A Governor is a Image Salesman

Hard evidence for a central governor is still lacking!

TO THE EDITOR: Reviewing evidence for and against a Central Governor that limits an individual’s maximal oxygen intake (2, 4), I am impressed that although this hypothesis was formulated some 11 years ago, it still lacks support outside the proponent’s laboratory. I note also that, perhaps because of an inappropriate test protocol, Noakes has consistently found difficulty in reaching first base...

Analysis of chaotic vibration in a hexagonal centrifugal governor system

In this paper, the periodic, quasi periodic and chaotic responses of rotational machines with a hexagonal centrifugal governor are studied. The external disturbance is assumed as a sinusoid effect. By using the forth order Rung-Kutta numerical integration method, bifurcation diagram, largest Lyapunov exponent and Lyapunov dimension are calculated and presented to detect the critical controlling...

Who Is a Bilingual?

The question of who is and who is not a bilingual is more difficult to answer than it first appears. Bilingualism was long regarded as the equal mastery of two languages, a definition that still prevails in certain glossaries of linguistics. However, today's complex world requires a more exact definition and analysis of the competencies that community members require to interact with speakers o...

Summability with a Governor of Integral Order

When Is a Central Bank Governor Fired? Evidence Based on a New Data Set

This paper uses a new data set on the term in office of central bank governors in 137 countries covering the period 1970-2004 to estimate a model for the chance that a central bank governor is replaced. We formulate a number of hypotheses based on the literature on the determinants of central bank independence that are tested using conditional logit models and the Extreme Bounds Analysis. We co...