This article proposes a general theoretical framework for understanding the concept of “class compromise” in terms of a “reverseJ” model of the relationship between the associational power of workers and the interests of capitalists: increases in working-class power adversely affect capitalist-class interests until such power crosses some intermediate threshold beyond which further increases in...

From the participatory action research we have conducted in two rural communities in Australia we suggest six factors that assist in achieving sustainability for ICT initiatives undertaken in pursuit of regional development. They include: • Clearly specified sustainability goals; • Leveraging micro-business enterprise development off government funded technical and human infrastructure provisio...

This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of majority owners to their subsidiaries ...

In this article I defend Strong Agent-Causal Libertarianism in O’Connor’s version against several objections raised by David Widerker. More specifically, I try to show that we can overcome difficulties raised by the question whether an agent has a control over controlling doing action E, by objection of possible nomically sufficient condition for obtaining of E and by objection of possible logi...

There are some points to notice in the dimensional reduction of the offshell supergravity. We discuss a consistent way of the dimensional reduction of five-dimensional off-shell supergravity compactified on S/Z2. There are two approaches to the four-dimensional effective action, which are complementary to each other. Their essential difference is the treatment of the compensator and the radion ...

Synaptic depression modeled after that seen in cortical slices removes correlations from realistic spike sequences. If not removed, such correlations can lead to ine$cient and redundant neural codes. We suggest that this redundancy reduction at individual synapses enables a neuron to better process information from multiple inputs. ! 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

In this paper I prove a Folk theorem with T -private communication equilibria with an imperfect monitoring structure that may be public, private, and conditionally dependent or independent. I show that an efficient outcome is approachable as players become patient if every disobedience from efficiency is detectable by some player and some not necessarily efficient action profile. I also show th...

We address the problem of discovering trends in text databases. Trends can be used, for example, to discover that a company is shifting interests from one domain to another. We are given a database V of documents. Each document consists of one or more text fields and a timestamp. The unit of text is a word and a phrase is a list of words. (We defer the discussion of more complex structures till...