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Аналитическое описание поверхностей зубьев эволютных передач
Зниження габаритів зубчастих передач є актуальною задачею сучасного машинобудування. Перспективний шлях її розв'язання – застосування еволютних передач із опукло-увігнутим контактом зубців. Отримані рівняння профілів еволютних зубців на основі методу профільних нормалей. Вони необхідні для подальших досліджень якісних показників та міцності еволютних зачеплень.Lowering of dimensions of gears is an actual task of a modern machine industry. The perspective way of its decision is application of evolute gears with the convax-concave contact. On the basis of method of type normal the equations of evolute teeth are got. They are needed for further researches of high-quality indexes and durability of evolute gearings
The determinants of urban household poverty in Malaysia
Since independence in 1950s Malaysia has been
recognised as one of the more successful countries
in fighting poverty: head count ratio came down to
5.7 percent by 2004. However the recent process
of rapid urbanization has led to an increase of
urban poverty aggravated further by the 1997
Asian financial crisis. It is important to understand
the nature and scale of urbanization, the various
driving forces that affect it and the determinants of
urban poverty as linked to this process. Our paper
identifies the determinants of urban poverty in
Malaysia using a logistic regression. Multiple
regression model which used to be the main tool of
analysis in this kind of studies has been criticised
for a number of drawbacks and binary probit or
logit models have been proposed as alternative and
widely used. Previous studies have used income to identify poor
households. We have two problems with this
procedure. First, the official poverty line in
Malaysia is an consumption expenditure. Secondly
data on household incomes are known to be less
reliable than consumption data obtained from
household expenditure surveys. We therefore
compare a person’s consumption expenditure with
the poverty line to determine its poverty status.
This agrees with the idea that poverty is the
inability to attain a critical minimum amount of
consumption. We study the effect of human
capital, region of residence and other household
characteristics on urban poverty using this
benchmark
A sample of 2,403 urban households from the
2004-05 Household Expenditure Survey (HES) has
been used in this research. We first estimate the
probability of households with specified
characteristics to fall below Malaysia’s official
poverty line. Results show that human capital significantly reduces the chance of being poor
while migrant workers are more prone to poverty.
Household size, race and regions are also
important determinants of poverty outcome in
urban Malaysia. Then we analyse the sensitivity of
the probability estimates to shift of the poverty line
over a reasonable range. Effects of education,
number of children, number of male adults,
number of elderly, foreign migrant-headed
household, Chinese household and households
living in Region 1 on poverty are robust over the
shifts. The findings have important policy
implications for Malaysian government which has
pledged to reduce overall poverty rate to 2.8
percent and eradicate hardcore poverty by 2010
under the Ninth Malaysian Plan
Hyperextended Scalar-Tensor Gravity
We study a general Scalar-Tensor Theory with an arbitrary coupling funtion
but also an arbitrary dependence of the ``gravitational
constant'' in the cases in which either one of them, or both, do not
admit an analytical inverse, as in the hyperextended inflationary scenario. We
present the full set of field equations and study their cosmological behavior.
We show that different scalar-tensor theories can be grouped in classes with
the same solution for the scalar field.Comment: latex file, To appear in Physical Review
Some exact non-vacuum Bianchi VI0 and VII0 instantons
We report some new exact instantons in general relativity. These solutions
are K\"ahler and fall into the symmetry classes of Bianchi types VI0 and VII0,
with matter content of a stiff fluid. The qualitative behaviour of the
solutions is presented, and we compare it to the known results of the
corresponding self-dual Bianchi solutions. We also give axisymmetric Bianchi
VII0 solutions with an electromagnetic field.Comment: latex, 15 pages with 3 eps figure
Complexity reduction of astrochemical networks
We present a new computational scheme aimed at reducing the complexity of the
chemical networks in astrophysical models, one which is shown to markedly
improve their computational efficiency. It contains a flux-reduction scheme
that permits to deal with both large and small systems. This procedure is shown
to yield a large speed-up of the corresponding numerical codes and provides
good accord with the full network results. We analyse and discuss two examples
involving chemistry networks of the interstellar medium and show that the
results from the present reduction technique reproduce very well the results
from fuller calculations.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journa
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