Return migration as channel of brain gain

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration increases the expected returns to skills in poor countries, linking the possibility of migrating (brain drain) with incentives to higher education (brain gain). If emigration is uncertain and some of the highly educated remain, such a channel may, at least in part, counterbalance the negative effects of brain drain. Moreover, recent empirical evidence seems to show that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and Asians in the U.S.). This paper develops a simple tractable overlapping generations model that provides an economic rationale for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We use parameter values from the literature and the data on return migration to calibrate our model and simulate and quantify the effects of increased openness on human capital and wages of the sending countries. We find that, for plausible values of the parameters, the return migration channel is very important and combined with the incentive channel reverses the brain drain into significant brain gain for the sending country

On the Seasonal and Day to Day Variations in the F2 Region

Thermoelectric scatter measurements on seasonal and daily variations in F region electron concentratio

Cycloadditionsreaktionen von Allenyl-Kationen mit Cyclopentadien

Propargylhalogenide R1 C C CR2R3X (14) und Cyclopentadien reagieren in Gegenwart von Zinkhalogeniden in Ether/Dichlormethan unter Bildung von 3-Halogenbicyclo[3.2.1]octa-2,6-dienen 13 (R1 = Alkyl) oder 5-(-Halogenbenzyliden)norbornenen 15 (R1 = Aryl). Die Reaktionen werden durch stufenweise [3 + 4]- bzw. [2 + 4]-Cycloadditionen intermediärer Allenyl-Kationen 1 erklärt, wobei die Propargylcyclopentenyl-Kationen 5 sowie die bicyclischen Vinyl-Kationen 9 oder 12 als Zwischenstufen durchlaufen werden. Initiiert man diese Reaktionen durch äquimolare Mengen Silbertrifluoracetat, lassen sich Abfangprodukte aller postulierten Zwischenstufen isolieren. Die relativen Energieinhalte der intermediären Carbenium-Ionen werden mit Hilfe von Kraftfeldrechnungen unter Verwendung von Gasphasenstabilitäten einfacher Carbokationen ermittelt. Stereochemische Untersuchungen zeigen, daß die Additionsreaktionen den kompakten Übergangszustand 42 gegenüber 41 bevorzugen. Bei der Umsetzung des Propargylchlorids 14e mit Cyclopentadien erhält man unter Zinkchloridkatalyse außer dem 1:1-Produkt 15e noch ein pentacyclisches 2:1-Produkt 17, das durch Röntgenstrukturanalyse aufgeklärt wurde. Seine Bildung läßt sich durch [2 + 2]-Cycloaddition eines Allenyl-Kations mit Cyclopentadien erklären

On the global circulation and the hurricane system of the Jovian atmosphere

An argument is made to support the proposal that Jupiter's red spot and the white and brown ovals are hurricanes or cyclones. Against the background of a convectively unstable troposphere, the general condition exists for the formation of hurricanes. The energy Jupiter emits must be transported upwards through the troposphere. If that transport is accelerated by the prevailing upward motions in the solar driven multicellular meridional circulation, eastward jets develop such as observed in the l region. But if that vertical transport is impeded by the prevailing downward motions in the meridional circulation, the atmosphere reacts and tends to maintain the process through the development of hurricanes. Dynamically induced by solar differential heating, an ordered latitudinal structure with alternating stability and instability is impressed on the troposphere to form alternating zonal strata where hurricanes are forbidden and permitted, respectively

Orientation effects in reactions of allenyl cations with styrene

Allenyl cations, generated from allenyl or alkynyl halides and Ag+, attack styrene at the side chain or at the aromatic nucleus. The allenyl/alkynyl product ratio is dependent on the structure of the precursor halide except for highly substituted systems

Plastic deformation of metallic glasses: Size of shear transformation zones from molecular dynamics simulations

Plastic deformation in metallic glasses well below their glass transition temperatures Tg occurs spatially heterogeneously within highly localized regions, termed shear transformation zones (STZs). Yet, their size and the number of atoms involved in a local shear event, remains greatly unclear. With the help of classical molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulations on plastic deformation of the model glass CuTi during pure shearing, we address this issue by evaluating correlations in atomic-scale plastic displacements, viz. the displacement correlation function. From the correlation length, a universal diameter of about 15 Å, or, equivalently, approximately 120 atoms is derived for a variety of conditions, such as variable strains, strain rates, temperatures, and boundary conditions. Our findings are consistent with a recent model proposed by Johnson and Samwer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195501 (2005)]

Amorphous thin film growth: theory compared with experiment

Experimental results on amorphous ZrAlCu thin film growth and the dynamics of the surface morphology as predicted from a minimal nonlinear stochastic deposition equation are analysed and compared. Key points of this study are (i) an estimation procedure for coefficients entering into the growth equation and (ii) a detailed analysis and interpretation of the time evolution of the correlation length and the surface roughness. The results corroborate the usefulness of the deposition equation as a tool for studying amorphous growth processes.Comment: 7 pages including 5 figure

Mirror Symmetry and Landau Ginzburg Calabi-Yau Superpotentials in F-theory Compactifications

We study Landau Ginzburg (LG) theories mirror to 2D N=2 gauged linear sigma models on toric Calabi-Yau manifolds. We derive and solve new constraint equations for Landau Ginzburg elliptic Calabi-Yau superpotentials, depending on the physical data of dual linear sigma models. In Calabi-Yau threefolds case, we consider two examples. First, we give the mirror symmetry of the canonical line bundle over the Hirzebruch surfaces $\bf F_n$. Second, we find a special geometry with the affine so(8) Lie algebra toric data extending the geometry of elliptically fibered K3. This geometry leads to a pure N=1 six dimensional SO(8) gauge model from the F-theory compactification. For Calabi-Yau fourfolds, we give a new algebraic realization for ADE hypersurfaces.Comment: 27 pages, latex. To appear in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Genera