America After Trump: The Rise of National Conservatism in the United States, Its Potential for Electoral Success, and the Future of the Republican Party

Since Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election, numerous conservative factions have attempted to fill the void and become dominant within the Republican Party. One of the most visible factions vying for power are the National Conservatives, but this movement has received little examination in academic literature due to its recent formation in 2019. Animated by a vision of nationalism based on historical tradition and the power of the state to push socially conservative goals, National Conservatism represents a distinct political movement that draws on various strands of existing conservative thought, although it does not clearly resemble any of them on its own. At the same time, National Conservatism’s international nature and its abstract theorizing leaves many tensions unresolved, especially the problem of determining which historical traditions count in forming nations. Overall, the political potential of National Conservatism appears limited based on current taxonomies and polling of Republican voters and the public at large. The structural advantages for Republicans in the American electoral system and the anxieties that National Conservatism focuses on, however, leave an opening for this or similar movements to gain hold. Creating an alternative framework that attends to Americans’ discontent with the liberal order is therefore a necessity

Efektifitas Pelaksanaan Program Penguatan Kapasitas Kesiapsiagaan dan Tanggap Darurat Bencana (Learn II) oleh Heks dan Yayasan Holi Ana'a

Pay close atention to condition of geographical, geologic, hydrologic and demography, in the fact Indonesia has highly prone to consist of disaster which caused of nature, unnature even human. On December, 26th 2004 a huge earthquake occured in north coastal area of Sumatera Island which took more than 220.000 victims. Non Government Organization is known have a big role after disaster occured because normally NGO is close to the people who got the impact. Therefore, by those LEARN II Project NGO who got the learning is expected can spreading out knowledge of disaster to the people so that they can also behave and more prepared when disaster comes. The goal of this reasearch study is to know about how far effectivness the implementation of LEARN II Project by HEKS and Holi ana'a Foundation. The result of this research study is expected to be refrence in order to develop concept and theory related to Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response.. This research study was held in The Center of Disaster Risk Development Management HEKS coordinated with Holi ana'a Foundation which located in Medan that also named with Head Office of LEARN Project. Population in this research study consists on LEARN II member per a year starting from July 2012 until June 2013 who included in first cycle until sixth cycle learning and total member is 46 NGOs. The type of this Research is descriptive with qualitative approach. To obtain necessary data, this research study using data collection technique and field study which consists of questionnaire, interview and observation. Based on the result of data analysis, it was found that the implementation of LEARN II project is effective. There was an increase of capacity of preparedness and disaster emergency response to member of NGO after participate the LEARN II Project. LEARN II Project also results trained personal who include directly to the people when disaster occured

Modeling the Transmission Dynamics of Typhoid in Malaria Endemic Settings

Typhoid and malaria co-infection is a major public health problem in many developing countries. In this paper, a deterministic model for malaria and typhoid co-infection is proposed and analyzed. It has been established that the model exhibits a backward bifurcation phenomenon. Overall, the study reveals that a typhoid outbreak in malaria endemic settings may lead to higher cumulative cases of dually-infected individuals displaying clinical symptoms of both infections than singly-infected individuals displaying clinical symptoms of either malaria or typhoid

Modelling the effects of condom use and antiretroviral therapy in controlling HIV/AIDS among heterosexuals, homosexuals and bisexuals.

A deterministic compartmental sex-structured HIV/AIDS model for assessing the effects of homosexuals and bisexuals in heterosexual settings in which homosexuality and bisexuality issues have remained taboo is presented. We extend the model to focus on the effects of condom use as a single strategy approach in HIV prevention in the absence of any other intervention strategies. Initially, we model the use of male condoms, followed by incorporating the use of both the female and male condoms. The model includes two primary factors in condom use to control HIV which are condom efficacy and compliance. Reproductive numbers for these models are computed and compared to assess the effectiveness of male and female condom use in a community. We also extend the basic model to consider the effects of antiretroviral therapy as a single strategy. The results from the study show that condoms can reduce the number of secondary infectives and thus can slow the development of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Further, we note from the study that treatment of AIDS patients may enlarge the epidemic when the treatment drugs are not 100% effective and when treated AIDS patients indulge in risky sexual behaviour. Thus, the treatment with amelioration of AIDS patients should be accompanied with intense public health educational programs, which are capable of changing the attitude of treated AIDS patients towards safe sex. It is also shown from the study that the use of condoms in settings with the treatment may help in reducing the number of secondary infections thus slowing the epidemic

Non-equilibrium systems have steady-state distributions and non-steady dynamics

We search for steady states in a class of fluctuating and driven physical systems that exhibit sustained currents. We find that the physical concept of a steady state, well known for systems at equilibrium, must be generalised to describe such systems. In these, the generalisation of a steady state is associated with a stationary probability density of micro-states and a deterministic dynamical system whose trajectories the system follows on average. These trajectories are a manifestation of non-stationary macroscopic currents observed in these systems. We determine precise conditions for the steady state to exist as well as the requirements for it to be stable. We illustrate this with some examples.Comment: 12+ pages, 2 figure

Black brane steady states

We follow the evolution of an asymptotically AdS black brane with a fixed temperature gradient at spatial infinity until a steady state is formed. The resulting energy density and energy flux of the steady state in the boundary theory are compared to a conjecture on the behavior of steady states in conformal field theories. Very good agreement is found.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures. References added, typos correcte

Test of Information Theory on the Boltzmann Equation

We examine information theory using the steady-state Boltzmann equation. In a nonequilibrium steady-state system under steady heat conduction, the thermodynamic quantities from information theory are calculated and compared with those from the steady-state Boltzmann equation. We have found that information theory is inconsistent with the steady-state Boltzmann equation.Comment: 12 page

Trimodal steady water waves

We construct three-dimensional families of small-amplitude gravity-driven rotational steady water waves on finite depth. The solutions contain counter-currents and multiple crests in each minimal period. Each such wave generically is a combination of three different Fourier modes, giving rise to a rich and complex variety of wave patterns. The bifurcation argument is based on a blow-up technique, taking advantage of three parameters associated with the vorticity distribution, the strength of the background stream, and the period of the wave.Comment: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00205-014-0812-

Steady state thermal radiometers

A radiometer is described operating in a vacuum under steady state conditions. The front element is an aluminum sheet painted on the outer side with black or other absorptive material of selected characteristics. A thermocouple is bonded to the inner side of the aluminum sheet. That is backed by highly insulative layers of glass fiber and crinkled, aluminized Mylar polyester. Those layers are backed with a sturdy, polyester sheet, and the entire lamination is laced together by nylon cords. The device is highly reliable in that it does not drift out of calibration, and is significantly inexpensive