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On Lower Bounds for -multiplicities
A recent continuous family of multiplicity functions on local rings was
introduced by Taylor interpolating between Hilbert-Samuel and Hilbert-Kunz
multiplicities. The obvious goal is to use this as a tool for deforming results
from one to the other. The values in this family which do not match these
classic variants however are not known yet to be well-behaved. This article
explores lower bounds for these intermediate multiplicities as well as gives
evidence for analogies of the Watanabe-Yoshida minimality conjectures for
unmixed singular rings.Comment: 10 page
The s-multiplicity function of 2x2-determinantal rings
This article generalizes joint work of the first author and I. Swanson to the
-multiplicity recently introduced by the second author. For a field and
a -matrix of variables, we utilize Gr\"obner bases
to give a closed form the length where ,
is a sufficiently large power of , and is the homogeneous
maximal ideal of . This shows this length is always eventually a {\it
polynomial} function of for all .Comment: 9 pages, Errors fixe
Method of remotely characterizing thermal properties of a sample
A sample in a wind tunnel is radiated from a thermal energy source outside of the wind tunnel. A thermal imager system, also located outside of the wind tunnel, reads surface radiations from the sample as a function of time. The produced thermal images are characteristic of the heat transferred from the sample to the flow across the sample. In turn, the measured rates of heat loss of the sample are characteristic of the flow and the sample
CURRENT ISSUES AFFECTING TRADE AND TRADE POLICY: AN ANNOTATED LITERATURE REVIEW
This review provides a base of literature describing current issues and research on the impacts of lobalization and the industrialization of agriculture and recent approaches to analyze and model agricultural trade and trade policies. Three key factors of the survey are differentiated goods, global economic integration and international supply chain linkages. The review covers 182 publications, which are presented alphabetically by author with a brief annotation describing how it relates to the above criteria. The articles are also indexed by keyword. A brief summary highlights the documented literature and includes a series of issues for future discussion and research.International Relations/Trade,
Revolving doors, accountability and transparency - emerging regulatory concerns and policy solutions in the financial crisis
It is a common phenomenon in all areas of regulation that regulators become captured by the industry they regulate, meaning that they take on the objectives of management in the firms they regulate. They may thereby lose sight of the ultimate objectives of regulation. Regulatory capture is particularly serious in industries such as banking where there is a conflict of interest between the firms‘ objectives (to maximise profits) and the objectives of the regulation
Results of the 2003-2004 Illinois Youth Hunter Survey
Federal Aid Project Number W-112-R-13, Job Number 103.1, Wildlife Restoration Fund, July
1, 2003 - Sept. 30, 2004Report issued on: December 22, 200
Diagnostic ultrasound should be performed without upper intensity limits
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135131/1/mp5500.pd
Abell 2111: An Optical and Radio Study of the Richest Butcher-Oemler Cluster
We present an in-depth analysis of the Butcher-Oemler cluster A2111,
including new optical spectroscopy plus a deep Very Large Array (VLA) radio
continuum observation. These are combined with optical imaging from the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to assess the activity and properties of member
galaxies. Prior X-ray studies have suggested A2111 is a head-on cluster merger,
a dynamical state which might be connected to the high level of activity
inferred from its blue fraction. We are able to directly assess this claim,
using our spectroscopic data to identify 95 cluster members among 196 total
galaxy spectra. These galaxy velocities do not themselves provide significant
evidence for the merger interpretation, however they are consistent with it
provided the system is viewed near the time of core passage and at a viewing
angle >~30 degrees different from the merger axis. The SDSS data allow us to
confirm the high blue fraction for A2111, f_b = 0.15 +/- 0.03 based on
photometry alone and f_b = 0.23 +/- 0.03 using spectroscopic data to remove
background galaxies. We are able to detect 175 optical sources from the SDSS in
our VLA radio data, of which 35 have redshift information. We use the SDSS
photometry to determine photometric redshifts for the remaining 140
radio-optical sources. In total we identify up to 26 cluster radio galaxies, 14
of which have spectroscopic redshifts. The optical spectroscopy and radio data
reveal a substantial population of dusty starbursts within the cluster. The
high blue fraction and prevalence of star formation is consistent with the
hypothesis that dynamically-active clusters are associated with more active
member galaxies than relaxed clusters.Comment: To appear in AJ; 53 pages including 10 figures and several long
table
The Emergence and Future of Near-Surface Geophysics
Over the past 30 years, geophysical methods have assumed a much more prominent and integral role in many investigations where subsurface features have environmental and engineering importance. In fact, the field once referred to as environmental and engineering geophysics has broadened to include other applications (e.g., archeology, forensics), and is now commonly referred to more generally as near-surface geophysics. It is difficult to precisely define near-surface geophysics, and the definition will likely depend on whom you ask. However, we define it as the use of geophysical methods to investigate the zone between the surface and hundreds of meters into the Earth\u27s crust. Applications include, but are not limited to, potable water management, engineered infrastructure and construction, site clearance, gas storage, natural-hazard mitigation, mining, forensics, and archaeology. Although the same physical principles are relevant for any target depth, the high degree of near-surface heterogeneity, rapid change in physical properties, and proximity to the free surface often dictates that dominant processes and therefore key assumptions differ between the near-surface and deeper investigations. While near-surface geophysics shares many technical and cultural attributes of oil and gas exploration, the majority of near-surface geophysicists practice under different economic drivers and conditions
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