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Relationships of Job and Family Involvement, Family Social Support, and Work–Family Conflict with Job and Life Satisfaction
A model of the relationship between work and family that incorporates variables from both the work-family conflict and social support literatures was developed and empirically tested. This model related bidirectional work-family conflict, family instrumental and emotional social support, and job and family involvement to job and life satisfaction. Data came from 163 workers who were living with at least 1 family member. Results suggested that relationships between work and family can have an important effect on job and life satisfaction and that the level of involvement the worker assigns to work and family roles is associated with this relationship. The results also suggested that the relationship between work and family can be simultaneously characterized by conflict and support. Higher levels of work interfering with family predicted lower levels of family emotional and instrumental support. Higher levels of family emotional and instrumental support were associated with lower levels of family interfering with work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)
Black-Hole Transients and the Eddington Limit
I show that the Eddington limit implies a critical orbital period P_crit(BH)
= 2d beyond which black-hole LMXBs cannot appear as persistent systems. The
unusual behaviour of GRO J1655-40 may result from its location close to this
critical period.Comment: 3 pages, no figures; to appear in MNRA
Magnetic Fields, Accretion, and the Central Engine of Gamma-Ray Bursts
I briefly review magnetic effects in accretion physics, and then go on to
discuss a possible central engine for gamma-ray bursts. A rotating black hole
immersed in a non-axisymmetric magnetic field experiences a torque trying to
align spin and field. I suggest that gamma-ray burst hosts may provide
conditions where this effect allows rapid extraction of a significant fraction
of the hole's rotational energy. I argue that much of the electromagnetic
emission is in two narrow beams parallel and antiparallel to the asymptotic
field direction. This picture suggests that only a mass 10^-5 Msun is expelled
in a relativistic outflow, as required by the fireball picture.Comment: 8 pages, Invited talk to appear in the Proceedings of Magnetic Fields
in the Universe, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, November 28 - December 3 200
How to make a triangulation of S^3 polytopal
We introduce a numerical isomorphism invariant p(T) for any triangulation T
of S^3. Although its definition is purely topological (inspired by the bridge
number of knots), p(T) reflects the geometric properties of T.
Specifically, if T is polytopal or shellable then p(T) is `small' in the
sense that we obtain a linear upper bound for p(T) in the number n=n(T) of
tetrahedra of T.
Conversely, if p(T) is `small' then T is `almost' polytopal, since we show
how to transform T into a polytopal triangulation by O((p(T))^2) local
subdivisions. The minimal number of local subdivisions needed to transform T
into a polytopal triangulation is at least .
Using our previous results [math.GT/0007032], we obtain a general upper bound
for p(T) exponential in n^2. We prove here by explicit constructions that there
is no general subexponential upper bound for p(T) in n. Thus, we obtain
triangulations that are `very far' from being polytopal.
Our results yield a recognition algorithm for S^3 that is conceptually
simpler, though somewhat slower, as the famous Rubinstein-Thompson algorithm.Comment: 24 pages, 17 figures. Final versio
Complexity of triangulations of the projective space
It is known that any two triangulations of a compact 3-manifold are related
by finite sequences of certain local transformations. We prove here an upper
bound for the length of a shortest transformation sequence relating any two
triangulations of the 3-dimensional projective space, in terms of the number of
tetrahedra.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures. Revised version, to appear in Top. App
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