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Coworker Distributive Fairness Judgments of the Workplace Accomodations of Employees with Disabilities
[Excerpt] I present a model of when and how coworkers judge the distributive fairness of workplace accommodations of employees with disabilities. Fairness judgments are made when accommodations are salient and relevant to coworkers. I thus present factors influencing the salience and relevance of accommodation. I also argue that fairness judgments are based on equity and need rules and therefore explore factors influencing equity comparisons and perceived warrantedness. Finally, I suggest directions and ideas for future research
Exit from inflation and a paradigm for vanishing cosmological constant in self-tuning models
We propose a paradigm for the inflation and the vanishing cosmological
constant in a unified way with the self-tuning solutions of the cosmological
constant problem. Here, we consider a time-varying cosmological constant in
self-tuning models of the cosmological constant. As a specific example, we
demonstrate it with a 3-form field in 5D.Comment: 11 pages of LaTeX fil
Heavy quarkonium in a holographic QCD model
Encouraged by recent developments in AdS/QCD models for light quark system,
we study heavy quarkonium in the framework of the AdS/QCD models. We calculate
the masses of vector meson states using the AdS/QCD models at zero
and at finite temperature. Among the models adopted in this work, we find that
the soft wall model describes the low-lying heavy quark meson states at zero
temperature relatively well. At finite temperature, we observe that once the
bound state is above , its mass will increase with temperature until it
dissociates at a temperature of around . It is shown that the
dissociation temperature is fixed by the infrared cutoff of the models. The
present model serves as a unified non perturbative model to investigate the
properties of bound quarkonium states above .Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure, minor revision, to appear in phys. Rev.
A phenomenological theory of nonphotochemical laser induced nucleation
Our analysis of the experimental data related to nonphotochemical laser
induced nucleation in solutions leads to the inevitable conclusion that the
phase transformation is initiated by particles that are metallic in nature.
This conclusion appears paradoxical because the final products are dielectric
crystals. We show that the experimental results are well accounted for by the
theory of electric field induced nucleation of metallic particles that are
elongated in the direction of the field. However, new physical and chemical
insights are required to understand the structure of the metallic precursor
particles and the kinetics of subsequent dielectric crystallization.Comment: 5 pages 4 figure
Scaling of Anisotropic Flows and Nuclear Equation of State in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
Elliptic flow () and hexadecupole flow () of light clusters have
been studied in details for 25 MeV/nucleon Kr + Sn at large
impact parameters by Quantum Molecular Dynamics model with different potential
parameters. Four parameter sets which include soft or hard equation of state
(EOS) with/without symmetry energy term are used. Both number-of-nucleon ()
scaling of the elliptic flow versus transverse momentum () and the scaling
of versus have been demonstrated for the light clusters
in all above calculation conditions. It was also found that the ratio of
keeps a constant of 1/2 which is independent of for all the
light fragments. By comparisons among different combinations of EOS and
symmetry potential term, the results show that the above scaling behaviors are
solid which do not depend the details of potential, while the strength of flows
is sensitive to EOS and symmetry potential term.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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