Freedom of association operates as an organizational “meta-norm,” appreciated both as an independent value and as a touchstone for the institutional design of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Despite the renewed interest of the ILO in various aspects of the norm, its understanding of freedom of association lacks a comprehensive normative framework. This article presents such a conce...

The so-called ̳Adams‘ Thesis‘ is often understood as the claim that the assertibility of an indicative conditional equals the corresponding conditional probability—schematically: (AT) As(A  B) = P(B | A), provided P(A) ≠ 0. The Thesis is taken by many to be a touchstone of any theorizing about indicative conditionals. Yet it is unclear exactly what the Thesis is. I suggest some precise stateme...

In the framework of the kt-factorization approach, the production of Υ mesons at the Fermilab Tevatron is considered, and the comparisions of calculated pT distributions and spin alignment parameter α with the D0 experimental data are shown. We argue that measuring the double cross section and the polarization of upsilonium states can serve as a crucial test discriminating two competing theoret...

Copper-oxide-based high-temperature superconductors have complex phase diagrams with multiple ordered phases. It even appears that the highest superconducting transition temperatures for certain cuprates are found in samples that display simultaneous onset of magnetism and superconductivity. We show here how the thermodynamics of fluid mixtures-a touchstone for chemistry as well as hard and sof...

We are developing a compiler and runtime support system called PASSION: Parallel And Scalable Software for Input-Output. PASSION provides software support for I/O intensive out-of-core loosely synchronous problems. This paper gives an overview of the PASSION Runtime Library and describes two of the optimizations incorporated in it, namely Data Prefetching and Data Sieving. Performance improveme...

Abstract We recreate Sandia National Laboratories’ double quantum dot charge stability diagram simulation using their rate equation approach and compare our simulation’s results to some touchstone situations as well as their results. We find qualitative agreement between charge stability diagrams and extend the code to construct the charge stability diagram for a triple dot structure. We note h...

The parallel performance of the NWChem version 1.2 parallel direct-SCF code has been characterized on ve massively parallel supercomputers (IBM SP, Kendall Square KSR-2, Cray T3D and T3E, and Intel Touchstone Delta) using single-point energy calculations on seven molecules of varying size (up to 389 atoms) and composition ((rst-row atoms, halogens, and transition metals). We compare the perform...

This paper argues that a successful philosophical analysis of models and simulations must accommodate an account of mathematically rigorous results. Such rigorous results may be thought of as genuinely modelspecific contributions, which can neither be deduced from fundamental theory nor inferred from empirical data. Rigorous results provide new indirect ways of assessing the success of models a...

Although the confusion of individual phonemes and features have been studied and analyzed since Miller and Nicely [8], there has been little work done on extending this to a predictive theory of word-level confusions. The PGPfone alphabet is a good touchstone problem for developing such word-level confusion metrics. This paper presents some difficulties incurred, along with their proposed solut...