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Estimating the Stochastic Sickness Effect on Employment, Worktime and Saving Decisions
This paper aims to study labor supply and saving decisions as a result of health uncertainty. O’Donnell (1995) suggested a theoretical positive relationship between working hours (or saving rate) and the perceived health uncertainty. That is, for risk-averse individuals, there exists a precaution motion to work harder and save more when facing the uncertainty for the health condition. We test this hypothetical relationship by applying the 2003-2005 data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) in Taiwan. Following Hughes and Maguire’s approach (2003), our estimation result indicates that a stochastic sickness has positive effects on the decisions of working time and saving rate.Health, Uncertainty, Labor Supply, Saving
Quench Dynamics of Topological Maximally-Entangled States
We investigate the quench dynamics of the one-particle entanglement spectra
(OPES) for systems with topologically nontrivial phases. By using dimerized
chains as an example, it is demonstrated that the evolution of OPES for the
quenched bi-partite systems is governed by an effective Hamiltonian which is
characterized by a pseudo spin in a time-dependent pseudo magnetic field
. The existence and evolution of the topological
maximally-entangled edge states are determined by the winding number of
in the -space. In particular, the maximally-entangled edge
states survive only if nontrivial Berry phases are induced by the winding of
. In the infinite time limit the equilibrium OPES can be
determined by an effective time-independent pseudo magnetic field
\vec{S}_{\mb{eff}}(k). Furthermore, when maximally-entangled edge states are
unstable, they are destroyed by quasiparticles within a characteristic
timescale in proportional to the system size.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Edge State, Entanglement Entropy Spectra and Critical Hopping Coupling of Anisotropic Honeycomb Lattice
For a bipartite honeycomb lattice, we show that the Berry phase depends not
only on the shape of the system but also on the hopping couplings. Using the
entanglement entropy spectra obtained by diagonalizing the block Green's
function matrices, the maximal entangled state with the eigenvalue
of the reduced density matrix is shown to have one-to-one
correspondence to the zero energy states of the lattice with open boundaries,
which depends on the Berry phase. For the systems with finite bearded edges
along -direction we find critical hopping couplings: the maximal entangled
states (zero-energy states) appear pair by pair if one increases the hopping
coupling over the critical couplings s.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Dimerized and trimerized phases for spin-2 Bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice
We study the phase diagram for spin-2 bosons loaded in a one-dimensional
optical lattice. By using non-Abelian density matrix renormalization group
(DMRG) method we identify three possible phases: ferromagnetic, dimerized, and
trimerized phases. We sketch the phase boundaries based on DMRG. We illustrate
two methods for identifying the phases. The first method is based on the
spin-spin correlation function while in the second method one observes the
excitation gap as a dimerization or a trimerization superlattice is imposed.
The advantage of the second method is that it can also be easily implemented in
experiments. By using the scattering lengths in the literature we estimate that
Rb, Na, and Rb be ferromagnetic, dimerized, and trimerized
respectively.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Add acknowledgemen
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Metabolic Pathways Enhancement Confers Poor Prognosis in p53 Exon Mutant Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq), the most commonly used sequencing application tool, is not only a method for measuring gene expression but also an excellent media to detect important structural variants such as single nucleotide variants (SNVs), insertion/deletion (Indels), or fusion transcripts. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) contains genomic data from a variety of cancer types and also provides the raw data generated by TCGA consortium. p53 is among the top 10 somatic mutations associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of the present study was to analyze concordant different gene profiles and the priori defined set of genes based on p53 mutation status in HCC using RNA-Seq data. In the study, expression profile of 11 799 genes on 42 paired tumor and adjacent normal tissues was collected, processed, and further stratified by the mutated versus normal p53 expression. Furthermore, we used a knowledge-based approach Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) to compare between normal and p53 mutation gene expression profiles. The statistical significance (nominal P value) of the enrichment score (ES) genes was calculated. The ranked gene list that reflects differential expression between p53 wild-type and mutant genotypes was then mapped to metabolic process by KEGG, an encyclopedia of genes and genomes to assign functional meanings. These approaches enable us to identify pathways and potential target gene/pathways that are highly expressed in p53 mutated HCC. Our analysis revealed 2 genes, the hexokinase 2 (HK2) and Enolase 1 (ENO1), were conspicuous of red pixel in the heatmap. To further explore the role of these genes in HCC, the overall survival plots by Kaplan-Meier method were performed for HK2 and ENO1 that revealed high HK2 and ENO1 expression in patients with HCC have poor prognosis. These results suggested that these glycolysis genes are associated with mutated-p53 in HCC that may contribute to poor prognosis. In this proof-of-concept study, we proposed an approach for identifying novel potential therapeutic targets in human HCC with mutated p53. These approaches can take advantage of the massive next-generation sequencing (NGS) data generated worldwide and make more out of it by exploring new potential therapeutic targets
On Holographic Dual of the Dyonic Reissner-Nordstr\"om Black Hole
It is shown that the hidden conformal symmetry, namely symmetry, of the non-extremal dyonic
Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole can be probed by a charged massless scalar
field at low frequencies. The existence of such hidden conformal symmetry
suggests that the field theory holographically dual to the 4D
Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole indeed should be a 2D CFT. Although the
associated AdS structure does not explicitly appear in the near horizon
geometry, the primary parameters of the dual CFT can be exactly obtained
without the necessity of embedding the 4D Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole into
5D spacetime. The duality is further supported by comparing the absorption
cross sections and real-time correlators obtained from both the CFT and the
gravity sides.Comment: 18 pages, no figure, typos correcte
Twofold Hidden Conformal Symmetries of the Kerr-Newman Black Hole
In this paper, we suggest that there are two different individual 2D CFTs
holographically dual to the Kerr-Newman black hole, coming from the
corresponding two possible limits --- the Kerr/CFT and Reissner-Nordstr\"om/CFT
correspondences, namely there exist the Kerr-Newman/CFTs dualities. A probe
scalar field at low frequencies turns out can exhibit two different 2D
conformal symmetries (named by - and -pictures, respectively) in its
equation of motion when the associated parameters are suitably specified. These
twofold dualities are supported by the matchings of entropies, absorption cross
sections and real time correlators computed from both the gravity and the CFT
sides. Our results lead to a fascinating "microscopic no hair conjecture" ---
for each macroscopic hair parameter, in additional to the mass of a black hole
in the Einstein-Maxwell theory, there should exist an associated holographic
CFT description.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figure, typos correcte
Quantum Critical Spin-2 Chain with Emergent SU(3) Symmetry
We study the quantum critical phase of a SU(2) symmetric spin-2 chain
obtained from spin-2 bosons in a one-dimensional lattice. We obtain the scaling
of the entanglement entropy and finite-size energies by exact diagonalization
and density-matrix renormalization group methods. From the numerical results of
the energy spectrum, central charge, and scaling dimension we identify the
conformal field theory describing the whole critical phase to be the SU(3)
Wess-Zumino-Witten model. We find that while in the whole critical phase the
Hamiltonian is only SU(2) invariant, there is an emergent SU(3) symmetry in the
thermodynamic limit
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