The Shock of the “New World”

Super Bomb ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 18-39
Author(s):  
Ken Young ◽  
Warner R. Schilling
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Fissionable Material ◽  
Nuclear Threat ◽  
Atomic Weapons ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bomb Test ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This chapter is an account of the impact on U.S. thinking and policy of the first Soviet atomic bomb test. It ended the U.S. monopoly of atomic weapons—a development that some had foreseen and others had discounted as a possibility. An atomic Russia triggered fears of a “bolt from the blue” assault on U.S. cities. One reaction was to seek to prioritize U.S. air defenses. Another was to confirm the program agreed to that summer to accelerate the production of fissionable material for atomic bombs. The surge of anxiety also brought hitherto obscure speculations about thermonuclear physics into the public domain. It seemed apparent to some that the Soviet nuclear threat should be countered not by a multiplication of atomic bombs but by an American “superbomb.”

Voting at the U.S. Constitutional Convention

2019 ◽  
pp. 780-796
Author(s):  
Keith L. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This chapter describes how the public-choice perspective has provided new insights into the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. It reviews articles on the impact of the rules of the Convention, attempts to infer delegate votes, and reviews how public choice has helped us understand the adoption of various clauses in the Constitution and studies of the Beard thesis.

scholarly journals Globalization, Knowledge Economy and the implication for Indigenous Knowledge

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Kgomotso H Moahi
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Flow Of Information

This paper considers the impact that globalization and the knowledge economy have on the protection and promotion of indigenous knowledge. It is asserted that globalization and the knowledge economy have opened up the world and facilitated the flow of information and knowledge. However, the flow of knowledge has been governed by uneven economic and political power between the developed countries and the devel-oping countries. This has a number of ramifications for IK. The dilemma faced is that whichever method is taken to protect IK (IPR regimes, documenting IK etc) exposes IK to some misappropriation. Protecting it through IPR is also fraught with problems. Documenting IK exposes IK to the public domain and makes it that much easier to be misused. However, not protecting IK runs the danger of having it disappear as the custodians holding it die off, or as communities become swamped by the effects of globalization. The conclu-sion therefore is that governments have to take more interest in protecting, promoting and using IK than they have been doing.

Danger Ahead? The Impact of Fear of Crime on People's Recreational Use of Nonmotorised Shared-Use Routes

10.1068/c24m ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 741-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Ravenscroft ◽  
David Uzzell ◽  
Rachel Leach
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Systemic Reaction ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recreational Use

In this paper we discuss the incidence of actual and perceived victimisation in people's recreational use of nonmotorised shared-use routes. Using the findings from eight focus groups, we show that, despite encountering very few conflictual situations when on shared-use routes, the fear of accidents and assaults has a significant impact on some people in some environments. The findings lend support to broader theorisations about people's insecurity when outside the home, where fear is an increasingly systemic reaction to the ways in which understandings of the public domain are shifting.

scholarly journals ETIKA BERMEDIA SOSIAL PEREMPUAN FATAYAT MELALUI PENGUATAN PENGETAHUAN LITERASI MEDIA DI SITUBONDO

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-96
Author(s):  
Nur Ainiyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
New World ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Media And Technology

Media and technology take us to an era of information literacy. The pattern of communication and conversation on social media recently tends to provoke, shows the low ethics of Indonesian society in in the public domain communication such as social media. It is undeniable that women also took part as a subject in social media, including the Fatayat group in Situbondo. This study emphasizes the empowerment of social media ethics towards fatayat women in Situbondo through media literacy to fight hoax. It was a qualitative-explorative research by examined how fatayat ethics and behavior in communication through social media and how women are ethically empowered through strengthening knowledge media literacy. Social media in fatayat women live brings and forms a new world in interacting and communicating. Manage contents via Facebook shared and published by fatayat members, making them learn literacy. Strengthening social media ethics through media literacy is carried out in various stages, especially through monthly meetings, thematic discussions and the role of women through fatayat

The Performance Rewards of Human Capital Development in the Federal Government

2021 ◽  
pp. 009102602110398
Author(s):  
Andrew Wesemann
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Econometric Analyses ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Human capital is one of the most vital assets an organization possesses. Research has demonstrated that human capital is directly related to performance. Thus, there is a clear incentive for organizations to grow their human capital levels. Not surprisingly, then, organizations have created and employed a wide variety of managerial practices focused on further developing human capital within their employees. Yet even as the U.S. government faces forthcoming human capital shortages due to the ongoing retirements of a large segment of its workforce, empirical research investigating the impact of commonly used human capital development practices on performance in the public sector is scarce. Therefore, to gain a deeper understanding of this dynamic relationship, using U.S. federal personnel data, this study analyzes the impact of human capital development practices on agency performance. The results of longitudinal econometric analyses suggest that human capital development practices have positive effects on agency performance.

The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Voting for Women Candidates by Level and Type of Office

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 573-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Dolan ◽  
Timothy Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Experimental Designs ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Male Stereotypes ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The U.S

Previous research has documented that the public often views women candidates through the lens of gender stereotypes. However, as much of this work draws on experimental designs and hypothetical candidates, we have less information about whether and how voters employ stereotypes in the face of real candidates for office. This project examines one important aspect of the impact of stereotypes on the fate of actual women candidates: whether gender stereotypes have a different influence on elections for different levels and types of offices. Previous research suggests that voters are more likely to apply male stereotypes and evaluate candidates differently as the level of office increases and as we consider executive versus legislative office. The research reported here draws on new data that capture voter attitudes and behaviors in real-world elections to test a series of hypotheses related to when and how gender stereotypes affect candidates for the U.S. Congress and governorships. In general, we find little evidence to support claims that voters stereotype women candidates differently when they seek different kinds of offices.

scholarly journals Markets: Transparency and the Corporate Bond Market

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Bessembinder ◽  
William Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Bonds ◽  
Bond Market ◽  
National Association ◽  
Corporate Bond ◽  
Transaction Data ◽  
Corporate Bond Market ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Trade Press

For decades, corporate bonds primarily traded in an opaque environment. Quotations, which indicate prices at which dealers are willing to transact, were available only to market professionals, most often by telephone. Prices at which bond transactions were completed were not made public. The U.S. corporate bond market became much more transparent with the introduction of the Transaction Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) in July 2002. Beginning that date, bond dealers were required to report all trades in publicly issued corporate bonds to the National Association of Security Dealers, which in turn made transaction data available to the public. In this paper, we describe trading protocols in the corporate bond market and assess the impact of the increase in transparency on the market. We review how TRACE has affected the costs that corporate bond investors paid to bond dealers for their transactions. We canvass the opinions of a variety of finance professionals and consider articles in the trade press to obtain a broader view of the impact of transparency on the corporate bond market

scholarly journals Inflating Away the Public Debt? An Empirical Assessment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Hilscher ◽  
Alon Raviv ◽  
Ricardo Reis
Keyword(s):  
Public Debt ◽  
New Method ◽  
Inflation Dynamics ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Real Value ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Abstract This paper proposes a new method for measuring the impact of inflation on the real value of public debt. The distribution of debt debasement is based on two inputs: the distribution of privately held nominal debt by maturity, for which we provide new estimates, and the distribution of risk-adjusted inflation dynamics, for which we provide a novel copula estimator using options data. We find that inflation by itself is unlikely to lower the U.S. fiscal burden significantly because debt is concentrated at short maturities and perceived inflation shocks have little short-run persistence and are small.

scholarly journals The Impact of Horizontal Strategic Alliances On The U.S. Steel Industry

1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-178
Author(s):  
Lucy Ojode
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
Price Competition ◽  
Industry Concentration ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Competitive Structure

Despite the popularity of strategic alliances among firms, the public is ambivalentabout the industry impact of horizontal alliances. It is not apparent that thebenefits of alliances to the firm also accrue to the industry. This paper examinedthe U.S. steel industry data from 1977 to 1997 to determine the potential impactsof capability horizontal alliances on industry competitive structure. The resultsare indicative of positive impacts on industry competitiveness (profitability andproductivity) and competitive structure (price competition and declining industryconcentration). A capability hypothesis is offered that posit that horizontal alliancesthat enhance partner firms' capabilities may diffuse critical capabilitiesor 'best practices' within an industry thereby raising the average level of competitivenessin the industry and inducing competitive pressures that can resultin price competition and erode industry concentration.

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