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Experimental Investigation of Percieved Risk in Random Walk Processes
The hypothesis that, on average, people accurately estimate probabilities in random walk processes is experimentally investigated.Individuals are confronted with a process that starts with 1, with probabilities p and 1 - p respectively.For different values of p, individuals were asked to estimate what is the chance that after 10 stages the system will be at a point higher than or equal to $X.Systematic mistakes in estimations were observed.In particular, estimations were centered around the stage-by-stage probability (p) rather then around the actual probability. Implication of this result to random walk processes in finance is considered.random walks;risk
Lagrangian Approach to Dispersionless KdV Hierarchy
We derive a Lagrangian based approach to study the compatible Hamiltonian
structure of the dispersionless KdV and supersymmetric KdV hierarchies and
claim that our treatment of the problem serves as a very useful supplement of
the so-called r-matrix method. We suggest specific ways to construct results
for conserved densities and Hamiltonian operators. The Lagrangian formulation,
via Noether's theorem, provides a method to make the relation between
symmetries and conserved quantities more precise. We have exploited this fact
to study the variational symmetries of the dispersionless KdV equation.Comment: Published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and
pplications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA
Conflict of Exchange Rates
Conflict between economic interests of two or more countries can take place in the inflation prone floating exchange regime and thus affect monetary policies of each other. This paper tries to examine whether the exchange rates of the currencies of the industrial countries are affecting India’s currency and making the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervene in the foreign exchange market. It is found that limitation of RBI data is a major factor constraining the progress of research on the above kind of conflict.Exchange Rate,IMF, stochastic, trend stationary, dollar
Heavy fermion and Kondo lattice behavior in the itinerant ferromagnet CeCrGe3
Physical properties of polycrystalline CeCrGe and LaCrGe have
been investigated by x-ray absorption spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility
, isothermal magnetization M(H), electrical resistivity ,
specific heat C() and thermoelectric power S() measurements. These
compounds are found to crystallize in the hexagonal perovskite structure (space
group \textit{P6/mmc}), as previously reported. The ,
and C() data confirm the bulk ferromagnetic ordering of itinerant Cr moments
in LaCrGe and CeCrGe with = 90 K and 70 K respectively. In
addition a weak anomaly is also observed near 3 K in the C() data of
CeCrGe. The T dependences of and finite values of Sommerfeld
coefficient obtained from the specific heat measurements confirm that
both the compounds are of metallic character. Further, the dependence of
of CeCrGe reflects a Kondo lattice behavior. An enhanced
of 130 mJ/mol\,K together with the Kondo lattice behavior inferred from
the establish CeCrGe as a moderate heavy fermion compound with
a quasi-particle mass renormalization factor of 45.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures. Accepted by Journal of Physics: Condensed Matte
Ba Quadrupole Polarizabilities: Theory versus Experiment
Three different measurements have been reported for the ground state
quadrupole polarizability in the singly ionized barium (Ba) which disagree
with each other. Our calculation of this quantity using the relativistic
coupled-cluster method disagrees with two of the experimental values and is
within the error bars of the other. We discuss the issues related to the
accuracy of our calculations and emphasize the need for further experiments to
measure the quadrupole polarizability for this state and/or the 5D states.Comment: 6 pages, 3 table
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