Contrary to the implicit assumption motivating much of the work on the political economy of protection, antidumping, along with other forms of administered protection, is the primary form of discretionary protection for most countries. A sizable literature on the political economy of antidumping has developed in the last two decades that is distinctive in its explicit focus on institutional asp...

The authors present the central capacity sharing (CCS) model and derive equations describing its behaviors to explain results from dual-task situations. The predictions of the CCS model are contrasted with those of the central bottleneck model. The CCS model predicts all of the hallmark effects of the psychological refractory period (PRP) pardigm: -1 slope of the PRP effect at short stimulus on...

Stimuli that are clearly positive or negative (hence valence-laden stimuli) have the potential to interrupt unrelated task processing. A typical example is the emotional Stroop effect (ESE) in which responding to a certain task feature (e.g., color) is delayed by the presentation of task-irrelevant valent stimuli (e.g., negative pictures) compared to valence-neutral stimuli. Here we scrutinize ...

Abstract Invited for this month's cover is the group of Scott McIndoe at University Victoria (Canada). The picture shows a pressurized reaction vessel with tubing leading out flask. That normally leads directly into an electrospray ionization mass spectrometer, where mass‐to‐charge ratio and relative abundance solution phase ions are measured. These data can be used to generate chronograms each...

Relative to coal fired and natural gas fired power plants, nuclear power plants are more expensive to build but less expensive to run. This annex describes advanced construction methods to reduce nuclear power's construction costs, mainly by shortening the time needed to build a plant. Each of the methods described below has been used in one or more of the projects listed in Table IV-1. None is...

There is a critical need to improve the performance and utility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Several areas of UAV performance need to be improved for the next generation of UAVS to be used successfully in expanded future combat roles. For example current time aloft is only on the order of an hour or two for electric-powered UAVs. The current generation of UAVs lacks vertical takeoff and ...