This edition of Ronald Miller and Peter Blair's classic textbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the input-output research and applications community. The book has been fully revised and updated to reflect important developments in the field since its original publication. New topics covered include SAMs (and extended input-output models) and their connection to input-output data, structural decomposition analysis (SDA), multiplier decompositions, identifying important coefficients, and international input-output models. A major new feature of this edition is that it is also supported by an accompanying website with solutions to all problems, wide-ranging real-world data sets, and appendices with further information for more advanced readers. Input-Output Analysis is an ideal introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of fields, including economics, regional science, regional economics, city, regional and urban planning, environmental planning, public policy analysis and public management.

We describe the implementation of a scanning Hall probe microscope of outstanding magnetic field sensitivity (∼0.1 G) and unprecedented spatial resolution (∼0.35 μm) to detect surface magnetic fields at close proximity to a sample. Our microscope combines the advantages of a submicron Hall probe fabricated on a GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As heterostructure chip and the scanning tunneling microscopy technique for precise positioning. We demonstrate its usefulness by imaging individual vortices in high Tc La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 films and superconducting networks, and magnetic bubble domains.

We have measured the heat capacity and thermal conductivity of the layered material hexagonal pyrolytic boron nitride from 2 to 10 K by a pulse-heating technique. The thermal conductivity has also been determined by a steady-state technique from 1.5 to 350 K. At low temperatures, the heat capacity has a T' dependence and the thermal conductivity a T" dependence. Crystallite size was found from transmission electron micrographs. The influence of dislocations on the thermal conductivity is discussed.

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Using the world input-output tables available from the WIOD project (www.wiod.org), we quantify production line positions of 35 industries for 40 countries and the rest of the world region over 1996-2009. In contrast to the previous related literature we do not focus only on the output supply chain, but also consider sectors' input demand chain. This distinction is important because both these chains jointly constitute the entire production process, and the output sales structure of each sector is generally different from the structure of its inputs purchases. We use the (output) upstreamness measure of Antràs et al. (2012) and our proposed input downstreamness measure to quantify industry relative position, respectively, along the global output supply chain and the global input demand chain. The results are examined in detail at the levels of the world, six aggregate economic branches, sectors and countries.

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Low temperature transport measurements have been performed on nanofabricated Au wires a few p, m long contacting two Nb electrodes whose superconducting phase difference 50 was externally controlled. 58 was generated by passing a known supercurrent through a series array of 28 Nb-A10, -Nb Josephson junctions. The conductance of the Au wire displays a component in 58 with period 2m.These conductance oscillations arise from the change in scattering boundary conditions of quasiparticles in the Au wire at the Au-Nb interfaces due to Andreev reflection. PACS numbers: 74.50.+r, 73.50.Jt, 74.80.Fp When the size of a normal conducting system ap-