In recent years many scholars are studying “happiness” seriously. Economics, long known as the dismal science, has a well established “utility theory” but utility should not be treated synonymously as happiness. This paper questions some premises of the Benthamite theory that presumes utility is the same as happiness and proposes a theory that there are three kinds of happiness: a forward looki...

The Earth is a magnet. Its dipole character from e results massive currents within the molten portion of its core. These currents, presumably by gravitational in driven i energy, induce, the manner of a self-sustaining dynamo, a global dipolar magnetic field with t a magnitude of rouehly g 0.7 gauss at the gne ti poles. Although the ancient Chinese were familiar with the polar alignment of magn...

Lars Winterfeld,1,2 Luis A. Agapito,1 Jin Li,1 Nicholas Kioussis,1,* Peter Blaha,3 and Yong P. Chen4 1Department of Physics, California State University, Northridge, California 91330-8268, USA 2Institut für Physik, University of Technology Ilmenau, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany 3Institute for Materials Chemistry, TU Vienna, A-1060 Vienna, Austria 4Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayet...

In this paper, we argue that Peter Singer’s view on the potentiality of the human embryo is erroneous. According to Singer, the human embryo is a human person in potentiality and not in actuality. As a potential person, an embryo cannot be accorded the same moral worth as a person. For him, ‘there is no rule that says that a potential X has the same value as an X, or has all the rights of an X....

Title: Individual-level and Community-level Determinants of Cervical Cancer Screening among Kenyan Women: A Multilevel Analysis of a Nationwide Survey Authors: Fentanesh Tiruneh ([email protected]) Kun-Yang Chuang ([email protected]) Peter Ntenda ([email protected]) Ying-Chih Chuang ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 11 Sep 2017 Author’s response to reviews: Responses to reviewers...

189 Neurology illustrated reviewed by James T Hughes 200 Fast facts: obstructive sleep apnea reviewed by Peter Solin OBITUARY 214 Bevan Harvey Coombes by Andrew H Coombes and Howard J Coombes

Much like the Cornucopia myth of the 19th and early 20th centuries, MSY as a management tool simply won’t go away, regardless of evidence that managing for MSY has not been effective. Consequently, we investigate Ricker’s definition of MSY, focusing on words such as average catch, continuously taken, and existing environmental conditions. To do this, we develop a model for the squid fishery in ...

Two patients with congenital anomaly of the craniovertebral junction causing disabling hemifacial spasm (HFS) are presented. In one patient, complete cessation of the HFS occurred for a period of two years following simple bony decompression of the craniovertebral junction raising unanswered questions as to the exact pathogenesis of HFS. Eventually both patients required microvascular decompres...

Many of the largest wildfires in US history burned in recent decades, and climate change explains much of the increase in area burned. The frequency of extreme wildfire weather will increase with continued warming, but many uncertainties still exist about future fire regimes, including how the risk of large fires will persist as vegetation changes. Past fire-climate relationships provide an opp...

Sloan (1996) is the first to document the accruals anomaly, the negative relation between accruals and subsequent stock returns. In this paper I investigate the effects of the recent and prominent adoption of fair-value accounting on the market valuation of accruals. Using a sample of firm-years from 2003 to 2005, I find that investors rationally price different earnings components when setting...