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Net profitability of airline alliances, an empirical study
This study examines the net return for airlines before and after joining an
alliance. The research database was compiled from ICAOData, and comprised 15
international airlines as subjects and their net financial results for a period of 11 years as
primary research variables. Two variables, the averages of five and three years net
performance before joining an alliance, were tested against another variable, the average
net performance five years after joining the alliance. Results show a deterioration of net
profits after joining an alliance, although this trend was only significant when comparing
performance over the short-term. However, the performance of American airlines
accounted for most of this trend, which may have being partly affected by the consequences
of September 11 2001
The net profitability of airline alliances using referential dollars
This study revises a previous research in which we analysed the
net profitability of airline alliances but did not control for the impact of
inflation on such profitability. Using the same methodology, 15
international airlines as subjects and their net financial results for a period
of 11 years as primary research variables, we now compared the
performance of airlines before and after joining their respective alliances
using referential dollars (i.e., constant dollars with 2010 as base year)
instead of nominal dollars. The results showed a similar deterioration in
short-term net profits after joining an alliance as the previous study did, and
a similar behaviour of statistics tests. Thus, the conclusion then achieved
still stand after this revision
Ground state properties of a Tonks-Girardeau Gas in a periodic potential
In this paper, we investigate the ground-state properties of a bosonic
Tonks-Girardeau gas confined in a one-dimensional periodic potential. The
single-particle reduced density matrix is computed numerically for systems up
to bosons. Scaling analysis of the occupation number of the lowest
orbital shows that there are no Bose-Einstein Condensation(BEC) for the
periodically trapped TG gas in both commensurate and incommensurate cases. We
find that, in the commensurate case, the scaling exponents of the occupation
number of the lowest orbital, the amplitude of the lowest orbital and the
zero-momentum peak height with the particle numbers are 0, -0.5 and 1,
respectively, while in the incommensurate case, they are 0.5, -0.5 and 1.5,
respectively. These exponents are related to each other in a universal
relation.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
Nature of Quasielectrons and the Continuum of Neutral Bulk Excitations in the Laughlin Quantum Hall Fluids
We construct model wavefunctions for a family of single-quasielectron states
supported by the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluid. The charge
= quasielectron state is identified as a composite of a
charge- quasiparticle and a quasihole, orbiting around their
common center of charge with relative angular momentum , and
corresponds precisely to the "composite fermion" construction based on a filled
Landau level plus an extra particle in level . An effective
three-body model (one quasiparticle and two quasiholes) is
introduced to capture the essential physics of the neutral bulk excitations.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figs, minor modifications for the published versio
Sleep pattern disruption of flight attendants operating on the Asia–Pacific route
Jet lag is a common issue with flight attendants in international
flights, as they have to cross several time zones back and forth, while their
sleep patterns get disrupted by the legally required rest times between
flights, which are normally carried out at different locations. This research
aimed to investigate the sleep quality of a sample of flight attendants
operating between New Zealand and Asia. Twenty flight attendants were
surveyed in this research. The research found that flight attendants typically
took a nap immediately after arriving into New Zealand, reporting a sound
sleep time of about 6 hours. After the nap, however, they had problems
falling sleep in subsequent nights. After their first nap, some flight
attendants try to adapt to local light conditions, while others prefer to keep
the sleep patterns they had back home. Both groups report different trends
of sleep quality
Analytic description of atomic interaction at ultracold temperatures II: Scattering around a magnetic Feshbach resonance
Starting from a multichannel quantum-defect theory, we derive analytic
descriptions of a magnetic Feshbach resonance in an arbitrary partial wave ,
and the atomic interactions around it. An analytic formula, applicable to both
broad and narrow resonances of arbitrary , is presented for ultracold atomic
scattering around a Feshbach resonance. Other related issues addressed include
(a) the parametrization of a magnetic Feshbach resonance of arbitrary , (b)
rigorous definitions of "broad" and "narrow" resonances of arbitrary and
their different scattering characteristics, and (c) the tuning of the effective
range and the generalized effective range by a magnetic field.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
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