We report on single-dish radio CO observations towards the inter-galactic medium (IGM) of the Stephan’s Quintet (hereafter SQ) compact group of galaxies. Extremely bright mid-IR H2 rotational line emission (L(H2) ≈ 1035 W) from warm (102−3 K) molecular gas has been detected by the Spitzer satellite in the kpcscale shock created by a collision between a galaxy, NGC 7318b, and NGC 7319’s tidal ar...

This paper proposes a political theory of social innovation. The paper begins by introducing and reviewing recent claims made for the ways in which social innovation can co-create public goods and services by utilizing forms of collection intelligence (CI) and CI Internet-based platforms. The paper provides a discussion and classification of the literature on collective intelligence before inve...

This note illustrates that the saturation property of a probability space can be used to routinely generalize results on the integration of Banach valued correspondences over a Loeb measure space to those over an arbitrary saturated probability space. On the other hand, the saturation property is also necessary for the validity of those results when the target space is infinite dimensional. © 2...

The paper examines the rise fall and rise of the Liberal International Economic Order over the last 150 years, and critically examines the various hopes and fears in developed and developing countries that this most recent global integration is raising. JEL classification: F02, A13, N70, P16. Address: Dept. of Economics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel.: 310-825 4521 Fax.: 310...

MSS membranes are a good candidate for CO cleanup in fuel cell fuel processing systems due to their ability to selectively permeate H2 over CO via molecular sieving. Successfully scaled up tubular membranes were stable under dry conditions to 400°C with H2 permeance as high as 2 x 10 -6 mol.m.s.Pa at 200°C and H2/CO selectivity up to 6.4, indicating molecular sieving was the dominant mechanism....

International Integration, Risk and the Welfare State How does international integration affect the welfare state? Does it call for a leaner or an expanded welfare state? International integration may affect the distortions caused by welfare state activities but also the risks motivating social insurance mechanisms. This paper addresses these potentially counteracting effects in a fully specifi...

The Role of Borders, Languages, and Currencies as Obstacles to Labor Market Integration* Based on a modified Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Model (STAR), we analyze whether borders still constitute significant impediments to labor market integration in the European Union, despite the formal law of free movement of labor. Using regional data from the EU-15 countries over 21 years, we find that th...

Here we perform the same kind of “integration experiments” as in Rivera-Batiz and Romer (1991), this time in the context of a “quality ladder model”, where international trade integration is not enough to prevent redundancy of R&D efforts. Thus a further kind of integration is analysed: “financial market integration”. We adopt as a setup the Simple Schumpeterian Model in Aghion and Howitt (2005...

ORFEUS far UV echelle spectra have been used to investigate H I, H2 and CO absorption lines along the line of sight towards LH 10:3120 in the LMC, extending the study presented by de Boer et al. (1998). While H2 absorption is clearly visible, no CO absorption at LMC velocities is detected, but an upper limit of N(CO) ≤ 3.3 × 10 cm for the CO column density is derived for the C-X band near 1088 ...