Using data on elections to the United States House of Representatives (1946-1998), this paper exploits a quasi-experiment generated by the electoral system in order to determine if political incumbency provides an electoral advantage – an implicit first-order prediction of most principalagent theories of politician and voter behavior. Candidates who just barely won an election (barely became th...

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.12.003 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 434 982 4766. E-mail address: [email protected] (B.A. Nosek). As a high-status, omnipresent Black exemplar, Barack Obama and his rise to the presidency of the United States may have induced a cultural shift in implicit racial attitudes, much like controlled exposures to positive Bla...

A probability-based damage detection algorithm has been implemented in order to identify barely visible impact damages in two composite stiffened panels by means of Acousto Ultrasonics (AU). A modification of RAPID (reconstruction algorithm for probabilistic inspection of defects) has been implemented to adapt the algorithm to the current structures and transducer networks. An improvement of 40...

Carbon fiber laminate composites, consisting of layers of polymer matrix reinforced with high strength carbon fibers, are increasingly employed for aerospace structures. They offer advantages for aerospace applications, e.g., good strength to weight ratio. However, impact during the operation and servicing of the aircraft can lead to barely visible and difficult to detect damage. Depending on t...

PURPOSE Shorter pulses used in pattern scanning photocoagulation (10-20 milliseconds [ms]) tend to produce lighter and smaller lesions than the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study standard 100-ms exposures. Smaller lesions result in fewer complications but may potentially reduce clinical efficacy. It is worthwhile to reevaluate existing standards for the number and size of lesions needed...

We introduce a sharpened version of the well-known Lonely Runner Conjecture Wills and Cusick. Given real number \(x\), let \(\Vert x \Vert\) denote distance from \(x\) to nearest integer. For each set positive integer speeds \(v_1, \dots, v_n\), we define associated maximum loneliness be $$\operatorname{ML}(v_1, v_n)=\max_{t \in \mathbb{R}}\min_{1 \leq i n} \Vert tv_i \Vert.$$The asserts that \...

This article examines the case law on the loss of control defence and considers whether the interpretation of the defence has been too conservative so that the defence is barely available as a defence to murder.

the effect of crossbreeding between ghezel and mehraban on growth performance and carcass characteristics was studied for two consecutive years using 162 purebred and crossbred lambs. the four groups of lambs involved in the study were purebred mehraban (mm), purebred ghezel (gg), crossbred ghezel ram×mehraban ewe (gm) and crossbred mehraban ram×ghezel ewe (mg). the lambs were fed with grazing ...