The Role of Economic Analysis in Shaping Environmental Policy

The experience of the US in using economic analysis to develop environmental policy is examined. Regulatory actions needed to create environmental benefits often impose substantial costs--both direct costs and indirect effects on other social goals--so it is important to consider all the effects of proposed initiatives Before imposing regulations

Low x_{bj} DIS, QCD and Generalized Vector Dominance

We give a brief overview on the present status of Generalized Vector Dominance as appplied to vector-meson production and the total photoabsorption cross section in the region of small x_{bj}. We comment on how GVD originates from QCD notions such as color transparency.Comment: 5 pages, latex, 2 postscript figure

Factors related to mineral separation in a vacuum

Very high vacuum terrestrial mineral beneficiation methods transferred to vacuum ambient of lunar surfac

Design studies of condensers and radiators for cesium and potassium vapor cycle space power plants

Design studies of condensers and radiators for cesium and potassium vapor cycle space power plant

On Landau-Zener transitions for dephasing Lindbladians

We consider a driven open system whose evolution is described by a Lindbladian. The Lindbladian is assumed to be dephasing and its Hamiltonian part to be given by the Landau-Zener Hamiltonian. We derive a formula for the transition probability which, unlike previous results, extends the Landau-Zener formula to open systems.Comment: 19 pages, 1 figur

Positive Liouville theorems and asymptotic behavior for p-Laplacian type elliptic equations with a Fuchsian potential

We study positive Liouville theorems and the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of p-Laplacian type elliptic equations of the form Q'(u):= - pLaplace(u) + V |u|^{p-2} u = 0 in X, where X is a domain in R^d, d > 1, and 1<p<infty. We assume that the potential V has a Fuchsian type singularity at a point zeta, where either zeta=infty and X is a truncated C^2-cone, or zeta=0 and zeta is either an isolated point of a boundary of X or belongs to a C^2-portion of the boundary of X.Comment: 39 pages. Stronger results in the radial case, other results and conclusions are unchanged, considerable restructuring of the paper, introduction is modified, typos corrected, references adde