SMA: pathophysiological considerations.
A 28-year-old patient with pharmacoresistant non-lesional right frontal epilepsy underwent extra-operative intracranial EEG recordings and electrical cortical stimulation (ECS) to map eloquent cortex. Right supplementary motor area (SMA) ECS induced a brief seizure with habitual symptoms involving neck tingling followed by asymmetric tonic posturing. An additional feature was neck atonia. During atonia and sensory aura, discharges were seen in the mesial frontal electrodes and precentral gyrus. Besides motor signs, atonia, although rare and not described in the neck muscles, and sensations have been reported with SMA stimulation. The mechanisms underlying neck atonia in seizures arising from the SMA can be explained by supplementary negative motor area (SNMA) - though this was not mapped in electrodes overlying the ictal onset zone in our patient - or primary sensorimotor cortex activation through rapid propagation. Given the broad spectrum of signs elicited by SMA stimulation and rapid spread of seizures arising from the SMA, caution should be taken to not diagnose these as non-epileptic, as had previously occurred in this patient
Direct numerical simulations of statistically steady, homogeneous, isotropic fluid turbulence with polymer additives
We carry out a direct numerical simulation (DNS) study that reveals the
effects of polymers on statistically steady, forced, homogeneous, isotropic
fluid turbulence. We find clear manifestations of dissipation-reduction
phenomena: On the addition of polymers to the turbulent fluid, we obtain a
reduction in the energy dissipation rate, a significant modification of the
fluid energy spectrum, especially in the deep-dissipation range, a suppression
of small-scale intermittency, and a decrease in small-scale vorticity
filaments. We also compare our results with recent experiments and earlier DNS
studies of decaying fluid turbulence with polymer additives.Comment: consistent with the published versio
Isolation and characterization of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from seafoods along the southwest coast of India
The work was aimed to study the microbial
quality of the seafood sold in the domestic markets and incidence
of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Samples comprising of
shellfish, finfish, and cephalopodswere collected fromvarious
fish markets in and around Cochin. Presumed V. parahaemolyticus
were identified by standard biochemical tests, and
further confirmed by polymerase chain reaction targeting
species-specific tl gene (450 bp)
A survey of the incidence of lupinosis in sheep in the Dandaragan district in 1959
FOLLOWING widespread losses of sheep grazing on dry lupins, a survey of flockowners\u27 experience with the disease was made by the Department of Agriculture in one of the districts most affected.
The idea of a survey originated from discussions with the President, Mr. K. E. Jones, and several other members of the Dandaragan Pasture Improvement Group.
The information obtained from the survey has provided a valuable factual basis for the design of laboratory and field experiments
Delay of Disorder by Diluted Polymers
We study the effect of diluted flexible polymers on a disordered capillary
wave state. The waves are generated at an interface of a dyed water sugar
solution and a low viscous silicon oil. This allows for a quantitative
measurement of the spatio-temporal Fourier spectrum. The primary pattern after
the first bifurcation from the flat interface are squares. With increasing
driving strength we observe a melting of the square pattern. It is replaced by
a weak turbulent cascade. The addition of a small amount of polymers to the
water layer does not affect the critical acceleration but shifts the disorder
transition to higher driving strenghs and the short wave length - high
frequency fluctuations are suppressed
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