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An investigation into the relationship between simple practice exercises in written recall and increased ability in unaided oral recall.
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit
CONDITIONAL REGRESSION MODELS FOR TRANSIENT STATE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
Survival models are important tools for the analysis of data when a disease event occurs in time and subjects are lost to follow-up. Many models, however, can also be adapted for use when an event is characterized by transitions through Intermediate states of disease with increasing severity. In this presentation, such adaptations will be demonstrated for a class of conditional regression models for the analysis of transient state events occurring among grouped event times. The type of conditioning that will be described is useful in providing comparisons of specific disease states and an assessment of transition-dependent risk factor effects. An example will be given based on the Framingham Heart Study
Slinky Inflation
We present a new approach to quintessential inflation, in which both dark
energy and inflation are explained by the evolution of a single scalar field.
We start from a simple scalar potential with both oscillatory and exponential
behavior. We employ the conventional reheating mechanism of new inflation, in
which the scalar decays to light fermions with a decay width that is
proportional to the scalar mass. Because our scalar mass is proportional to the
Hubble rate, this gives adequate reheating at early times while shutting off at
late times to preserve quintessence and satisfy nucleosynthesis constraints.
We discuss a simple model which solves the horizon, flatness, and "why now"
problems. Without any additional tuning of parameters, this model satisfies all
constraints from CMB, large scale structure, and nucleosynthesis. The
predictions for the inflationary spectral indices are n_S = n_T = 1. In this
model we are currently beginning the third cosmic epoch of accelerated
expansion.Comment: 5 pages, 2 color figures, 1 tabl
A Conical Tear Drop as a Vacuum-Energy Drain for the Solution of the Cosmological Constant Problem
We propose a partial solution to the cosmological constant problem by using
the simple observation that a three-brane in a six-dimensional bulk is flat. A
model is presented in which Standard Model vacuum energy is always absorbed by
the transverse space. The latter is a tear-drop like space with a conical
singularity, which preserves bulk supersymmetry and gives rise to conventional
macroscopic 4D gravity with no cosmological constant. Its cone acts like a
drain, depleting vacuum energy from the three-brane to the tear drop increasing
its volume. We stress that although gravity is treated classically, Standard
Model is handled quantum-field theoretically and the model is robust against
Standard Model corrections and particular details. The price paid is the
presence of boundaries which are nevertheless physically harmless by
appropriate boundary conditions.Comment: 14 pages, 1 fig. As appeared in Phys. lett.
Massive, massless and ghost modes of gravitational waves from higher-order gravity
We linearize the field equations for higher order theories that contain
scalar invariants other than the Ricci scalar. We find that besides a massless
spin-2 field (the standard graviton), the theory contains also spin-0 and
spin-2 massive modes with the latter being, in general, ghost modes. Then, we
investigate the possible detectability of such additional polarization modes of
a stochastic gravitational wave by ground-based and space interferometric
detectors. Finally, we extend the formalism of the cross-correlation analysis,
including the additional polarization modes, and calculate the detectable
energy density of the spectrum for a stochastic background of the relic gravity
waves that corresponds to our model. For the situation considered here, we find
that these massive modes are certainly of interest for direct detection by the
LISA experiment.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
New hairy black holes with negative cosmological constant
Black hole solutions with nonspherical event horizon topology are shown to
exist in an Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with negative cosmological constant. The
main characteristics of the solutions are presented and differences with
respect to the spherically symmetric case are studied. The stability of these
configurations is also addressed.Comment: 14 pages, 6 Encapsulated PostScript figures, references adde
Arbitrary Spin Representations in de Sitter from dS/CFT with Applications to dS Supergravity
We present a simple group representation analysis of massive, and
particularly ``partially massless'', fields of arbitrary spin in de Sitter
spaces of any dimension. The method uses bulk to boundary propagators to relate
these fields to Euclidean conformal ones at one dimension lower. These results
are then used to revisit an old question: can a consistent de Sitter
supergravity be constructed, at least within its intrinsic horizon?Comment: 19 pages LaTex, references added, version to appear Nucl. Phys.
Selftuning and its footprints
We re-consider the self tuning idea in brane world models of finite volume.
We notice that in a large class of self tuning models, the four dimensional
physics is sensitive to the vacuum energy on the brane. In particular the
compactification volume changes each time the tension of the brane is modified:
consequently, observable constants, as the effective Planck mass or masses of
matter fields, change as well. We notice that the self tuning mechanism and the
stabilization mechanism of the size of the extra dimensions are generically in
apparent conflict. We focus on a self tuning model in six spacetime dimensions
to analyze how the above considerations are explicitely realized.Comment: 28 pages, JHEP style. v2: typos corrected and references added.
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Matching the observed cosmological constant with vacuum energy density in AdS
We calculate the vacuum energy density by taking account of different massive
scalar fields in AdS spacetime. It is found that the mass spectrum of a scalar
field in AdS spacetime is discrete because of a natural boundary condition. The
results match well with the observed cosmological constant.Comment: 9 pages, no figures, Late
On the General Kerr/CFT Correspondence in Arbitrary Dimensions
We study conformal symmetries on the horizon of a general stationary and
axisymmetric black hole. We find that there exist physically reasonable
boundary conditions that uniquely determine a set of symmetry generators, which
form one copy of the Virasoro algebra. For extremal black holes, Cardy's
formula reproduces exactly the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.Comment: 17 page
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