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Theory of a refined earth model
Refined equations are derived relating the variations of the earths gravity and radius as functions of longitude and latitude. They particularly relate the oblateness coefficients of the old harmonics and the difference of the polar radii /respectively, ellipticities and polar gravity accelerations/ in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Large scale simulations of the jet-IGM interaction
In a parameter study extending to jet densities of times the
ambient one, I have recently shown that light large scale jets start their
lives in a spherical bow shock phase. This allows an easy description of the
sideways bow shock propagation in that phase. Here, I present new, bipolar,
simulations of very light jets in 2.5D and 3D, reaching the observationally
relevant scale of jet radii. Deviations from the early bow shock
propagation law are expected because of various effects. The net effect is,
however, shown to remain small. I calculate the X-ray appearance of the shocked
cluster gas and compare it to Cygnus A and 3C 317. Rings, bright spots and
enhancements inside the radio cocoon may be explained.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, ApSS accepted, proceedings of the virtual jets
2003 conference in Dogliani/Italy, v3: funny and unimportant bug corrected,
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Deposit Insurance and External Finance
Countries around the world differ substantially in the relative importance of their banks and capital markets in providing investment financing. This paper examines one potential explanation for the cross-country differences in the importance of banks and capital market financing of investment. It is our contention that much of the variation across countries in the depth and breadth of capital markets can be explained by a combination of the existence of deposit insurance and the extent to which a country's banking system is state owned. We provide both an equilibrium model predicting and empirical evidence showing that countries with explicit deposit insurance and a high degree of state-owned bank assets have smaller equity markets, a lower number of publicly traded firms and a smaller amount of bank credit to the private sector. Finally, our results suggest that the effects of deposit guarantees are more important than the origins of national legal systems.
Central bank structure, policy efficiency, and macroeconomic performance: exploring empirical relationships
Monetary policy ; Banks and banking, Central
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On the boundary-layer structure of high-Prandtl-number horizontal convection
On the chiral effective meson-baryon Lagrangian at third order
We show that the recently constructed complete and ``minimal'' third order
meson-baryon effective chiral Lagrangian can be further reduced from 84 to 78
independent operators.Comment: 6 pp, accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J.
Optical read out and feedback cooling of a nanostring optomechanical cavity
Optical measurement of the motion of a 940 kHz mechanical resonance of a
silicon nitride nanostring resonator is demonstrated with a read out noise
imprecision reaching 37 dB below that of the resonator's zero-point
fluctuations. Via intensity modulation of the optical probe laser, radiation
pressure feedback is used to cool and damp the mechanical mode from an initial
room temperature occupancy of (K)
down to a phonon occupation of , representing a
mode temperature of mK. The five decades of cooling is enabled
by the system's large single-photon cooperativity and high
quantum efficiency of optical motion detection ().Comment: 13 pages, 13 figure
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