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Interpreting aggregate wage growth
This paper analyzes the relationship between aggregate wages and individual wages when there is time series variation in employment and in the dispersion of wages. A new and easily implementable framework for the empirical analysis of aggregation biases is developed. Aggregate real wages
are shown to contain three important bias terms: one associated with the dispersion of individual wages, a second reflecting the distribution of working hours, and a third deriving from compositional changes in the (selected)
sample of workers. Noting the importance of these issues for recent experience in Britain, data on real wages and participation for British male workers over the period 1978-1996 are studied. A close correspondence between the estimated biases and the patterns of differences shown by aggregate wages is established. This is shown to have important implications for the interpretation of real wage growth over this period
Novel black hole bound states and entropy
We solve for the spectrum of the Laplacian as a Hamiltonian on
and in . A
self-adjointness analysis with and as
the boundary for the two cases shows that a general class of boundary
conditions for which the Hamiltonian operator is essentially self-adjoint are
of the mixed (Robin) type. With this class of boundary conditions we obtain
"bound state" solutions for the Schroedinger equation. Interestingly, these
solutions are all localized near the boundary. We further show that the number
of bound states is finite and is in fact proportional to the perimeter or area
of the removed \emph{disc} or \emph{ball}. We then argue that similar
considerations should hold for static black hole backgrounds with the horizon
treated as the boundary.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, approximate formula for energy spectrum added at
the end of section 2.1 along with additional minor changes to comply with the
version accepted in PR
A new result on the Klein-Gordon equation in the background of a rotating black hole
This short paper should serve as basis for further analysis of a previously
found new symmetry of the solutions of the wave equation in the gravitational
field of a Kerr black hole. Its main new result is the proof of essential
self-adjointness of the spatial part of a reduced normalized wave operator of
the Kerr metric in a weighted L^2-space. As a consequence, it leads to a purely
operator theoretic proof of the well-posedness of the initial value problem of
the reduced Klein-Gordon equation in that field in that L^2-space and in this
way generalizes a corresponding result of Kay (1985) in the case of the
Schwarzschild black hole. It is believed that the employed methods are
applicable to other separable wave equations
Decision Making Towards Maternal Health Services in Central Java, Indonesia
Background: Indonesia has always been struggling with maternal health issue even after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) programs were done. Prior research findings identified many factors which influenced maternal health status in developing countries such Indonesia and even though various efforts had been made, the impact of the transformation of maternal health behavior was minimal.Purpose: This study aimed to seek an understanding of the factors influencing decisions towards maternal health services.Methods: A case study with a single case embedded design was employed. Interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were held to collect data from 3 health workers and 40 maternal women in a sub-district in Central Java, Indonesia.Results: Interviews with the village midwives as the main health providers in the Getasan sub-district concluded that there were several factors influencing the women\u27s decisions towards maternal services. The factors were options to have services with other health workers outside the area, and shaman services as alternative care and family influencing maternal health behaviors. The analysis of the FGDs also supported the village midwives\u27 statements that in spite of their awareness towards the available maternal health services, the existence of shamans and traditional beliefs strongly affected their decision.Conclusion: The findings in this study showed that cultural issues prevented the maximum maternal health status in Getasan sub-district. This study recommends Puskesmas (Primary Health Care) as the first level of health institutions in Indonesia to support the village midwives\u27 roles within their target area
Dynamical phase transition for a quantum particle source
We analyze the time evolution describing a quantum source for noninteracting
particles, either bosons or fermions. The growth behaviour of the particle
number (trace of the density matrix) is investigated, leading to spectral
criteria for sublinear or linear growth in the fermionic case, but also
establishing the possibility of exponential growth for bosons. We further study
the local convergence of the density matrix in the long time limit and prove
the semiclassical limit.Comment: 24 pages; In the new version, we added several references concerning
open quantum systems and present an extended result on linear particle
production in the fermionic cas
Comment on `On the Quantum Theory of Molecules' [J. Chem.Phys. {\bf 137}, 22A544 (2012)]
In our previous paper [J. Chem.Phys. {\bf 137}, 22A544 (2012)] we argued that
the Born-Oppenheimer approximation could not be based on an exact
transformation of the molecular Schr\"{o}dinger equation. In this Comment we
suggest that the fundamental reason for the approximate nature of the
Born-Oppenheimer model is the lack of a complete set of functions for the
electronic space, and the need to describe the continuous spectrum using
spectral projection.Comment: 2 page
A generalized virial theorem and the balance of kinetic and potential energies in the semiclassical limit
We obtain two-sided bounds on kinetic and potential energies of a bound state
of a quantum particle in the semiclassical limit, as the Planck constant
\hbar\ri 0.
Proofs of these results rely on the generalized virial theorem obtained in
the paper as well as on a decay of eigenfunctions in the classically forbidden
region
Dipoles in Graphene Have Infinitely Many Bound States
We show that in graphene charge distributions with non-vanishing dipole
moment have infinitely many bound states. The corresponding eigenvalues
accumulate at the edges of the gap faster than any power
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