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.

El proyecto con agentes nativos de la misión jamaicana en Fernando Póo: su herencia colonial

Abstract: Philip. J. Fisher’s play The Island Heritage. Episodes from the Missionary History of Fernando Poo, West Africa. A Play for Young People (1926) has remained unknown for the scholarly work on Equatorial Guinea. As I maintain in this article, the importance of this play rests also on the information she provides about the establishment of the Jamaican Baptist Missionary Society in Fernando Po between 1842 and 1845. Based on Bela Vassady (1979) and Dekar (2001) analysis, this article discuss the role of the Jamaican “native agents” on the Baptist Missionary project as well as its consequences for the colonial British expansion towards the African continent.

The role of curvature in entanglement

Abstract: Which tangles more readily: curly hair or straight hair? A perhaps natural thought, supported by some theoretical evidence, is to associate curvature and entanglement, and assume that they would grow together—that an increase in one fosters an increase in the other. However we have biological examples such as DNA in the chromosome, and mechanical examples such as coiled telephone cords, in which much more curvature is employed than is required for the packing, and in which tangling is presumably detrimental. We offer a resolution to this conundrum. We show, that at least for simple but generally applicable models, the relationship between curvature and entanglement is subtle: if we keep filament density constant and increase curvature, the entanglement initially increases, passes through a maximum, then decreases, so there is a regime where increasing curvature increases entanglement, and there is also a regime where increasing curvature decreases entanglement. This has implications for filament packing in many circumstances, and in particular for the compaction structure of DNA in the cell—it provides a straightforward argument for the view that one purpose of DNA coiling and supercoiling is to inhibit entanglement. It also tells us to expect that wavy hair–neither the straightest nor the curliest–tangles most readily.

On the Bailout of Currencies

Abstract: Special Drawing Rights are reserve assets which ought to provide liquidity in times of a country’s financial distress. It is a potential claim on freely usable currencies of International Monetary Fund member countries. This article examines the possible effects of a global Special Drawing Rights implementation by the International Monetary Fund in case of a collapse of one of the major currencies. The question addressed is if a distressed fiat currency can be bailed out effectively by triggering the designation mechanism to the International Monetary Fund member countries The results indicate that the liquidity benefit per created Special Drawing Rights unit would proportionally increase with the rate of money supply.

Visiting the Granite State Again

Abstract: Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy was predicated on decades of image crafting and management as well as prior flirtations with running for president. To understand how Trump won the 2016 election it is first necessary to understand how he used his celebrity—as a business figure, as the subject of tabloid gossip, and as a television host—to shape his political activities and build an image and a following that went largely unnoticed by most political observers.