Managing Corporate Networks from America to China
In: Asia Pacific business review, Band 5, Heft 3-4, S. 147-180
ISSN: 1743-792X
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In: Asia Pacific business review, Band 5, Heft 3-4, S. 147-180
ISSN: 1743-792X
In: Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
In: European astroculture volume 3
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and vio lence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare's futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics
ESA ; CNES (France) ; CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France) ; ASI (Italy) ; CNR (Italy) ; INAF (Italy) ; NASA (USA) ; DoE (USA) ; STFC (UK) ; UKSA (UK) ; CSIC (Spain) ; MINECO (Spain) ; JA (Spain) ; RES (Spain) ; Tekes (Finland) ; AoF (Finland) ; CSC (Finland) ; DLR (Germany) ; MPG (Germany) ; CSA (Canada) ; DTU Space (Denmark) ; SER/SSO (Switzerland) ; RCN (Norway) ; SFI (Ireland) ; FCT/MCTES (Portugal) ; ERC (EU) ; PRACE (EU) ; UK BIS NEI grants ; Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy ; Canada Foundation for Innovation under Compute Canada ; Government of Ontario ; University of Toronto ; Science and Technology Facilities Council ; Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy: DE-AC02-05CH11231 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000768/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000652/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/J005673/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M00418X/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000393/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M007065/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K00333X/1 ; The Planck full mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and E-mode polarization maps are analysed to obtain constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). Using three classes of optimal bispectrum estimators - separable template-fitting (KSW), binned, and modal we obtain consistent values for the primordial local, equilateral, and orthogonal bispectrum amplitudes, quoting as our final result from temperature alone f(NL)(local) = 2.5 +/- 5.7, f(NL)(equil) = 16 +/- 70, and f(NL)(ortho) = 34 +/- 33 (68% CL, statistical). Combining temperature and polarization data we obtain f(NL)(local) = 0.8 +/- 5.0, f(NL)(equil) = 4 +/- 43, and f(NL)(ortho) = 26 +/- 21 (68% CL, statistical). The results are based on comprehensive cross-validation of these estimators on Gaussian and non-Gaussian simulations, are stable across component separation techniques, pass an extensive suite of tests, and are consistent with estimators based on measuring the Minkowski functionals of the CMB. The effect of time-domain de-glitching systematics on the bispectrum is negligible. In spite of these test outcomes we conservatively label the results including polarization data as preliminary, owing to a known mismatch of the noise model in simulations and the data. Beyond estimates of individual shape amplitudes, we present model-independent, three-dimensional reconstructions of the Planck CMB bispectrum and derive constraints on early universe scenarios that generate primordial NG, including general single-field models of inflation, axion inflation, initial state modifications, models producing parity-violating tensor bispectra, and directionally dependent vector models. We present a wide survey of scale-dependent feature and resonance models, accounting for the look elsewhere effect in estimating the statistical significance of features. We also look for isocurvature NG, and find no signal, but we obtain constraints that improve significantly with the inclusion of polarization. The primordial trispectrum amplitude in the local model is constrained to be g(NL)(local) = (9.0 +/- 7.7) x 10(4) (68% CL statistical), and we perform an analysis of trispectrum shapes beyond the local case. The global picture that emerges is one of consistency with the premises of the Lambda CDM cosmology, namely that the structure we observe today was sourced by adiabatic, passive, Gaussian, and primordial seed perturbations.
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