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DETERMINANTS OF PARTICIPATION AND CONSUMPTION: THE CASE OF CRAWFISH IN SOUTH LOUISIANA
This study investigates the determinants of crawfish consumption in South Louisiana using a generalized limited dependent variable model that accounts for both participation and consumption decisions. Income, Catholic, white, and household size increase the likelihood of crawfish consumption but not the conditional level of consumption. Education and employment status are among the other household characteristics that determine the conditional level of consumption.Box-Cox transformation, Crawfish consumption, Double-hurdle model, South Louisiana, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
The Implicit Nature of the Anti-Fat Bias
The stigmatization and discrimination of obese persons is pervasive in almost any domain of living. At the explicit level, obese people are associated with a wide range of negative characteristics. Furthermore, research with the implicit association test revealed the implicit nature of the anti-fat bias. Building upon these findings, the present study used event-related brain potential recordings in order to assess key features of implicit processes. Participants viewed a series of schematic portrayals of anorexic, medium, and obese body shapes and tools. In a passive viewing condition, participants were asked to simply look at the stimuli and, in a distraction condition, participants were asked to detect a specific tool. Viewing obese body images, as compared to medium or anorexic body images, elicited a positive potential shift over fronto-central sites and a relative negative potential over occipito-temporal regions in a time window from âŒ190 to 250âms. This evaluative brain response to obese body images was similarly pronounced while participants performed a distraction task. Thus, the findings suggest that the anti-fat bias may occur spontaneously, unintentionally, and independent of explicit processing goals. A troublesome picture is emerging in Western cultures suggesting that obese-ism may appear to be as inevitable as a reflex
On Quantum Groups in the Hubbard Model with Phonons
The correct Hamiltonian for an extended Hubbard model with quantum group
symmetry as introduced by A. Montorsi and M. Rasetti is derived for a
D-dimensional lattice. It is shown that the superconducting SUq(2) holds as a
true quantum symmetry only for D = 1 and that terms of higher order in the
fermionic operators in addition to phonons are required for a quantum symmetric
hamiltonian. The condition for quantum symmetry is "half filling" and there is
no local electron-phonon coupling. A discussion of Quantum symmetries in
general is given in a formalism that should be readily accessible to non
Hopf-algebraists.Comment: latex, 17 page
Towards an explicit expression of the Seiberg-Witten map at all orders
The Seiberg-Witten map links noncommutative gauge theories to ordinary gauge
theories, and allows to express the noncommutative variables in terms of the
commutative ones. Its explicit form can be found order by order in the
noncommutative parameter theta and the gauge potential A by the requirement
that gauge orbits are mapped on gauge orbits. This of course leaves
ambiguities, corresponding to gauge transformations, and there is an infinity
of solutions. Is there one better, clearer than the others ? In the abelian
case, we were able to find a solution, linked by a gauge transformation to
already known formulas, which has the property of admitting a recursive
formulation, uncovering some pattern in the map. In the special case of a pure
gauge, both abelian and non-abelian, these expressions can be summed up, and
the transformation is expressed using the parametrisation in terms of the gauge
group.Comment: 17 pages. Latex, 1 figure. v2: minor changes, published versio
Renormalizability and Phenomenology of theta-expanded Noncommutative Gauge Field Theory
In this article we consider theta-expanded noncommutative gauge field theory,
constructed at the first order in noncommutative parameter theta, as an
effective, anomaly free theory, with one-loop renormalizable gauge sector.
Related phenomenology with emphasis on the standard model forbidden decays, is
discussed. Experimental possibilities of Z -> gamma gamma decay are analyzed
and a firm bound to the scale of the noncommutativity parameter is set around
few TeV's.Comment: 10 page
A Class of Bicovariant Differential Calculi on Hopf Algebras
We introduce a large class of bicovariant differential calculi on any quantum
group , associated to -invariant elements. For example, the deformed
trace element on recovers Woronowicz' calculus. More
generally, we obtain a sequence of differential calculi on each quantum group
, based on the theory of the corresponding braided groups . Here
is any regular solution of the QYBE.Comment: 16 page
On the Differential Geometry of
The differential calculus on the quantum supergroup GL was
introduced by Schmidke {\it et al}. (1990 {\it Z. Phys. C} {\bf 48} 249). We
construct a differential calculus on the quantum supergroup GL in a
different way and we obtain its quantum superalgebra. The main structures are
derived without an R-matrix. It is seen that the found results can be written
with help of a matrix Comment: 14 page
Cosmological and Black Hole Spacetimes in Twisted Noncommutative Gravity
We derive noncommutative Einstein equations for abelian twists and their
solutions in consistently symmetry reduced sectors, corresponding to twisted
FRW cosmology and Schwarzschild black holes. While some of these solutions must
be rejected as models for physical spacetimes because they contradict
observations, we find also solutions that can be made compatible with low
energy phenomenology, while exhibiting strong noncommutativity at very short
distances and early times.Comment: LaTeX 12 pages, JHEP.st
Lattice Gauge Theory
We reformulate the Hamiltonian approach to lattice gauge theories such that,
at the classical level, the gauge group does not act canonically, but instead
as a Poisson-Lie group. At the quantum level, it then gets promoted to a
quantum group gauge symmetry. The theory depends on two parameters - the
deformation parameter and the lattice spacing . We show that the
system of Kogut and Susskind is recovered when , while
QCD is recovered in the continuum limit (for any ). We thus have the
possibility of having a two parameter regularization of QCD.Comment: 26 pages, LATEX fil
Noncommutative Solitons of Gravity
We investigate a three-dimensional gravitational theory on a noncommutative
space which has a cosmological constant term only. We found various kinds of
nontrivial solutions, by applying a similar technique which was used to seek
noncommutative solitons in noncommutative scalar field theories. Some of those
solutions correspond to bubbles of spacetimes, or represent dimensional
reduction. The solution which interpolates and Minkowski metric
is also found. All solutions we obtained are non-perturbative in the
noncommutative parameter , therefore they are different from solutions
found in other contexts of noncommutative theory of gravity and would have a
close relation to quantum gravity.Comment: 29 pages, 5 figures. v2: minor corrections done in Section 3.1 and
Appendix, references added. v3, v4: typos correcte
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