Building on a new definition and characterization of probabilistic event structures, a general definition of distributed probabilistic strategies is proposed. Probabilistic strategies are shown to compose, with probabilistic copy-cat strategies as identities. A higher-order probabilistic process language reminiscent of Milner’s CCS is interpreted within probabilistic strategies. W.r.t. a new de...

Immigration and House Prices in the UK This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative effect on house prices and presents evidence that this negative effect is due to the mobility response of the native population. Natives respond to immigration by moving to different areas and those who leave are at the top of the wage distrib...

This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to play a central role in network— representing 20-33% frontier producers. Second, using novel survey data hand-curated life-histories International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that are up six times mo...

Decolonization is presented in dominant accounts as an orderly transition and not the culmination of anticolonial resistance movements. This turn contributes to what Paul Gilroy terms endemic “post-imperial melancholia” across contemporary European nations removal empire its demise from understandings history. Drawing on Bill Schwarz’s reconceptualization a Fanonian commitment disorder, this ar...

Arguably one of the oldest forms Christianity, with a global population more than 260 million adherents, Orthodox Christianity is major religious system, networks believers on almost every continent. However, within study American religion, as well most social sciences and humanities (not including theology), Orthodoxy has received minimal research interest. The broad omission from history reli...

Do economic considerations shape attitudes toward immigration? In this article, we consider the relationship between economic interests and immigration preferences by examining how developments in individuals’ sectors of employment affect these views. Using survey data across European countries from 2002 to 2009 and employing new measures of industry-level exposure to immigration, we find that ...

Abstract. We address, in this chapter, the identification of typical patterns that best characterize a set of sequences. More specifically, we focus on data-driven methods that search for the typical patterns among the observed sequences. In life course studies, such typical sequences serve, for instance, to describe ideal-type life trajectories; i.e., the common way(s) of organizing our life. ...

We show how the quantum-to-classical transition of the cosmological fluctuations produced during an inflationary stage can be described using the consistent histories approach. We identify the corresponding histories in the limit of infinite squeezing. To take the decaying mode into account, we propose an extension to coarse-grained histories. PACS Numbers: 04.62.+v, 98.80.Cq

Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas. I use instrumental variables based on a “shift-share” of national levels of immigration into metropolitan ar...

Time-dependent creep analysis is crucial for the performance and reliability of piezoactuators used for high-precision positioning and load-bearing applications. In this study history of stresses, deformations and electric potential of hollow rotating cylinders made of functionally graded piezoelectric material (FGPM), e.g., PZT_7A have been investigated using Mendelson’s method of successive e...