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Impact of Pesticide Residue Concerns on Fresh Produce Consumption in the UK
Pesticide, AIDS, two-stage demand system, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Q11,
Symbolic computations of non-linear observability
Date of Acceptance: 22/05/2015 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS E.B.M. and M.S.B. acknowledge the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Grant No. EP/I032608/1. This work was done during a stay of E.B.M. at CORIA (Rouen) and a stay of C.L. at ICSMB (Aberdeen).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Generalized Metropolis dynamics with a generalized master equation: An approach for time-independent and time-dependent Monte Carlo simulations of generalized spin systems
The extension of Boltzmann-Gibbs thermostatistics, proposed by Tsallis,
introduces an additional parameter to the inverse temperature .
Here, we show that a previously introduced generalized Metropolis dynamics to
evolve spin models is not local and does not obey the detailed energy balance.
In this dynamics, locality is only retrieved for , which corresponds to
the standard Metropolis algorithm. Non-locality implies in very time consuming
computer calculations, since the energy of the whole system must be
reevaluated, when a single spin is flipped. To circumvent this costly
calculation, we propose a generalized master equation, which gives rise to a
local generalized Metropolis dynamics that obeys the detailed energy balance.
To compare the different critical values obtained with other generalized
dynamics, we perform Monte Carlo simulations in equilibrium for Ising model. By
using the short time non-equilibrium numerical simulations, we also calculate
for this model: the critical temperature, the static and dynamical critical
exponents as function of . Even for , we show that suitable time
evolving power laws can be found for each initial condition. Our numerical
experiments corroborate the literature results, when we use non-local dynamics,
showing that short time parameter determination works also in this case.
However, the dynamics governed by the new master equation leads to different
results for critical temperatures and also the critical exponents affecting
universality classes. We further propose a simple algorithm to optimize
modeling the time evolution with a power law considering in a log-log plot two
successive refinements.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures and 5 table
Pathways to Higher Education
Presents case studies from Ford's initiative to support efforts to transform universities abroad to enable poor, minority, and otherwise underrepresented students to obtain a university degree. Outlines selected best practices from grantees
On excited states in real-time AdS/CFT
The Skenderis-van Rees prescription, which allows the calculation of time-ordered correlation functions of local operators in CFTâs using holographic methods is studied and applied for excited states. Calculation of correlators and matrix elements of local CFT operators between generic in/out states are carried out in global Lorentzian AdS. We find the precise form of such states, obtain an holographic formula to compute the inner product between them, and using the consistency with other known prescriptions, we argue that the in/out excited states built according to the Skenderis-Van Rees prescription correspond to coherent states in the (large-N) AdS-Hilbert space. This is confirmed by explicit holographic computations. The outcome of this study has remarkable implications on generalizing the Hartle-Hawking construction for wave functionals of excited states in AdS quantum gravity.Fil: Botta Cantcheff, Marcelo Angel Nicolas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Martinez, Pedro Jorge. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Silva, Guillermo Ariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; Argentin
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