A popular theory for why firms take nonprofit status is that it is a signal of quality. This paper offers a simple, empirical test of this theory. If nonprofit status signals quality, surely nonprofit firms would want to ensure that consumers are aware of this. A natural way for firms to do this is to indicate their nonprofit status in their advertising. Taking this cue, we conducted a survey o...

Is there a distinction between withholding and withdrawing medical treatment at the end of life? In the past two decades, courts and bioethicists in most Western countries have rejected this distinction. However, some doctors, patients, and families still find the distinction to have important ethical implications. A proposed Israeli law offers a unique approach that attempts to respect the cul...

American Family Physician (AFP) continuously strives to keep up with the times and with the needs of our readers. This month, we are proud to announce the debut of our twice-a-month podcast that will highlight key points from each issue of AFP. There’s a good chance you already listen to podcasts. Serial, anyone? This American Life? The format has exploded in recent years. One in three American...

It is demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that through the use of an active (feedback) controller one can dramatically modify the nature of the flow in a toroidal thermal convection loop heated from below and cooled from above. In particular, we show how a simple control strategy can be used to suppress (laminarize) the naturally occurring chaotic motion or induce chaos in otherwise t...

We measured the beliefs and behavior of third parties who were given the opportunity to add to or deduct from the payoffs of individuals who engaged in an economic bargaining game under different social contexts. Third parties rewarded bargaining outcomes that were equal and compensated victims of unfair bargaining outcomes rather than punishing perpetrators, but were willing to punish when com...

We use known widths and branching ratios in 11Be to discuss Jπ and configuration admixtures. Analysis favors 3/2− for the 3.96-MeV state and three-state mixing for this Jπ . Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments Suggested Citation: H.T. Fortune and R. Sherr. (2011). Neutron widths and configuation mixing in 11Be. Physical Review C, 054314. © 2011 The American Physical...

Throughout the early 1950s, as the Korean War raged, a single contentious question consumed political debate in the United States: Who lost China? Political opponents tossed this question back and forth hoping that the tar baby would stick to someone on the other side and let them affix blame both for the Korean War and, more importantly, for allowing communists to seize control of the most pop...

RRBS experiments offer a cost-effective method for measuring the methylation levels of cytosines in CpG dense regions. Statistical testing for differences in CpG methylation between sample groups typically involves beta-binomial modelling of CpG loci individually and testing across samples, such as with the BiSeq and MethylSig packages. Individual CpGs are then chained together to output a list...

Analysis of energies and widths of the lowest 1/2+ T = 3/2 states in A = 11 nuclei suggests that the excitation energy in 11C should be about 200 keV below the energy in the literature, and the width should be 4 to 5 times the literature value. Properties of the state in 11B and 11N are in agreement with the present model. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics Comments Fortune...

We calculate electrostatic multipole moments of C60 up to l=18 using the quantum-mechanical charge distribution with icosahedral symmetry obtained from ab initio calculations. It is found that the second nonzero moment (l=10) is comparable to the first nonzero moment (l=6). The values of several low-order multipole moments are almost 10 times smaller than those found from the charge distributio...