Let me preface this review with a confession: As an advocate of free trade, I love to link the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill with the Great Depression at every opportunity. More than 80 years after its passage, the bill still evokes negative feelings about protectionism. After reading Douglas Irwin’s Peddling Protectionism: SmootHawley and the Great Depression, I can see I need to curb my enthu...

Today I want to talk about something that began for me as a detour. Over the course of the summer, putting together the Thresholds: Limits of Perception exhibition with Ana Maria Torres, I read a series of interviews of Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler. In these interviews, explaining what he was trying to achieve in his work, Irwin described an idea, a dichotomy, that I found very intriguing....

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a symptomatic complex affecting both men and women. The overall incidence is above 10% but may exceed 40% in the elderly population (Irwin et al., 2006; Irwin et al., 2009; Sexton et al., 2009a). OAB is defined by the International Continence Society (ICS) as a clinical syndrome characterized by urinary urgency, with or without incontinence, usually with frequency an...

We constructed several sequences of classical Cepheid envelope models at solar chemical composition (Y = 0.28, Z = 0.02) to investigate the dependence of the pulsation properties predicted by linear and nonlinear hydrodynamical models on input physics. To study the dependence on the equation of state (EOS) we performed several numerical experiments by using the simplified analytical EOS origina...

In the present study, the influence of variation of notch parameters on the notch stress intensity factor KI is studied using CTspecimen made from steel construction. A semi-elliptical notch has been modeled and investigated and is applied to finite elements model. The specimen is subjected to a uniform uniaxial tensile loading at its two ends under perfect elastic-plastic behavior. The volume...