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A Mixing Bowl of Holidays: How Globalization Impacts Holidays and Culture, Seen Through Halloween and El DÃa de los Muertos
To what extent has cultural hybridity occurred in cases of Halloween and El DÃa de los Muertos, and what kind of meaning is attached to this hybridity? While there is a lot of research on globalization and its effects on people in general, there is no specific research on how globalization, specifically cultural globalization, has impacted holidays through cultural hybridity. Exploring these concepts and applying them to the case of Halloween and El DÃa de los Muertos will allow people to better understand the two holidays and their relationship with each other. Today, there is an increase in people moving around the world. Finding out how this impacts holidays practiced will be beneficial to the people trying to understand these holidays, policymakers, and to scholars interested in the topic. With holidays being the backbone of some cultures, this research could have a strong meaning on certain groups of people and the way they view their traditions. I hypothesize that there is a significant level of cultural hybridity happening between the two holidays due to globalization, which can be applied to other holidays appropriately. After performing a survey and ethnographic observation, it can be concluded that there is cultural hybridity within the holiday of El Dia de los Muertos. The hypothesis was partially correct because the findings are more consistent with cultural assimilation, rather than any mutual influence between the two holidays
Quantum Electronic Transport through a Precessing Spin
The conductance through a local nuclear spin precessing in a magnetic field
is studied by using the equations-of-motion approach. The characteristics of
the conductance is determined by the tunneling matrix and the position of
equilibrium chemical potential. We find that the spin flip coupling between the
electrons on the spin site and the leads produces the conductance oscillation.
When the spin is precessing in the magnetic field at Larmor frequency
(), the conductance develops the oscillation with the frequency of
both and 2 components, the relative spectrum weight of
which can be tuned by the chemical potential and the spin flip coupling.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Ministers and Civil Servants Relations in India: an Evaluation
In a parliamentary form of government, like in India, there exist two types of executives i.e. political or elected and permanent executive. Political executive derives its power from people and enjoys the power by virtue of constitutional position, while permanent executive or civil servant is selected on merit basis and accumulate its power due to an administrative position and technical expertise. The system of a democratic government is based on the principle of popular sovereignty wherein the supreme rests in people or their elected representative. Political executive or Minister is assisted by a civil servant. A balanced relationship between them is essential for smooth and efficient functioning of government. Minister and civil servant act as two pillars of the parliamentary form of government and weakness of any one of them will adversely affect the performance of government. Theoretically political and permanent executives perform a different role in government but in practice, their work is often overlapping and difficult to differentiate it
Bringing closure to microlensing mass measurement
Interferometers offer multiple methods for studying microlensing events and
determining the properties of the lenses. We investigate the study of
microlensing events with optical interferometers, focusing on narrow-angle
astrometry, visibility, and closure phase. After introducing the basics of
microlensing and interferometry, we derive expressions for the signals in each
of these three channels. For various forecasts of the instrumental performance,
we discuss which method provides the best means of measuring the lens angular
Einstein radius theta_E, a prerequisite for determining the lens mass. If the
upcoming generation of large-aperture, AO-corrected long baseline
interferometers (e.g. VLTI, Keck, OHANA) perform as well as expected, theta_E
may be determined with signal-to-noise greater than 10 for all bright events.
We estimate that roughly a dozen events per year will be sufficiciently bright
and have long enough durations to allow the measurement of the lens mass and
distance from the ground. We also consider the prospects for a VLTI survey of
all bright lensing events using a Fisher matrix analysis, and find that even
without individual masses, interesting constraints may be placed on the bulge
mass function, although large numbers of events would be required.Comment: 23 pages, aastex, submitted to Ap
Reducing the weak lensing noise for the gravitational wave Hubble diagram using the non-Gaussianity of the magnification distribution
Gravitational wave sources are a promising cosmological standard candle
because their intrinsic luminosities are determined by fundamental physics (and
are insensitive to dust extinction). They are, however, affected by weak
lensing magnification due to the gravitational lensing from structures along
the line of sight. This lensing is a source of uncertainty in the distance
determination, even in the limit of perfect standard candle measurements. It is
commonly believed that the uncertainty in the distance to an ensemble of
gravitational wave sources is limited by the standard deviation of the lensing
magnification distribution divided by the square root of the number of sources.
Here we show that by exploiting the non-Gaussian nature of the lensing
magnification distribution, we can improve this distance determination,
typically by a factor of 2--3; we provide a fitting formula for the effective
distance accuracy as a function of redshift for sources where the lensing noise
dominates.Comment: matches PRD accepted version (expanded description of the
cosmological parameter space + minor changes
Astrometric Microlensing as a Method of Discovering and Characterizing Extra-Solar Planets
We introduce a new method of searching for and characterizing extra-solar
planets. We show that by monitoring the center-of-light motion of microlensing
alerts using the next generation of high precision astrometric instruments the
probability of detecting a planet orbiting the lens is high. We show that
adding astrometric information to the photometric microlensing lightcurve
greatly helps in determining the planetary mass and semi-major axis. We
introduce astrometric maps as a new way for calculating astrometric motion and
planet detection probabilities. Finite source effects are important for low
mass planets, but even Earth mass planets can give detectable signals.Comment: 9 pages includes 8 postscript figures, AAS Latex, submitted to Ap
Definitive spectroscopic determination of the transverse interactions responsible for the magnetic quantum tunneling in Mn12-acetate
We present detailed angle-dependent single crystal electron paramagnetic
resonance (EPR) data for field rotations in the hard plane of the S=10 single
molecule magnet Mn12-acetate. A clear four-fold variation in the resonance
positions may be attributed to an intrinsic fourth order transverse anisotropy
(O44). Meanwhile, a four-fold variation of the EPR lineshapes confirms a
recently proposed model wherein disorder associated with the acetic acid of
crystallization induces a locally varying quadratic (rhombic) transverse
anisotropy (O22). These findings explain most aspects of the magnetic quantum
tunneling observed in Mn12-acetate.Comment: 7 pages, including figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
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