Calling for a Quantum Hush

Hush money

We provide a simple incomplete-information model wherein an initially uninformed plaintiff makes a menu of settlement demands (one of which involves confidentiality) of the informed defendant. The defendant is informed about both his culpability in the harm suffered by the current plaintiff and the existence of other plaintiffs. The possibility that there are other plaintiffs the defendant migh...

Simple formula for Marcus–Hush–Chidsey kinetics

The Marcus–Hush–Chidsey (MHC) model is well known in electro-analytical chemistry as a successful microscopic theory of outer-sphere electron transfer at metal electrodes, but it is unfamiliar and rarely used in electrochemical engineering. One reason may be the difficulty of evaluating the MHC reaction rate, which is defined as an improper integral of the Marcus rate over the Fermi distributio...

Simple formula for asymmetric Marcus–Hush kinetics

The Marcus–Hush theory of electron transfer has seen increasing use as a predictive alternative to the phenomenological Butler–Volmer (BV) equation for Faradaic reactions kinetics. Here, we analyze and simplify the asymmetric Marcus–Hush (AMH) model, first proposed by Marcus and recently used by Compton’s group to fit experimental data that exhibit two different reorganization energies, dependi...

Quantum Physics: A Case for Anti-Realism?

“I Keep That Hush-Hush”: Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and the Challenges of Disclosure

Disclosure is a prominent variable in child sexual abuse research, but little research has examined male disclosure experiences. Sixteen male survivors of childhood sexual abuse were interviewed regarding experiences of disclosure. Analytic techniques included a grounded theory approach to coding and the use of conceptually clustered matrices. Participants described distinct personal (e.g., lac...