This paper argues the widespread adoption of Just-in-Time (JIT) logistics provides a key to understanding the growth in the U.S. trade share. To do so, I develop a dynamic trade model based on the choice of the logistics technology used in a firm’s supply chain. The model’s predicted trade dynamics depend on how the set of firms using JIT with international suppliers changes over time. A numeri...

• Table S6: Harmonic vibrational frequencies at the ωB97X-D/aug-cc-pVTZ level using SG-2 and SG-3. In this case, analytic Hessians are available in QChem so we compare these analytic results to frequencies computed via finite difference of analytic gradients. Results show that there is very little difference between the two approaches, which validates other finite-difference frequencies reporte...

Our model consists of intersecting 2255 brane configuration in M theory, distributed uniformly in the common transverse space and assumed to describe early universe. Equations of state are those following from U duality symmetries and a few standard assumptions. In this model, three spatial directions expand, and seven directions stabilise to constant sizes which depend on certain imbalance amo...

The algebra Sym of symmetric functions is a proper subalgebra of QSym: for example, M11 and M12 +M21 are symmetric, but M12 is not. As an algebra, QSym is generated by those monomial symmetric functions corresponding to Lyndon words in the positive integers [11, 6]. The subalgebra of QSym ⊂ QSym generated by all Lyndon words other than M1 has the vector space basis consisting of all monomial sy...

Methods of complexometric analysis are reviewed with particular reference to their improved potential due to recent developments in theory and instrumentation. It is shown how accuracy has been improved and how reactions leading to the formation of compounds with rather low stability constants can be utilized successfully. For the analysis of multicomponent systems there are essentially two pos...

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturing companies is contingent upon organizational climate and strategic orientation. Information on HRM, organizational structure, and competitive strategy was c...

This study examined the effects of expressive narrative writing in 607 participants. Compared with a control group, the participants randomly assigned to write about their feelings and thoughts after the Madrid train attack on M11 report less negative emotions related to the recall of the collective trauma at a 2-month follow-up after the attacks. However, no effects were found on positive affe...