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Methodology for Distributing a VAT
Proposes a revised methodology for analyzing the distributional effects of a value-added tax - the economic burden placed on households of different income levels and demographics - as well as on government revenues and spending and capital
[Review of] Tu Wei-ming,ed. The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today
This book evolved from the spring, 1991 special issue of “Daedalus, the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Tu Wei-ming presents a collection of perspectives of the Chinese identity. These essays stand alone well, some are more relevant and better written than others (as will be addressed in this review), but they collectively fail to provide a coherent unified interpretation. The chapter topics are somewhat related but the continuity among them is weak (which should not be interpreted as a shortcoming of the individual chapter authors)
Palindromy\u27s Unseen Virtual Verse
A surprising and little-recognized property of rhyming, end-to-end palindromic verse is that, contrary to intuition, the order of the lines in such verse may often be transposed in a number of ways without loss of either rhyme or palindromicity. Such line-order permutations can (a) preserve both the verse\u27s original rhyme and palindromicity schemes, (b) change its rhyme scheme, (c) change its palindromicity scheme or (d) change both its rhyme and palindromicity schemes
The Shreveport Caddo, 1835-1838
Period records, such as the reports of Many, Bonnell and Riley, clearly make reference to at least four Caddo villages located between the Red River and the United States-Mexico/Texas boundary in the mid-1830s. In the early 1990s, one of these sites, Timber Hill, was located just to the west of Jim\u27s Bayou in Marion County. In this article I will discuss the location and demise of at least four and possible five additional 1830s-era villages located south of Caddo Lake. In the interest of preserving the sites mentioned, the specific locations of the villages discussed in this article are approximate
Food additives and children's behaviour: evidence based policy at the margins of certainty
The possible effects of food additives (specifically artificial colours) have been debated for over 30 years. The evidence accumulated suggests that for some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) food colours exacerbate their condition. Two studies
undertaken by a research group at the University of Southampton have extended these findings to the effects on hyperactivity in children from the general population who do not show ADHD. This article reviews the response from policy-makers to these findings and concludes that the failure to impose a mandatory ban on the six food colours in the Southampton study is inadequate and that such a ban would be an appropriate application of the precautionary principle when the evidence is considered to be at the margins of certaint
On the cuspidality of pullbacks of Siegel Eisenstein series and applications to the Bloch-Kato conjecture
Let be an integer and a prime with . Let be a
newform of weight and level 1 so that is ordinary at and
is irreducible. Under some additional hypotheses we prove that
ord_{p}(L_{alg}(k,f)) \leq ord_{p}(# S) where is the Pontryagin dual of
the Selmer group associated to with
the -adic cyclotomic character. We accomplish this by first
constructing a congruence between the Saito-Kurokawa lift of and a non-CAP
Siegel cusp form. Once this congruence is established, we use Galois
representations to obtain the lower bound on the Selmer group.Comment: 33 page
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