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The Economics of Risk
This collection offers an economics-based overview of the various facets of risk. It contains six papers that examine a broad array of research relating to risk. Two papers examine risk management and its application to decision making as well as what researchers have learned over the past few decades in their theoretical investigations of risk. The remaining chapters examine how risk plays out in the particular markets in which it has a significant presence, including casino gambling enterprises, agricultural markets, auctions, and health insurance.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1176/thumbnail.jp
The Economics of Health
Donald J. Meyer leads a group of notable health economists who explore critical issuesâand their economic impactsâfacing the nation\u27s healthcare system today. These include lifestyle choices and their health impacts, decisions on medical care and self-care, the fee-for-service payment model, disability and workersâ compensation insurance claims, long-term care, and how various aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) impact the nationâs healthcare system. Contributors include M. Kate Bundorf, Marcus Dillender, John H. Goddeeris, Donald J. Meyer, Edward C. Norton, and Charles E. Phelps.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1256/thumbnail.jp
Calculating Chemical Evolution on the Web
We have constructed a web site that may be of interest to cosmochemists seeking to under-stand the evolution of isotopes in the Galaxy. The URL is http://photon.phys.clemson.edu/gce.html. It is fully interactive and uses IDL on the Net (ION) to construct tables and graphs dynamically. The resulting tables may be downloaded as text ïŹles while the graphs may be downloaded as gif or postscript ïŹles. The present ab-stract presents a brief tutorial on using the âGCE toolâ on this site and illustrates some of its capabilities. Ques-tions or comments should be addressed to either of the ïŹrst two authors
Compressor-blade vibration and performance in a J47-23 turbojet engine under conditions of rotating stall
Effect of annular inlet baffles on rotating stall, blade vibration, and performance of an axial flow compressor in a turbojet engine
Metagenomics, gene discovery and the ideal biocatalyst
With the rapid development of powerful protein evolution and enzyme-screening technologies, there is
a growing belief that optimum conditions for biotransformation processes can be established without
the constraints of the properties of the biocatalyst. These technologies can then be applied to find the
âideal biocatalystâ for the process. In identifying the ideal biocatalyst, the processes of gene discovery and
enzyme evolution play major roles. However, in order to expand the pool genes for in vitro evolution,
new technologies, which circumvent the limitations of microbial culturability, must be applied. These
technologies, which currently include metagenomic library screening, gene-specific amplification methods
and even full metagenomic sequencing, provide access to a volume of âsequence spaceâ that is not addressed
by traditional screening
A Large, Uniform Sample of X-ray Emitting AGN from the ROSAT All-Sky and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: the Data Release 5 Sample
We describe further results of a program aimed to yield ~10^4 fully
characterized optical identifications of ROSAT X-ray sources. Our program
employs X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS), and both optical
imaging and spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
RASS/SDSS data from 5740 deg^2 of sky spectroscopically covered in SDSS Data
Release 5 (DR5) provide an expanded catalog of 7000 confirmed quasars and other
AGN that are probable RASS identifications. Again in our expanded catalog, the
identifications as X-ray sources are statistically secure, with only a few
percent of the SDSS AGN likely to be randomly superposed on unrelated RASS
X-ray sources. Most identifications continue to be quasars and Seyfert 1s with
15<m<21 and 0.01<z<4; but the total sample size has grown to include very
substantial numbers of even quite rare AGN, e.g., now including several
hundreds of candidate X-ray emitting BL Lacs and narrow-line Seyfert 1
galaxies. In addition to exploring rare subpopulations, such a large total
sample may be useful when considering correlations between the X-ray and the
optical, and may also serve as a resource list from which to select the "best"
object (e.g., X-ray brightest AGN of a certain subclass, at a preferred
redshift or luminosity) for follow-on X-ray spectral or alternate detailed
studies.Comment: Accepted for publication in AJ; 32 pages, including 11 figures, and 6
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Convergence towards a European strategic culture? A constructivist framework for explaining changing norms.
The article contributes to the debate about the emergence of a European strategic culture to underpin a European Security and Defence Policy. Noting both conceptual and empirical weaknesses in the literature, the article disaggregates the concept of strategic culture and focuses on four types of norms concerning the means and ends for the use of force. The study argues that national strategic cultures are less resistant to change than commonly thought and that they have been subject to three types of learning pressures since 1989: changing threat perceptions, institutional socialization, and mediatized crisis learning. The combined effect of these mechanisms would be a process of convergence with regard to strategic norms prevalent in current EU countries. If the outlined hypotheses can be substantiated by further research the implications for ESDP are positive, especially if the EU acts cautiously in those cases which involve norms that are not yet sufficiently shared across countries
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