Beach Party Animal

Beach 2014 Theory Summary Beach 2014 Theory Summary

I summarize key aspects of the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model in flavour physics as discussed at the BEACH 2014 conference in Birmingham.

Macroinfauna of Wainui Beach, Gisborne - impact of beach protection structures

BEACH 2014 Theory Summary

I summarize key aspects of the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model in flavour physics as discussed at the BEACH 2014 conference in Birmingham.

Party Cohesion, Party Factions and Legislative Party Discipline in Italy

Moving beyond a unitary actor assumption that models members of a self-evidently collective entity such as a political party “as if” they all shared a single brain, this paper explores the cohesion and discipline of party legislators in multi-party systems operating under the constitutional rules of parliamentary government. We do this in the context of Italian politics, for which a consistent ...

The Crane Beach Conjecture

A language L over an alphabet A is said to have a neutral letter if there is a letter e ∈ A such that inserting or deleting e’s from any word inA does not change its membership (or non–membership) in L. The presence of a neutral letter affects the definability of a language in first–order logic. It was conjectured that it renders all numerical predicates apart from the order predicate useless, ...