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Do stronger intellectual property rights increase international technology transfer? Empirical evidence from U.S. firm-level panel data
One of the alleged benefits of the recent global movement to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPRs) is that such reforms accelerate transfers of technology between countries. The paper examines how technology transfer among U.S. multinational firms changes in response to a series of IPR reforms undertaken by 12 countries over the 1982-99 period. The analysis of detailed firm-level data reveal that royalty payments for intangibles transferred to affiliates increase at the time of reforms, as do affiliate research and development (R&D) expenditures and total levels of foreign patent applications. Increases in royalty payments and R&D expenditures are more than 20 percent larger among affiliates of parent companies that use U.S. patents more extensively prior to reform and therefore are expected to value IPR reform most.Environmental Economics&Policies,ICT Policy and Strategies,Real&Intellectual Property Law,General Technology,Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies,Real&Intellectual Property Law,ICT Policy and Strategies,General Technology,Education for the Knowledge Economy
Hydrodynamic limit for the velocity flip model
We study the diffusive scaling limit for a chain of coupled oscillators.
In order to provide the system with good ergodic properties, we perturb the
Hamiltonian dynamics with random flips of velocities, so that the energy is
locally conserved. We derive the hydrodynamic equations by estimating the
relative entropy with respect to the local equilibrium state modified by a
correction term
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Shock recovery experiments confirm the possibility of transferring viable microorganisms from Mars to Earth
Extract from introduction: With regard to the impact and ejection phase we tested the case for the transfer of microorganisms from Mars to Earth. Using a high explosive set-up thin layers of bacterial endospores of Bacillus subtilis, of the lichen Xanthoria elegans and of the cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis sp. embedded between two plates of gabbro were subjected to 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 GPa which is the pressure range observed in Martian meteorites [1]
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Life after shock: the mission from Mars to Earth
Extract from introduction: The minerals of the Martian meteorites collected so far indicate an exposure to shock waves in the pressure range of 5 to 55 GPa [1]. As terrestrial rocks are frequently inhabited by microbial communities, rocks ejected from a planet by impact processes may carry with them endolithic microorganisms, if microbial life existed/exists on this planet
Metallicities of M Dwarf Planet Hosts from Spectral Synthesis
We present the first spectroscopic metallicities of three M dwarfs with known
or candidate planetary mass companions. We have analyzed high resolution, high
signal-to-noise spectra of these stars which we obtained at McDonald
Observatory. Our analysis technique is based on spectral synthesis of atomic
and molecular features using recently revised cool-star model atmospheres and
spectrum synthesis code. The technique has been shown to yield results
consistent with the analyses of solar-type stars and allows measurements of M
dwarf [M/H] values to 0.12 dex precision. From our analysis, we find [M/H] =
-0.12, -0.32, and -0.33 for GJ 876, GJ 436, and GJ 581 respectively. These
three M dwarf planet hosts have sub-solar metallicities, a surprising departure
from the trend observed in FGK-type stars. This study is the first part of our
ongoing work to determine the metallicities of the M dwarfs included in the
McDonald Observatory planet search program.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Overdamping by weakly coupled environments
A quantum system weakly interacting with a fast environment usually undergoes
a relaxation with complex frequencies whose imaginary parts are damping rates
quadratic in the coupling to the environment, in accord with Fermi's ``Golden
Rule''. We show for various models (spin damped by harmonic-oscillator or
random-matrix baths, quantum diffusion, quantum Brownian motion) that upon
increasing the coupling up to a critical value still small enough to allow for
weak-coupling Markovian master equations, a new relaxation regime can occur. In
that regime, complex frequencies lose their real parts such that the process
becomes overdamped. Our results call into question the standard belief that
overdamping is exclusively a strong coupling feature.Comment: 4 figures; Paper submitted to Phys. Rev.
The study of luminophores base influence activated by europium on their acid-base and luminescent properties
Five samples of luminophores, activated by europium and synthesized by sol-gel and СВС methods were investigated. The researched samples have basic surface character, differing depending on the base of luminophor and percentage of europium. Excitation and photoluminescent spectra were obtained. Photoluminescent spectrum of the samples, containing Eu(III) ions have the similar character. They have 5 stripes with maximum at 580, 598, 622, 658 nm and the doublet with stripes at 702 and 706 nm which are referred to innerconfigurational 4f-4f transits if europium ion 7F0-5D4. The samples YVPO4(P10):Eu8% and YVO4:Eu10% have the most intense luminescence. Their intensity is about 60 times higher than the YPO4:Eu10% sample has
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Impact experiments in support of “Lithopanspermia”: The route from Mars to Earth
Shock recovery experiments on a Martian analogue rock (gabbro) loaded with three types of microorganisms reveal that these organisms survive the impact and ejection phase on Mars at shock pressures up to about 50 GPa with exponentially decreasing survival rates
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