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The case of muddled units in temporal discounting
While parameters are crucial components of cognitive models, relatively little importance has been given to their units. We show that this has lead to some parameters to be contaminated, introducing an artifactual correlation between them. We also show that this has led to the illegal comparison of parameters with different units of measurement – this may invalidate parameter comparisons across participants, conditions, groups, or studies. We demonstrate that this problem affects two related models: Stevens' power law and Rachlin's delay discounting model. We show that it may even affect models which superficially avoid the incompatible units problem, such as hyperbolic discounting. We present simulation results to demonstrate the extent of the issues caused by the muddled units problem. We offer solutions in order to avoid the problem in the future or to aid in re-interpreting existing datasets
Incidence of Auroras and Their North-South Motions in the Northern Auroral Zone
Studies of the incidence of auroral forms and their north
and south motions are made by using a close-spaced array of
all-sky cameras located in the northern auroral zone at the
approximate geomagnetic longitude 250°E. It is found that during
the observing season 1957-58 the peak of the average auroral
zone occurred at 66-67° geomagnetic latitude. Although the
southern extent of auroras retreats northward after local magnetic
midnight, the southward motion of the individual forms,
observed at the southern edge of the auroral zone, predominates
over the northward motion throughout most of the night. The data
indicate the existence on any given night of a latitude position
near which many auroral forms occur. The first motion of auroras
incident north of this position tends to be northward, and the
first motion of auroras incident south of this position tends
to be southward. A curve showing the occurrence of auroral forms
peaks at, and is nearly symmetrical about, local geographic midnight,
but the intensity of auroral emissions measured over the
celestial hemisphere remains at a high level after midnight.NSP Grant No. Y/22.6/327Ye
Dynamical properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a magnetic field within the composite fermion model
We investigate the response of a two-dimensional electron gas, in the
fractional quantum Hall regime, to the sudden appearance of a localised charged
probe using the Chern-Simons theory of composite fermions. The dynamic
structure factor of the electron gas is found to have a major influence on the
spectral function of the probe. In particular, there is an orthogonality
catastrophe when the filling factor is an even-denominator filling fraction due
to the compressibility of the state, but there is no catastrophe at
odd-denominator filling factors because these states have a gap to excitations.
The catastrophe is found to be more severe for composite fermions in zero
effective magnetic field than it is for electrons in zero real magnetic field.
Oscillations in the spectral function, arising when the composite fermions are
at integer filling, have a period equal to the composite fermion cyclotron
energy. We propose a tunneling experiment which directly measures the spectral
function from which one could determine the composite fermion effective mass.Comment: 15 pages of REVTEX. Uses multicol package. Twoside option is default.
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On the Unification of Gauge Symmetries in Theories with Dynamical Symmetry Breaking
We analyze approaches to the partial or complete unification of gauge
symmetries in theories with dynamical symmetry breaking. Several types of
models are considered, including those that (i) involve sufficient unification
to quantize electric charge, (ii) attempt to unify the three standard-model
gauge interactions in a simple Lie group that forms a direct product with an
extended technicolor group, and, most ambitiously, (iii) attempt to unify the
standard-model gauge interactions with (extended) technicolor in a simple Lie
group.Comment: 24 pages, ReVTe
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Valuation accuracy: reconciling the timing of the valuation and sale
Carsberg (2002) suggested that the periodic valuation accuracy studies undertaken by, amongst others, IPD/Drivers Jonas (2003) should be undertaken every year and be sponsored by the RICS, which acts as the self-regulating body for valuations in the UK. This paper does not address the wider issues concerning the nature of properties which are sold and whether the sale prices are influenced by prior valuations, but considers solely the technical issues
concerning the timing of the valuation and sales data.
This study uses valuations and sales data from the Investment Property Databank UK Monthly Index to attempt to identify the date that sale data is divulged to valuers. This information will inform accuracy studies that use a cut-off date as to the closeness of valuations to sales completion date as a yardstick for excluding data from the analysis. It will also, assuming valuers are informed quickly of any agreed sales, help to determine the actual
sale agreed date rather than the completion date, which includes a period of due diligence between when the sale is agreed and its completion. Valuations should be updated to this date, rather than the formal completion date, if a reliable measure of valuation accuracy is to be determined.
An accuracy study is then undertaken using a variety of updating periods and the differences between the results are examined. The paper concludes that the sale only becomes known to valuers in the month prior to the sale taking place and that this assumes either that sales due
diligence procedures are shortening or valuers are not told quickly of agreed sale prices. Studies that adopt a four-month cut-off date for any valuations compared to sales completion dates are over cautious, and this could be reduced to two months without compromising the data
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