As an intern with the Development Department, I served as support for Julianne Nice, Assistant Vice President for University Program Development and interim Director of Major Gifts.

In this work we consider homogeneous continua X with the property that $\check H\sp1(X,\doubz)\ne 0$, construct a covering space $\tilde X$ of X and study some of its properties. We describe $\tilde X$ for several specific continua / acase@tulane.edu

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In this dissertation we investigate the following problem in ergodic theory: Let X be a Polish space and T:X→X a homeomorphism. We ask whether there exists a non-atomic Borel probability measure m on X, ergodic and quasi-invariant under T, such that the cohomology class of some preassigned continuous function f:X→S1 is trivial. The cohomology class of f is trivial and f is called a coboundary of T, if the equation hTx=f x˙hx m-almosteverywhere admits a measurable solution h:X→S1 In the presence of a non-periodic recurrent point x0∈X , we establish the existence of such a measure m . Indeed, our approach, which is based on a construction of Katznelson and Weiss, yields a continuum of such measures all of which are of type IIinfinity and pointwise orthogonal. And the same statement is true for measures of type III / acase@tulane.edu

This essay argues for three theses. The first is that the notion of agent-neutral value, or more accurately, the promotion of agent-neutral values, is what truly defines consequentialism as a type of moral theory. A state of affairs is of agent-neutral value if it is capable of generating reasons for action for everybody. The second is that the existence of agent-neutral value has never been proven, and no known account of this notion has made clear what kind of things these are. In particular, I argue that both the non-moral approach and the moral approach to make good the claim about the existence of agent-neutral values are unable to deliver the desired results. The third thesis is that moral philosophy should exorcise the notion of agent-neutral value, not only because we do not know what type of things these are, but also because we do not need this notion in order to have good moral philosophy. I offer, basically, two arguments here. One is that when the justificatory issue is properly formulated, the so-called 'agent-relative rules' appear to be justifiable. The other is that the duty of beneficence can be accounted for on grounds other than that of agent-neutral value / acase@tulane.edu

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