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Defense spending and economic growth in Asian economies: A panel error-correction approach
Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in selected Asian countries for the period 1989 to 2004. Our panel unit root test suggests that real GDP per capita and military expenditures are )1(I processes, while the Larsson et al. (2001) panel cointegration test indicates that economic growth and military expendirues are cointegrated. Finally, applying the panel error-correction technique proposed by Pesaran et al. (1999), our empirical results show that defense spending and economic growth in the Asian countries under the period of study are not related.Military expenditure; Economic growth; Panel unit root; Panel cointegration; Panel error-correction; Asian economies
"Shaking" of an atom in a non-stationary cavity
We consider an atom interacting with a quantized electromagnetic field inside
a cavity with variable parameters. The atom in the ground state located in the
initially empty cavity can be excited by variation of cavity parameters. We
have discovered two mechanisms of atomic excitation. The first arises due to
the interaction of the atom with the non-stationary electromagnetic field
created by modulation of cavity parameters. If the characteristic time of
variation of cavity parameters is of the order of the atomic transition time,
the processes of photon creation and atomic excitation are going on
simultaneously and hence excitation of the atom cannot be reduced to trivial
absorption of the photons produced by the dynamical Casimir effect. The second
mechanism is "shaking" of the atom due to fast modulation of its ground state
Lamb shift which takes place as a result of fast variation of cavity arameters.
The last mechanism has no connection with the vacuum dynamical Casimir effect.
Moreover, it opens a new channel of photon creation in the non-stationary
cavity. Nevertheless, the process of photon creation is altered by the presence
of the atom in the cavity, even if one disregards the existence of the new
channel. In particular, it removes the restriction for creation of only even
number of photons and also changes the expectation value for the number of
created photons. Our consideration is based on a simple model of a two-level
atom interacting with a single mode of the cavity field. Qualitatively our
results are valid for a real atom in a physical cavity.Comment: 12 pages,4 *.eps figures, this version is identical to the one to be
published in Physics Letters A (in print
Entanglement in composite bosons realized by deformed oscillators
Composite bosons (or quasibosons), as recently proven, are realizable by
deformed oscillators and due to that can be effectively treated as particles of
nonstandard statistics (deformed bosons). This enables us to study quasiboson
states and their inter-component entanglement aspects using the well developed
formalism of deformed oscillators. We prove that the internal entanglement
characteristics for single two-component quasiboson are determined completely
by the parameter(s) of deformation. The bipartite entanglement characteristics
are generalized and calculated for arbitrary multi-quasiboson (Fock, coherent
etc.) states and expressed through deformation parameter.Comment: 5 pages; v2: abstract and introduction rewritten, references adde
Defense spending and economic growth in Asian economies: A panel error-correction approach
Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in selected Asian countries for the period 1989 to 2004. Our panel unit root test suggests that real GDP per capita and military expenditures are )1(I processes, while the Larsson et al. (2001) panel cointegration test indicates that economic growth and military expendirues are cointegrated. Finally, applying the panel error-correction technique proposed by Pesaran et al. (1999), our empirical results show that defense spending and economic growth in the Asian countries under the period of study are not related
Defense spending and economic growth in Asian economies: A panel error-correction approach
Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in selected Asian countries for the period 1989 to 2004. Our panel unit root test suggests that real GDP per capita and
military expenditures are I (1) processes, while the Larsson et al. (2001) panel cointegration test indicates that economic growth and military expendirues are
cointegrated. Finally, applying the panel error-correction technique proposed by Pesaran et al. (1999), our empirical results show that defense spending and economic growth in the Asian countries under the period of study are not related
Controllability and universal three-qubit quantum computation with trapped electron states
We show how to control and perform universal three-qubit quantum computation
with trapped electron quantum states. The three qubits are the electron spin,
and the first two quantum states of the cyclotron and axial harmonic
oscillators. We explicitly show how the universal gates can be performed. As an
example of a non-trivial quantum algorithm, we outline the implementation of
the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm in this system.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Typos corrected. The original publication is
available at http://www.springerlink.co
Defense spending and economic growth in Asian economies: A panel error-correction approach
Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in selected Asian countries for the period 1989 to 2004. Our panel unit root test suggests that real GDP per capita and
military expenditures are I (1) processes, while the Larsson et al. (2001) panel cointegration test indicates that economic growth and military expendirues are
cointegrated. Finally, applying the panel error-correction technique proposed by Pesaran et al. (1999), our empirical results show that defense spending and economic growth in the Asian countries under the period of study are not related
The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry?
This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, and is in two halves, the first half discursive and propositional, and the second half exemplifying the rhetorical, epistemological and metaphysical affordances of poetry in critically scrutinising the rhetoric, epistemology and metaphysics of educational management discourse.
Phipps and Saunders explore, through ideas and poems, how poetry can interrupt and/or illuminate dominant values in education and in educational research methods, such as:
⢠alternatives to the military metaphors â targets, strategies and the like â that dominate the soundscape of education;
⢠the kinds and qualities of the cognitive and feeling spaces that might be opened up by the shifting of methodological boundaries;
⢠the considerable work done in ethnography on the use of the poetic: anthropologists have long used poetry as a medium for expressing their sense of empathic connection to their field and their subjects, particularly in considering the creativity and meaning-making that characterise all human societies in different ways;
⢠the particular rhetorical affordances of poetry, as a discipline, as a practice, as an art, as patterned breath; its capacity to shift phonemic, and therewith methodological, authority; its offering of redress to linear and reductive attempts at scripting social life, as always already given and without alternative
Stock prices, exchange rates and causality in Malaysia: a note
This article contributes to the debate on stock prices and exchange rates in Malaysia. It examines causal relations using a new Granger non-causality test proposed by Toda and Yamamoto (Journal of Econometrics, 66, 225-50, 1995). Among the findings of interest, there is a feedback interaction between exchange rates and stock prices for the pre-crisis period. The results also reveal that exchange rates lead stock prices for the crisis period. In a financially liberalized environment, exchange rates stability is important for stock market well-being
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