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Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data
We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a taskÂ-assignment model, and wages are determined through multiÂlateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are separately identified by imposing equilibrium restrictions on data observing all workers within workplaces. We find joint production is important. Seniority affects bargaining power but is unproductive. We reinterpret gender and firmÂ-size effects in wages in light of the rejection of linearly separable production.wage distributions, productivity, matched data, multilateral bargaining, assignment models
Teaching Experience: A Prerequisite for Effective Counselor Performance?
Purpose of the study
Previous teaching experience is one of the most discussed issues in today\u27s pupil personnel services. We find ourselves in the milieu of a controversy in which we have advocates of one camp who propose that teaching experience can be a handicap in the effectiveness of a counselor; and in the other camp, that teaching experience is a vital prerequisite for counselor effectiveness.
The controversy has reached such proportions that some states, which previously held teaching experience as a necessary requirement for counselor certification, have either changed certification requirements or have worked around the issue by accepting practice teaching, intern teaching, or substitute teaching as evidence that the requirement has been satisfied.
Method of procedure
The methods employed in this study were threefold: (1) a very thorough review of the current literature, (2) study of counselor certification requirements in the Southwest; namely, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, and Utah, and (3) an independent survey of school administrators employed in major cities within each of the above mentioned states. The administrators included secondary school principals, directors of pupil personnel services, and superintendents of schools
Tracking 3-D body motion for docking and robot control
An advanced method of tracking three-dimensional motion of bodies has been developed. This system has the potential to dynamically characterize machine and other structural motion, even in the presence of structural flexibility, thus facilitating closed loop structural motion control. The system's operation is based on the concept that the intersection of three planes defines a point. Three rotating planes of laser light, fixed and moving photovoltaic diode targets, and a pipe-lined architecture of analog and digital electronics are used to locate multiple targets whose number is only limited by available computer memory. Data collection rates are a function of the laser scan rotation speed and are currently selectable up to 480 Hz. The tested performance on a preliminary prototype designed for 0.1 in accuracy (for tracking human motion) at a 480 Hz data rate includes a worst case resolution of 0.8 mm (0.03 inches), a repeatability of plus or minus 0.635 mm (plus or minus 0.025 inches), and an absolute accuracy of plus or minus 2.0 mm (plus or minus 0.08 inches) within an eight cubic meter volume with all results applicable at the 95 percent level of confidence along each coordinate region. The full six degrees of freedom of a body can be computed by attaching three or more target detectors to the body of interest
Inducing spin-dependent tunneling to probe magnetic correlations in optical lattices
We suggest a simple experimental method for probing antiferromagnetic spin
correlations of two-component Fermi gases in optical lattices. The method
relies on a spin selective Raman transition to excite atoms of one spin species
to their first excited vibrational mode where the tunneling is large. The
resulting difference in the tunneling dynamics of the two spin species can then
be exploited, to reveal the spin correlations by measuring the number of doubly
occupied lattice sites at a later time. We perform quantum Monte Carlo
simulations of the spin system and solve the optical lattice dynamics
numerically to show how the timed probe can be used to identify
antiferromagnetic spin correlations in optical lattices.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Imposing high-symmetry and tuneable geometry on lanthanide centres with chelating Pt and Pd metalloligands
Exploitation of HSAB preferences allows for high-yield, one-pot syntheses of lanthanide complexes chelated by two Pd or Pt metalloligands, [MII(SAc)4]2− (SAc− = thioacetate, M = Pd, Pt). The resulting complexes with 8 oxygen donors surrounding the lanthanides can be isolated in crystallographically tetragonal environments as either [NEt4]+ (space group: P4/mcc) or [PPh4]+ (space group: P4/n) salts. In the case of M = Pt, the complete series of lanthanide complexes has been structurally characterized as the [NEt4]+ salts (except for Ln = Pm), while the [PPh4]+ salts have been structurally characterized for Ln = Gd–Er, Y. For M = Pd, selected lanthanide complexes have been structurally characterized as both salts. The only significant structural difference between salts of the two counter ions is the resulting twist angle connecting tetragonal prismatic and tetragonal anti-prismatic configurations, with the [PPh4]+ salts approaching ideal D4d symmetry very closely (φ = 44.52–44.61°) while the [NEt4]+ salts exhibit intermediate twist angles in the interval φ = 17.28–27.41°, the twist increasing as the complete 4f series is traversed. Static magnetic properties for the latter half of the lanthanide series are found to agree well in the high temperature limit with the expected Curie behavior. Perpendicular and parallel mode EPR spectroscopy on randomly oriented powder samples and single crystals of the Gd complexes with respectively Pd- and Pt-based metalloligands demonstrate the nature of the platinum metal to strongly affect the spectra. Consistent parametrization of all of the EPR spectra reveals the main difference to stem from a large difference in the magnitude of the leading axial term, B02, this being almost four times larger for the Pt-based complexes as compared to the Pd analogues, indicating a direct Pt(5dz2)–Ln interaction and an arguable coordination number of 10 rather than 8. The parametrization of the EPR spectra also confirms that off-diagonal operators are associated with non-zero parameters for the [NEt4]+ salts, while only contributing minimally for the [PPh4]+ salts in which lanthanide coordination approximates D4d point group symmetry closely.LHD acknowledges support from NSF-CCT EMT 08-517. (08-517 - NSF-CCT EMT
Genralized Robustness of Entanglement
The robustness of entanglement results of Vidal and Tarrach considered the
problem whereby an entangled state is mixed with a separable state so that the
overall state becomes non-entangled. In general it is known that there are also
cases when entangled states are mixed with other entangled states and where the
sum is separable. In this paper, we treat the more general case where entangled
states can be mixed with any states so that the resulting mixture is
unentangled. It is found that entangled pure states for this generalized case
have the same robustness as the restricted case of Vidal and Tarrach.Comment: Final version. Editorial changes and references added to independent
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Information transfer through a one-atom micromaser
We consider a realistic model for the one-atom micromaser consisting of a
cavity maintained in a steady state by the streaming of two-level Rydberg atoms
passing one at a time through it. We show that it is possible to monitor the
robust entanglement generated between two successive experimental atoms passing
through the cavity by the control decoherence parameters. We calculate the
entanglement of formation of the joint two-atom state as a function of the
micromaser pump parameter. We find that this is in direct correspondence with
the difference of the Shannon entropy of the cavity photons before and after
the passage of the atoms for a reasonable range of dissipation parameters. It
is thus possible to demonstrate information transfer between the cavity and the
atoms through this set-up.Comment: Revtex, 5 pages, 2 encapsulated ps figures; added discussion on
information transfer in relation with cavity photon statistics; typos
corrected; Accepted for Publicaiton in Europhysics Letter
SU(2)-invariant spin-1/2 Hamiltonians with RVB and other valence bond phases
We construct a family of rotationally invariant, local, S=1/2 Klein
Hamiltonians on various lattices that exhibit ground state manifolds spanned by
nearest-neighbor valence bond states. We show that with selected perturbations
such models can be driven into phases modeled by well understood quantum dimer
models on the corresponding lattices. Specifically, we show that the
perturbation procedure is arbitrarily well controlled by a new parameter which
is the extent of decoration of the reference lattice. This strategy leads to
Hamiltonians that exhibit i) RVB phases in two dimensions, ii) U(1) RVB
phases with a gapless ``photon'' in three dimensions, and iii) a Cantor
deconfined region in two dimensions. We also construct two models on the
pyrochlore lattice, one model exhibiting a RVB phase and the other a U(1)
RVB phase.Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures; 1 figure and some references added; some minor
typos fixe
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