Max Weber claimed that while Protestantism provided the proper ethos necessary to spur capitalism, Eastern religions did not. Japan’s economic success has belied his hypothesis, and while there have been various theories explaining its rise, perhaps Weber’s own claims regarding the connection between embeddedness and capitalism best explain Japan’s rise. Simply put, Japanese capitalism was born...

A recent review of published studies revealed that predators generally have lower population densities than non-predators in a variety of communities. We report here similar results for a highly replicated study of macroinvertebrates that colonized very uniform detrital microcosms in an old field. This pattern persisted even though predators usually were smaller than non-predators, as determine...

A multi-parameter index has been developed to assess the magnitude of convective downbursts associated with heavy precipitation-producing, deep convective storm systems that occur over the central and eastern continental United States. The Wet Microburst Severity Index (WMSI) is composed of relevant parameters that represent the simultaneous physical processes of convective updraft development ...

Profit Sharing and Training We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firmspecific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the returns to training, 3) a common payment for the whole workforce leads to p...

let $m_r$ be a module with $s=end(m_r)$. we call a submodule $k$ of $m_r$ annihilator-small if $k+t=m$, $t$ a submodule of $m_r$, implies that $ell_s(t)=0$, where $ell_s$ indicates the left annihilator of $t$ over $s$. the sum $a_r(m)$ of all such submodules of $m_r$ contains the jacobson radical $rad(m)$ and the left singular submodule $z_s(m)$. if $m_r$ is cyclic, then $a_r(m)$ is the unique ...