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Note on the Radion Effective Potential in the Presence of Branes
In String Theory compactification, branes are often invoked to get the
desired form of the radion effective potential. Current popular way of doing
this assumes that the introduction of branes will not modify the background
geometry in an important way. In this paper, we show by an explicit example
that at least in the codimension 2 case, the gravitational backreaction of the
brane cannot be neglected in deriving the radion effective potential. Actually,
in this case, the presence of branes will have no effect on the dynamics of
radion.Comment: 6 pages, no figures. Some discussion clarified, conclusion unchanged.
To appear in Phys. Rev.
Gravitational potential in Palatini formulation of modified gravity
General Relativity has so far passed almost all the ground-based and
solar-system experiments. Any reasonable extended gravity models should
consistently reduce to it at least in the weak field approximation. In this
work we derive the gravitational potential for the Palatini formulation of the
modified gravity of the L(R) type which admits a de Sitter vacuum solution. We
conclude that the Newtonian limit is always obtained in those class of models
and the deviations from General Relativity is very small for a slowly moving
source.Comment: 5 pages, no figure
Why Experienced Incivility Triggers Instigated Incivility: Combining the Affect-based and Resource-based Pathways
Ever since Andersson and Pearson\u27s seminal work (1999), incivility has become one of the most commonly studied forms of mistreatment in the organizational sciences (Hershcovis, 2011). While research to date has yielded significant findings about the effects of experienced incivility, far less is known about the underlying mechanisms that linked experienced incivility and instigated incivility. Among the limited studies investigating the positively relationship between experienced incivility and instigated incivility, two distinct theoretical frameworks, affective-based perspective and resource-based, were drew upon. And these two perspectives have never been examined in the same model. To this end, I investigated negative affect (affect-based mechanism) as well as rumination and mental fatigue (resource-based mechanism) as parallel mediators of the relationship between experienced incivility and instigated incivility. I also examined the moderating role of hostile attribution bias in the first stage of the parallel mediation. Using longitudinal design, the current study supported only the affect-based pathway but not the resource-based one. The study also found surprising results regarding the role of hostile attribution bias. Implications and future directions were discussed
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