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Analytical Model for the Tidal Evolution of the Evection Resonance and the Timing of Resonance Escape

A high-angular momentum giant impact with the Earth can produce a Moon with a silicate isotopic composition nearly identical to that of Earth's mantle, consistent with observations of terrestrial and lunar rocks. However, such an event requires subsequent angular momentum removal for consistency with the current Earth-Moon system. The early Moon may have been captured into the evection resonance, occurring when the lunar perigee precession period equals one year. It has been proposed that after a high-angular momentum giant impact, evection removed the angular momentum excess from the Earth-Moon pair and transferred it to Earth's orbit about the Sun. However, prior N-body integrations suggest this result depends on the tidal model and chosen tidal parameters. Here we examine the Moon's encounter with evection using a complementary analytic description and the Mignard tidal model. While the Moon is in resonance the lunar longitude of perigee librates, and if tidal evolution excites the libration amplitude sufficiently, escape from resonance occurs. The angular momentum drain produced by formal evection depends on how long the resonance is maintained. We estimate that resonant escape occurs early, leading to only a small reduction (~few to 10%) in the Earth-Moon system angular momentum. Moon formation from a high-angular momentum impact would then require other angular momentum removal mechanisms beyond standard libration in evection, as have been suggested previously.Comment: accepted for publicatio

Compatibility of quantum states

We introduce a measure of the compatibility between quantum states--the likelihood that two density matrices describe the same object. Our measure is motivated by two elementary requirements, which lead to a natural definition. We list some properties of this measure, and discuss its relation to the problem of combining two observers' states of knowledge.Comment: 4 pages, no figure

The effect of supervision on Ph.D. duration, publications and job outcomes

The empirical literature on the market for PH.D. graduates is generally focused on individual characteristics and their effect on scientific achievement, career prospects and/or expected earnings. In this paper, we take a closer look at the context in which graduate training takes place. Using data on 650 Ph.D. graduates from the INRA (the French National Institute of Agronomic Research) we were able to show that supervision (described by characteristics of the Ph.D. lab) strongly affects the number (and quality) of articles published during the Ph.D., as well as its overall duration. Supervision also has a significant influence on job outcomes after the ph.D. has been completed.Doctoral training;Skills acquisition;Entry on the labour market

The Dynamics of Emerging Market Equity Flows

We study the interrelationship between capital flows, returns, dividend yields and world interest rates in 20 emerging markets. We estimate a vector autoregressionn with these variables to measure the degree to which lower interest rates contribute to increased capital flows and shocks in flows affect the cost of capital among other dynamic relations. We precede the VAR analysis by a detailed examination of endogenous break points in capital flows and the other variables. These structural breaks are traced to the liberalization of emerging equity markets. Our evidence of structural breaks call into question past research which estimates VAR models over the full sample. After a liberalization, we find that equity flows increase by 1.4% of market capitalization. We also show that shocks in equity flows initially increase returns which is consistent with a price pressure hypothesis. While the effect is diminished over time, there also appears to be a permenant impact. This is consistent with our finding that our proxy for the cost of capital, dividend yields, decreases. Finally, our analysis of the transitition dynamics from pre-liberalization to post-liberalization suggests that when capital leaves, it leaves faster than it came in. These results may help us understand the dynamics of the recent crises in Latin America and East Asia.

Pengaruh Volume Perdagangan dan Kinerja Keuangan terhadap Harga Saham: Studi Emiten PT. Astra Agro Lestari,Tbk di Bursa Efek Indonesia pada Periode 2004-2007

PT.  Astra  Agro  Lestari,  Tbk  (AALI)  constituting  agricultural  firm  outgrown  by Indonesia of its stock value. In compliance with investment raising at capital market, AALI\u27s stock value undergo increase that significant. This  research  tries  to  identify  variable  that  influence  stock  price.  Analysis  that  is utilized in this research is technical analysis and fundamental analysis. Therefore, researcher tests the influence of trade volume and finance performance to stock price. Data  processing  is  done  by  use  of    uji  t,  uji  F,  and  multiple  regression.  Result observationaling  to  point  out  that  Current  Ratio,  Debt  to  Equity  Ratio,  Operating  Profit Margin,  Earning  Per  Share,  Price  Earning  Ratio,    and  Trade  Volume  simultan  having  for significant to stock price.  Partially Current Ratio, Debt to Equity Ratio, Earning Per Share, and  Price  Earning  Ratio  having  for  significant  to  stock  price,  meanwhile  Operating  Profit Margin and Trade Volume is not significant ascendant to stock price. The  conclusion  that  we  can  take,  there  is  correlation  more  tightly  in  glove  between Price  Earning  Ratio  at  the  price  stock.  Result  tests  multiple  regression  show  point  out  that outgrows influence trade volume and finance performance to stock price is 95.4% and its rest 4.6% regarded by other factors. &nbsp