Макроекономічні проблеми інфляції в умовах економічної трансформації

Розглянуто проблему інфляції як фундаментальну проблему для розвитку будь-якої країни. Стверджено, що в економічній науці не існує єдиних підходів щодо суті цього явища, причин появи і наслідків, а також основних напрямів боротьби з інфляцією. Макроекономічний інфляційний вплив на економіку має свою специфіку в умовах формування ринкових відносин країн перехідної економіки (наприклад, України). З застосуванням методології функціонального аналізу, системного підходу та аналогії проаналізовано причини і наслідки інфляції, антиінфляційну політику, яка проводиться в умовах ринкової економіки. Особливу увагу звернено на макроекономічні проблеми інфляції в економіці сучасної України. Зроблено висновки про необхідність проведення виважених як політичних, так і економічних рішень, від яких залежить майбутнє економіки нашої держави.Рассмотрена проблема инфляции как фундаментальную проблему для развития любой страны. Утверждено, что в экономической науке не существует единых подходов к сути этого явления, причин появления и последствий, а также основных направлений борьбы с инфляцией. Макроэкономический инфляционное воздействие на экономику имеет свою специфику в условиях формирования рыночных отношений стран переходной экономики (например, Украина). Применение методологии функционального анализа, системного подхода и аналогии проанализированы анализируются причины и последствия инфляции, антиинфляционную политику, которая проводится в условиях рыночной экономики. Особое внимание обращено на макроэкономические проблемы инфляции в экономике современной Украины. Сделаны выводы о необходимости проведения взвешенных как политических, так и экономических решений, от которых зависит будущее экономики государства.Inflation is a fundamental problem for the development of any country. There are no common approaches to the nature, causes and consequences of this phenomenon and the ways of its reduction in economics. Macroeconomical inflation impact on the economy has its own distinctive aspects in terms of the building of marketing relationships in the countries with transition economy (Ukraine, for example). Using methods of functional analysis, system analysis and analogy method the causes and consequences of inflation as well as antiinflationary policy conducted in a market economy are analyzed in the article. Special attention is paid to macro-economical problems of inflation in the economy of modern Ukraine. The conclusion about the necessity of making the deliberated political and economical decisions that affect the future economy of our country is made

Meteorites on Mars observed with the Mars Exploration Rovers

Reduced weathering rates due to the lack of liquid water and significantly greater typical surface ages should result in a higher density of meteorites on the surface of Mars compared to Earth. Several meteorites were identified among the rocks investigated during Opportunity’s traverse across the sandy Meridiani plains. Heat Shield Rock is a IAB iron meteorite and has been officially recognized as ‘‘Meridiani Planum.’’ Barberton is olivine-rich and contains metallic Fe in the form of kamacite, suggesting a meteoritic origin. It is chemically most consistent with a mesosiderite silicate clast. Santa Catarina is a brecciated rock with a chemical and mineralogical composition similar to Barberton. Barberton, Santa Catarina, and cobbles adjacent to Santa Catarina may be part of a strewn field. Spirit observed two probable iron meteorites from its Winter Haven location in the Columbia Hills in Gusev Crater. Chondrites have not been identified to date, which may be a result of their lower strengths and probability to survive impact at current atmospheric pressures. Impact craters directly associated with Heat Shield Rock, Barberton, or Santa Catarina have not been observed, but such craters could have been erased by eolian-driven erosion.Additional co-authors: DW Ming, RV Morris, PA de Souza Jr, SW Squyres, C Weitz, AS Yen, J Zipfel, T Economo

Selected Papers on Protoplanetary Disks

Three papers present studies of thermal balances, dynamics, and electromagnetic spectra of protoplanetary disks, which comprise gas and dust orbiting young stars. One paper addresses the reprocessing, in a disk, of photons that originate in the disk itself in addition to photons that originate in the stellar object at the center. The shape of the disk is found to strongly affect the redistribution of energy. Another of the three papers reviews an increase in the optical luminosity of the young star FU Orionis. The increase began in the year 1936 and similar increases have since been observed in other stars. The paper summarizes astronomical, meteoric, and theoretical evidence that these increases are caused by increases in mass fluxes through the inner portions of the protoplanetary disks of these stars. The remaining paper presents a mathematical-modeling study of the structures of protostellar accretion disks, with emphasis on limits on disk flaring. Among the conclusions reached in the study are that (1) the radius at which a disk becomes shadowed from its central stellar object depends on radial mass flow and (2) most planet formation has occurred in environments unheated by stellar radiation

Search for Magnetic Monopoles Trapped in Matter

There have been many searches for magnetic monopoles in flight, but few for monopoles in matter. We have searched for magnetic monopoles in meteorites, schists, ferromanganese nodules, iron ores and other materials. The detector was a superconducting induction coil connected to a SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) with a room temperature bore 15 cm in diameter. We tested a total of more than 331 kg of material including 112 kg of meteorites. We found no monopole and conclude the overall monopole/nucleon ratio in the samples is $<1.2 \times 10^{-29}$ with a 90\% confidence level.Comment: 6 pages, rev tex, no figure

Quantum solitons at strong coupling

We examine the effect of one loop quantum corrections on the formation of nontopological solitons in a strongly coupled scalar-fermionic Yukawa theory. The exact one fermion loop contribution is incorporated by using a nonlocal method to correct the local derivative expansion approximation (DE) of the effective action. As the Yukawa coupling is increased we find that the nonlocal corrections play an increasingly important role. The corrections cause the scalar field to increase in depth while maintaining its size. This increases the energy of the bag configuration, but this is compensated for by more tightly bound fermionic states with lower energy. In contrast to the semi-classical picture without quantum corrections, the binding energy is small, and the total energy scales directly with the Yukawa coupling. This confirms the qualitative behavior found in earlier work using the second order DE, although the quantitative solutions differ.Comment: 17 pages, 4 Postscript figures, REVTe

Phi^{zero}-N Bound State

We show that the QCD van der Waals attractive potential is strong enough to bind a $\phi^{0}$ meson onto a nucleon inside a nucleus to form a bound state. The direct experimental signature for such an exotic state is proposed in the case of subthreshold $\phi^{0}$ meson photoproduction from nuclear targets. The production rate is estimated and such an experiment is found to be feasible at the Jefferson Laboratory.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

Quantum Kinks: Solitons at Strong Coupling

We examine solitons in theories with heavy fermions. These ``quantum'' solitons differ dramatically from semi-classical (perturbative) solitons because fermion loop effects are important when the Yukawa coupling is strong. We focus on kinks in a $(1+1)$--dimensional $\phi^4$ theory coupled to fermions; a large-$N$ expansion is employed to treat the Yukawa coupling $g$ nonperturbatively. A local expression for the fermion vacuum energy is derived using the WKB approximation for the Dirac eigenvalues. We find that fermion loop corrections increase the energy of the kink and (for large $g$) decrease its size. For large $g$, the energy of the quantum kink is proportional to $g$, and its size scales as $1/g$, unlike the classical kink; we argue that these features are generic to quantum solitons in theories with strong Yukawa couplings. We also discuss the possible instability of fermions to solitons.Comment: 21 pp. + 2 figs., phyzzx, JHU-TIPAC-92001