468 research outputs found
Uncertainty in the Fluctuations of the Price of Stocks
We report on a study of the Tehran Price Index (TEPIX) from 2001 to 2006 as
an emerging market that has been affected by several political crises during
the recent years, and analyze the non-Gaussian probability density function
(PDF) of the log returns of the stocks' prices. We show that while the average
of the index did not fall very much over the time period of the study, its
day-to-day fluctuations strongly increased due to the crises. Using an approach
based on multiplicative processes with a detrending procedure, we study the
scale-dependence of the non-Gaussian PDFs, and show that the temporal
dependence of their tails indicates a gradual and systematic increase in the
probability of the appearance of large increments in the returns on approaching
distinct critical time scales over which the TEPIX has exhibited maximum
uncertainty.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to appear in IJMP
Localization of elastic waves in heterogeneous media with off-diagonal disorder and long-range correlations
Using the Martin-Siggia-Rose method, we study propagation of acoustic waves
in strongly heterogeneous media which are characterized by a broad distribution
of the elastic constants. Gaussian-white distributed elastic constants, as well
as those with long-range correlations with non-decaying power-law correlation
functions, are considered. The study is motivated in part by a recent discovery
that the elastic moduli of rock at large length scales may be characterized by
long-range power-law correlation functions. Depending on the disorder, the
renormalization group (RG) flows exhibit a transition to localized regime in
{\it any} dimension. We have numerically checked the RG results using the
transfer-matrix method and direct numerical simulations for one- and
two-dimensional systems, respectively.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Forecasting for Social Good
Forecasting plays a critical role in the development of organisational
business strategies. Despite a considerable body of research in the area of
forecasting, the focus has largely been on the financial and economic outcomes
of the forecasting process as opposed to societal benefits. Our motivation in
this study is to promote the latter, with a view to using the forecasting
process to advance social and environmental objectives such as equality, social
justice and sustainability. We refer to such forecasting practices as
Forecasting for Social Good (FSG) where the benefits to society and the
environment take precedence over economic and financial outcomes. We
conceptualise FSG and discuss its scope and boundaries in the context of the
"Doughnut theory". We present some key attributes that qualify a forecasting
process as FSG: it is concerned with a real problem, it is focused on advancing
social and environmental goals and prioritises these over conventional measures
of economic success, and it has a broad societal impact. We also position FSG
in the wider literature on forecasting and social good practices. We propose an
FSG maturity framework as the means to engage academics and practitioners with
research in this area. Finally, we highlight that FSG: (i) cannot be distilled
to a prescriptive set of guidelines, (ii) is scalable, and (iii) has the
potential to make significant contributions to advancing social objectives.Comment: 28 pages, 6 figure
Adsorption of alkanes, alkenes and their mixtures in single-walled carbon nanotubes and bundles
Level Crossing Analysis of Growing surfaces
We investigate the average frequency of positive slope ,
crossing the height in the surface growing processes. The
exact level crossing analysis of the random deposition model and the
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in the strong coupling limit before creation of
singularities are given.Comment: 5 pages, two column, latex, three figure
Long range correlation in cosmic microwave background radiation
We investigate the statistical anisotropy and Gaussianity of temperature
fluctuations of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) data from {\it
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe} survey, using the multifractal detrended
fluctuation analysis, rescaled range and scaled windowed variance methods. The
multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis shows that CMB fluctuations has a
long range correlation function with a multifractal behavior. By comparing the
shuffled and surrogate series of CMB data, we conclude that the multifractality
nature of temperature fluctuation of CMB is mainly due to the long-range
correlations and the map is consistent with a Gaussian distribution.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, V2: Added comments, references and major
correction
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