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A semiempirical method, based on INDO (intermediate neglect of differential overlap), is employed to calculate the shake‐up spectrum of the C1s peak of benzene. Intensities are computed within the framework of the equivalent‐core approximation, including correlation in both final and initial states. The method yields intensity ratios which are better than previously obtained theoretical results and in close agreement with experiment. The factors contributing to the intensity of individual peaks are analyzed and an assignment is proposed for the main features in the experimental spectrum.

Con base en lo ocurrido en décadas anteriores, cuando se desarrolló un fuerte e importante movimiento crítico en el terreno de la comunicación masiva latinoamericana y mundial, cuestionándose la concentración de los medios en pocas manos y, en consecuencia, las características de sus contenidos, favorables a la dominación, puede afirmarse que hoy tal concentración es incluso mayor, y sus contenidos no son más que variantes de un pensamiento (casi) único, por lo cual se plantea la necesidad de recuperar los contenidos anteriores y hacer una permanente denuncia de lo indicado, como parte de una real apertura de los medios.

Depuis quelques années, les historiens de la littérature francophone de Belgique s’accordent à signaler que l’utilisation de la notion de réseau littéraire, appelée à compléter la théorie des champs littéraires, peut s’avérer des plus propice à une description plus fine d’un ensemble périphérique comme le sous-champ belge où, en raison d’un faible degré d’institutionnalisation, l’activité littéraire s’organise et se structure selon des modalités propres. Nous nous proposons ici de voir dans quelle mesure quelques études très récentes menées à bien par des chercheurs des Universités de Bruxelles et de Liège permettent de confirmer cette hypothèse et de bousculer quelques-uns des présupposés bien ancrés, telle la logique implacable des piliers et familles. For many years, historians of the francophone literature of Belgium agree to point out that the use of the notion of réseau littéraire (literary network), bound to complete the theory of literary fields, can be more appropriate to a more subtle description of a peripheral whole as the Belgian subfield where, due to a low level o institutionalization, the literary activity is organized and structured according to their own features. At this point, we plan to analyse insofar as some very recent studies done by researchers from the Universities of Brussels and Liege allow to confirm this hypothesis and to shake up some of the established presuppositions as the implacable logics of families and pillars.

K. H. Ahn,1 A. J. Fedro,2,3 and Michel van Veenendaal2,3 1Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA 2Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA 3Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois 60115, USA Received 7 August 2008; revised manuscript received 4 December 2008; published 7 January 2009

The Internet's underlying technology is causing a telecommunications revolution far more fundamental than previous shifts and with far greater consequences. In this fast-paced world a bigger company is not necessarily better if it is founded on the economics of the past. The author considers how IP technology is shaking up the telecommunications market. Look for new opportunities and new providers for your voice and data channels.

Consumers in the United Kingdom are to receive stronger legal safeguards against products that claim, without any identifiable scientific evidence, to provide physical and mental health benefits such as tackling obesity or depression. The protection will be provided by the consumer protection regulations that come into force on 26 May, which implement new pan-European rules on unfair commercial practices. The scope of the legislation is deliberately wide and is the biggest shake up in consumer law for decades. It targets any unfair selling to consumers by any business. It is designed to …

All other civil rights groups in 1964 considered Mississippi - the most impenetrable state in the union - hopeless. The decision of Bob Moses of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to shake up the Magnolia State by sending six hundred young volunteers into every corner of the state to register new black voters brimmed with danger. Moses explained to a first gathering of student volunteers, When you're not in Mississippi, it's not real. And when you're there, the rest of the world isn't real. In the early morning hours of June 20, Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney boarded their blue CORE station wagon and left the rolling hills of southwestern Ohio, bound for Meridian. This article recounts the career of John Doar of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and his role in prosecuting the Mississippi Burning Trial in 1967. Looking back nearly more than thirty years later, Doar believed that the trial helped Mississippi get beyond the caste system. Up to that time, no white person in the state had ever been convicted for violence against a black. After the trial, the good people of Mississippi became more confident that they could move away from their past.

This Comment demonstrates that a comparison analysis by Seah and Gilmore between experimental data on the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy intensities and theoretical data by Trzhaskovskaya et al. is misleading due to a number of serious errors made by Seah and Gilmore (Phys. Rev. B, 73, 174113)., 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

In this contribution, equilibrium geometries and potential energy curves computed at the CASSCF level of theory for the core hole and shake up superexcited states of small size molecules will be presented. The effect of dynamic correlation on the description of these species will be discussed based on preliminary multireference configuration interaction energetics.

A company has emerged from Silicon Valley claiming to possess disruptive technology that will shake up a business familiar to many Americans. But unlike most firms to come out of that part of California, this one doesn’t intend to do its disrupting with silicon or smartphone apps. This company’s plans involve one of the chemical industry’s most traditional products, the rubber ingredient carbon black. Redwood City-based Monolith Materials wants to build the first new carbon black facility in the U.S. in some 30 years. The firm’s technology twist is that its raw material will be natural gas rather than the heavy petroleum used by the industry today. Given today’s low natural gas prices, it’s an intriguing idea. It’s also an idea that has been tried before without success. The trick for Monolith will be to overcome the technological hurdles that stymied natural-gas-based carbon black in the past. Monolith was launched ...

Automotive: Ferrari aims to shake up F1 Regulations; Policy: Quiz your candidates; The Questions IET members should enquire about.

It has long been observed that games and simulations can shake up the academic hierarchy in a classroom. There has been little or no research into racial differences in simulations. This article describes several incidents in which Black students outperformed White and Asian students. If these episodes have any significance, it would be in line with linguistic research that shows that members of Black communities often excel in oral skills and value them more highly than members of the White culture.

EDITOR—I wish to respond to some of the misrepresentation that has followed your news article about Doctors for Reform.1 Firstly, the steering committee consists of NHS doctors committed to equity of provision and access to health services according to clinical need, which should be free at the point of use. I have worked for 23 years in the NHS and have never seen private patients under my …

The UK government may soon have to consider charging patients for certain selected services, a group campaigning for reform in the NHS said this week. The organisation, Doctors for Reform, is privately funded and claims no political allegiance. In a letter to politicians, 900 NHS doctors who are members of the group, said that the time has come to look at new ways to supply and fund health care in Britain. This coincides with reports in the press of the NHS's funding problems reaching a head, despite substantial investment by the government to try to improve services. “We welcome the substantial increase in resources for …

The recent terrorists' acts committed in the Republic of Yemen present a dangerous challenge to the government. The terrorists plan to shake up the pillars of security, stability, and social peace. The terrorists intended to place Yemen among the areas targeted in the world's fight against terrorism. The Republic of Yemen, a member of the international community and the United Nations, denounces and rejects terrorism; and has a national strategy to combat it. Terrorism is alien to Muslim Yemen, society and contradicts its deeply-rooted and noble traditions and values. This paper discusses the history of terrorism in Yemen and examines the national strategy to address it. This examination concludes that the Republic of Yemen has the will and a viable strategy but requires international resources to combat terrorism.

Barberis and Shleifer (2003) model an economy in which some investors engage in positive feedback style investing. These investors group stocks into styles, and then form demands for stocks at style level, instead of at individual stock level. In this paper, the implications of style investing on comovement of trading volume are studied. Stocks are classified into nine styles based on their market cap and book-to-market ratio. We find that stock trading activities tend to comove within styles. Stocks in large market cap styles tend to demonstrate stronger degree of trading activity comovements than stocks in smaller market cap styles. This is consistent with the notion that stocks in large market cap styles tend to belong to major indexes like S&P 500 or Dow Jones 30, and therefore tend to attract more large passive index investors. We also find that the extent to which stock trading activities comove within a style increases with the style's previous year relative return performance. This relation is only statistically significant for medium and small market cap styles. Once again, this could be due to the fact that large market cap stocks are more likely to belong to major indexes. Since investing in these indexes is such a popular investment strategy, it is unlikely that one year of bad return can significantly shake up an investor's faith in investing in these indexes. Our third result is that, when a stock changes its style, its trading activities comove less with stocks in the old style, and comove more with stocks in the new style. All the above results are consistent with the positive-feedback style investing model. Our results cannot be explained by liquidity comovements.

John Shea9s stone tool studies have helped archaeologists identify how stone points were used, and he has documented the sophisticated toolmaking skills of the oldest known Homo sapiens. More recently, Shea has been doing his best to shake up human origins research with a radical proposal: That the idea of "behavioral modernity"—a term long used by scientists to describe behaviors such as the use of symbolism, art, and elaborate tools—should be thrown into the scrap heap.

The government has announced details of a proposed shake up in children's services in an attempt to avert another case of avoidable child death such as that of Victoria Climbie, the child who was murdered by her great aunt in February 2000. In its consultation paper, Every Child Matters , the government proposes much closer working between primary healthcare services and local authority children's services, which are to be radically overhauled. By 2006, the government wants to see all children's services, including children's health services, integrated into children's trusts, to be run by local authorities. The trusts would include community and acute health services, such as …

Fourteen of the elected medical members of the General Medical Council were re-elected last week on to the new, slimmed down GMC, which will come into being on 1 July. Five new members were also elected. In the biggest reform of the UK medical regulatory body since its establishment in 1858, membership of the council will drop from the current 104 members to 35, and the proportion of lay members will go up from 24% to 40%. The shake up follows legislation passed last December to enable the GMC to act more …

The names of candidates for the General Medical Council's imminent elections were announced this week. The newly constituted council will be reduced from 104 to 35 members in an effort to speed up decision making, but the proportion of lay members will increase. All doctors currently registered with a UK address will receive ballot papers by mail. For the first time, doctors will be able to vote over the internet. The ballot opens on 28 March and closes …

Lentil-shaped liposomes, formed from novel phospholipids that have an unnatural structure, release their contents only under high shear stress such as inside a constricted blood vessel, offering a way to deliver drugs to clogged arteries without the use of targeting ligands.

The most startling thing about the latest scandal to hit social psychology isn9t the alleged violation of scientific ethics itself, scientists say, or the fact that it happened in the Netherlands, the home of fallen research star and serial fraudster Diederik Stapel, whose case shook the field to its core less than a year ago. Instead, what fascinates them most is how the new case, which led to the resignation of psychologist Dirk Smeesters of Erasmus University, Rotterdam and the requested retraction of two of his papers by his school, came to light: through an unpublished statistical method to detect data fraud.

Introducing new technology can shake up a sport, but over time there are diminishing returns. What will be the next big thing to improve performance?

The Milk Marketing Boards were established in 1933 in order to ensure a regular collection of milk from farmers and a reliable delivery of milk to customers. They perfected a distribution system which proved its worth in the Second World War by ensuring an essential supply of milk under difficult circumstances. In 1993, the Government proposed that the English Milk Marketing Board should become a voluntary co‐operative with the title Milk Marque. This would make its own arrangements for the collection of milk from farmers and would compete with dairy companies such as Nestle and Northern Foods as farmers would be able to make their own arrangements over milk collection and milk products. The new system was to be in place by 1 April. Because of objections, any decisions have been postponed until 1 October or beyond.

Most UK companies separate the roles of CEO and Chairman. The former runs the company, the latter runs the board and the two directors interact to a great extent. Using turnover data on 2180 separate chairmanships of the top 460 UK companies over the 1990-1998 period, I find that the Chairman is six times more likely to be replaced when the CEO is dismissed. Moreover, the Chairman's previous position or the type of chairmanship does not affect the association between Chairman and CEO removal. But, the Chairman is four times more likely to be penalised when he is involved in the appointment of the departing CEO. Evidence on the dismissal events suggests that Chairman replacement enables the appointment of a new CEO and other directors with different human capital, which in turn facilitates changes in future corporate decisions.

Olga Malinkiewicz says a change of material could shake up the way we build and use solar cells – by making them bendy

Allegations that staff at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) falsified waiting lists to hide how long veterans had to wait for care has led to the resignation of the department’s under secretary for health, Robert A Petzel, and to calls for the agency’s secretary to step down. The uproar was sparked by reports that Phoenix VA Health Care System in Arizona had kept two sets of records: one showing that the facility was getting appointments for veterans in a timely manner, within 14 to 30 days, and …

Services for children—including health services—have been poorly coordinated and fragmented, Professor Al Aynsley-Green, the newly appointed national director for children's healthcare services in England, has said in his first public briefing since his appointment last month. He was setting out his plans for a national service framework for children, …

The election of a Labour government in 1974 and the appointment of Judith Hart as Minister of Overseas Development presaged a big shake up in aid policy. Hart was something of a development specialist in a strongly socialist tradition. In a book published two years earlier one of her key arguments was to dissociate aid from private investment, ‘it is a complete nonsense to regard private investment as aid’ and aid targets and statistics should be suitably purified.1 There was a specific implication for CDC. ‘We should redefine the purposes and functions of the Commonwealth Development Corporation … and since it is scarcely appropriate for a socialist government itself to be involved in direct foreign private investment in developing countries, its present functions and practices would need review.’ The major policy thrust given to the ODM was for a greater concentration of aid on the poorer countries and on rural development. The outcome was an influential White Paper More Aid for the Poorest,2 which has been the thrust of British aid policy ever since.

The 1993 House of Representatives election brought to an end the long era of LDP rule, but it did not produce a shift to the Left in Japanese politics. Rather, the reverse was true. The JCP remained very much a minority party, and until 1999 its influence was further limited by its unwillingness to cooperate with most other groups (as well as by the fact that all other parties sought to distance themselves from the Communists). Much more significantly, the SDPJ saw over half its candidates defeated and lost half its representation, a catastrophe which its participation in government for the first time since 1948 only partially obscured. Admittedly its seventy seats in the House of Representatives made it the largest of the eight coalition partners, but it had a less central role in the new government than Ozawa’s Renewal Party, which, with fifty-five successful candidates out of sixty-nine, had become a more formidable force. It was the Renewal Party which most clearly embraced the mood for change demonstrated not only by the election result but also by the record level of popularity (71 per cent) initially enjoyed by the Hosokawa cabinet (which had the novelty of not only being a coalition and excluding the LDP but also including three women).

Light-atom scattering off a hard wall is studied with consideration of electron transitions initiated by the collision. It is shown that this problem can be solved analytically in the framework of Masel, Merrill, and Miller's approach [Phys. Rev B 12, 5545 (1975)]. Application to the scattering of excited hydrogen atoms from insulator surfaces is considered.

Summary Britain's parliament has backed moves to create one of the most liberal human embryology experiment regimes, but not everyone is happy. Nigel Williams reports.

Last month marked the launch of two major healthcare consultations that many believe represent a turning point in the evolution of nursing in the UK and could precipitate the biggest shake up of the profession in 60 years.

We report an anomalous doublet structure and low-energy satellite in the magneto-photoluminescence spectra of a two-dimensional electron system. The doublet structure moves to higher energy with increasing magnetic field and is most prominent at odd filling factors 5 and 3. The lower-energy satellite peak tunes to lower energy for increasing magnetic field between filling factor 6 and 2. These features occur at energies below the fundamental band of recombination originating from the lowest Landau level and display striking magnetic field and temperature dependence that indicates a many-body origin. Drawing on a recent theoretical description of Hawrylak and Potemski, we show that distinct mechanisms are responsible for each feature., Comment: 14 pages including 5 figures. To appear in the April 15th edition of Phy. Rev. B. rapid comm