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The diversity and welfare of older migrants in Europe
This paper sets the scene and provides a conceptual framework for the articles in this special issue. They present the findings of research on European residents who have reached or are on the threshold of old age and whose current circumstances have been strongly influenced by a migration across an international border. Such ‘older migrants’ are scattered throughout Europe and they have especially diverse characteristics. They include some of the most deprived and socially excluded, and some of the most affluent and accomplished, but all to a greater or lesser extent are disadvantaged through an interaction between social policies and their ‘otherness’ by living in a foreign country. Some claim attention through the severity of their unmet health and welfare needs and poor capacity to access advice and treatment, while the affluent groups are of great interest to social gerontology because of their enterprising, developmental and positive approaches to old age.
They include among the most innovative of the latest generation of older people, who pursue new combinations of family responsibilities, leisure pursuits and income generation. The paper proposes that the concept ‘human capital’ summarises variations in preparedness for old age, that is, the resources by which people cope with demands for income, roles, treatment, care and support. A typology of the ‘welfare position’ of international migrants in contemporary Europe is presented
Three body resonances in two meson-one baryon systems
We report four 's and three 's, in the 1500 - 1800 MeV
region, as two meson - one baryon S-wave resonances. We solve Faddeev
equations in the coupled channel approach. The invariant mass of one of the
meson-baryon pairs and that of the three particles have been varied and peaks
in the squared three body -matrix have been found very close to the existing
= -1, low lying baryon resonances. The input two-body
-matrices for meson-meson and meson-baryon interaction have been calculated
by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation with the potentials obtained in the
chiral unitary approach.Comment: corrected version, new channels evaluated, new references adde
Transport coefficients of heavy baryons
We compute the transport coefficients (drag and momentum diffusion) of the
low-lying heavy baryons and in a medium of light mesons
formed at the later stages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We employ the
Fokker-Planck approach to obtain the transport coefficients from unitarized
baryon-meson interactions based on effective field theories that respect chiral
and heavy-quark symmetries. We provide the transport coefficients as a function
of temperature and heavy-baryon momentum, and analyze the applicability of
certain nonrelativistic estimates. Moreover we compare our outcome for the
spatial diffusion coefficient to the one coming from the solution of the
Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport equation and we find a very good
agreement between both calculations. The transport coefficients for
and in a thermal bath will be used in a subsequent publication as
input in a Langevin evolution code for the generation and propagation of heavy
particles in heavy-ion collisions at LHC and RHIC energies.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figures. Title changed. Small additions and corrections.
Version accepted for publication by Physical Review D journa
Solution to Faddeev equations with two-body experimental amplitudes as input and application to J^P=1/2^+, S=0 baryon resonances
We solve the Faddeev equations for the two meson-one baryon system
and coupled channels using the experimental two-body -matrices for the interaction as input and unitary chiral dynamics to describe the interaction
between the rest of coupled channels. In addition to the obtained
before with the channel, we obtain, for and total
isospin of the three-body system , a resonance peak whose mass is around
2080 MeV and width of 54 MeV, while for we find a peak around 2126 MeV
and 42 MeV of width. These two resonances can be identified with the and the , respectively. We obtain another peak in the
isospin 1/2 configuration, around 1920 MeV which can be interpreted as a
resonance in the and systems.Comment: published versio
A Compound model for the origin of Earth's water
One of the most important subjects of debate in the formation of the solar
system is the origin of Earth's water. Comets have long been considered as the
most likely source of the delivery of water to Earth. However, elemental and
isotopic arguments suggest a very small contribution from these objects. Other
sources have also been proposed, among which, local adsorption of water vapor
onto dust grains in the primordial nebula and delivery through planetesimals
and planetary embryos have become more prominent. However, no sole source of
water provides a satisfactory explanation for Earth's water as a whole. In view
of that, using numerical simulations, we have developed a compound model
incorporating both the principal endogenous and exogenous theories, and
investigating their implications for terrestrial planet formation and
water-delivery. Comets are also considered in the final analysis, as it is
likely that at least some of Earth's water has cometary origin. We analyze our
results comparing two different water distribution models, and complement our
study using D/H ratio, finding possible relative contributions from each
source, focusing on planets formed in the habitable zone. We find that the
compound model play an important role by showing more advantage in the amount
and time of water-delivery in Earth-like planets.Comment: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journa
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