Warsaw, Town of and International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 264

In the Matter of Impasse in Negotiations between TOWN OF WARSAW and INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL 264 (WARSAW HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT). PERB Case M2006-282. Edward A. Schmidt, Fact Finder

Theorizing ideas and discourse in political science: intersubjectivity, neo-institutionalisms, and the power of ideas

Oscar Larsson’s (2015) essay condemns discursive institutionalism for the “sin” of subjectivism. In reality, however, discursive institutionalism emphasizes the intersubjective nature of ideas through its theorization of agents’ “background ideational abilities” and “foreground discursive abilities.” It also avoids relativism by means of Wittgenstein’s distinction between experiences of everyday life and pictures of the world. Contrary to Larsson, what truly separates post-structuralism from discursive institutionalism is the respective approaches’ theorization of the relationship of power to ideas, with discursive institutionalists mainly focused on persuasive power through ideas, while post-structuralists focus on the structural power in ideas or on coercive power over ideas

Diophantine approximation on Veech surfaces

We show that Y. Cheung's general $Z$-continued fractions can be adapted to give approximation by saddle connection vectors for any compact translation surface. That is, we show the finiteness of his Minkowski constant for any compact translation surface. Furthermore, we show that for a Veech surface in standard form, each component of any saddle connection vector dominates its conjugates. The saddle connection continued fractions then allow one to recognize certain transcendental directions by their developments

A model for orientation effects in electron‐transfer reactions

A method for solving the single‐particle Schrödinger equation with an oblate spheroidal potential of finite depth is presented. The wave functions are then used to calculate the matrix element T_BA which appears in theories of nonadiabatic electron transfer. The results illustrate the effects of mutual orientation and separation of the two centers on TBA. Trends in these results are discussed in terms of geometrical and nodal structure effects. Analytical expressions related to T_BA for states of spherical wells are presented and used to analyze the nodal structure effects for T_BA for the spheroidal wells

Earth science education in South Australia: Evolving with the resources boom

Copyright © 2007 AusIMM The document attached has been archived with permission from the publisher.Andreas Schmidt Mumm MAusIMM and Alan Collins, Geology and Geophysics, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaidehttp://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=206473720&ETOC=RN&from=searchengin

Report on new calculations of the magnetic potential of the Earth

A procedure to establish better agreement between theoretical and calculated values of the magnetic potential of the Earth is discussed