NEW SMARANDACHE SEQUENCES: THE FAMILY OF METALLIC MEANS

The family of Metallic Means comprises every quadratic irrational number that is the positive solution of algebraic equations, where n is a natural number. The most prominent member of this family is the Golden Mean, then it comes the Silver Mean, the Bronze Mean, the NIckel Mean, the Copper Mean, etc. All of them are closely related to quasi-periodic dynamics, being therefore important clues in the study of the onset to chaos

Pullbacks of Saito-Kurokawa lifts and a central value formula for degree 6 L-series

We prove an explicit central value formula for a family of complex L-series of degree 6 for GL2 × GL3 which arise as factors of certain Garret–Rankin triple product L-series associated with modular forms. Our result generalizes a previous formula of Ichino involving Saito–Kurokawa lifts, and as an application we prove Deligne’s conjecture stating the algebraicity of the central values of the considered L-series up to the relevant periods.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

The Impact of Rural Roads

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic and Social Impact Analysis/Women in Development (ESIA/WID) and the Food Systems Program of the East-West Center Resource Systems Institute (RSI). It compares and analyzes the socioeconomic status of the population within the influence areas of the experimental and control group before and after the rural road construction. In particular, it conducts an impact assessment of rural road construction on the income level of the population.infrastructure, rural sector, impact analysis, road

The Impact of Rural Roads

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic and Social Impact Analysis/Women in Development (ESIA/WID) and the Food Systems Program of the East-West Center Resource Systems Institute (RSI). It compares and analyzes the socioeconomic status of the population within the influence areas of the experimental and control group before and after the rural road construction. In particular, it conducts an impact assessment of rural road construction on the income level of the population.infrastructure, rural sector, impact analysis, road