717 research outputs found
Financial evaluation of mental accounting
Mental accounting, defined as a set of cognitive processes that allows the organization of financial activities and facilitates money management; First of all, it helps people to compare the returns / incomes in return for their expenses and the costs to be incurred, and enables them to make decisions through a different mental account for the income tax or value added tax etc. they will pay in their investments. In the process of mental accounting, self-employed taxpayers may consider the correct declaration of tax, but they can also make different tax calculations, and even obtain information in consultation with their professionals. It is known that some professionals use mental accounting themselves by helping self-employed people fondly. It is impossible today to check whether mental accounting is related to tax knowledge, business and personality traits, and the degree of association with the intended tax behavior. The conclusions have been reached by a study in this regard; - While some taxpayers mentally separate taxes from turnover, others are not (integrators ) , - Where there are small differences in mental accounting between income tax and VAT, and, - Confirmatory factor analysis, tax information and mental accounting are different structures (Journal of Economic Psychology Nr. 70 , January 2019, P: 125-139). On the other hand, mental accounting is a strategy used in controlling personal spending, consumption, and investments as a cognitive set of operations in monitoring one's financial/financial business (=activity) and transactions. These are classified in mental accounts, meaning that individuals monitor all of their expenses separately and include the process of personal decision making, correction, control or abandonment of decisions. In particular, when multiple options are encountered, they are evaluated jointly-the results of different decisions are combined or evaluated separately. This depends on the emotional and intellectual structures of the person, along with the risk and expenditure criteria that the person undertakes. Because the decision is between sentimentality and thought, and results in rational-real or irrational-non-real results. In fact, they have a positive relationship with education, financial knowledge, money management and tax awareness in mental accounting. A consumer or investor/businessman in the decision process, including most accounting and Finance, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting and tax accounting are associated with, and are affected by them and affect them. These aspects are quite interesting.peer-reviewe
An off-shell formulation for internally gauged D=5, N=2 supergravity from superconformal methods
We use the superconformal method to construct a new formulation for pure
off-shell D=5, N=2 Poincar\'e supergravity and present its internal gauging.
The main difference between the traditional formulation and our new formulation
is the choice of the Dilaton Weyl Multiplet as the background Weyl Multiplet
and the choice of a Linear compensating Multiplet. We do not introduce an
external vector multiplet to gauge the theory, but instead use the internal
vector of the Dilaton Weyl Multiplet. We show that the corresponding on-shell
theory is Einstein-Maxwell supergravity. We believe that this gauging method
can be applied in more complicated scenarios such as the inclusion of off-shell
higher derivative invariants.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figure, v3: Version appeared in JHE
Universality Classes of Scale Invariant Inflation
We investigate the inflationary implications of extensions of Poincare
symmetry. The simplest constructions with local scale invariance lead to
universal predictions: the spectral index is , in excellent
agreement with Planck data, while the tensor-to-scalar ratio is determined by a
free parameter to . For the special value one
finds symmetry enhancement to the full conformal group. We show that these
findings hold both for two-derivative scalar-tensor theories as well as
higher-derivative gravity. Therefore scale invariance underlies a promising set
of inflationary models.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
All Off-Shell R^2 Invariants in Five Dimensional N=2 Supergravity
We construct supersymmetric completions of various curvature squared terms in
five dimensional supergravity with eight supercharges. Adopting the dilaton
Weyl multiplet, we obtain the minimal off-shell supersymmetric Ricci scalar
squared as well as all vector multiplets coupled curvature squared invariants.
Since the minimal off-shell supersymmetric Riemann tensor squared and
Gauss-Bonnet combination in the dilaton Weyl multiplet have been obtained
before, both the minimal off-shell and the vector multiplets coupled curvature
squared invariants in the dilation Weyl multiplet are complete. We also
constructed an off-shell Ricci scalar squared invariant utilizing the standard
Weyl multiplet. The supersymmetric Ricci scalar squared in the standard Weyl
multiplet is coupled to n number of vector multiplets by construction, and it
deforms the very special geometry. We found that in the supersymmetric AdS_5
vacuum, the very special geometry defined on the moduli space is modified in a
simple way. Finally, we study the magnetic string and electric black hole
solutions in the presence of supersymmetric Ricci scalar squared.Comment: 28 pages, v3: Typos Corrected, Version appeared in JHE
Extension of Starobinsky Model in Old Minimal Supergravity
We provide a succinct way to construct the supersymmetric completion of
in components using superconformal formulation of old minimal
supergravity. As a consequence, we obtain the polynomial supergravity
extending the supersymmetric Starobinsky model to any higher power of . The
supersymmetric vacua in polynomial supergravity are studied. We also
present the extended Minimal Volkov-Akulov-Starobinsky Model.Comment: 18 pages, new section added on the dual model, typos fixed,
references added, version appeared in CQ
Planck constraints on inflation in auxiliary vector modified theories
We show that the universal -attractor models of inflation can be
realized by including an auxiliary vector field for the Starobinsky
model with the Lagrangian . If the same procedure is applied
to general modified theories in which the Ricci scalar is replaced
by with constant , we
obtain the Brans-Dicke theory with a scalar potential and the Brans-Dicke
parameter . We also place observational constraints
on inflationary models based on auxiliary vector modified theories from
the latest Planck measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
anisotropies in both temperature and polarization. In the modified Starobinsky
model, we find that the parameter is constrained to be
(68\,\%\,confidence level) from the bounds of the scalar spectral index and the
tensor-to-scalar ratio.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Galileons as the Scalar Analogue of General Relativity
We establish a correspondence between general relativity with diffeomorphism
invariance and scalar field theories with Galilean invariance: notions such as
the Levi-Civita connection and the Riemann tensor have a Galilean counterpart.
This suggests Galilean theories as the unique nontrivial alternative to gauge
theories (including general relativity). Moreover, it is shown that the
requirement of first-order Palatini formalism uniquely determines the Galileon
models with second-order field equations, similar to the Lovelock gravity
theories. Possible extensions are discussed.Comment: 6 pages, v2: Version appeared in Phys. Rev.
Preemptive Edge Application Instantiation
Cloud-edge computing is a paradigm that brings servers physically closer to end-users, e.g., by co-locating servers and cellular towers. Cloud-edge computing can reduce latency and improve performance for mobile applications. For cloud-edge computing to deliver a superior user experience, the location of application instantiation is optimally selected to be close to the user. However, as a user moves, an initially optimal location becomes unsuitable. This disclosure describes techniques to predict the next possible edge zones for a cloud-edge application to maintain performance and service continuity as the mobile device moves. The techniques leverage factors such as mobility history, network characteristics, performance data, etc. to preemptively instantiate the application on predicted edge zones to ensure service continuity at a high performance and with low latency
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