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Economic conditions and the health of newborns:Evidence from comprehensive register data
We examine whether economic downturns are beneficial to health outcomes of newborn infants in developed countries. For this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national medical birth register and intergenerational link registers from Sweden covering 1992–2004. We take a rigorous econometric approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with possible selective fertility based on labour market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; an increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1500 grams or of dying within 28 days of birth. Effects are larger in low socio-economic status households. Health improvements cannot be attributed to the parents’ own employment status. Instead, the results suggest other pathways triggered by the economic cycle
Compressibility effects on the longitudinal stability and control of a pursuit-type airplane as measured in flight
Measurements of the longitudinal stability and control of a pursuit-type airplane were made in flight up to a Mach number of 0.78. The data are presented in the form of curves showing the variation, with center-of-gravity position, dynamic pressure, and Mach number, of the stick-fixed and stick-free stability, control, and balance of the airplane
Transit Timing Observations from Kepler: VII. Confirmation of 27 planets in 13 multiplanet systems via Transit Timing Variations and orbital stability
We confirm 27 planets in 13 planetary systems by showing the existence of
statistically significant anti-correlated transit timing variations (TTVs),
which demonstrates that the planet candidates are in the same system, and
long-term dynamical stability, which places limits on the masses of the
candidates---showing that they are planetary. %This overall method of planet
confirmation was first applied to \kepler systems 23 through 32. All of these
newly confirmed planetary systems have orbital periods that place them near
first-order mean motion resonances (MMRs), including 6 systems near the 2:1
MMR, 5 near 3:2, and one each near 4:3, 5:4, and 6:5. In addition, several
unconfirmed planet candidates exist in some systems (that cannot be confirmed
with this method at this time). A few of these candidates would also be near
first order MMRs with either the confirmed planets or with other candidates.
One system of particular interest, Kepler-56 (KOI-1241), is a pair of planets
orbiting a 12th magnitude, giant star with radius over three times that of the
Sun and effective temperature of 4900 K---among the largest stars known to host
a transiting exoplanetary system.Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables. Submitted to MNRA
Aortic dissection: visualisation of aortic blood flow and quantification of wall shear stress using time-resolved, 3D phase-contrast MRI
Amplification of the Index of Refraction of Aqueous Immersion Fluids by Ionic Surfactants
In order to find new immersion liquids to improve the resolution of 193 nm immersion photolithography, we have attempted to discover aqueous system possessing an index of refraction greater than that of water using aqueous surfactant systems. The index of refraction (RI) of both cationic and anionic surfactant systems were examined in the presence of wide range of inorganic salts, and parameters such as size of surfactants, concentrations, and temperature were varied. The refractive index (RI) was found to be increased in the presence of both anionic and cationic surfactants compared to those of water and also increased as a function of surfactant concentration. However the refractive index tends to increase much more strongly as a function of salt concentration. In our study, a maximum RI enhancement was observed from 6.5 M CdCl2 in 8.2 mM aqueous SDS solution. The effect of micellar properties such as the critical micelle concentration (cmc) and degree of ionization were systematically studied for aqueous SDS system in the presence of CdCl2. The correlation on index of refraction between empirical data and theoretical prediction were performed using the concept of molar refraction. Wavelength dependence of RI from theoretical prediction based on empirical equation was examined for various concentration of CdCl2 system and the results are reported in the paper
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Adiabatic ring opening in tethered naphthalene and anthracene cycloadducts
The cycloadducts of tethered naphthalene and anthracene derivatives undergo photochemical ring opening to an electronically excited product with adiabatic yields up to 90%
Gender specific differences in left ventricular remodelling in obesity may explain differences in obesity related mortality
Model-Checking Real-Time Control Programs. Verifying LEGO Mindstorms Systems Using UPPAAL
In this paper, we present a method for automatic verificationof real-time control programs running on LEGO RCX bricks using the verification tool UPPAAL. The controlprograms, consisting of a number of tasks running concurrently,are automatically translated into the timed automatamodel of UPPAAL. The fixed scheduling algorithmused by the LEGO RCX processor is modeled in UPPAAL,and supply of similar (sufficient) timed automatamodels for the environment allows analysis of the overallreal-time system using the tools of UPPAAL. To illustrateour techniques we have constructed, modeled and verifieda machine for sorting LEGO bricks by color
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