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Turduckening black holes: an analytical and computational study
We provide a detailed analysis of several aspects of the turduckening
technique for evolving black holes. At the analytical level we study the
constraint propagation for a general family of BSSN-type formulation of
Einstein's field equations and identify under what conditions the turducken
procedure is rigorously justified and under what conditions constraint
violations will propagate to the outside of the black holes. We present
high-resolution spherically symmetric studies which verify our analytical
predictions. Then we present three dimensional simulations of single distorted
black holes using different variations of the turduckening method and also the
puncture method. We study the effect that these different methods have on the
coordinate conditions, constraint violations, and extracted gravitational
waves. We find that the waves agree up to small but non-vanishing differences,
caused by escaping superluminal gauge modes. These differences become smaller
with increasing detector location.Comment: Minor changes to match the final version to appear in PR
The end of the credential society? An analysis of the relationship between education and the labour market using big data
A major focus of sociological research is on the role of the credential as a ‘currency of opportunity’, mediating the relationship between education and occupational destinations. However, the labour mar- ket has largely remained a ‘black box’ in sociological and education policy studies. This article draws on ‘big data’ from over 21,000,000 job adverts to explore how employers in the UK describe job requirements, with particular reference to the role of credentials. It challenges existing theories premised upon the notion that higher levels of formal education determine individual (dis)advantage in the competition for jobs. Although they have different views of the relationship between credentials, opportunity and efficiency, these theories assume that credentials largely determine occupational hiring. Our analysis suggests that formal academic credentials play a relatively minor differentiating role in the UK labour market, as the majority of employer’s place greater emphasis on ‘job readiness’. This raises a number of issues for sociological and policy analysis, including the future role of credentials in the (re)production of educational and labour market inequalities. Methodologically, the article highlights how the use of big data can contribute to the analysis of education, skills and the labour market
How the quark self-energy affects the color-superconducting gap
We consider color superconductivity with two flavors of massless quarks which
form Cooper pairs with total spin zero. We solve the gap equation for the
color-superconducting gap parameter to subleading order in the QCD coupling
constant at zero temperature. At this order in , there is also a
previously neglected contribution from the real part of the quark self-energy
to the gap equation. Including this contribution leads to a reduction of the
color-superconducting gap parameter \f_0 by a factor b_0'=\exp \big[ -(\p
^2+4)/8 \big]\simeq 0.177. On the other hand, the BCS relation T_c\simeq
0.57\f_0 between \f_0 and the transition temperature is shown to
remain valid after taking into account corrections from the quark self-energy.
The resulting value for confirms a result obtained previously with a
different method.Comment: Revtex, 8 pages, no figur
Bridging Bays, Bridging Borders: Global Justice and Community Organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area
We offer this document as our own effort to build the inclusion and understandings that will help both communities and leaders recognize the grassroots wisdom and issues that could help us realize the positive impacts from globalization and minimize the negative aspects that have concerned us all. Another world is possible, but it is up to us to build it
Education Burnout and Engagement in Occupational Therapy Undergraduate Students and Its Associated Factors
Burnout syndrome has been characterized as a process of chronic
responses to occupational stress in certain employee groups. However, this
phenomenon has also been reported in other participant groups including university
students. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS), composed of the
Exhaustion, Cynicism and Efficacy subscales, was used to evaluate burnout in this
sample group while the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) was used to gather
data related to engagement, a positive psychology construct composed of the three
factors, namely vigor, dedication, and absorption. To date, no studies considered these
factors in relation to occupational therapy students. This begs the question, is there
a relationship between occupational therapy students’ self-reported levels of burnout
and engagement? The study objectives are to (1) ascertain the self-reported levels of
burnout and engagement in a sample of Australian Occupational undergraduate
therapy students, and (2) analyze the sociodemographic, occupational and academic
characteristic associated with these levels. The results indicate that a number of demographic and academic study
variables are significantly associated with burnout syndrome and education engagement
reported by undergraduate occupational therapy students
Hard Loops, Soft Loops, and High Density Effective Field Theory
We study several issues related to the use of effective field theories in QCD
at large baryon density. We show that the power counting is complicated by the
appearance of two scales inside loop integrals. Hard dense loops involve the
large scale and lead to phenomena such as screening and damping at the
scale . Soft loops only involve small scales and lead to superfluidity
and non-Fermi liquid behavior at exponentially small scales. Four-fermion
operators in the effective theory are suppressed by powers of , but they
get enhanced by hard loops. As a consequence their contribution to the pairing
gap is only suppressed by powers of the coupling constant, and not powers of
. We determine the coefficients of four-fermion operators in the
effective theory by matching quark-quark scattering amplitudes. Finally, we
introduce a perturbative scheme for computing corrections to the gap parameter
in the superfluid phaseComment: 26 page
The prospects for skills and employment in an age of digital disruption: A cautionary note
Almost in a blink of the eye the policy focus on the ‘knowledge’ economy, with mass ranks of high skilled workers, has given way to claims of widespread ‘technological unemployment’. This Working Paper will examine competing claims on the relationship between automation, skills and the future of work. It examines the research evidence on the scale of job losses anticipated as a consequence of digital disruption. It presents three scenarios of the impact of digital disruption on future skill requirements, before considering how evidence on automation and digital disruption is used to influence and inform UK government policy interventions on skills, employment and labour markets. In conclusion, we recommend caution in interpreting existing evidence. While high profile reports on digital disruption make for eye-catching headlines, they make for poor policy formulation. A key message is that technology is not destiny. It is human decisions that will determine the future of work
Higher order corrections to Color superconducting gaps
We find a (nonlocal) gauge where the wavefunction renormalization constant
does not get any corrections for all momenta in the hard-dense loop
approximation. In this gauge, we solve the Schwinger-Dyson equations for the
diquark condensate in dense QCD to calculate the Cooper pair gap. We determine
not only the exponent but also the prefactor of the gap in a gauge independent
way. We find that the higher order corrections increase the gap only by about
1.6 times to the leading order gap at Coulomb gauge.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX, Minor modification
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