The inflation model of Gaillard, Lyth and Murayama is revisited, with a systematic scan of the parameter space for dilaton stabilization during inflation. This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098 and in part by the Nation...

Recently Raghavan [1] has proposed to measure the gravitational red shift of the electron anti-neutrino and the neutrino mixing angle θ13 using a tritium-metal matrix source and He-metal matrix target. The line width of the tritium source and capture cross-section in He are enhanced by a combined factor of ∼ 10 via the Mossbauer effect. We show how this technique can be used to directly measure...

As a form of accountability in carrying out its duties, functions, and authority, a government agency must prepare a budget and work plan. The budgeting process in many government agencies utilizes manual processes with various documents, resulting in long processing time, numerous errors, and difficulty in data searching. Furthermore,the lack of data integration interferes with the need to mee...

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Reputational Concerns in Political Agency Models Andrew Yuichi Lemon 2005 Citizens in democracies can be thought of as hiring politicians to run the government. In this sense, elections are contracts. The citizens are the principals and retain politicians as agents who are responsible for making policy decisions. Provided politicians value holding office in the future, elections generate incent...

This paper presents a quantitative and computational method to determine the optimal tax rate among generating units. To strike a balance between the reduction of carbon emission and the profit of energy sectors, the proposed bilevel optimization model can be regarded as a Stackelberg game between the government agency and the generation companies. The upper-level, which represents the governme...

Th e primary justifi cation for the move toward e-government, an electronic channel of service delivery that has proven tremendously successful in the private sector, ... is the belief that it holds considerable potential for positively transforming government service delivery in a manner that is consistent with recent market-centered theories of public sector reform. Th is paper examines the f...

Despite the recognition that information is a strategic asset to any state government, there is a relative dearth of research on the information systems (IS) function in state government. This stands in contrast to the number of articles devoted to e-government initiatives. IS departments however are central to state agencies’ efforts to develop optimal responses to demands from their internal ...

Do not require Government contract quality assurance at source for contracts or delivery orders valued below $250,000, unless— (1) Mandated by DoD regulation; (2) Required by a memorandum of agreement between the acquiring department or agency and the contract administration agency; or (3) The contracting officer determines that— (i) Contract technical requirements are significant (e.g., the te...

A regulating agency in a government, i.e. regulator, must co-align its information systems (IS) planning strategy with executing agencies, i.e. executors, for better e-government performance. Using an established strategic co-alignment model, we analyze the mutual participating strategies between regulator and executors and examine the outcomes and performance associated with that coalignment c...