Moore's Law and the wave of technologies it enabled have led to tremendous improvements in productivity and the quality of life in the First World. Yet, technology has had almost no effect on the four billion people that make less than a dollar per day. The decreasing costs of computing and wireless networking make this the right time to spread the benefits of technology: the biggest missing pi...

J.C. Hammer, 2 J.C. Cuevas, 2, 4 F.S. Bergeret, and W. Belzig Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Departamento de F́ısica Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, D-7...

The ability to influence behaviour is central to many of the key policy challenges in areas such as health, finance and climate change. The usual route to behaviour change in economics and psychology has been to attempt to ‘change minds’ by influencing the way people think through information and incentives. There is, however, increasing evidence to suggest that ‘changing contexts’ by influenci...

This article examines the most recent shift in ongoing debates concerning the relationship between international criminal law and transitional justice, using the examples of international criminal prosecutions before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and transitional justice mechanisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reframes the problematic relationship between...

Previous academic and popular literature has raised important debates concerning the contradictory incentives for international firms to reduce their environmental impacts and offer transparent environmental information about their operations. As an exhaustive review of this literature revealed mixed and partial evidence, we compared the individual corporate environmental performance and disclo...

We study new renormalization-group invariant quantities of soft supersymmetry breaking parameters other than the ratio of gaugino mass to gauge coupling squared by using the spurion method. The obtained invariants are useful to probe supersymmetry breaking and μ-term generation mechanisms at high-energy scale. We also discuss the convergence behavior of fixed points of supersymmetry breaking pa...

{ Rotating uid systems can display large scale asymmetries about the equator. A model-independent mechanism for such symmetry-breaking is described, via a spiralling intermittency that combines the on-oo and Pomeau-Manneville mechanisms. This involves a periodic orbit in an invariant subspace becoming unstable to perturbations transverse to the subspace, these are describable in terms of the eq...

n-tuple power law widely exists in language, computer program code, DNA and music. After a vast amount of Zipf analyses of n-tuple power law from empirical data, we propose a model to explain the n-tuple power law feature existed in these information translational carriers. Our model is a preferential selection approach inspired by Simon’s model which explained scaling law of single symbol in a...

What processes can explain how very large populations are able to converge on the use of a particular word or grammatical construction without global coordination? Answering this question helps to understand why new language constructs usually propagate along an S-shaped curve with a rather sudden transition towards global agreement. It also helps to analyze and design new technologies that sup...

What processes can explain how very large populations are able to converge on the use of a particular word or grammatical construction without global coordination? Answering this question helps to understand why new language constructs usually propagate along an S-shaped curve with a rather sudden transition towards global agreement. It also helps to analyze and design new technologies that sup...