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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions
This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable.We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insuficient.We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions represents a welfare improvement for reasonable estimates of monitoring costs; this conclusion holds both relative to a system featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt.The optimal sanction rates implied by our calibrated model are much higher than the sanction rates typically observed in European labor markets.unemployment insurance;job search
Gamma-Ray Bursts from Primordial Quark Objects in Space
We investigate the possibility that gamma-ray bursts originate in a
concentric spherical shell with a given average redshift and find that this is
indeed compatible with the data from the third BATSE (3B) catalog. It is also
shown that there is enough freedom in the choice of unknown burst properties to
allow even for extremely large distances to the majority of bursts. Therefore,
we speculate about an early, and very energetic, origin of bursts, and suggest
that they come from phase transitions in massive objects of pure quark matter,
left over from the Big Bang.Comment: 11 pages, Latex, 3 postscript figures, to be publ in the Proc of the
Joint Meeting of the Networks 'The Fundamental Structure of Matter' and
'Tests of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking', Ouranoupolis, Greece, May 199
ShapeFit and ShapeKick for Robust, Scalable Structure from Motion
We introduce a new method for location recovery from pair-wise directions
that leverages an efficient convex program that comes with exact recovery
guarantees, even in the presence of adversarial outliers. When pairwise
directions represent scaled relative positions between pairs of views
(estimated for instance with epipolar geometry) our method can be used for
location recovery, that is the determination of relative pose up to a single
unknown scale. For this task, our method yields performance comparable to the
state-of-the-art with an order of magnitude speed-up. Our proposed numerical
framework is flexible in that it accommodates other approaches to location
recovery and can be used to speed up other methods. These properties are
demonstrated by extensively testing against state-of-the-art methods for
location recovery on 13 large, irregular collections of images of real scenes
in addition to simulated data with ground truth
Average-Case Optimal Approximate Circular String Matching
Approximate string matching is the problem of finding all factors of a text t
of length n that are at a distance at most k from a pattern x of length m.
Approximate circular string matching is the problem of finding all factors of t
that are at a distance at most k from x or from any of its rotations. In this
article, we present a new algorithm for approximate circular string matching
under the edit distance model with optimal average-case search time O(n(k + log
m)/m). Optimal average-case search time can also be achieved by the algorithms
for multiple approximate string matching (Fredriksson and Navarro, 2004) using
x and its rotations as the set of multiple patterns. Here we reduce the
preprocessing time and space requirements compared to that approach
In situ heat treatment in selective laser melted martensitic AISI 420 stainless steels
Published ArticleThe article explores an evolution of a microstructure in AISI 420martensitic stainless steel during selective laser
melting. Several upper layers had hardness of 750 HV and contained 21±12 vol.% austenite phase. The final bulk
microstructure consisted of thermally decomposed martensitewith hardness of 500–550HV and unusually high,
57±8 vol.%,amount of austenite. Obtained results indicate that duringmanufacturing a partitioning and austenite
reversion took place, owing to the thermal cycling of the inner regions duringmanufacturing. Numerical simulation
was found plausible to analyze and explain thermally activated processes that occurred in situ. Results of
numerical simulation of the thermal cycles in dependence on the processing parameters suggested a possibility
to control the thermal processes by variation of the laser energy input
MICROSTRUCTURAL AND THERMAL STABILITY OF SELECTIVE LASER MELTED 316L STAINLESS STEEL SINGLE TRACKS#
Published ArticleTo remove residual stresses, an as-built SLM object is usually post-treated. This treatment can affect the microstructure, changing the final mechanical characteristics. This investigation is focused on the microstructural characterisation of 316L austenitic stainless steel in as-built and annealed conditions. The SLM microstructure was relatively stable up to 900°C, when cell boundaries start to disappear. At higher temperatures, an insignificant grain coarsening was detected. These microstructural changes caused a gradual drop in the hardness. The obtained result is background for the future development of post-treatment regimens to achieve a high level in the final mechanical properties of SLM objects
Pearson cross-correlation in the first four black hole binary mergers
We adopt the Pearson cross-correlation measure to analyze the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston detector data streams around the events GW150914, GW151012,GW151226 and GW170104. We find that the Pearson cross-correlation method is sensitive to these signals, with correlations peaking when the black hole binaries reconstructed by the LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations, are merging. We compare the obtained cross-correlations with the statistical correlation fluctuations arising in simulated Gaussian noise data and in LIGO data at times when no event is claimed. Our results for the significance of the observed cross-correlations are broadly consistent with those announced by the LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations based on matched-filter analysis. In the same data, if we subtract the maximum likelihood waveforms corresponding to the announced signals, no residual cross-correlations persists at a statistically significant level
The Chandrasekhar limit for quark stars
The Chandrasekhar limit for quark stars is evaluated from simple energy
balance relations, as proposed by Landau for white dwarfs or neutron stars. It
has been found that the limit for quark stars depends on, in addition to the
fundamental constants, the Bag constant.Comment: LateX fil
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