There is over the last few years a clear trend in Europe to privatise traditional govemmental tasks, also because of new EU legislation. Many of these tasks have traditionally been carried out by the govemment itself, largely because of the ‘natura1 monopoly’ argument. Examples of current and future privatisation polities are the telecommunication and energy sector. For transport infrastructure...

We introduce a plan toward a perfect list of convex pentagons that can tile the whole plane in edge-to-edge manner. Our strategy is based on Bagina’s Proposition, and is direct and primitive: Generating all candidates of pentagonal tiles (several hundreds in number), classify them into the known 14 types, geometrically impossible cases, the cases that do not generate an edge-to-edge pentagonal ...

Let us consider an edge-to-edge and strongly balanced tiling of plane by pentagons. A node of valence s (≥3) in an edge-to-edge tiling is a point that is the common vertex of s tiles. Let W1 be a finite closed disk satisfying the property that the average valence of nodes in W1 is nearly equal to 10/3. Then, let T denote the union of the set of pentagons meeting the boundary of W1 but not conta...

I present a low energy Lagrangian implementing the idea of Cosmological SUSY breaking (CSB). The model predicts tanβ ∼ 1, and incorporates a new mechanism for breaking of SU(2)×U(1). The Higgs mass is determined by new physics and can evade the bounds of the MSSM. The model resolves the CP and flavor problems of SUSY. The up quark mass is non-vanishing. An axion-like particle, with TeV scale de...

The paper reports computations for Al@C82, Sc@C82, Y@C82 and La@C82 based on encapsulation into the IPR (isolated pentagon rule) C2υ C82 cage and also on Mg@C74, Ca@C74, Sr@C74 and Ba@C74 based on encapsulation into the only C74 IPR cage. Their structural and energetic characteristics are used for evaluations of the relative production yields, employing the encapsulation Gibbs-energy terms and ...

WikiLeaks' recent public disclosure of troves of classified U.S. Government records has been big news around the world, but it has been particularly significant in the open government community. For decades, groups like ours that are concerned with open government have been working to reform serious problems associated with pervasive and excessive U.S. Government secrecy, including the overclas...

The present study examined the relation between disengagement of moral self–sanctions and support of military force. The modes of moral disengagement included moral sanctioning of lethal means, disavowal of personal responsibility for detrimental effects accompanying military campaigns, minimization of civilian casualties, and attribution of blame and dehumanization of one’s foes. The responden...

We present an exhaustive search of all families of convex pentagons which tile the plane. This research shows that there are no more than the already 15 known families. In particular, this implies that there is no convex polygon which allows only non-periodic tilings.

The lessons of Task Force Hawk and Kosovo have rung loudly in the halls of Congress and the Pentagon. However, the immense difficulty the US Army faced in deploying a capable, warfighting force to northern Albania is only symptomatic of a much larger problem that the Army has grappled with for several decades: how to develop a force light enough to get where it is needed quickly and yet lethal ...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menelusuri pengaruh fraud pentagon dan self-esteem pada perilaku kecurangan akademik. Terdapat beberapa faktor yang mendorong seseorang melakukan tindak kecurangan. Berdasarkan Crowe’s Fraud Pentagon Model, terdapat lima elemen terdiri dari tekanan, peluang, rasionalisasi, kompetensi, arogansi. Sifat kepribadian diyakini mampu mempengaruhi salah satunya self-estee...