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Has the deregulation of deposit interest rates raised mortgage rates?
Interest rates ; Mortgages
From Baking a Cake to Solving the Schrodinger Equation
The primary emphasis of this study has been to explain how modifying a cake
recipe by changing either the dimensions of the cake or the amount of cake
batter alters the baking time. Restricting our consideration to the genoise,
one of the basic cakes of classic French cuisine, we have obtained a
semi-empirical formula for its baking time as a function of oven temperature,
initial temperature of the cake batter, and dimensions of the unbaked cake. The
formula, which is based on the Diffusion equation, has three adjustable
parameters whose values are estimated from data obtained by baking genoises in
cylindrical pans of various diameters. The resulting formula for the baking
time exhibits the scaling behavior typical of diffusion processes, i.e. the
baking time is proportional to the (characteristic length scale)^2 of the cake.
It also takes account of evaporation of moisture at the top surface of the
cake, which appears to be a dominant factor affecting the baking time of a
cake. In solving this problem we have obtained solutions of the Diffusion
equation which are interpreted naturally and straightforwardly in the context
of heat transfer; however, when interpreted in the context of the Schrodinger
equation, they are somewhat peculiar. The solutions describe a system whose
mass assumes different values in two different regions of space. Furthermore,
the solutions exhibit characteristics similar to the evanescent modes
associated with light waves propagating in a wave guide. When we consider the
Schrodinger equation as a non-relativistic limit of the Klein-Gordon equation
so that it includes a mass term, these are no longer solutions.Comment: 23 pages, 10 Postscript figure
Alien Registration- Cronkhite, Alton A. (Bridgewater, Aroostook County)
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Conversion of hydroxyproline to pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid
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Star Formation Rate from Dust Infrared Emission
We examine what types of galaxies the conversion formula from dust infrared
(IR) luminosity into the star formation rate (SFR) derived by
Kennicutt (1998) is applicable to. The ratio of the observed IR luminosity,
, to the intrinsic bolometric luminosity of the newly (\la 10
Myr) formed stars,
, of a galaxy can be determined by a mean dust opacity in the
interstellar medium and the activity of the current star formation. We find
that these parameters area being is very large, and many nearby normal and active star-forming
galaxies really fall in this area. It results from offsetting two effects of a
small dust opacity and a large cirrus contribution of normal galaxies relative
to starburst galaxies on the conversion of the stellar emission into the dust
IR emission. In conclusion, the SFR determined from the IR luminosity under the
assumption of like Kennicutt (1998) is reliable within
a factor of 2 for all galaxies except for dust rich but quiescent galaxies and
extremely dust poor galaxies.Comment: Accepted by ApJL: 6 pages (emulateapj5), 2 figures (one is an extra
figure not appeared in ApJL
Public Investment Criteria for Water Oriented Recreation in the Lake Erie Basin
This study was supported in part by
the Office of Water Resources Research,
U.S. Department of the Interior under
Project A-009-0HI0.Item includes a reprint of a journal article: Richard A. Tybout, "Pricing Pollution and Other Negative Externalities", Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, Vol. 3 (Spring, 1972), pp. 252-266. The results of the research project were originally published in this articleIntroduction -- Economic Criteria -- Recreation Measurement -- Conclusion -- Appendi
A Mini-survey of X-ray Point Sources in Starburst and Non-Starburst Galaxies
We present a comparison of X-ray point source luminosity functions of 3
starburst galaxies (the Antennae, M82, and NGC 253) and 4 non-starburst spiral
galaxies (NGC 3184, NGC 1291, M83, and IC 5332). We find that the luminosity
functions of the starbursts are flatter than those of the spiral galaxies; the
starbursts have relatively more sources at high luminosities. This trend
extends to early-type galaxies which have steeper luminosity functions than
spirals. We show that the luminosity function slope is correlated with 60
micron luminosity, a measure of star formation. We suggest that the difference
in luminosity functions is related to the age of the X-ray binary populations
and present a simple model which highlights how the shape of the luminosity
distribution is affected by the age of the underlying X-ray binary population.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. accepted for publication in Ap
Management of Korean lespedeza
Caption title.Digitized 2006 AES MoU."December, 1940.""Korean lespedeza gives best results where left on the land year after year. This is true under all soil conditions, and it is especially important on the less productive land. Lower- production costs are reached by taking advantage of the ability of lespedeza to reseed itself heavily under almost any use of the crop. By this annual reseeding habit a renewed stand every spring is practically assured."--Page 1
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