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Enhancing Social Protection in the Apparel and Footwear Industry
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_ASEPROLA_Enhancing_Social_Protection.pdf: 371 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Mixmaster Chaoticity as Semiclassical Limit of the Canonical Quantum Dynamics
Within a cosmological framework, we provide a Hamiltonian analysis of the
Mixmaster Universe dynamics on the base of a standard Arnowitt-Deser-Misner
approach, showing how the chaotic behavior characterizing the evolution of the
system near the cosmological singularity can be obtained as the semiclassical
limit of the canonical quantization of the model in the same dynamical
representation. The relation between this intrinsic chaotic behavior and the
indeterministic quantum dynamics is inferred through the coincidence between
the microcanonical probability distribution and the semiclassical quantum one.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur
Elliptic Dunkl operators, root systems, and functional equations
We consider generalizations of Dunkl's differential-difference operators
associated with groups generated by reflections. The commutativity condition is
equivalent to certain functional equations. These equations are solved in many
cases. In particular, solutions associated with elliptic curves are
constructed. In the case, we discuss the relation with elliptic
Calogero-Moser integrable -body problems, and discuss the quantization
(-analogue) of our construction.Comment: 30 page
On Matter Coupling in 5D Kaluza-Klein Model
We analyze some unphysical features of the geodesic approach to matter
coupling in a compactified Kaluza-Klein scenario, like the q/m puzzle and the
huge massive modes. We propose a new approach, based on Papapetrou multipole
expansion, that provides a new equation for the motion of a test particle. We
show how this equation provides right couplings and does not generate huge
massive modes.Comment: 4 pages, to appear in Proceedings of the II Stueckelberg Workshop -
Int. J. Mod. Phys.
Structural transitions and arrest of domain growth in sheared binary immiscible fluids and microemulsions
We investigate spinodal decomposition and structuring effects in binary
immiscible and ternary amphiphilic fluid mixtures under shear by means of three
dimensional lattice Boltzmann simulations. We show that the growth of
individual fluid domains can be arrested by adding surfactant to the system,
thus forming a bicontinous microemulsion. We demonstrate that the maximum
domain size and the time of arrest depend linearly on the concentration of
amphiphile molecules. In addition, we find that for a well defined threshold
value of amphiphile concentration, the maximum domain size and time of complete
arrest do not change. For systems under constant and oscillatory shear we
analyze domain growth rates in directions parallel and perpendicular to the
applied shear. We find a structural transition from a sponge to a lamellar
phase by applying a constant shear and the occurrence of tubular structures
under oscillatory shear. The size of the resulting lamellae and tubes depends
strongly on the amphiphile concentration, shear rate and shear frequency.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
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