Collins, John. 2011. Global Palestine.

John Collins Counterfactuals , Causation , and Preemption

MicroMichael Crichton and Richard Preston Harper Collins 2011/12

Although he died in 2008, prolific science novelist Michael Crichton – acting as a ‘ghost-writer’, so to speak – continues to add new titles to his oeuvre. Notwithstanding the death of the author, his novel-producing machinery refuses to come to a full stop, although in this case Richard Preston (a science novelist in his own right, author of, among others, The Hot Zone, on viral infections) wa...

Transversity and Collins Fragmentation Functions: Towards a New Global Analysis

A new, preliminary global analysis of the experimental data on azimuthal asymmetries in SIDIS from HERMES and COMPASS collaborations, and in ee → h1h2X processes from the BELLE collaboration, is performed. The new data allow for a more precise determination of the Collins fragmentation function and of the transversity distribution function for u and d quarks, in comparison with the results of o...

Extreme Global Equity Market Risk JOHN COTTER

Extreme asset price movements appear to be more pronounced over time and have major consequences for an economy’s financial stability and monetary policies. This paper investigates the extreme behaviour of equity market returns and quantifies the probabilities of these losses. Taking fourteen major equity markets the study illustrates similarities and divergences in the tail returns from around...

Catherine Collins

An integrative review of 121 recent studies on collecting and utilising local ecological knowledge (LEK) for fisheries science and management suggests that insufficient attention is given either to conceptualising LEK or to the critical issue of how LEK is defined. Elements from knowledge management guided the analysis. Résumé : Une revue intégrant 121 études récentes traitant de la collecte et...