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Alienation in Capitalism: Rediscovering Fulfillment
Many Americans are pessimistic about their country\u27s medium or long-term economic outlook. A century ago, Big Business was born as an economic force, but it has powerfully infiltrated the realm of politics now. The corporate scramble for natural resources has caused global disharmony and domestic economic conflict in the U.S. The capitalist system, which many have come to realize is unsustainable and oppressive, has thus come to fulfill some of the predictions made by earlier critics from Kierkegaard, Rousseau, to Marx. Each believed that a society which is forced to accommodate an oppressive system will inherently display alienation. That is, a person will begin to feel isolated from himself, unhappy (as amply documented in the growing happiness literature), and work without enthusiasm (resulting in lower productivity). Alienation is inextricably linked with all aspects of our lives; it occurs on a material level and we are forced to deal with it on a daily basis. How then does mankind overcome the difficulties posed by alienation? If not capitalism and democracy, then what? This paper discusses these issues in an attempt to give the reader a better understanding of how to overcome alienation and the problems/root causes associated with it
A second look at the Gaussian semiclassical soliton ensemble for the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
We present the results of a numerical experiment inspired by the
semiclassical (zero-dispersion) limit of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger
(NLS) equation. In particular, we focus on the Gaussian semiclassical soliton
ensemble, a family of exact multisoliton solutions obtained by repeatedly
solving the initial-value problem for a particular sequence of initial data.
The sequence of data is generated by adding an asymptotically vanishing
sequence of perturbations to pure Gaussian initial data. These perturbations
are obtained by applying the inverse-scattering transform to formal WKB
approximations of eigenvalues of the associated spectral problem with a
Gaussian potential. Recent results [Lee, Lyng, & Vankova, Physica D 24
(2012):1767--1781] suggest that, remarkably, these perturbations---interlaced
as they are with the integrable structure of the equation---do not excite the
acute modulational instabilities that are known to be present in the
semiclassical regime. Here, we provide additional evidence to support the claim
that these WKB-induced perturbations indeed have a very special structure. In
particular, as a control experiment, we examine the evolution from a family of
initial data created by an asymptotically vanishing family of analytic
perturbations which are qualitatively indistinguishable from the WKB-induced
perturbations that generate the Gaussian semiclassical soliton ensemble. We
then compare this evolution to the (numerically computed) true evolution of the
Gaussian and also to the evolution of the corresponding members of the
semiclassical soliton ensemble. Our results both highlight the exceptional
nature of the WKB-induced perturbations used to generate the semiclassical
soliton ensemble and provide new insight into the sensitivity properties of the
semiclassical limit problem for the focusing NLS equation
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Metachronous Intraductal Papillary Neoplasm of the Bile Duct and Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm of the Pancreas in a Patient Diagnosed With Mucinous Adenocarcinoma.
Intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB) is a rare biliary tumor, which shares some radiologic and histologic similarities with pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN). IPNB is a recognized precursor lesion of invasive adenocarcinoma. We present a case of metachronous IPNB and IPMN lesions in a patient with mucinous adenocarcinoma of the pancreas who presented with jaundice and abdominal pain. The patient was treated with surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy
Solitons for the inverse mean curvature flow
We investigate self-similar solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow in
Euclidean space. In the case of one dimensional planar solitons, we explicitly
classify all homothetic solitons and translators. Generalizing Andrews' theorem
that circles are the only compact homothetic planar solitons, we apply the
Hsiung-Minkowski integral formula to prove the rigidity of the hypersphere in
the class of compact expanders of codimension one. We also establish that the
moduli space of compact expanding surfaces of codimension two is big. Finally,
we update the list of Huisken-Ilmanen's rotational expanders by constructing
new examples of complete expanders with rotational symmetry, including
topological hypercylinders, called infinite bottles, that interpolate between
two concentric round hypercylinders.Comment: typos correcte
Nonpropagation of tachyon on the BTZ black hole in type 0B string theory
We obtain the BTZ black hole (AdSS) as a non-dilatonic
solution from type 0B string theory. Analyzing the perturbation around this
black hole background, we show that the tachyon is not a propagating mode.Comment: some detailed explanations are added, modified version will be
appeared in Physics Letters B, 11 pages in RevTeX, no figure
The Lyman Continuum Polarization Rise in the QSO PG 1222+228
Some QSOs show an abrupt, strong rise in polarization near rest wavelength
750 A. If this arises in the atmosphere of an accretion disk around a
supermassive black hole, it may have diagnostic value. In PG 1222+228, the
polarization rise occurs at the wavelength of a sharp drop in flux. We examine
and reject interpretations of this feature involving a high velocity outflow.
The observations agree with a model involving several intervening Lyman limit
systems, two of which happen to coincide with the Lyman continuum polarization
rise. After correction for the Lyman limit absorption, the continuum shortward
of 912 A is consistent with a typical power-law slope, alpha = -1.8. This
violates the apparent pattern for the Lyman limit polarization rises to occur
only in ``candidate Lyman edge QSOs''. The corrected, polarized flux rises
strongly at the wavelength of the polarization rise, resembling the case of PG
1630+377. The rise in polarized flux places especially stringent requirements
on models.Comment: 19 pages, including 5 EPS figures. Uses aaspp4.sty. Accepted for
publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000
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