the cycle of protests that swept the united states beginning in 2010 has its roots in the growing disillusionment of a significant portion of the american populace in the prospects and opportunities for growth and development. despite the extensive myopia of various sectors of the american public vis a vis the rest of the world, if there is one thing much of the american public holds dear is th...

The divergent large-order behaviour of the perturbative series relevant for the determination of α S from τ decay is controlled by the leading ultraviolet (UV) renormalon. Even in the absence of the first infrared (IR) renormalon, an ambiguity of order Λ 2 /m 2 τ is introduced. We make a quantitative study of the practical implications of this ambiguity. We discuss the magnitude of UV renor-mal...

The ideas of Mallion and Rouvray (1978), concerning the relevance of molecular topology to the prospects of obtaining, on the basis of the Aufbau Principle, a unique, n:-electronic ground-state configuration for an existent or hypothetical conjugated-system, are extended by considering a series of networks introduced by Balaban in 1978. It is shown by exploiting the properties of the eigenvalue...

cooks? Too many in march 1996, some five years into an economic recovery, the New York Times ran a series of front-page articles entitled, “Downsizing in America.” The stories chronicled the fortunes (and misfortunes) of American workers recently downsized and restructured out of their jobs. The series fueled ongoing concern and public debate about the changing prospects for U.S. workers, parti...

Although a large number of evolutionary algorithms have been proposed to efficiently treat multimodal problems, it is currently unclear under what conditions they can be faster than iterated local search algorithms. We tackle this question, assuming we had means to efficiently and errorlessly determine the corresponding basin of attraction for each individual (basin identification) by employing...

We apply an organizational embeddedness perspective to examine international assignees’ retention with the organization. Specifically, we hypothesize that assignees’ social ties within and their perceived fit with the host unit positively relate to two sacrifices with leaving the organization: their firmspecific learning during the assignment and their perceived career prospects in the organiza...

The transcripts which follow speak to the potency and promise of dialogue. They record two in a continuing series “COVID-19 In Conversations” hosted by Oxford Prospects Global Development Institute (OPGDI), an interdisciplinary research center Regent’s Park College, University Oxford. Dedicated promoting discussion inspiring new ideas on development China-U.K. relations context globalization, O...