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SMALL FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GROWERS IN TENNESSEE: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR USE OF COMMERCIAL OUTLETS
Crop Production/Industries,
MODELING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION WITH GREEN GROCERS
Consumer/Household Economics,
SELLING LOCALLY GROWN FRESH PRODUCE: CONSUMER PERCEPTIONS OF GREEN GROCERS IN TENNESSEE
Consumer/Household Economics,
RELATIVE PROFITABILITY OF VINE-RIPE TOMATOES IN NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE
Crop Production/Industries,
Tidal Love numbers of neutron stars
For a variety of fully relativistic polytropic neutron star models we
calculate the star's tidal Love number k2. Most realistic equations of state
for neutron stars can be approximated as a polytrope with an effective index
n~0.5-1.0. The equilibrium stellar model is obtained by numerical integration
of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkhov equations. We calculate the linear l=2 static
perturbations to the Schwarzschild spacetime following the method of Thorne and
Campolattaro. Combining the perturbed Einstein equations into a single second
order differential equation for the perturbation to the metric coefficient
g_tt, and matching the exterior solution to the asymptotic expansion of the
metric in the star's local asymptotic rest frame gives the Love number. Our
results agree well with the Newtonian results in the weak field limit. The
fully relativistic values differ from the Newtonian values by up to ~24%. The
Love number is potentially measurable in gravitational wave signals from
inspiralling binary neutron stars.Comment: corrected Eqs. (20) and (23) and entries in Table (1
Improving the Single Scalar Consistency Relation
We propose a test of single-scalar inflation based on using the well-measured
scalar power spectrum to reconstruct the tensor power spectrum, up to a single
integration constant. Our test is a sort of integrated version of the
single-scalar consistency relation. This sort of test can be used effectively,
even when the tensor power spectrum is measured too poorly to resolve the
tensor spectral index. We give an example using simulated data based on a
hypothetical detection with tensor-to-scalar ratio . Our test can
also be employed for correlating scalar and tensor features in the far future
when the data is good.Comment: 16 pages, 1 figure, uses LaTeX2e version 2 extensively revised for
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