Computing is undergoing a seismic shift from client/server to the cloud, a shift similar in importance and impact to the transition from mainframe to client/server. Speculation abounds on how this new era will evolve in the coming years, and IT leaders have a critical need for a clear vision of where the industry is heading. We believe the best way to form this vision is to understand the under...

This paper empirically studies union effects on the performance of, and employment relations in, China’s private enterprises. The study finds a positive and statistically significant union effect on labor productivity, but not on profitability. It further finds that unions lead to better employee benefits and increased contract signing in employment. These findings suggest that, in the era of t...

On May 4 and 5, 2012, international relations experts gathered at Princeton University for a workshop on " The Future of Liberal Internationalism: Global Governance in a Post–American Hegemonic Era. " The workshop followed on similar meetings in January 2010 and 2011, which addressed " Rivalry and Partnership: The Struggle for a New Global Governance Leadership " and " New Foundations for Globa...

The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) was the most recent pre-industrial era warm interval of European climate, yet its driving mechanisms remain uncertain. We present here a 947-year-long multidecadal North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) reconstruction and find a persistent positive NAO during the MCA. Supplementary reconstructions based on climate model results and proxy data indicate a clear shift ...

Access to modern energy such as electricity is key in the economic development of any country, and yet over 600 million people remain with no access developing countries. It true that both renewable fossil fuels are achievement United Nations Sustainable Development (UN SDG) Goal 7 1 on poverty eradication respectively. However, current global efforts transition a low carbon economy, tackle cli...

Traditional media, especially current affairs news programs, are facing multiple challenges and opportunities in the short video era, it is worth paying attention to how TV programs newscasters can timely adjust development of new media trends. To a certain extent, "Anchor Talking" meaningful attempt transition transformation era. In this paper, we analyze communication characteristics Says" te...

RATIONALE Identifying patients at high risk of critical illness is necessary for the development and testing of strategies to prevent critical illness. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between high elder risk assessment (ERA) score and critical illness requiring intensive care and to see if the ERA can be used as a prediction tool to identify elderly patients at the prima...

This is a comparative analysis of policing in three countries that have experienced a major political or social transition, Russia, Brazil, and China. We consider two related questions: (1) how has transition in each country affected the deployment of the police against regime opponents (which we term “repression”)? And (2) how has the transition affected other police misconduct that also victi...

Simple models are constructed for “acceleressence” dark energy: the latent heat of a phase transition occurring in a hidden sector governed by the seesaw mass scale v/MPl, where v is the electroweak scale and MPl the gravitational mass scale. In our models, the seesaw scale is stabilized by supersymmetry, implying that the LHC must discover superpartners with a spectrum that reflects a low scal...