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On the I=2 channel pi-pi interaction in the chiral limit
An approximate local potential for the residual pi+ pi+ interaction is
computed. We use an O(a**2) improved action on a coarse 9x9x9x13 lattice with
approximately a=0.4fm. The results present a continuation of previous work:
Increasing the number of gauge configurations and quark propagators we attempt
extrapolation of the pi+ pi+ potential to the chiral limit.Comment: LATTICE98(spectrum) LaTeX2e, 3 pages, 3 eps figure
Inverse Methods: a Powerful Tool for Evaluating Aerosol Data, Exemplified on Cases With Relevance for the Atmosphere and the Aerosol Climate Effect
For a complete description of a given aerosol, more than one parameter is necessary, e.g. parameters concerning size distribution, chemical composition, and particle morphology. On the other hand, most instruments measuring aerosol properties are sensitive mostly to one parameter, but cross-sensitive to others. These cross-sensitivities are often eliminated by assumptions during data evaluation, inducing systematic uncertainties in the results.
The use of assumptions can be reduced by combining the information of several instruments on the same aerosol and using inverse methods for interpretation of the data. The presentation focuses on two application examples of these methods. The first example concerns a size distribution inversion algorithm that combines data from several instruments into one size distribution. The second example deals with an algorithm that retrieves the aerosol asymmetry parameter (with respect to particle scattering) from measurements of the aerosol absorption and spectral scattering and hemispheric backscattering coefficients, thereby providing a set of parameters that completely describes an aerosol with respect to its direct climate effect
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Psychological Costs of Migration: Home Country Natural Disasters and Mental Health
The psychological toll of leaving one's familiar environment is a dominant explanation for why some people do not migrate despite relatively high wage differentials and low monetary costs of moving. Yet there is little direct empirical evidence on the existence and the characteristics of psychic costs. Using linked administrative and survey data (the 45 and Up Study) from Australia, a country where one in four residents was born overseas, we show that migrant mental health is significantly affected by home country natural disasters. In the three months following a disaster, mental health related drug use and visits to mental health specialists increase by 5% and 33%, respectively. The effects persist for up to 12 months after the initial shock and increase with distance to the home country. In contrast, we do not find any effects of home country disasters on the physical health conditions of migrants. Given that individuals in our sample have lived in their destination country for an average of 40 years, our estimates suggest strong persistence in these costs
Two-body spectra of pseudoscalar mesons with an --improved lattice action using Wilson fermions
We extend our calculations with the second-order tree-level and tadpole
improved next-nearest-neighbor action to meson-meson systems. Correlation
matrices built from interpolating fields representing two pseudoscalar mesons
(pion-pion) with relative momenta p are diagonalized, and the mass spectrum is
extracted. Link variable fuzzing and operator smearing at both sinks and
sources is employed. Calculations are presented for two values of the hopping
parameter. The spectrum is used to discuss the residual interaction in the
meson-meson system.Comment: 3 pages, 4 EPS figures, Poster presented at "Lattice'97", to appear
in the proceeding
Nonfrustrated magnetoelectric with incommensurate magnetic order in magnetic field
We discuss a model nonfrustrated magnetoelectric in which strong enough
magnetoelectric coupling produces incommensurate magnetic order leading to
ferroelectricity. Properties of the magnetoelectric in magnetic field directed
perpendicular to wave vector describing the spin helix are considered in
detail. Analysis of classical energy shows that in contrast to naive
expectation the onset of ferroelectricity takes place at a field that
is lower than the saturation field . One has at strong
enough magnetoelectric coupling. We show that at H=0 the ferroelectricity
appears at . Qualitative discussion of phase diagram in
plane is presented within mean field approach.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted in JET
Electrostatic topology of ferroelectric domains in YMnO
Trimerization-polarization domains in ferroelectric hexagonal YMnO were
resolved in all three spatial dimensions by piezoresponse force microscopy.
Their topology is dominated by electrostatic effects with a range of 100 unit
cells and reflects the unusual electrostatic origin of the spontaneous
polarization. The response of the domains to locally applied electric fields
explains difficulties in transferring YMnO into a single-domain state. Our
results demonstrate that the wealth of non-displacive mechanisms driving
ferroelectricity that emerged from the research on multiferroics are a rich
source of alternative types of domains and domain-switching phenomena
COVID-19 Impacts on Historic Soundscape Perception and Site Usage
The ISO 12913 standards acknowledge the primacy of context in perceiving acoustic environments. In soundscape assessments, context is constituted by both physical surroundings and psychological, social, and cultural factors. Previous studies have revealed similarities in people’s soundscape assessments in comparable physical surroundings, such as urban or national parks, despite differing individual associative contexts. However, these assessments were found to be capable of shifting in the historic setting of the Berlin Wall Memorial. Providing contextual information from the past appears to have some bearing on soundscape perception. The COVID-19 lockdown measures enacted since March 2020 in Germany have prevented most tourist activity at the memorial, and a resulting shift in user activity has been observed in the otherwise open and accessible memorial landscape. Building on previous soundscape investigations conducted at the memorial, this paper investigates what effect the restrictions have had on the soundscape context and its perception by visitors. Informal interviews paired with comparative measurements indicated context pliability for local stakeholders. In contrast to site programming alone, tourist presence also appears to affect context perception for local users. This holds repercussions for soundscape and heritage site designs serving local and tourist populations—and their divergent perceptions—alike. The impacts of soundscape assessments being neither static nor generalizable across stakeholders are discussed with suggestions for further research
Potentials between heavy-light mesons from lattice and inverse scattering theory
We extend our investigation of heavy-light meson-meson interactions to a
system consisting of a heavy-light meson and the corresponding antiparticle. An
effective potential is obtained from meson-antimeson Green-functions computed
in a quenched simulation with staggered fermions. Comparisons with a simulation
using an tree-level and tadpole improved gauge action and a full QCD
simulation show that lattice discretization errors and dynamical quarks have no
drastic influence. Calculations from inverse scattering theory propose a
similar shape for potentials.Comment: 3 pages, 5 EPS figures, Poster presented at "Lattice'97", to appear
in the proceeding
Two approaches for effective modelling of rain-rate time-series for radiocommunication system simulations
The paper presents a model which allows to synthetically generate rain rate time-series for a fixed location. Rain rate time-series are very much correlated with signal attenuation in Ka band and above and, thus, enable to realistically simulate propagation effects on Earth-satellite links. The model presented are based on Markov chains
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