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    Upaya Pemerintah Daerah Dalam Meningkatkan Pendidikan Di Komunitas Adat Terpencil Desa Sesap Kecamatan Tebing Tinggi Kabupaten Kepulauan Meranti Tahun 2011 – 2014

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    This paper aims to determine Efforts of Local Government in Improving Education in Remote Indigenous Communities Village Sesap District of Tebing Tinggi District Meranti Islands Year 2011 - 2014 and Factors - Factors hindering the efforts of Local Government in Improving Education in Remote Indigenous Communities Village Sesap District of Tebing Tinggi District Meranti Islands in 2011 - 2014. the research method used in this study with the type of case studies and field research. The research approach with a qualitative approach to the type of data used primary data and secondary data, the data sources obtained from the informant research, mass media, and documentation. Data were collected by interview, and search document, and then analyzed by the case method and field research to learn intensively about the background of current affairs and environmental interactions appropriate social unit. The results showed that the efforts of Local Government in Improving Education in Remote Indigenous Communities Village sesap still not optimal because there are still so many people the Remote Indigenous Communities that do not follow the program package A, B and program Functional Literacy and Skills Functional in Center Community Learning Center, and scholarships for poor students is not used well by the parents, by used for daily needs and not used for their children school supplies, local government should be more selective again making policy these scholarships , While a student hostel tribal / KAT is not functioning optimally because only a few KAT who want to continue schools and stay in this hostel, the local government should further improve the dissemination make the community more aware of the importance of education / schooling, in order to motivate and sensitize the parents on Remote Indigenous Communities this will be the importance of education of their children, due to lack of education caused ignorance the parents

    Cosmic Coincidence and Asymmetric Dark Matter in a Stueckelberg Extension

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    We discuss the possibility of cogenesis generating the ratio of baryon asymmetry to dark matter in a Stueckelberg U(1) extension of the standard model and of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. For the U(1) we choose LμLτL_{\mu}-L_{\tau} which is anomaly free and can be gauged. The dark matter candidate arising from this extension is a singlet of the standard model gauge group but is charged under LμLτL_{\mu}-L_{\tau}. Solutions to the Boltzmann equations for relics in the presence of asymmetric dark matter are discussed. It is shown that the ratio of the baryon asymmetry to dark matter consistent with the current WMAP data, i.e., the cosmic coincidence, can be successfully explained in this model with the depletion of the symmetric component of dark matter from resonant annihilation via the Stueckelberg gauge boson. For the extended MSSM model it is shown that one has a two component dark matter picture with asymmetric dark matter being the dominant component and the neutralino being the subdominant component (i.e., with relic density a small fraction of the WMAP cold dark matter value). Remarkably, the subdominant component can be detected in direct detection experiments such as SuperCDMS and XENON-100. Further, it is shown that the class of Stueckelberg models with a gauged LμLτL_{\mu}-L_{\tau} will produce a dramatic signature at a muon collider with the σ(μ+μμ+μ,τ+τ)\sigma(\mu^+\mu^-\to \mu^+\mu^-,\tau^+\tau^-) showing a detectable ZZ' resonance while σ(μ+μe+e)\sigma(\mu^+\mu^-\to e^+e^-) is devoid of this resonance. Asymmetric dark matter arising from a U(1)BLU(1)_{B-L} Stueckelberg extension is also briefly discussed. Finally, in the models we propose the asymmetric dark matter does not oscillate and there is no danger of it being washed out from oscillations.Comment: 36 pages, 7 figure

    Energy transfer, pressure tensor and heating of kinetic plasma

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    Kinetic plasma turbulence cascade spans multiple scales ranging from macroscopic fluid flow to sub-electron scales. Mechanisms that dissipate large scale energy, terminate the inertial range cascade and convert kinetic energy into heat are hotly debated. Here we revisit these puzzles using fully kinetic simulation. By performing scale-dependent spatial filtering on the Vlasov equation, we extract information at prescribed scales and introduce several energy transfer functions. This approach allows highly inhomogeneous energy cascade to be quantified as it proceeds down to kinetic scales. The pressure work, (P)u-\left( \boldsymbol{P} \cdot \nabla \right) \cdot \boldsymbol{u}, can trigger a channel of the energy conversion between fluid flow and random motions, which is a collision-free generalization of the viscous dissipation in collisional fluid. Both the energy transfer and the pressure work are strongly correlated with velocity gradients.Comment: 28 pages, 10 figure

    Systematics of RR Lyrae Statistical Parallax III: Apparent Magnitudes and Extinctions

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    We sing the praises of the central limit theorem. Having previously removed all other possible causes of significant systematic error in the statistical parallax determination of RR Lyrae absolute magnitudes, we investigate systematic errors from two final sources of input data: apparent magnitudes and extinctions. We find corrections due to each of ~0.05 mag, i.e., ~1/2 the statistical error. However, these are of opposite sign and so roughly cancel. The apparent magnitude system that we previously adopted from Layden et al. was calibrated to the photometry of Clube & Dawe. Using Hipparcos photometry we show that the Clube & Dawe system is ~0.06 mag too bright. Extinctions were previously pinned to the HI-based map of Burstein & Heiles. We argue that A_V should rather be based on new COBE/IRAS dust-emission map of Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis. This change increases the mean A_V by ~0.05 mag. We find M_V=0.77 +/- 0.13 at [Fe/H]=-1.60 for a pure sample of 147 halo RR Lyraes, or M_V=0.80 +/- 0.11 at [Fe/H]=-1.71 if we incorporate kinematic information from 716 non-kinematically selected non-RR Lyrae stars from Beers & Sommer-Larsen. These are 2 and 3 sigma fainter than recent determinations of M_V from main sequence fitting of clusters using Hipparcos measurements of subdwarfs by Reid and Gratton et al. Since statistical parallax is being cleared of systematic errors and since the chance of a >2 sigma statistical fluctuation is <1/20, we conclude that these brighter determinations may be in error. In the course of three papers, we have corrected 6 systematic errors whose absolute values total 0.20 mag. Had these, contrary to the expectation of the central limit theorem, all lined up one way, they could have resolved the conflict in favor of the brighter determinations. In fact, the net change was only 0.06 mag.Comment: submitted to ApJ, 21 pages, 2 tables, 4 figure

    Nonlinear ac response of anisotropic composites

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    When a suspension consisting of dielectric particles having nonlinear characteristics is subjected to a sinusoidal (ac) field, the electrical response will in general consist of ac fields at frequencies of the higher-order harmonics. These ac responses will also be anisotropic. In this work, a self-consistent formalism has been employed to compute the induced dipole moment for suspensions in which the suspended particles have nonlinear characteristics, in an attempt to investigate the anisotropy in the ac response. The results showed that the harmonics of the induced dipole moment and the local electric field are both increased as the anisotropy increases for the longitudinal field case, while the harmonics are decreased as the anisotropy increases for the transverse field case. These results are qualitatively understood with the spectral representation. Thus, by measuring the ac responses both parallel and perpendicular to the uniaxial anisotropic axis of the field-induced structures, it is possible to perform a real-time monitoring of the field-induced aggregation process.Comment: 14 pages and 4 eps figure

    Magnetic moment of the pentaquark Θ+(1540)\Theta^+(1540) with light-cone QCD sum rules

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    In this article, we study the magnetic moment of the pentaquark state Θ+(1540) \Theta^+(1540) as diquark-diquark-antiquark ([ud][ud]sˉ[ud][ud]\bar{s}) state in the framework of the light-cone QCD sum rules approach. The numerical results indicate the magnetic moment of the pentaquark state Θ+(1540) \Theta^+(1540) is about μΘ+=(0.49±0.06)μN\mu_{\Theta^+}=-(0.49\pm 0.06)\mu_N.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure. The main contents of this article is included in hep-ph/0503007, this article will not be submitted to a journal for publicatio

    Support for graphicacy: a review of textbooks available to accounting students

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    This Teaching Note reports on the support available in textbooks for graphicacy that will help students understand the complexities of graphical displays. Graphical displays play a significant role in financial reporting, and studies have found evidence of measurement distortion and selection bias. To understand the complexities of graphical displays, students need a sound understanding of graphicacy and support from the textbooks available to them to develop that understanding. The Teaching Note reports on a survey that examined the textbooks available to students attending two Scottish universities. The support of critical graphicacy skills was examined in conjunction with textbook characteristics. The survey, which was not restricted to textbooks designated as required reading, examined the textbooks for content on data measurement and graphical displays. The findings highlight a lack of support for graphicacy in the textbooks selected. The study concludes that accounting educators need to scrutinize more closely the selection of textbooks and calls for more extensive research into textbooks as a pedagogic tool

    A Study of The Formation of Stationary Localized States Due to Nonlinear Impurities Using The Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation

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    The Discrete Nonlinear Schro¨\ddot{o}dinger Equation is used to study the formation of stationary localized states due to a single nonlinear impurity in a Caley tree and a dimeric nonlinear impurity in the one dimensional system. The rotational nonlinear impurity and the impurity of the form χCσ-\chi \mid C \mid^{\sigma} where σ\sigma is arbitrary and χ\chi is the nonlinearity parameter are considered. Furthermore, C\mid C \mid represents the absolute value of the amplitude. Altogether four cases are studies. The usual Greens function approach and the ansatz approach are coherently blended to obtain phase diagrams showing regions of different number of states in the parameter space. Equations of critical lines separating various regions in phase diagrams are derived analytically. For the dimeric problem with the impurity χCσ-\chi \mid C \mid^{\sigma}, three values of χcr\mid \chi_{cr} \mid, namely, χcr=2\mid \chi_{cr} \mid = 2, at σ=0\sigma = 0 and χcr=1\mid \chi_{cr} \mid = 1 and 83\frac{8}{3} for σ=2\sigma = 2 are obtained. Last two values are lower than the existing values. Energy of the states as a function of parameters is also obtained. A model derivation for the impurities is presented. The implication of our results in relation to disordered systems comprising of nonlinear impurities and perfect sites is discussed.Comment: 10 figures available on reques

    Two-electron state in a disordered 2D island: pairing caused by the Coulomb repulsion

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    We show the existence of bound two-electron states in an almost depleted two-dimensional island. These two-electron states are carried by special compact configurations of four single-electron levels. The existence of these states does not require phonon mediation, and is facilitated by the disorder-induced potential relief and by the electron-electron repulsion only. The density of two-electron states is estimated and their evolution with the magnetic field is discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 1 fi
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