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Overview of business archives in Spain
The ICA Section of Business and Labour Archives is compiling several reports on the position of business archives around the world. The present communication is a state of the art in business archives in Spain, placed in several point: national and regional legislation, specific national policies for business archives, business archives
associations, training and current bibliography. A serious problem fort the future of business archives in Spain is the disinterest on the part of the businessmen about the
Archive’s importance in a compan
Aspects of Holographic Entanglement at Finite Temperature and Chemical Potential
We investigate the behavior of entanglement entropy at finite temperature and
chemical potential for strongly coupled large-N gauge theories in
-dimensions () that are dual to Anti-de Sitter-Reissner-Nordstrom
geometries in dimensions, in the context of gauge-gravity duality. We
develop systematic expansions based on the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription that
enable us to derive analytic expressions for entanglement entropy and mutual
information in different regimes of interest. Consequently, we identify the
specific regions of the bulk geometry that contribute most significantly to the
entanglement entropy of the boundary theory at different limits. We define a
scale, dubbed as the effective temperature, which determines the behavior of
entanglement in different regimes. At high effective temperature, entanglement
entropy is dominated by the thermodynamic entropy, however, mutual information
subtracts out this contribution and measures the actual quantum entanglement.
Finally, we study the entanglement/disentanglement transition of mutual
information in the presence of chemical potential which shows that the quantum
entanglement between two sub-regions decreases with the increase of chemical
potential.Comment: 38 pages, multiple figure
Falling Kidnapping Rates and the Expansion of Mobile Phones in Colombia
This paper tries to explain why kidnapping has fallen so dramatically in Colombia during the period 2000-2008. The widely held belief is that the falling kidnapping rates can basically be explained as a consequence of the success of President Alvaro Uribe´s democratic security policy. Without providing conclusive alternative explanations, some academic papers have expressed doubts about Uribe´s security policy being the main cause of this phenomenon. While we consider the democratic security policy as constituting a necessary condition behind Colombia´s falling kidnapping rates, we argue in this paper that a complementary condition underlying this phenomenon has been the significant increase during this period in the speed and quality of communications between potential victims and public security forces. In this sense, the expansion of the mobile phone industry in Colombia implies that there has been a substantial reduction in information asymmetries between kidnappers and targeted citizens. This has led to a higher level of deterrence as well as to higher costs for perpetrating this type of crime. This has resulted in a virtuous circle: improved security allows higher investments in telecommunications around the country, which in turn lead to faster communications between citizens and security forces, which consequently leads to greater security. We introduce a Becker-Ehrlich type supply and demand model for kidnappings. Using regional and departmental data on kidnapping, the police and mobile phones, we show that mobile phone network expansion has expanded the effective coverage of public protection; this, in turn, has led to a spectacular reduction in kidnapping rates.Kidnapping, mobile phones, Colombia
Strongly-coupled anisotropic gauge theories and holography
We initiate a non-perturbative study of anisotropic, non-conformal and
confining gauge theories that are holographically realized in gravity by
generic Einstein-Axion-Dilaton systems. In the vacuum our solutions describe RG
flows from a conformal field theory in the UV to generic scaling solutions in
the IR with generic hyperscaling violation and dynamical exponents and
. We formulate a generalization of the holographic c-theorem to the
anisotropic case. At finite temperature, we discover that the anisotropic
deformation reduces the confinement-deconfinement phase transition temperature
suggesting a possible alternative explanation of inverse magnetic catalysis
solely based on anisotropy. We also study transport and diffusion properties in
anisotropic theories and observe in particular that the butterfly velocity that
characterizes both diffusion and growth of chaos transverse to the anisotropic
direction, saturates a constant value in the IR which can exceed the bound
given by the conformal value.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor improvements, references added, version
accepted for publication in PR
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