Turning Loss Into Legislation

Absorption in Metamaterials: Turning Loss into Gain

MIT Student 12 May 2010 ME 2.57: Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes Prof. Chen Absorption in Metamaterials: Turning Loss into Gain INTRODUCTION Nature has often served as inspiration for engineers. The setae of gecko feet are mimicked for climbing robots, the vivid coats of butterflies and peacocks motivate research in structural colors, and the streamline shapes of certain species of fish are i...

AIDS legislation--turning up the heat?

This paper is not about the medical condition of AIDS. Nor is it about the history of the condition since it was first reported in Atlanta, Georgia in 1981. It looks rather, at the catalogue of legislative and other legal responses to the spread of AIDS. The paper analyses the AIDS condition in its historical context. The hysteria accompanying the outbreak of AIDS is contrasted with the similar...

Turning Pink Slips into Red Tape: The Unintended Effects of Employment Protection Legislation

This paper presents evidence on the link between employment protection legislation (EPL), such as mandated severance packages for fired workers, and the rate of unemployment in a cross-country panel data set of OECD countries from 1990-2013. We use both a traditional fixed effects panel specification with lags of the policy variable, and also a unique structural panel vector autoregression (PVA...

Turning Perversion into Fervor

Turning sunlight into stone

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