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Cauchy horizon stability in self-similar collapse: scalar radiation
The stability of the Cauchy horizon in spherically symmetric self-similar
collapse is studied by determining the flux of scalar radiation impinging on
the horizon. This flux is found to be finite.Comment: 10 pages. To appear in Phys Rev
Evaluating the genetic progress of wheat in NSW, 1992-2009
Intellectual Property Regimes (IPRs) have been justified on the basis that they promote innovation, but it is not always clear that they do so. Empirical studies of IPRs in an Australian context have been limited. Plant variety protection is one form of IPR. The passing of the Australian Plant Breeder’s Rights Act of 1994 has been followed by significant commercialisation of the wheat breeding industry. The purpose of this paper is to consider whether this commercialisation has benefited wheat productivity through varietal improvement. We estimate a linear crop production function, using a random effects Hausman Taylor estimator to evaluate differences in genetic contributions to productivity between public and private wheat varieties commercially released in NSW over the period 1992-2009 using crop varietal data. Results from the Hausman Taylor estimator show that private varieties, on average, have outperformed public varieties over the period, suggesting that Plant Breeder’s Rights has promoted productive innovation in wheat. However, when we consider the best performing genetics of the varieties, public varieties have, in some years, outperformed privately bred varieties.genetic change, technical change, innovation, wheat breeding, intellectual property, Crop Production/Industries, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Colorado climate summary water-year series: January 1977-September 1977, October 1977-September 1978
December 1978.Annual
Gauge invariant perturbations of self-similar Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi spacetime: even parity modes with
In this paper we consider gauge invariant linear perturbations of the metric
and matter tensors describing the self-similar Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi
(timelike dust) spacetime containing a naked singularity. We decompose the
angular part of the perturbation in terms of spherical harmonics and perform a
Mellin transform to reduce the perturbation equations to a set of ordinary
differential equations with singular points. We fix initial data so the
perturbation is finite on the axis and the past null cone of the singularity,
and follow the perturbation modes up to the Cauchy horizon. There we argue that
certain scalars formed from the modes of the perturbation remain finite,
indicating linear stability of the Cauchy horizon.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Climate of Fort Collins, Colorado: the year in review: 1992 water year, 1 October 1991-30 September 1992, The
December 1992.Includes bibliographical references (page 17).Fort Collins Weather Station funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
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