Constrain-Thy-Neighbor Effects as a Determinant of Transnational Interest Group Cohesion

Constrain-thy-neighbor effects as a determinant of transnational interest group cohesion

This article identifies conditions for transnational interest group cohesion by examining German and British employer positions on EU company law proposals. Employers were divided over proposals on takeover bids but formed a united front against proposals on worker participation. I argue that divergent “constrain-thy-neighbor effects” contribute to explaining the observed variation. Actors cons...

Don't love thy nearest neighbor

Stealing VEGF from Thy Neighbor

The distribution and patterning of blood vessels is controlled by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which is precisely regulated throughout its life cycle. Okabe et al. show that VEGF is titrated away from the endothelium by adjacent neurons via endocytosis, regulating density and trajectory of blood vessels.

Individual versus Group Interest Violation: Surprise as a Determinant of Argument Scrutiny and Persuasion

Previous studies based on an attributional analysis of persuasion have suggested that a source who takes an unexpected position is perceived as more trustworthy and accurate than one who argues for an expected position. As a result, message processing is decreased when expectancies are violated compared to when they are confirmed. The current researchsuggests that these findings are limited to ...

Love Thy Neighbor: V-Formation as a Problem of Model Predictive Control

We present a new formulation of the V-formation problem for migrating birds in terms of model predictive control (MPC). In our approach, to drive a collection of birds towards a desired formation, an optimal velocity adjustment (acceleration) is performed at each time-step on each bird’s current velocity using a model-based prediction window of T time-steps. We present both centralized and dist...