Community in Transition: Amana's Great Change, 1931-1933

Preliminary reduction and analysis of the Bucarest Observatory photographic plates: Astrometry of asteroids (1931-1933)

The Romanian Astronomical Plate Archive consists of 10550 plates of which 8169 are of ast roids observations. A total of 850 asteroids and 78 comets were observed in the 1930-2005 period. After a careful investigation of the whole plate archive we discovered that a series of observations were not capitalized, such as a set of minor planets which were observed during 1930-1955. The lack of accur...

The great transition.

The great transition.

As China's economy grows and opens further, the opportunity it presents to multinationals is changing. Foreign companies are moving to country development and new strategic choices. Now, foreign firms can actually go after the Chinese domestic market, and it's worth going after. Improvements in China's infrastructure, workforce, and regulatory environment are making it possible for companies to...

Styles of scientific thought: the German genetics community, 1900–1933

difficult task, or was it more an accident of co-terminosity? The anti-psychiatrists who adopted his themes, the "Great Confinement" and so forth, happened to be in the ascendant at the time (the early 1960s) and embraced his anti-institutional analysis with perfervid zeal despite the confusions engendered in both directions. There seems to have been little acknowledgement either that asylumdom...

Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition *

The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union involves fundamental shifts in the allocation of resources and deep changes in the structure of production and employment. This paper uses a simple model of economic development and structural change with technology spillovers to benchmark structural change in the transitio...