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Abstract Ces\`aro spaces: Integral representations
The Ces\`aro function spaces , , have
received renewed attention in recent years. Many properties of are
known. Less is known about when the Ces\`aro operator takes its values
in a rearrangement invariant (r.i.) space other than . In this paper
we study the spaces via the methods of vector measures and vector
integration. These techniques allow us to identify the absolutely continuous
part of and the Fatou completion of ; to show that is
never reflexive and never r.i.; to identify when is weakly sequentially
complete, when it is isomorphic to an AL-space, and when it has the
Dunford-Pettis property. The same techniques are used to analyze the operator
; it is never compact but, it can be completely continuous.Comment: 21 page
Contribution of integrated water resources management towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chilewater and the millennium development goals, Millennium Development Goals, integrated water resources management, water resources and development., Environmental Economics and Policy, Political Economy, Public Economics,
Exploring associations between micro-level models of innovation diffusion and emerging macro-level adoption patterns
A micro-level agent-based model of innovation diffusion was developed that
explicitly combines (a) an individual's perception of the advantages or
relative utility derived from adoption, and (b) social influence from members
of the individual's social network. The micro-model was used to simulate
macro-level diffusion patterns emerging from different configurations of
micro-model parameters. Micro-level simulation results matched very closely the
adoption patterns predicted by the widely-used Bass macro-level model (Bass,
1969). For a portion of the domain, results from micro-simulations were
consistent with aggregate-level adoption patterns reported in the literature.
Induced Bass macro-level parameters and responded to changes in
micro-parameters: (1) increased with the number of innovators and with the rate
at which innovators are introduced; (2) increased with the probability of
rewiring in small-world networks, as the characteristic path length decreases;
and (3) an increase in the overall perceived utility of an innovation caused a
corresponding increase in induced and values. Understanding micro to macro
linkages can inform the design and assessment of marketing interventions on
micro-variables - or processes related to them - to enhance adoption of future
products or technologies.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures and a table of supplementary data. Accepted for
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Finite-rate chemistry effects upon convective and radiative heating of an atmospheric entry vehicle
A mathematical model of the aerothermochemical environment along the stagnation line of a planetary return spacecraft using an ablative thermal protection system was developed and solved for conditions typical of atmospheric entry from planetary missions. The model, implemented as a FORTRAN 4 computer program, was designed to predict viscous, reactive and radiative coupled shock layer structure and the resulting body heating rates. The analysis includes flow field coupling with the ablator surface, binary diffusion, coupled line and continuum radiative and equilibrium or finite rate chemistry effects. The gas model used includes thermodynamic, transport, kinetic and radiative properties of air and ablation product species, including 19 chemical species and 16 chemical reactions. Specifically, the impact of nonequilibrium chemistry effects upon stagnation line shock layer structure and body heating rates was investigated
Phylogeographic Structure of the Fossorial Long-Clawed Mouse Chelemys macronyx (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)
We present a phylogeographic study of the fossorial sigmodontine mouse Chelemys macronyx. Analyses were based on mitochondrial DNA sequences of specimens collected over most of distributional range of the species. Results showed that C. macronyx has a shallow genealogy that is geographically structured into 2 main clades: one in the northern part of the species distribution, at high-Andean localities in the Argentinean provinces of Mendoza and northern Neuquén, and the other covering the majority of its distributional range at medium- to low-elevation localities from northwestern Neuquén to the south. The northern clade appears to have been demographically stable, while the southern clade presents signals of demographic expansion. These results suggest that current genetic variation of C. macronyx may have originated from 2 refugia.Fil: Alarcón, Oriet. Universidad de Concepción; ChileFil: D'elÃa, Guillermo. Universidad Austral de Chile; Chile. Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia; ChileFil: Lessa, Enrique P.. Universidad de la República. Facultad de Ciencias; UruguayFil: Pardiñas, Ulises Francisco J.. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientÃficas y Técnicas. Centro CientÃfico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentin
Nicholas A. Robins, Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes
Gabriela Siracusano, El poder de los colores: do lo material a lo simbólico en las prácticas culturales andinas, siglos XVI-XVIII
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