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Semiparametric Analysis of the Socio-Demographic and Spatial Determinants of Undernutrition in Two African Countries
We estimate semiparametric regression models of chronic undernutrition (stunting) using the 1992 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from Tanzania and Zambia. We focus particularly on the influence of the child's age, the mother's body mass index, and spatial influences on chronic undernutrition. Conventional parametric regression models are not flexible enough to cope with possibly nonlinear effects of the continuous covariates and cannot flexibly model spatial influences. We present a Bayesian semiparametric analysis of the effects of these two covariates on chronic undernutrition. Moreover, we investigate spatial determinants of undernutrition in these two countries. Compared to previous work with a simple fixed effects approach for the influence of provinces, we model small scale district specific effects using flexible spatial priors. Inference is fully Bayesian and uses recent Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques
Operators for scattering of particles with spin
Operators for simulating the scattering of two particles with spin are
constructed. Three methods are shown to give the consistent lattice operators
for PN, PV, VN and NN scattering, where P, V and N denote pseudoscalar meson,
vector meson and nucleon. The projection method leads to one or several
operators that transform according to a given irreducible
representation and row r. However, it gives little guidance on which
continuum quantum numbers of total J, spin S, orbital momentum L or
single-particle helicities will be related with a given
operator. This is remedied with the helicity and partial-wave methods. There
first the operators with good continuum quantum numbers
or are constructed and then subduced to the irreps of the
discrete lattice group. The results indicate which linear combinations
of various n have to be employed in the simulations in order
to enhance couplings to the states with desired continuum quantum numbers. The
total momentum of two hadrons is restricted to zero since parity P is a good
quantum number in this case.Comment: 7 pages, talk presented at the 34th International Symposium on
Lattice Field Theory, 24-30 July 2016, Southampton, U
A lattice calculation of the pion form factor with Ginsparg-Wilson-type fermions
Results for Monte Carlo calculations of the electromagnetic vector and scalar
form factors of the pion in a quenched simulation are presented. We work with
two different lattice volumes up to a spatial size of 2.4 fm at a lattice
spacing of 0.148 fm. The pion form factors in the space-like region are
determined for pion masses down to 340 MeV.Comment: REVTeX 4, 8 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables; final versio
The anomaly-free quantization of two-dimensional relativistic string. I
An anomaly-free quantum theory of a relativistic string is constructed in
two-dimensional space-time. The states of the string are found to be similar to
the states of a massless chiral quantum particle. This result is obtained by
generalizing the concept of an ``operator'' in quantum field theory.Comment: LaTeX, 19 pages, no figure
X-ray fluoresced high-Z (up to Z = 82) K-x-rays produced by LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 pyroelectric crystal electron accelerators
High-energy bremsstrahlung and K X-rays were used to produce nearly
background-free K X-ray spectra of up to 87 keV (Pb) via X-ray fluorescence.
The fluorescing radiation was produced by electron accelerators, consisting of
heated and cooled cylindrical LiTaO3 and LiNbO3 crystals at mTorr pressures.
The newly discovered process of gas amplification whereby the ambient gas
pressure is optimized to maximize the electron energy was used to produce
energetic electrons which when incident on a W/Bi target gave rise to a
radiation field consisting of high-energy bremsstrahlung as well as W and Bi K
X-rays. These photons were used to fluoresce Ta and Pb K X-rays.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, PD
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