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Relationships between selected Tennessee homemaker personal and family characteristics, numbers of extension contacts and use of recommended interior design practices
The main purpose of this study was to determine the influence of contacts with the Agricultural Extension Service upon the adoption and use of recommended interior design practices by Tennessee homemakers. There was also a need to characterize the type of homemaker being contacted through Extension\u27s educational efforts and determine what may have influenced numbers of contacts. Data were obtained from 1604 homemakers in most, but not all, of Tennessee\u27s ninety five counties. The data were taken from homemaker responses during personal interviews. The analysis of variance F test was used to determine the strength of relationships between dependent and independent variables.
Implications were that age, employment, home ownership and membership in a Home Demonstration Club were factors which influenced the number of contacts homemakers had with Extension. Other personal characteristics including education, marital status and amount of family income had no significant influence on the number of contacts homemakers reported having with Extension.
The number of contacts homemakers had with Extension agents did significantly influence in a positive manner the use of ten of the seventeen recommended interior design practices. The homemakers reporting use of those ten practices had made more contacts with Extension agents than the homemakers who reported they did not use the practices.
It was established that those homemakers who used more of the practices were less than 50 years old, married, had a higher education and an income of at least $10,000.
From this information, recommendations for future programs were made
Supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory
We prove that three-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons
theory is finite to all loops. This leaves open the possibility that different
regularization methods give different finite effective actions. We show that
for this model dimensional regularization and regularization by dimensional
reduction yield the same effective action.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, latex, espcrc2. Contribution to the Proceedings of
the 30th Ahrenshoop Symposium on the Theory of Elementary Particles, edited
by D. Lust, H.-J. Otto and G. Weigt, to appear in Nuclear Physics B,
Proceedings Supplemen
Exact solutions for a mean-field Abelian sandpile
We introduce a model for a sandpile, with N sites, critical height N and each
site connected to every other site. It is thus a mean-field model in the
spin-glass sense. We find an exact solution for the steady state probability
distribution of avalanche sizes, and discuss its asymptotics for large N.Comment: 10 pages, LaTe
Genesis of the Antarctic Slope Current in West Antarctica
The stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) depends on ocean heat transport toward its base and remains a source of uncertainty in sea level rise prediction. The Antarctic Slope Current (ASC), a major boundary current of the ocean's global circulation, serves as a dynamic gateway for heat transport toward Antarctica. Here, we use observations collected from the Bellingshausen Sea to propose a mechanistic explanation for the initiation of the westwardâflowing ASC. Waters modified throughout the Bellingshausen Sea by oceanâseaâice and oceanâiceâshelf interactions are exported to the continental slope in a narrow, topographically steered western boundary current. This focused outflow produces a localized front at the shelf break that supports the emerging ASC. This mechanism emphasizes the importance of buoyancy forcing, integrated over the continental shelf, as opposed to local wind forcing, in the generation mechanism and suggests the potential for remote control of melt rates of WAIS' largest ice shelves
Physically meaningful and not so meaningful symmetries in Chern-Simons theory
We explicitly show that the Landau gauge supersymmetry of Chern-Simons theory
does not have any physical significance. In fact, the difference between an
effective action both BRS invariant and Landau supersymmetric and an effective
action only BRS invariant is a finite field redefinition. Having established
this, we use a BRS invariant regulator that defines CS theory as the large mass
limit of topologically massive Yang-Mills theory to discuss the shift k \to
k+\cv of the bare Chern-Simons parameter in conncection with the Landau
supersymmetry. Finally, to convince ourselves that the shift above is not an
accident of our regularization method, we comment on the fact that all BRS
invariant regulators used as yet yield the same value for the shift.Comment: phyzzx, 21 pages, 2 figures in one PS fil
Evidence for a Soft Nuclear Equation-of-State from Kaon Production in Heavy Ion Collisions
The production of pions and kaons has been measured in Au+Au collisions at
beam energies from 0.6 to 1.5 AGeV with the Kaon Spectrometer at SIS/GSI. The
K+ meson multiplicity per nucleon is enhanced in Au+Au collisions by factors up
to 6 relative to C+C reactions whereas the corresponding pion ratio is reduced.
The ratio of the K+ meson excitation functions for Au+Au and C+C collisions
increases with decreasing beam energy. This behavior is expected for a soft
nuclear equation-of-state.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Chern-Simons Theory as the Large Mass Limit of Topologically Massive Yang-Mills Theory
We study quantum Chern-Simons theory as the large mass limit of the limit
of dimensionally regularized topologically massive Yang-Mills theory.
This approach can also be interpreted as a BRS-invariant hybrid regularization
of Chern-Simons theory, consisting of a higher-covariant derivative Yang-Mills
term plus dimensional regularization. Working in the Landau gauge, we compute
radiative corrections up to second order in perturbation theory and show that
there is no two-loop correction to the one-loop shift being the bare Chern-Simons parameter. In
passing we also prove by explicit computation that topologically massive
Yang-Mills theory is UV finite.Comment: 64 pages without figures (10 figures), DAMTP 91-34, LPTHE 91-61,
NBI-HE 91-55, UGMS 91-2
Derivation of a Matrix Product Representation for the Asymmetric Exclusion Process from Algebraic Bethe Ansatz
We derive, using the algebraic Bethe Ansatz, a generalized Matrix Product
Ansatz for the asymmetric exclusion process (ASEP) on a one-dimensional
periodic lattice. In this Matrix Product Ansatz, the components of the
eigenvectors of the ASEP Markov matrix can be expressed as traces of products
of non-commuting operators. We derive the relations between the operators
involved and show that they generate a quadratic algebra. Our construction
provides explicit finite dimensional representations for the generators of this
algebra.Comment: 16 page
Production of Charged Pions, Kaons and Antikaons in Relativistic C+C and C+Au Collisions
Production cross sections of charged pions, kaons and antikaons have been
measured in C+C and C+Au collisions at beam energies of 1.0 and 1.8 AGeV for
different polar emission angles. The kaon and antikaon energy spectra can be
described by Boltzmann distributions whereas the pion spectra exhibit an
additional enhancement at low energies. The pion multiplicity per participating
nucleon M(pi+)/A_part is a factor of about 3 smaller in C+Au than in C+C
collisions at 1.0 AGeV whereas it differs only little for the C and the Au
target at a beam energy of 1.8 AGeV. The K+ multiplicities per participating
nucleon M(K+)/A_part are independent of the target size at 1 AGeV and at 1.8
AGeV. The K- multiplicity per participating nucleon M(K-)/A_part is reduced by
a factor of about 2 in C+Au as compared to C+C collisions at 1.8 AGeV. This
effect might be caused by the absorption of antikaons in the heavy target
nucleus. Transport model calculations underestimate the K-/K+ ratio for C+C
collisions at 1.8 AGeV by a factor of about 4 if in-medium modifications of K
mesons are neglected.Comment: 19 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J.
Numerical study of a non-equilibrium interface model
We have carried out extensive computer simulations of one-dimensional models
related to the low noise (solid-on-solid) non-equilibrium interface of a two
dimensional anchored Toom model with unbiased and biased noise. For the
unbiased case the computed fluctuations of the interface in this limit provide
new numerical evidence for the logarithmic correction to the subnormal L^(1/2)
variance which was predicted by the dynamic renormalization group calculations
on the modified Edwards-Wilkinson equation. In the biased case the simulations
are in close quantitative agreement with the predictions of the Collective
Variable Approximation (CVA), which gives the same L^(2/3) behavior of the
variance as the KPZ equation.Comment: 15 pages revtex, 4 Postscript Figure
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