This report of the working group summarizes the discussions and the common understanding of the active participants of the workshop. The goal of this workshop was to bring together leading researchers with different scientific backgrounds and different understandings of what the most interesting aspects or problems in the area of collaboration are, and to develop a broadening understanding of w...

Editors’ Note: LeBaron and Patera use their own cultures – Canadian and Austrian respectively – to examine the teaching assumptions of a group of top-flight teachers of negotiation. They discover a number of unstated theoretical assumptions, heavily influenced by Western thought in general and U.S. culture in particular, and demonstrate alternate assumptions which might better guide second gene...

This paper gives an overview of the ongoing METRA project that concerns the study of Multi-element Transmit and Receive Antennas. The outcome of this project will impact the continuous standardization process of third generation systems in forums such as the 3 Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).

Despite substantial evidence that resources and outcomes are transmitted across generations, there has been limited inquiry into the extent to which anti-poverty programs actually disrupt the cycle of bad outcomes. We explore how the effects of the United States’ largest early childhood program transfer across generations. We leverage the geographic rollout of this federally funded, means-teste...

Ð This paper assesses the Argentine stabilization and market reform strategies since 1989. We argue that Argentina may be penned in by its own success: exchange rate targeting quelled in ̄ation but the resulting real appreciation has limited export and employment growth; microeconomic reforms raised eciency but have threatened income distribution and hence political stability; exclusive styles ...

Second harmonic generation (SHG) can be used as a technique for controlling the spatial mode structure of optical beams. We demonstrate experimentally the generation of higher-order spatial modes, and the possibility to use nonlinear phase matching as a predictable and robust technique for the conversion of transverse electric modes of the second harmonic output. The details of this effect are ...

In the next years the market for low value products such as online music and videos and the role of micropayment systems for selling such products are expected to grow substantially. The first generation micropayment systems appeared around 1994, with systems such as eCash, MilliCent and CyberCoin. These systems were unable to gain market share, however, and disappeared slowly in the late 1990s...