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An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Impact of Federal Terrorism Reinsurance
This paper examines the role of the federal government in the market for terrorism reinsurance. We investigate the stock price response of affected industries to a sequence of thirteen events culminating in the enactment of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) of 2002. In the industries most likely to be affected by TRIA banking, construction, insurance, real estate investment trusts, transportation, and public utilities the stock price effect was primarily negative. The Act was at best value-neutral for property-casualty insurers because it eliminated the option not to offer terrorism insurance. The negative response of the other industries may be attributable to the Act's impeding more efficient private market solutions, failing to address nuclear, chemical, and biological hazards, and reducing market expectations of federal assistance following future terrorist attacks.
Potential of Interplanetary Torques and Solar Modulation for Triggering Terrestrial Atmospheric and Lithospheric Events
The Sun is forced into an orbit around the barycenter of the solar system
because of the changing mass distribution of the planets. Solar-planetary-lunar
dynamic relationships may form a new basis for understanding and predicting
cyclic solar forcing functions on the Earth's climate.Comment: Invited Paper at the Fourth UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science,
Cairo, Egypt, July 1994. 7 pages LaTeX. Accepted for publication in the
journal Earth, Moon, and Planet
Inner topological structure of Hopf invariant
In light of -mapping topological current theory, the inner topological
structure of Hopf invariant is investigated. It is revealed that Hopf invariant
is just the winding number of Gauss mapping. According to the inner structure
of topological current, a precise expression for Hopf invariant is also
presented. It is the total sum of all the self-linking and all the linking
numbers of the knot family.Comment: 13pages, no figure. Accepted by J.Math.Phy
Entropy and weak solutions in the thermal model for the compressible Euler equations
Among the existing models for compressible fluids, the one by Kataoka and
Tsutahara (KT model, Phys. Rev. E 69, 056702, 2004) has a simple and rigorous
theoretical background. The drawback of this KT model is that it can cause
numerical instability if the local Mach number exceeds 1. The precise mechanism
of this instability has not yet been clarified. In this paper, we derive
entropy functions whose local equilibria are suitable to recover the Euler-like
equations in the framework of the lattice Boltzmann method for the KT model.
Numerical examples are also given, which are consistent with the above
theoretical arguments, and show that the entropy condition is not fully
guaranteed in KT model. The negative entropy may be the inherent cause for the
non-physical oscillations in the vicinity of the shock. In contrast to these
Karlin's microscopic entropy approach, the corresponding subsidiary entropy
condition in the LBM calculation could also be deduced explicitly from the
macroscopic version, which provides some insights on the numerical instability
of the lattice Boltzmann model for shock calculation.Comment: 27 pages,6 figure
Self-Organized Criticality in Compact Plasmas
Compact plasmas, that exist near black-hole candidates and in gamma ray burst
sources, commonly exhibit self-organized non-linear behavior. A model that
simulates the non-linear behavior of compact radiative plasmas is constructed
directly from the observed luminosity and variability. The simulation shows
that such plasmas self organize, and that the degree of non-linearity as well
as the slope of the power density spectrum increase with compactness. The
simulation is based on a cellular automaton table that includes the properties
of the hot (relativistic) plasmas, and the magnitude of the energy
perturbations. The plasmas cool or heat up, depending on whether they release
more or less than the energy of a single perturbation. The energy release
depends on the plasmas densities and temperatures, and the perturbations
energy. Strong perturbations may cool the previously heated plasma through
shocks and/or pair creation.
New observations of some active galactic nuclei and gamma ray bursters are
consistent with the simulationComment: 9 pages, 5 figures, AASTeX, Submitted to ApJ
Lattice QCD ensembles with four flavors of highly improved staggered quarks
We present results from our simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with
four flavors of quarks: u, d, s, and c. These simulations are performed with a
one-loop Symanzik improved gauge action, and the highly improved staggered
quark (HISQ) action. We are generating gauge configurations with four values of
the lattice spacing ranging from 0.06 fm to 0.15 fm, and three values of the
light quark mass, including the value for which the Goldstone pion mass is
equal to the physical pion mass. We discuss simulation algorithms, scale
setting, taste symmetry breaking, and the autocorrelations of various
quantities. We also present results for the topological susceptibility which
demonstrate the improvement of the HISQ configurations relative to those
generated earlier with the asqtad improved staggered action.Comment: 43 pages, 11 postscript figures, 15 tables, minor changes in text,
version published in Phys. Rev.
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