NATURE OF THE CRISIS IN COTTON

Crop Production/Industries,

The health sector's role in New York's regional economy

Economic activity in the New York region depends heavily on the health sector - a sector that helped buoy New York's economy during the region's 1989-92 downturn. But with fundamental changes occuring in health care, will the sector still bolster the region's economy in the years to come?Medical care ; New York (State) ; New Jersey

The impact of the current defense build-down

For the third time since the end of World War II, the United States is engaged in a long-term defense build-down. This article provides a broad macroeconomic overview of the current build-down relative to the build-downs following the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In addition, the authors examine regional and industrial impacts of cuts in defense spending.Defense contracts ; War - Economic aspects ; Employment (Economic theory)

An irrelevant media when sentencing? – Comparing the perceptions of English and Danish lower Court judges when sentencing theft offenders

An irrelevant mass media is a disempowered mass media if judges lack trust and respect in its’ coverage and content. To reveal the level of impact from media reporting this research examined the lower Court theft sentencing practices of 12 Danish and 12 English judges. Their perceptions of the media influence were qualitatively compared. This revealed that there was a similar Danish and English judicial reaction to the media. The media was predominantly negatively perceived as having a low influence due to being biased and misinformed. However, judicial trust in academic and government sources was predominantly positively received. These two trusted media sources should be focused upon when developing future English sentencing guidance tools, i.e.) sentencing guidelines, legislation, theft case law and judicial training. This can then beneficially boost the relevance of the mass media and thus re-empower its’ positive influence on the wider sentencing community

Renormalization of lattice gauge theories with massless Ginsparg Wilson fermions

Using functional techniques, we prove, to all orders of perturbation theory, that lattice vector gauge theories with Ginsparg Wilson fermions are renormalizable. For two or more massless fermions, they satisfy a flavour mixing axial vector Ward identity. It involves a lattice specific part that is quadratic in the vertex functional and classically irrelevant. We show that it stays irrelevant under renormalization. This means that in the continuum limit the (standard) chiral symmetry becomes restored. In particular, the flavour mixing current does not require renormalization.Comment: 13 pages, Latex2

Non-renormalization theorems without supergraphs: The Wess-Zumino model

The non-renormalization theorems of chiral vertex functions are derived on the basis of an algebraic analysis. The property, that the interaction vertex is a second supersymmetry variation of a lower dimensional field monomial, is used to relate chiral Green functions to superficially convergent Green functions by extracting the two supersymmetry variations from an internal vertex and transforming them to derivatives acting on external legs. The analysis is valid in the massive as well as in the massless model and can be performed irrespective of properties of the superpotential at vanishing momentum.Comment: 20 pages, Latex, added acknowledgment

Scaling dynamics of a cubic interval exchange transformation

We study the dynamics of renormalisation of an interval exchange transformation which features exact scaling (the cubic Arnoux-Yoccoz model). Using a symbolic space that describes both dynamics and scaling, we characterize the periodic points of the scaling map in terms of generalised decimal expansions, where the base is the reciprocal of a Pisot number and the digits are algebraic integers. We establish rigorously some basic facts, and use extensive numerical experimentation to formulate a conjecture.Comment: 18 page