We present recent CMS measurements of diffractive and exclusive processes, using data collected at 7 TeV at theLHC. Measurements of soft singleand double-diffractive cross sections are presented, as well as measurements of photoninducedprocesses including studies of exclusive WW production via photon-photon exchange Presented at DIFFRACTION 2014 8-th International Workshop on Diffraction in Hig...

This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality, helping to identify potential institutional setups that are associated to opportunity inequality. We distinguish between ex ante and ex post opportunity inequality. We find that ex ante equality of opport...

In this talk I review the status of our ability to extract the CKM matrix elements |Vub| and |Vcb| from semileptonic decays. I will review both exclusive and inclusive methods and put a strong emphasis on how to ensure keeping the extractions model independent.

for helpful discussions in the design of survey modules related to the land registration and family law. We also thank participants at the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey Workshop at Lalibela, with special thanks to Paul Dorosh, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Stefan Dercon, Valerie Mueller and Tassew Woldehanna. All errors and omissions are our own. 1 Kes be kes enqullal be-egrwa tihedalech. Littl...

To keep notation usage down, during the proof of this step we let mt̄−1 = m and mt̄−1 = m ′. Suppose that for some t ≥ 0 there is a pair of sequences s = (st̄, . . . , st̄+t) and γ t̄,t̄+t = (γt̄, . . . , γt̄+t) such that: (a) at̄+τ (m, st̄, . . . , st̄+τ−1, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+τ−1)> at̄+τ (m′, st̄, . . . , st̄+τ−1, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+τ−1) for every τ ≤ t, and (b) at̄+t+1(m, st̄, . . . , st̄+t, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+t) ≤ at̄+t+...

We present a method to match the multi-parton states generated by the High Energy Jets Monte Carlo with parton showers generated by the ARIADNE program using the colour dipole model. The High Energy Jets program already includes a full resummation of soft divergences. Hence, in the matching it is important that the corresponding divergences in the parton shower are subtracted, keeping only the ...

Joshua Eastin and Aseem Prakash World Politics / Volume 65 / Issue 01 / January 2013, pp 156 ­ 186 DOI: 10.1017/S0043887112000275, Published online: 11 January 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0043887112000275 How to cite this article: Joshua Eastin and Aseem Prakash (2013). Economic Development and Gender Equality: Is There a Gender Kuznets Curve?. World Polit...

Gender equality is an idea that is enshrined in the Millennium Development Goals. In order to achieve gender equality, a significant amount of women’s empowerment must occur. Since women’s empowerment is a way out of poverty, many countries have been undertaking tasks to assist women’s ascent in society. One institution that has been established is gender quotas, which allocates seats for women...

This paper is about equality of proofs in which a binary predicate formalizing properties of equality occurs, besides conjunction and the constant true proposition. The properties of equality in question are those of a preordering relation, those of an equivalence relation, and other properties appropriate for an equality relation in linear logic. The guiding idea is that equality of proofs is ...