518 research outputs found
Devolving skills: the case of the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers
One rationale for devolution is that local decision makers may be well placed to adapt national policies to the local context. We test whether such adaptation helps meet programme objectives in the case of the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers. Originally a national programme, aimed at incentivising employers to take on apprentices, reforms a few years into operation gave some Local Authorities negotiated flexibilities in how the scheme operated. We consider the impact of the national scheme and then use a differenceâinâdifferences approach to test whether flexibility led to an increase in the number of apprenticeship starts in devolved areas relative to control groups. We find that flexibility had zero effect. There is suggestive evidence that this is because flexibilities were negotiated on the wrong margins
Il rilievo-progetto di Franco Rosso
La continuitĂ dellâattivitĂ della mano, uno strumento delicato e sensibile che si relaziona con la vista e con il sapere vedere e, per documentare, passa dalla scrittura al disegno, per tornare alla scrittura: il lavoro di Rosso trasmette questa continuitĂ , e insieme lâesperienza del mestiere, in un rilievo che ha lâobiettivo di comprendere lâarchitettura, le motivazioni del progetto, le condizioni al contorno di un determinato periodo, le tensioni culturali, e non puĂČ prescindere da un inquadramento storico
Minisuperspace Models in M-theory
We derive the full canonical formulation of the bosonic sector of
11-dimensional supergravity, and explicitly present the constraint algebra. We
then compactify M-theory on a warped product of homogeneous spaces of constant
curvature, and construct a minisuperspace of scale factors. First classical
behaviour of the minisuperspace system is analysed, and then a quantum theory
is constructed. It turns out that there similarities with the "pre-Big Bang"
scenario in String Theory.Comment: 35 pages, 2 figures, added additional discussion of gauge fixing and
self-adjointness of the Hamiltonian, added reference
Collider Production of TeV Scale Black Holes and Higher-Curvature Gravity
We examine how the production of TeV scale black holes at colliders is
influenced by the presence of Lovelock higher-curvature terms in the action of
models with large extra dimensions. Such terms are expected to arise on rather
general grounds, e.g., from string theory and are often used in the literature
to model modifications to the Einstein-Hilbert action arising from quantum
and/or stringy corrections. While adding the invariant which is quadratic in
the curvature leads to quantitative modifications in black hole properties,
cubic and higher invariants are found to produce significant qualitative
changes, e.g., classically stable black holes. We use these higher-order
curvature terms to construct a toy model of the black hole production cross
section threshold. For reasonable parameter values we demonstrate that detailed
measurements of the properties of black holes at future colliders will be
highly sensitive to the presence of the Lovelock higher-order curvature terms.Comment: 37 pages, 11 figures, references adde
TeV-Scale Black Hole Lifetimes in Extra-Dimensional Lovelock Gravity
We examine the mass loss rates and lifetimes of TeV-scale extra dimensional
black holes (BH) in ADD-like models with Lovelock higher-curvature terms
present in the action. In particular we focus on the predicted differences
between the canonical and microcanonical ensemble statistical mechanics
descriptions of the Hawking radiation that results in the decay of these BH. In
even numbers of extra dimensions the employment of the microcanonical approach
is shown to generally lead to a significant increase in the BH lifetime as in
case of the Einstein-Hilbert action. For odd numbers of extra dimensions,
stable BH remnants occur when employing either description provided the highest
order allowed Lovelock invariant is present. However, in this case, the time
dependence of the mass loss rates obtained employing the two approaches will be
different. These effects are in principle measurable at future colliders.Comment: 27 pages, 9 figs; Refs. and discussion adde
Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Initial Results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube
We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neutrino detector, including periods of joint operation between 2007-2010. These include parts of the 2005-2007 run and the 2009-2010 run for LIGO-Virgo, and IceCube\u27s observation periods with 22, 59 and 79 strings. We find no significant coincident events, and use the search results to derive upper limits on the rate of joint sources for a range of source emission parameters. For the optimistic assumption of gravitational-wave emission energy of 10-2Mâc2 at âŒ150Hz with âŒ60ms duration, and high-energy neutrino emission of 1051 erg comparable to the isotropic gamma-ray energy of gamma-ray bursts, we limit the source rate below 1.6x10-2Mpc-3yr-1. We also examine how combining information from gravitational waves and neutrinos will aid discovery in the advanced gravitational-wave detector era
Generalized 2d dilaton gravity with matter fields
We extend the classical integrability of the CGHS model of 2d dilaton gravity
[1] to a larger class of models, allowing the gravitational part of the action
to depend more generally on the dilaton field and, simultaneously, adding
fermion- and U(1)-gauge-fields to the scalar matter. On the other hand we
provide the complete solution of the most general dilaton-dependent 2d gravity
action coupled to chiral fermions. The latter analysis is generalized to a
chiral fermion multiplet with a non-abelian gauge symmetry as well as to the
(anti-)self-dual sector df = *df (df = -*df) of a scalar field f.Comment: 37 pages, Latex; typos and Eqs. (44,45) corrected; paragraph on p.
26, referring to a work of S. Solodukhin, reformulated; references adde
Homothetic Self-Similar Solutions of the Three-Dimensional Brans-Dicke Gravity
All homothetic self-similar solutions of the Brans-Dicke scalar field in
three-dimensional spacetime with circular symmetry are found in closed form.Comment: latex, five pages, without figur
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