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Isotope shift on the chlorine electron affinity revisited by an MCHF/CI approach
Today, the electron affinity is experimentally well known for most of the
elements and is a useful guideline for developing ab initio computational
methods. However, the measurements of isotope shifts on the electron affinity
are limited by both resolution and sensitivity. In this context, theory
eventually contributes to the knowledge and understanding of atomic structures,
even though correlation plays a dominant role in negative ions properties and,
particularly, in the calculation of the specific mass shift contribution. The
present study solves the longstanding discrepancy between calculated and
measured specific mass shifts on the electron affinity of chlorine (Phys. Rev.
A 51 (1995) 231)Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, 7 table
Polynomiality for Bin Packing with a Constant Number of Item Types
We consider the bin packing problem with d different item sizes s_i and item
multiplicities a_i, where all numbers are given in binary encoding. This
problem formulation is also known as the 1-dimensional cutting stock problem.
In this work, we provide an algorithm which, for constant d, solves bin
packing in polynomial time. This was an open problem for all d >= 3.
In fact, for constant d our algorithm solves the following problem in
polynomial time: given two d-dimensional polytopes P and Q, find the smallest
number of integer points in P whose sum lies in Q.
Our approach also applies to high multiplicity scheduling problems in which
the number of copies of each job type is given in binary encoding and each type
comes with certain parameters such as release dates, processing times and
deadlines. We show that a variety of high multiplicity scheduling problems can
be solved in polynomial time if the number of job types is constant
Sickness and injury leave in France: moral hazard or strain?
From 1997 to 2001, the total payment to compensate for sickness and injury leaves increased dramatically in France. Since this change coincided with a decrease in unemployment rate,three hypothesizes should be proposed as possible explanations consistently with the literature: moral hazard (workers fear less to loose their job, therefore use sickness leave more confidently); strain (workers work longer hours or under more stringent rules); labor-force composition effect (less healthy individuals are incorporated into the labor force). We investigate the first two strands of explanation using a household survey (ESPS) enriched with claims data from compulsory health insurance funds on sickness leaves (EPAS). We model separately number of leaves per individual (cumulative logit) and duration of leaves (random-effect model). According to our findings, in France, the individual propensity to take sickness leave is mainly influenced by strain in the workplace and by a labor-force composition effect. Conditional duration of spells is not well explained at the individual level: the only significant factor is usual weekly work duration. Influence of moral hazard is not clearly ascertained: it has few impact on occurrences of leave and no impact on duration.Sickness, Labour Force
Global well-posedness of a conservative relaxed cross diffusion system
We prove global existence in time of solutions to relaxed conservative cross
diffusion systems governed by nonlinear operators of the form where the represent
density-functions, is a spatially regularized form of
and the nonlinearities are merely assumed to be
continuous and bounded from below. Existence of global weak solutions is
obtained in any space dimension. Solutions are proved to be regular and unique
when the are locally Lipschitz continuous
Confined hidden vector dark matter
We argue that the lightest vector bound states of a confining hidden sector
communicating with the Standard Model through the Higgs portal are stable and
are viable candidates of dark matter. The model is based on an SU(2) gauge
group with a scalar field in its fundamental representation and the stability
of the lightest vector bound state results from the existence of a custodial
symmetry. As the relic density depends essentially on the scale of confinement
in the hidden sector, Lambda_HS, agreement with WMAP abundance requires
Lambda_HS in the 20-120 TeV range.Comment: 6 page
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