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Internal Migration between US States - A Social Network Analysis
In this paper we use the novel (at least in regional science) technique of social network analysis and apply it to one of the most analyzed topics in the discipline, US internal migration. We want to see whether social network analysis can yield any new insights into this well known process. We want to compare the technique to more conventional methods of analysis in migration. The paper will give an overview of recent literature about internal migration between US states and summarize the main findings. It will then present an overview of social network analysis, define key concepts and describe the main components of the technique. This discussion will also involve a discussion of currently available software for social network analysis. Then, we will apply the technique to the official data about internal migration between US states as published by the US bureau of the census, to see whether the technique can reproduce the main results of the traditional techniques and whether it can yield any new insights.
Legal and Political Issues Facing Telemedicine
The emergence of telemedicine-medical diagnosis and treatment via telecommunications-offers the promise of reduced cost, improved patient outcomes, and greater access to quality medical care. But a variety of legal barriers to telemedicine must be addressed to assure its effective use
Gap formation in helical edge states with magnetic impurities
Helical edge states appear at the surface of two dimensional topological
insulators and are characterized by spin up traveling in one direction and the
spin down traveling in the opposite direction. Such states are protected by
time reversal symmetry and no backscattering due to scalar impurities can
occur. However, magnetic impurities break time reversal symmetry and lead to
backscattering. Often their presence is unintentional, but in some cases they
are introduced into the sample to open up gaps in the spectrum. We investigate
the influence of random impurities on helical edge states, specifically how the
gap behaves in the realistic case of impurities having both a magnetic and a
scalar component. It turns out that for a fixed magnetic contribution the gap
closes when either the scalar component, or Fermi velocity is increased. We
compare diagrammatic techniques in the self-consistent Born approximation to
numerical calculations which yields good agreement. For experimentally relevant
parameters we find that even moderate scalar components can be quite
detrimental for the gap formation.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
From laterally modulated two-dimensional electron gas towards artificial graphene
Cyclotron resonance has been measured in far-infrared transmission of
GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures with an etched hexagonal lateral
superlattice. Non-linear dependence of the resonance position on magnetic field
was observed as well as its splitting into several modes. Our explanation,
based on a perturbative calculation, describes the observed phenomena as a weak
effect of the lateral potential on the two-dimensional electron gas. Using this
approach, we found a correlation between parameters of the lateral patterning
and the created effective potential and obtain thus insights on how the
electronic miniband structure has been tuned. The miniband dispersion was
calculated using a simplified model and allowed us to formulate four basic
criteria that have to be satisfied to reach graphene-like physics in such
systems
Anisotropic magnetoresistance: materials, models and applications
Resistance of certain (conductive and otherwise isotropic) ferromagnets turns
out to exhibit anisotropy with respect to the direction of magnetisation:
R different from R with reference to the electric current
direction. This century-old phenomenon is reviewed both from the perspective of
materials and physical mechanisms involved. More recently, this effect has also
been extended to antiferromagnets. This opens the possibility for industrial
applications reaching far beyond the current ones, e.g. hard drive read heads
or position sensors.Comment: 50 pages (excl. references), 16 figure
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