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All gaugings and stable de Sitter in D=7 half-maximal supergravity
We study the general formulation of gauged supergravity in seven dimensions
with sixteen supercharges keeping duality covariance by means of the embedding
tensor formalism. We first classify all inequivalent duality orbits of
consistent deformations. Secondly, we analyse the complete set of critical
points in a systematic way. Interestingly, we find the first examples of stable
de Sitter solutions within a theory with such a large amount of supersymmetry.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figure, 7 table
Learning to Like What You Have - Explaining the Endowment Effect
The endowment effect describes the fact that people demand much more to give up an object than they are willing to spend to acquire it. The existence of this effect has been documented in numerous experiments. We attempt to explain this effect by showing that evolution favors individuals whose preferences embody an endowment effect. The reason is that an endowment effect improves one's bargaining position in bilateral trades. We show that for a general class of evolutionary processes strictly positive endowment effects will survive in the long run.endowment effect, evolution, bargaining
Dialectometric analysis of language variation in Twitter
In the last few years, microblogging platforms such as Twitter have given
rise to a deluge of textual data that can be used for the analysis of informal
communication between millions of individuals. In this work, we propose an
information-theoretic approach to geographic language variation using a corpus
based on Twitter. We test our models with tens of concepts and their associated
keywords detected in Spanish tweets geolocated in Spain. We employ
dialectometric measures (cosine similarity and Jensen-Shannon divergence) to
quantify the linguistic distance on the lexical level between cells created in
a uniform grid over the map. This can be done for a single concept or in the
general case taking into account an average of the considered variants. The
latter permits an analysis of the dialects that naturally emerge from the data.
Interestingly, our results reveal the existence of two dialect macrovarieties.
The first group includes a region-specific speech spoken in small towns and
rural areas whereas the second cluster encompasses cities that tend to use a
more uniform variety. Since the results obtained with the two different metrics
qualitatively agree, our work suggests that social media corpora can be
efficiently used for dialectometric analyses.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted to VarDial 201
Birth of space plant growing
The attempts, and successes, to grow plants in space, and get them to fully develop, bloom and produce seeds using orchids are presented. The psychological advantages of the presence of plants onboard space vehicles and space stations is indicated
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