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PN-Carbon Yields and the Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy
Two sets of observational carbon stellar yields for low-and-intermediate mass
stars are computed from planetary nebulae abundances derived from C II
and C III lines, respectively. By
comparing C/O values observed in stars of the solar vicinity and Galactic HII
regions with those predicted by chemical evolution models for the Galaxy, which
assume these observational yields, I conclude that the C abundances derived
from permitted lines are better than those derived from forbidden lines.Comment: 2 pages, Proceedings of the conference "Ionized Gaseous Nebulae", Nov
21-24, 2000; RevMexAA in pres
Jet Production at RHIC and LHC
Recent results on jet production in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC
are discussed, with emphasis on inclusive jet yields and semi-inclusive
hadron-triggered and vector boson-triggered recoil jet yields as well as their
azimuthal angular correlations. I will also discuss the constraints that these
observables impose on the opacity of the medium, the flavour dependence of
energy loss, the interplay of perturbative and non perturbative effects and the
change of the degrees of freedom of the medium with the resolution of the
probe.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, proceedings of Quark Matter 2017 conferenc
Alcohol Use In Mexican-Americans By Nativity: The Role Of Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, And Acculturative Stress
The present study examined alcohol use disorder symptoms among Mexican-Americans. Participants consisted of a community-based sample of 237 Mexican-American adults living in the Midwest United States. The role of nativity status and cultural variables in alcohol use disorder symptoms was explored. Specifically, ethnic identity, acculturation, and acculturative stress were used to predict membership into high and low alcohol use disorder symptom groups among U.S.-and foreign-born Mexican-Americans. Additionally, gender, ethnic identity, and acculturative stress were tested as moderators in the relationship between acculturation and alcohol use disorder symptoms. Among U.S.-born participants, only ethnic identity was found to be predictive of alcohol use disorder symptoms, such that higher ethnic identity was related to fewer alcohol use disorder symptoms. Among foreign-born participants, ethnic identity was also predictive of few alcohol use disorder symptoms. Additionally, increased pressure against acculturation was predictive of higher alcohol use disorder symptoms for foreign-born participants. Among the sample as a whole, those with low Latino Orientation and high pressure against acculturation reported more alcohol use disorder symptoms. These results highlight the protective effect of ethnic identity and the need for further research that examines nativity status, acculturation, and specific acculturative stressors in regard to alcohol use disorder symptoms among Mexican-Americans
Out of equilibrium dynamics of classical and quantum complex systems
Equilibrium is a rather ideal situation, the exception rather than the rule
in Nature. Whenever the external or internal parameters of a physical system
are varied its subsequent relaxation to equilibrium may be either impossible or
take very long times. From the point of view of fundamental physics no generic
principle such as the ones of thermodynamics allows us to fully understand
their behaviour. The alternative is to treat each case separately. It is
illusionary to attempt to give, at least at this stage, a complete description
of all non-equilibrium situations. Still, one can try to identify and
characterise some concrete but still general features of a class of out of
equilibrium problems - yet to be identified - and search for a unified
description of these. In this report I briefly describe the behaviour and
theory of a set of non-equilibrium systems and I try to highlight common
features and some general laws that have emerged in recent years.Comment: 36 pages, to be published in Compte Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences,
T. Giamarchi e
Effective temperatures out of equilibrium
We describe some interesting effects observed during the evolution of
nonequilibrium systems, using domain growth and glassy systems as examples. We
breafly discuss the analytical tools that have been recently used to study the
dynamics of these systems. We mainly concentrate on one of the results obtained
from this study, the violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and we
discuss, in particular, its relation to the definition and measurement of
effective temperatures out of equilibrium.Comment: 13 pages, RevTex, 2 figs, to appear in ``Trends in Theoretical
Physics II'', eds. H Falomir et al, Am. Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc. of the 1998
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