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Preception in the rat: Autonomic response to shock as a function of length of the warning interval.
The autonomic response (galvanic skin response) to a noxious stimulus (shock) is reduced when the stimulus is preceded by a warning signal. The greatest reduction, 53%, was obtaqined with a warning interval of 1 second. Warning also reduces variance of the response over trials, a decrease of over 90% for the optimum 1-second interval
Social Mobility in Latin America: Links with Adolescent Schooling
This paper proposes a new measure of social mobility. It is based on schooling gap regressions and uses the Fields decomposition to determine the importance of family background in explaining teenagers schooling gaps.
Social Mobility in Bolivia is Finally Improving!
This paper evaluates the degree of social mobility in Bolivia, both by comparing to other Latin American countries, and by comparing social mobility at different points in time. While Bolivia had one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the region in 1997, the last 10 years have seen spectacular improvements, especially for rural and female teenagers. This is very good news, as it suggests that Bolivia has finally escaped the low mobility â low growth equilibrium where it has been stuck for so long.Social Mobility, Bolivia
How Best to Use the Extraordinary Hydrocarbon Revenues in Bolivia: Results from a Computable General Equilibrium Model
The high oil prices and the sharp increases in royalties mean that the natural gas boom in Bolivia has become very important for the economy, and particularly important as a source of government revenues. Using a CGE model, Andersen et al (2006) show that the natural gas boom is likely to boost GDP growth by about 1 percentage point per year. However, if the government continues with past spending and investment patterns, the boom is also likely to have a very adverse effect on the income distribution, so much so that the poorest half of the population is likely to experience absolute reductions in their real income levels compared to a scenario without gas boom. The present paper explores alternative uses of natural gas revenues in the CGE model to see if a better outcome can be engineered.Natural Gas, Inequality, CGE model, Bolivia
Operator content of the critical Potts model in d dimensions and logarithmic correlations
Using the symmetric group symmetry of the -state Potts model, we
classify the (scalar) operator content of its underlying field theory in
arbitrary dimension. In addition to the usual identity, energy and
magnetization operators, we find fields that generalize the -cluster
operators well-known in two dimensions, together with their subleading
counterparts. We give the explicit form of all these operators -- up to
non-universal constants -- both on the lattice and in the continuum limit for
the Landau theory. We compute exactly their two- and three-point correlation
functions on an arbitrary graph in terms of simple probabilities, and give the
general form of these correlation functions in the continuum limit at the
critical point. Specializing to integer values of the parameter , we argue
that the analytic continuation of the symmetry yields logarithmic
correlations at the critical point in arbitrary dimension, thus implying a
mixing of some scaling fields by the scale transformation generator. All these
logarithmic correlation functions are given a clear geometrical meaning, which
can be checked in numerical simulations. Several physical examples are
discussed, including bond percolation, spanning trees and forests, resistor
networks and the Ising model. We also briefly address the generalization of our
approach to the model.Comment: 35 pages, 6 figure
The semiflexible fully-packed loop model and interacting rhombus tilings
Motivated by a recent adsorption experiment [M.O. Blunt et al., Science 322,
1077 (2008)], we study tilings of the plane with three different types of
rhombi. An interaction disfavors pairs of adjacent rhombi of the same type.
This is shown to be a special case of a model of fully-packed loops with
interactions between monomers at distance two along a loop. We solve the latter
model using Coulomb gas techniques and show that its critical exponents vary
continuously with the interaction strenght. At low temperature it undergoes a
Kosterlitz-Thouless transition to an ordered phase, which is predicted from
numerics to occur at a temperature T \sim 110K in the experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, v2: corrected typo, v3: minor modifications,
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