A high level of corruption usually constrains economic development in emerging countries. However, anti-corruption campaigns often fail because the relevant policies need to be implemented by existing corrupt governments. This article studies extent bureaucrats’ heterogeneity attitude problem corruption. Due sensitivity direct questions on corruption, we conduct list experiment among public pro...

Recent demonstrations of "reconsolidation" suggest that memories can be modified when they are reactivated. Reconsolidation has been observed in human procedural memory and in implicit memory in infants. This study asks whether episodic memory undergoes reconsolidation. College students learned a list of objects on Day 1. On Day 2, they received a reminder or not, and then learned a second list...

New theoretical and experimental results on double-barrier SIS’IS Josephson junctions are presented (1 is a tunnel barrier, S’ is a thin film with critical temperature lower than that of S). The previously developed microscopic model for the stationary case, which describes the critical currents in Nb/AI/Nb junctions, is extended to the non-equilibrium regime of finite voltage. In particular, a...

Double beta decay is a rare spontaneous nuclear transition in which the nuclear charge changes by two units while the mass number remains the same. It has been long recognized as a powerful tool to study lepton number conservation in general, and neutrino properties in particular. Since the lifetimes of double beta decays are so long, the experiments on double beta decay are very challenging an...

The Double Chooz reactor neutrino experiment will be the next detector to search for a non vanishing θ13 mixing angle with unprecedented sensitivity, which might open the way to unveiling CP violation in the leptonic sector. The measurement of this angle will be based in a precise comparison of the antineutrino spectrum at two identical detectors located at different distances from the Chooz nu...

A double plasma device consists of two plasma volumes, electrically separated by a conducting grid and biased to different plasma potentials. By manipulating the potential difference, a controlled plasma flow from one volume into the other can be generated. With the help of a harmonically modulated potential difference, plasma waves can be excited. Using different modulation frequencies allows ...