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Gravitational collapse and black hole evolution: do holographic black holes eventually "anti-evaporate"?
We study the gravitational collapse of compact objects in the Brane-World. We
begin by arguing that the regularity of the five-dimensional geodesics does not
allow the energy-momentum tensor of matter on the brane to have (step-like)
discontinuities, which are instead admitted in the four-dimensional General
Relativistic case, and compact sources must therefore have an atmosphere. Under
the simplifying assumption that matter is a spherically symmetric cloud of dust
without dissipation, we can find the conditions for which the collapsing star
generically ``evaporates'' and approaches the Hawking behavior as the
(apparent) horizon is being formed. Subsequently, the apparent horizon evolves
into the atmosphere and the back-reaction on the brane metric reduces the
evaporation, which continues until the effective energy of the star vanishes.
This occurs at a finite radius, and the star afterwards re-expands and
``anti-evaporates''. We clarify that the Israel junction conditions across the
brane (holographically related to the matter trace anomaly) and the projection
of the Weyl tensor on the brane (holographically interpreted as the quantum
back-reaction on the brane metric) contribute to the total energy as,
respectively, an ``anti-evaporation'' and an ``evaporation'' term. Concluding,
we comment on the possible effects of dissipation and obtain a new stringent
bound for the brane tension.Comment: 18 pages in RevTeX4 style, 11 eps figures included. Discussion on the
contribution of dissipation and clarifications added, version accepted for
publication in Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 114, No.
Illegal trafficking and unsustainable waste management in Italy: evidence at the regional level
The presence of organized crime strongly affects sustainable waste management in Italy. In particular, illegal traf cking of waste has become one of the fastest growing areas of crime and one of the most lucrative industries among organized criminal activities, which has now in ltrated both the Italian urban and hazardous waste management cycle. In this study, we aim to investigate the determinants of the illegal traf cking of waste using waste, economic, and enforcement data in a panel analysis over the period 2002-2013. The topic is particularly relevant, given the high heterogeneity across Italian regions which also relates, and eventually leads, to different environmental performances. Our main ndings reveal that, in most Italian regions, enforcement activities do not exert a signi cant deterrence on criminal behaviors; a negative relationship between enforcement and illegal traf cking of waste can be identi ed only for very high levels of enforcement efforts. Moreover, we nd that the major determinants in uencing the rate of illegal traf cking of waste differ between northern-central and southern regions, con rming the existence of a regional dualism. In particular, while in the northern-central area the crime rate is positively related to the level of education and negatively to the adoption of environmentally sound policies, in southern regions the organized activities for illegal traf cking are negatively related to the degree of education attainment and positively to the endowment of waste management plants
Les nématodes phytoparasites du cotonnier et des plantes à fibres jutières : observations et expérimentation au Bénin
Asymptotically AdS brane black holes
We study the possibility of having a static, asymptotically AdS black hole
localized on a braneworld with matter fields, within the framework of the
Randall and Sundrum scenario. We attempt to look for such a brane black hole
configuration by slicing a given bulk spacetime and taking Z_2 symmetry about
the slices. We find that such configurations are possible, and as an explicit
example, we provide a family of asymptotically AdS brane black hole solutions
for which both the bulk and brane metrics are regular on and outside the black
hole horizon and brane matter fields are realistic in the sense that the
dominant energy condition is satisfied. We also find that our braneworld models
exhibit signature change inside the black hole horizon.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, RevTex; v2: clarifications added, figures
updated, eq.31 corrected, comment on small four dimensional cosmological
constant limit added, character size increased, results unchanged. v3:
reference added, version accepted in Phys. Rev. D (2006
Direct fabrication through electron beam melting technology of custom cranial implants designed in a phantom based haptic
Repairing critical human skull injuries requires the production and use of customized cranial implants and involves the integration of computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD and CAM). The main causes for large cranial defects are trauma, cranial tumors, infected craniotomy bone flaps and external neurosurgical decompression. The success of reconstructive cranial surgery depends upon: the preoperative evaluation of the defect, the design and manufacturing of the implant, and the skill of the operating surgeon. Cranial implant design is usually carried out manually using CAD although this process is very time-consuming and the quality of the end product depends wholly upon the skill of the operator. This paper presents an alternative automated method for the design of custom-made cranial plates in a PHANToM \uae-based haptic environment, and their direct fabrication in biocompatible metal using electron beam melting (EBM) technology
Elaboração de biscoitos tipo salgado, com alto teor de fibra alimentar, utilizando farinha de berinjela (Solanum melongena, L.).
Holographic bounds and Higgs inflation
In a recently proposed scenario for primordial inflation, where the Standard
Model (SM) Higgs boson plays a role of the inflation field, an effective field
theory (EFT) approach is the most convenient for working out the consequences
of breaking of perturbative unitarity, caused by the strong coupling of the
Higgs field to the Ricci scalar. The domain of validity of the EFT approach is
given by the ultraviolet (UV) cutoff, which, roughly speaking, should always
exceed the Hubble parameter in the course of inflation. On the other hand,
applying the trusted principles of quantum gravity to a local EFT demands that
it should only be used to describe states in a region larger than their
corresponding Schwarschild radius, manifesting thus a sort of UV/IR
correspondence. We consider both constraints on EFT, to ascertain which models
of the SM Higgs inflation are able to simultaneously comply with them. We also
show that if the gravitational coupling evolves with the scale factor, the
holographic constraint can be alleviated significantly with minimal set of
canonical assumptions, by forcing the said coupling to be asymptotically free.Comment: 9 pages, new material and references added, to appear in PL
Perfil tecnológico de cultivares de trigo brasileiro.
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