77 research outputs found
Liouville SCFT in Four Dimensions
We construct a four supercharges Liouville superconformal field theory in
four dimensions. The Liouville superfield is chiral and its lowest component is
a log-correlated complex scalar whose real part carries a background charge.
The action consists of a supersymmetric Paneitz operator, a background
supersymmetric -curvature charge and an exponential potential. It
localizes semiclassically on solutions that describe curved superspaces with a
constant complex supersymmetric -curvature. The theory is
non-unitary with a continuous spectrum of scaling dimensions. We study the
dynamics on the supersymmetric 4-sphere, show that the classical background
charge is not corrected quantum mechanically and calculate the super-Weyl
anomaly. We derive an integral form for the correlation functions of vertex
operators.Comment: 24 pages; revise
Academic Scholarship in Light of the 2008 Financial Crisis: Textual Analysis of NBER Working Papers
Textual analysis of 14,270 NBER Working Papers published during 1999â2016 is done to assess the effects of the 2008 crisis on the economics literature. The volume of crisis-related WPs is counter-cyclical, lagging the financial-instability-index. WPs by the Monetary-Economics, Asset-Pricing, and Corporate-Finance program members, hardly refer to âcrisis/crisesâ in the pre-crisis period. As the crisis develops, however, their study-efforts of crisis-related issues increase rapidly. In contrast, WPs in macroeconomics-related programs refer quite extensively in the pre-crisis period to âcrisis/crisesâ and to crises-related topics. Overall, our findings are consistent with the claim that economists were not engaged sufficiently in crises studies before the 2008 crisis. However, counter to the popular image, as soon as the crisis began to unravel, the NBER affiliated economists responded dramatically by switching their focus and efforts to studying and understanding the crisis, its causes and its consequences
Academic Scholarship in Light of the 2008 Financial Crisis: Textual Analysis of NBER Working Papers
Textual analysis of the NBER Working Papers published during 1999â2016 is done to assess the effects of the 2007â2009 crisis on the academic literature. The volume of crisis-related WPs is counter-cyclical, lagging the financial-instability-index. WPs by the Monetary-Economics, Asset-Pricing, and Corporate-Finance program members, hardly refer to âcrisis/crisesâ in the pre-crisis period. As the crisis develops, however, their study-efforts of crisis-related issues increase rapidly, focusing on the links between âRepo-and-Securitizationâ and the crisis. In contrast, WPs in macroeconomics-related programs refer extensively to âcrisis/crisesâ in the pre-crisis period. These WPs abandon topics of âSudden-Stopâ and âEmerging-Marketsâ as the crisis developed
Academic Scholarship in Light of the 2008 Financial Crisis: Textual Analysis of NBER Working Papers
Textual analysis of 14,270 NBER Working Papers published during 1999â2016 is done to assess the effects of the 2008 crisis on the economics literature. The volume of crisis-related WPs is counter-cyclical, lagging the financial-instability-index. WPs by the Monetary-Economics, Asset-Pricing, and Corporate-Finance program members, hardly refer to âcrisis/crisesâ in the pre-crisis period. As the crisis develops, however, their study-efforts of crisis-related issues increase rapidly. In contrast, WPs in macroeconomics-related programs refer quite extensively in the pre-crisis period to âcrisis/crisesâ and to crises-related topics. Overall, our findings are consistent with the claim that economists were not engaged sufficiently in crises studies before the 2008 crisis. However, counter to the popular image, as soon as the crisis began to unravel, the NBER affiliated economists responded dramatically by switching their focus and efforts to studying and understanding the crisis, its causes and its consequences
Economists in the 2008 Financial Crisis: Slow to See, Fast to Act
We study the economics and finance scholarsâ reaction to the 2008 financial crisis using machine learning language analyses methods of Latent Dirichlet Allocation and dynamic topic modelling algorithms, to analyze the texts of 14,270 NBER working papers covering the 1999â2016 period. We find that academic scholars as a group were insufficiently engaged in crisesâ studies before 2008. As the crisis unraveled, however, they switched their focus to studying the crisis, its causes, and consequences. Thus, the scholars were âslow-to-see,â but they were âfast-to-act.â Their initial response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis is consistent with these conclusions
Landsat Program
Landsat initiated the revolution in moderate resolution Earth remote sensing in the 1970s. With seven successful missions over 40+ years, Landsat has documented - and continues to document - the global Earth land surface and its evolution. The Landsat missions and sensors have evolved along with the technology from a demonstration project in the analog world of visual interpretation to an operational mission in the digital world, with incremental improvements along the way in terms of spectral, spatial, radiometric and geometric performance as well as acquisition strategy, data availability, and products
Advanced Land Imager Assessment System
The Advanced Land Imager Assessment System (ALIAS) supports radiometric and geometric image processing for the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument onboard NASA s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. ALIAS consists of two processing subsystems for radiometric and geometric processing of the ALI s multispectral imagery. The radiometric processing subsystem characterizes and corrects, where possible, radiometric qualities including: coherent, impulse; and random noise; signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs); detector operability; gain; bias; saturation levels; striping and banding; and the stability of detector performance. The geometric processing subsystem and analysis capabilities support sensor alignment calibrations, sensor chip assembly (SCA)-to-SCA alignments and band-to-band alignment; and perform geodetic accuracy assessments, modulation transfer function (MTF) characterizations, and image-to-image characterizations. ALIAS also characterizes and corrects band-toband registration, and performs systematic precision and terrain correction of ALI images. This system can geometrically correct, and automatically mosaic, the SCA image strips into a seamless, map-projected image. This system provides a large database, which enables bulk trending for all ALI image data and significant instrument telemetry. Bulk trending consists of two functions: Housekeeping Processing and Bulk Radiometric Processing. The Housekeeping function pulls telemetry and temperature information from the instrument housekeeping files and writes this information to a database for trending. The Bulk Radiometric Processing function writes statistical information from the dark data acquired before and after the Earth imagery and the lamp data to the database for trending. This allows for multi-scene statistical analyses
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study and Nanomanipulation of Graphene-Coated Water on Mica
We study interfacial water trapped between a sheet of graphene and a
muscovite (mica) surface using Raman spectroscopy and ultra-high vacuum
scanning tunneling microscopy (UHV-STM) at room temperature. We are able to
image the graphene-water interface with atomic resolution, revealing a layered
network of water trapped underneath the graphene. We identify water layer
numbers with a carbon nanotube height reference. Under normal scanning
conditions, the water structures remain stable. However, at greater electron
energies, we are able to locally manipulate the water using the STM tip.Comment: In press, 5 figures, supplementary information at Nano Letters
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