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Navigating the Accounting Academic Job Market and Related Advice
Purpose:
To disseminate helpful advice to current and future candidates about the accounting academic job market.
Methodology/Approach:
Literature review, interviews with recently hired faculty members, insights from the author’s experiences as both job candidates and search committee members, and discussions with colleagues.
Findings:
In this chapter, we discuss the current state of the job market for accounting professors and offer our insights as well as those from a group of recent graduates. It is our recent experience that many rookie candidates pursue initial faculty positions with an incomplete understanding of many aspects of the market, including how the market clears, job expectations, and other issues that we believe are important. While others have adequately addressed the importance of research in the profession and alluded to some aspects of the market, we provide additional useful information about the market and other career aspects in order to assist new graduates in their quests to find fulfilling appointments. Our chapter complements existing literature to form an updated and more complete picture of the market and profession.
Practical Implications:
This chapter helps prepare candidates for the job market by providing information and advice that complements advice given in Ph.D. programs and the existing literature.
Social Implications:
Candidates entering the job market will better understand the nuances of the market and can make more informed decisions about the institutions that best meet their needs.
Originality/Value of Article:
The chapter provides important practical advice for job seekers about the accounting academic job market not available elsewhere
Dressing Up the Kink
Many quantum field theoretical models possess non-trivial solutions which are
stable for topological reasons. We construct a self-consistent example for a
self-interacting scalar field--the quantum (or dressed) kink--using a two
particle irreducible effective action in the Hartree approximation. This new
solution includes quantum fluctuations determined self-consistently and
nonperturbatively at the 1-loop resummed level and allowed to backreact on the
classical mean-field profile. This dressed kink is static under the familiar
Hartree equations for the time evolution of quantum fields. Because the quantum
fluctuation spectrum is lower lying in the presence of the defect, the quantum
kink has a lower rest energy than its classical counterpart. However its energy
is higher than well-known strict 1-loop results, where backreaction and
fluctuation self-interactions are omitted. We also show that the quantum kink
exists at finite temperature and that its profile broadens as temperature is
increased until it eventually disappears.Comment: 13 pages, latex, 3 eps figures; revised with yet additional
references, minor rewordin
Bubble formation in potential
Scalar field theory with an asymmetric potential is studied at zero
temperature and high-temperature for potential. The equations of
motion are solved numerically to obtain O(4) spherical symmetric and O(3)
cylindrical symmetric bounce solutions. These solutions control the rates for
tunneling from the false vacuum to the true vacuum by bubble formation. The
range of validity of the thin-wall approximation (TWA) is investigated. An
analytical solution for the bounce is presented, which reproduces the action in
the thin-wall as well as the thick-wall limits.Comment: 22 pag
The self-consistent bounce: an improved nucleation rate
We generalize the standard computation of homogeneous nucleation theory at
zero temperature to a scenario in which the bubble shape is determined
self-consistently with its quantum fluctuations. Studying two scalar models in
1+1 dimensions, we find the self-consistent bounce by employing a two-particle
irreducible (2PI) effective action in imaginary time at the level of the
Hartree approximation. We thus obtain an effective single bounce action which
determines the rate exponent. We use collective coordinates to account for the
translational invariance and the growth instability of the bubble and finally
present a new nucleation rate prefactor. We compare the results with those
obtained using the standard 1-loop approximation and show that the
self-consistent rate can differ by several orders of magnitude.Comment: 28 pages, revtex, 7 eps figure
The homotopy theory of simplicial props
The category of (colored) props is an enhancement of the category of colored
operads, and thus of the category of small categories. In this paper, the
second in a series on "higher props," we show that the category of all small
colored simplicial props admits a cofibrantly generated model category
structure. With this model structure, the forgetful functor from props to
operads is a right Quillen functor.Comment: Final version, to appear in Israel J. Mat
Correlated ab-initio calculations for ground-state properties of II-VI semiconductors
Correlated ab-initio ground-state calculations, using relativistic
energy-consistent pseudopotentials, are performed for six II-VI semiconductors.
Valence () correlations are evaluated using the coupled cluster approach
with single and double excitations. An incremental scheme is applied based on
correlation contributions of localized bond orbitals and of pairs and triples
of such bonds. In view of the high polarity of the bonds in II-VI compounds, we
examine both, ionic and covalent embedding schemes for the calculation of
individual bond increments. Also, a partitioning of the correlation energy
according to local ionic increments is tested. Core-valence ()
correlation effects are taken into account via a core-polarization potential.
Combining the results at the correlated level with corresponding Hartree-Fock
data we recover about 94% of the experimental cohesive energies; lattice
constants are accurate to \sim 1%; bulk moduli are on average 10% too large
compared with experiment.Comment: 10 pages, twocolumn, RevTex, 3 figures, accepted Phys. Rev.
Strongly absorbed quiescent X-ray emission from the X-ray transient XTE J0421+56 (CI Cam) observed with XMM-Newton
We have observed the X-ray transient XTE J0421+56 in quiescence with
XMM-Newton. The observed spectrum is highly unusual being dominated by an
emission feature at ~6.5 keV. The spectrum can be fit using a partially covered
power-law and Gaussian line model, in which the emission is almost completely
covered (covering fraction of 0.98_{-0.06}^{+0.02}) by neutral material and is
strongly absorbed with an N_H of (5_{-2}^{+3}) x 10^{23} atom cm^{-2}. This
absorption is local and not interstellar. The Gaussian has a centroid energy of
6.4 +/- 0.1 keV, a width < 0.28 keV and an equivalent width of 940
^{+650}_{-460} eV. It can be interpreted as fluorescent emission line from
iron. Using this model and assuming XTE J0421+56 is at a distance of 5 kpc, its
0.5-10 keV luminosity is 3.5 x 10^{33} erg s^{-1}. The Optical Monitor onboard
XMM-Newton indicates a V magnitude of 11.86 +/- 0.03. The spectra of X-ray
transients in quiescence are normally modeled using advection dominated
accretion flows, power-laws, or by the thermal emission from a neutron star
surface. The strongly locally absorbed X-ray emission from XTE J0421+56 is
therefore highly unusual and could result from the compact object being
embedded within a dense circumstellar wind emitted from the supergiant B[e]
companion star. The uncovered and unabsorbed component observed below 5 keV
could be due either to X-ray emission from the supergiant B[e] star itself, or
to the scattering of high-energy X-ray photons in a wind or ionized corona,
such as observed in some low-mass X-ray binary systems.Comment: 8 pages, 4 postscript figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy
and Astrophysic
A LAK of Direction Misalignment Between the Goals of Learning Analytics and its Research Scholarship
Learning analytics defines itself with a focus on data from learners and learning environments, with corresponding goals of understanding and optimizing student learning. In this regard, learning analytics research, ideally, should be characterized by studies that make use of data from learners engaged in education systems, should measure student learning, and should make efforts to intervene and improve these learning environments
Lattice formulation of two-dimensional N=(2,2) super Yang-Mills with SU(N) gauge group
We propose a lattice model for two-dimensional SU(N) N=(2,2) super Yang-Mills
model. We start from the CKKU model for this system, which is valid only for
U(N) gauge group. We give a reduction of U(1) part keeping a part of
supersymmetry. In order to suppress artifact vacua, we use an admissibility
condition.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures; v2: typo crrected; v3: 18 pages, a version to
appear in JHE
Neuromotor Rehabilitation and Cognitive Outcomes in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury through the Method BAPNE
After the acute phase of hospitalization, patients with severe brain injury, requiring interventions in health and social care in the long term: the work of rehabilitators is to facilitate the recovery of several disorders caused by trauma and involves all possible areas to return the patient to full functionality within the autonomy and satisfaction of basic needs, and psychological support they need.The recent use of body percussion through BAPNE method in neurorehabilitation offers the possibility of studying the development of motor skills, attention, coordination, memory and social interaction of patients with neurological diseases.The experimental protocol involves 52 patients with GCA selected on the basis of shared and structured requirements.The trial will provide the coaching protocol BAPNE (in two weekly sessions of 50 minutes to a maximum of 10 weeks in a group of patients), to the traditional rehabilitation activities. The control group will continue to perform exclusively the cognitive and neuromotor rehabilitation according to traditional protocols.All subjects will be: monitored the levels of cortisol in-time 0 - 75-180 days; recorded beats per minute through a heart rate monitor on your wrist; through the use of Lybra (equilibrium) and Kimeja (virtual reality) will be recorded data regarding the ability to adjust the balance of the patient in standing and sitting using the visual input and data relating to the patient's ability to coordinate fine motor skills in a virtual environment; through the administration of neuropsychological tests (HADS, NPI) will be detected improvements in mood and behavioral disturbances in the regression if available. At 6 months after administration of the protocol is expected to re-test to assess if present, the maintenance of the effects of rehabilitation obtained. The research is led by three neurologists from the center of neurorehabilitation Fondazione Roboris ASL RME in Rome
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