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Living Standards in Black and White: Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 â 1913
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One example is African-Americans in the Northern US in the 1800s. Here, we use new data from the state prison in Ohio to track heights of black and white men from 1829 to 1913. We corroborate the well-known mid-century height decline among white men in Ohio, found by Steckel and Haurin (1994) using National Guard data. We find that black men in Ohio were shorter than white men, throughout the century and controlling for a number of characteristics. We also find a pattern of height decline in mid-century similar to that found for white men.
Slepton Flavor Physics at Linear Colliders
If low energy supersymmetry is realized in nature it is possible that a first
generation linear collider will only have access to some of the superpartners
with electroweak quantum numbers. Among these, sleptons can provide sensitive
probes for lepton flavor violation through potentially dramatic lepton
violating signals. Theoretical proposals to understand the absence of low
energy quark and lepton flavor changing neutral currents are surveyed and many
are found to predict observable slepton flavor violating signals at linear
colliders. The observation or absence of such sflavor violation will thus
provide important indirect clues to very high energy physics. Previous analyses
of slepton flavor oscillations are also extended to include the effects of
finite width and mass differences.Comment: 7 pages, no figures, uses RevTeX4. Contribution to Snowmass 200
Simulated X-ray Cluster Temperature Maps
Temperature maps are presented of the 9 largest clusters in the mock
catalogues of Muanwong et al. for both the Preheating and Radiative models. The
maps show that clusters are not smooth, featureless systems, but contain a
variety of substructure which should be observable. The surface brightness
contours are generally elliptical and features that are seen include cold
clumps, hot spiral features, and cold fronts. Profiles of emission-weighted
temperature, surface brightness and emission-weighted pressure across the
surface brightness discontinuities seen in one of the bimodal clusters are
consistent with the cold front in Abell 2142 observed by Markevitch et al.Comment: Submitted to Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Societ
Near-infrared Variability among YSOs in the Star Formation Region Cygnus OB7
We present an analysis of near-infrared time-series photometry in J, H, and K
bands for about 100 epochs of a 1 square degree region of the Lynds 1003/1004
dark cloud in the Cygnus OB7 region. Augmented by data from the Wide-field
Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), we identify 96 candidate disk bearing young
stellar objects (YSOs) in the region. Of these, 30 are clearly Class I or
earlier. Using the Wide-Field imaging CAMera (WFCAM) on the United Kingdom
InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT), we were able to obtain photometry over three
observing seasons, with photometric uncertainty better than 0.05 mag down to J
~17. We study detailed light curves and color trajectories of ~50 of the YSOs
in the monitored field. We investigate the variability and periodicity of the
YSOs and find the data are consistent with all YSOs being variable in these
wavelengths on time scales of a few years. We divide the variability into four
observational classes: 1) stars with periodic variability stable over long
timescales, 2) variables which exhibit short-lived cyclic behavior, 3) long
duration variables, and 4) stochastic variables. Some YSO variability defies
simple classification. We can explain much of the observed variability as being
due to dynamic and rotational changes in the disk, including an asymmetric or
changing blocking fraction, changes to the inner disk hole size, as well as
changes to the accretion rate. Overall, we find that the Class I:Class II ratio
of the cluster is consistent with an age of < 1Myr, with at least one
individual, wildly varying, source ~ 100,000 yr old. We have also discovered a
Class II eclipsing binary system with a period of 17.87 days.Comment: ApJ accepted: 44 pages includes 5 tables and 16 figures. Some figures
condensed for Astro/p
Kennesaw State University: The First Fifty Years, 1963-2013
In fifty short years, Kennesaw had far exceeded the expectations of its founders. Decade after decade, the dreams of campus visionaries reached fruition and became the foundation stones for the plans of new generations of builders. The first eight yellow-brick structures still stood in 2012, but not one retained its original name or function.
Kennesaw was blessed throughout its history with visionary leadership, an excellent faculty and staff, and a foundation of extraordinarily talented individuals who donated their time, creativity, and financial resources to the betterment of the university. Kennesaw was always blessed with outstanding students and alumni. Like many modern colleges created in the aftermath of World War II, Kennesawâs average SAT scores did not begin to measure the true quality of nontraditional students who brought commitment, maturity, and life experiences to the enrichment of their academic careers.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ksupresslegacy/1010/thumbnail.jp
Application of CFD to sonic boom near and mid flow-field prediction
A 3-D parabolized Navier-Stokes (PNS) code was used to calculate the supersonic overpressures from three different geometries at near- and mid-flow fields. Wind tunnel data is used for code validation. Comparison of the computed results with different grid refinements is shown. It is observed that a large number of grid points is needed to resolve the tail shock/expansion fan interaction. Therefore, an adaptive grid approach is employed to calculate the flow field. The agreement between the numerical results and the wind tunnel data confirms that computational fluid dynamics can be applied to the problem of sonic boom prediction
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