Reconciliation and Representation: The Share of the Population Represented by the Democratic Majority

With the debate over health care dragging on, it is becoming increasingly likely that the Senate will pass a bill through the reconciliation process, requiring just a simple majority rather than the super-majority needed to break a filibuster. This paper shows that if this path is taken, senators who represent the vast majority of the nation's population will have supported the bill. This assessment holds even if several of the senators who have indicated serious reservations end up voting against it

Heterogeneous delays making parents synchronized: A coupled maps on Cayley tree model

We study the phase synchronized clusters in the diffusively coupled maps on the Cayley tree networks for heterogeneous delay values. Cayley tree networks comprise of two parts: the inner nodes and the boundary nodes. We find that heterogeneous delays lead to various cluster states, such as; (a) cluster state consisting of inner nodes and boundary nodes, and (b) cluster state consisting of only boundary nodes. The former state may comprise of nodes from all the generations forming self-organized cluster or nodes from few generations yielding driven clusters depending upon on the parity of heterogeneous delay values. Furthermore, heterogeneity in delays leads to the lag synchronization between the siblings lying on the boundary by destroying the exact synchronization among them. The time lag being equal to the difference in the delay values. The Lyapunov function analysis sheds light on the destruction of the exact synchrony among the last generation nodes. To the end we discuss the relevance of our results with respect to their applications in the family business as well as in understanding the occurrence of genetic diseases.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figure

PEMBELAJARAN SHALAT JAMAK DAN QASHAR DENGAN METODE DEMONSTRASI DAN EKSPERIMEN DI KELAS VIIC SMPN 1 SURANENGGALA

Masalah yang dihadapi guru adalah masih kurangnya kemampuan siswa dalam menjelaskan pengertian shalat jamak dan qashar serta sebab-sebabnya,  kemampuan dalam menjelaskan shalat-shalat yang boleh dijamak dan diqashar, kemampuan siswa dalam mempraktekkan shalat jamak taqdim dan takhir. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan siswa kelas VIIC SMPN 1 Suranenggala Kabupaten Cirebon dalam memahami mata pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam dan Budi Pekerti tentang “Shalat Jamak dan Qashar” dengan penerapan Metode Demonstrasi dan Eksperimen, sehingga pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam dan Budi Pekerti menjadi lebih menyenangkan dan menimbulkan kreatifitas. Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) ini dilaksanakan pada kelas VIIC SMP Negeri 1 Suranenggala Cirebon. Kegiatan dilakukan sebanyak dua siklus tindakan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan aktivitas dan hasil belajar siswa meningkat dari mulai mulai pra test hingga siklus terakhir. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa Metode Demonstrasi dan Eksperimen  dapat Meningkatkan Pemahaman siswa dalam belajar Pendidikan Agama Islam dan Budi Pekerti pada materi “Shalat jamak dan Qashar”  di Kelas VIIC SMP Negeri 1 Suranenggala Kabupaten Cirebo

Social ties, prior experience, and venture creation by transnational entrepreneurs

The interaction between resources, and host and home country contexts of transnational entrepreneurs (TEs), is important for understanding their strategies and hence performance of their ventures. Yet, how they deploy their unique experiences and social networks in the founding of ventures in multiple institutional contexts is less understood. Based on 15 in-depth interviews with TEs of Indian origin in the UK, and nine of their counterpart heads of transnational venture (TNV) operations, we explore the use of prior experience, and personal and industry ties in the founding of TNVs in their home country. Our findings show that the way TEs use personal and industry ties in the host and home countries is contingent on whether they have prior experience of: 1) entering the home country; 2) implementing the business opportunity underlying the TNV in the home country, respectively, with a former employer. The implications of these findings are discussed