Saint Anselm College

About: Saint Anselm College is a education organization based out in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Nurse education. The organization has 255 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7222 citations.

Competition and the enculturation of science

Abstract: Contrary to the supposition of modern Western culture, competition does not rule nature. The evidence for noncompetition and for cooperation among species is reviewed. The historical origins of the competition model are then examined, leading to the conclusion that it is cultural, not natural. Cross‐cultural comparisons show that the salient feature of modern Western life is individualism, in which self‐interest and struggle for dominance are characteristic. The experience of competition in the family, school, sports, and business is then projected onto the world of nature entailing a profound enculturation of science.

The number of planar central configurations is finite when -1 mass positions are fixed

Abstract: In this paper, it is proved that for n > 2 and n 6= 4, if n−1 masses are located at fixed points in a plane, then there are only a finite number of n-point central configurations that can be generated by positioning a given additional nth mass in the same plane. The result is established by proving an equivalent isolation result for planar central configurations of five or more points. Other general properties of central configurations are established in the process. These relate to the amount of centrality lost when a point mass is perturbed and to derivatives associated with central configurations.

Quantum resource theory for charge-parity-time inversion

Abstract: We develop a complete resource theory of charge-parity-time (CPT) inversion symmetry for both massive and massless relativistic particles of arbitrary spin. We show that a unitary representation of CPT can be consistently constructed for all spins and develop the resource theory associated with CPT superselection, thereby identifying and quantifying the resources required to lift the superselection rule.