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Omnivorousness in sport: The importance of social capital and networks
There has been for some time a significant and growing body of research around the relationship between sport and social capital. Similarly, within sociology there has been a corpus of work that has acknowledged the emergence of the omnivoreâunivore relationship. Surprisingly, relatively few studies examining sport and social capital have taken the omnivoreâunivore framework as a basis for understanding the relationship between sport and social capital. This gap in the sociology of sport literature and knowledge is rectified by this study that takes not Putnam, Coleman or Bourdieu, but Linâs social network approach to social capital. The implications of this article are that researchers investigating sport and social capital need to understand more about how social networks and places for sport work to create social capital and, in particular, influence participating in sporting activities. The results indicate that social networks both facilitate and constrain sports participation; whilst family and friendship networks are central in active lifestyles, those who are less active have limited networks
Feature Selection of Post-Graduation Income of College Students in the United States
This study investigated the most important attributes of the 6-year
post-graduation income of college graduates who used financial aid during their
time at college in the United States. The latest data released by the United
States Department of Education was used. Specifically, 1,429 cohorts of
graduates from three years (2001, 2003, and 2005) were included in the data
analysis. Three attribute selection methods, including filter methods, forward
selection, and Genetic Algorithm, were applied to the attribute selection from
30 relevant attributes. Five groups of machine learning algorithms were applied
to the dataset for classification using the best selected attribute subsets.
Based on our findings, we discuss the role of neighborhood professional degree
attainment, parental income, SAT scores, and family college education in
post-graduation incomes and the implications for social stratification.Comment: 14 pages, 6 tables, 3 figure
Isometric group actions on Banach spaces and representations vanishing at infinity
Our main result is that the simple Lie group acts properly
isometrically on if . To prove this, we introduce property
({\BP}_0^V), for be a Banach space: a locally compact group has
property ({\BP}_0^V) if every affine isometric action of on , such
that the linear part is a -representation of , either has a fixed point
or is metrically proper. We prove that solvable groups, connected Lie groups,
and linear algebraic groups over a local field of characteristic zero, have
property ({\BP}_0^V). As a consequence for unitary representations, we
characterize those groups in the latter classes for which the first cohomology
with respect to the left regular representation on is non-zero; and we
characterize uniform lattices in those groups for which the first -Betti
number is non-zero.Comment: 28 page
An analysis of integrative outcomes in the Dayton peace negotiations
The nature of the negotiated outcomes of the eight issues of the Dayton Peace Agreement was studied in terms of their integrative and distributive aspects. in cases where integrative elements were Sound, further analysis was conducted by concentrating on Pruitt's five types of integrative solutions: expanding the pie, cost cutting, non-specific compensation, logrolling, and bridging. The results showed that real world international negotiations can arrive at integrative agreements even when they involve redistribution of resources tin this case the redistribution of former Yugoslavia). Another conclusion was that an agreement can consist of several distributive outcomes and several integrative outcomes produced by different kinds of mechanisms. Similarly, in single issues more than one mechanism can be used simultaneously. Some distributive bargaining was needed in order to determine how much compensation was required. Finally, each integrative formula had some distributive aspects as well
Degree of explanation
Partial explanations are everywhere. That is, explanations citing causes that explain some but not all of an effect are ubiquitous across science, and these in turn rely on the notion of degree of explanation. I argue that current accounts are seriously deficient. In particular, they do not incorporate adequately the way in which a causeâs explanatory importance varies with choice of explanandum. Using influential recent contrastive theories, I develop quantitative definitions that remedy this lacuna, and relate it to existing measures of degree of causation. Among other things, this reveals the precise role here of chance, as well as bearing on the relation between causal explanation and causation itself
Development of Modeling Capabilities for Launch Pad Acoustics and Ignition Transient Environment Prediction
This paper presents development efforts to establish modeling capabilities for launch vehicle liftoff acoustics and ignition transient environment predictions. Peak acoustic loads experienced by the launch vehicle occur during liftoff with strong interaction between the vehicle and the launch facility. Acoustic prediction engineering tools based on empirical models are of limited value in efforts to proactively design and optimize launch vehicles and launch facility configurations for liftoff acoustics. Modeling approaches are needed that capture the important details of the plume flow environment including the ignition transient, identify the noise generation sources, and allow assessment of the effects of launch pad geometric details and acoustic mitigation measures such as water injection. This paper presents a status of the CFD tools developed by the MSFC Fluid Dynamics Branch featuring advanced multi-physics modeling capabilities developed towards this goal. Validation and application examples are presented along with an overview of application in the prediction of liftoff environments and the design of targeted mitigation measures such as launch pad configuration and sound suppression water placement
Unitary Representations of Unitary Groups
In this paper we review and streamline some results of Kirillov, Olshanski
and Pickrell on unitary representations of the unitary group \U(\cH) of a
real, complex or quaternionic separable Hilbert space and the subgroup
\U_\infty(\cH), consisting of those unitary operators for which g - \1
is compact. The Kirillov--Olshanski theorem on the continuous unitary
representations of the identity component \U_\infty(\cH)_0 asserts that they
are direct sums of irreducible ones which can be realized in finite tensor
products of a suitable complex Hilbert space. This is proved and generalized to
inseparable spaces. These results are carried over to the full unitary group by
Pickrell's Theorem, asserting that the separable unitary representations of
\U(\cH), for a separable Hilbert space \cH, are uniquely determined by
their restriction to \U_\infty(\cH)_0. For the classical infinite rank
symmetric pairs of non-unitary type, such as (\GL(\cH),\U(\cH)), we
also show that all separable unitary representations are trivial.Comment: 42 page
Discrete coherent and squeezed states of many-qudit systems
We consider the phase space for a system of identical qudits (each one of
dimension , with a primer number) as a grid of
points and use the finite field to label the corresponding axes.
The associated displacement operators permit to define -parametrized
quasidistribution functions in this grid, with properties analogous to their
continuous counterparts. These displacements allow also for the construction of
finite coherent states, once a fiducial state is fixed. We take this reference
as one eigenstate of the discrete Fourier transform and study the factorization
properties of the resulting coherent states. We extend these ideas to include
discrete squeezed states, and show their intriguing relation with entangled
states between different qudits.Comment: 11 pages, 3 eps figures. Submitted for publicatio
q-Supersymmetric Generalization of von Neumann's Theorem
Assuming that there exist operators which form an irreducible representation
of the q-superoscillator algebra, it is proved that any two such
representations are equivalent, related by a uniquely determined superunitary
transformation. This provides with a q-supersymmetric generalization of the
well-known uniqueness theorem of von Neumann for any finite number of degrees
of freedom.Comment: 10 pages, Latex, HU-TFT-93-2
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