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Annual Survey of Virginia Law: Property Law
This article reviews selected judicial decisions and legislation affecting real property law in Virginia during the past year. Part I discusses some of the more significant cases decided by the Supreme Court of Virginia. Part II discusses some of this year\u27s most significant legislation enacted by the Virginia General Assembly
Research Note: Bayesian Record Linkage with Application to Chinese Immigrants in Raleigh-Durham (ChIRDU) Study
Many population surveys do not provide information on respondents'
residential addresses, instead offering coarse geographies like zip code or
higher aggregations. However, fine resolution geography can be beneficial for
characterizing neighborhoods, especially for relatively rare populations such
as immigrants. One way to obtain such information is to link survey records to
records in auxiliary databases that include residential addresses by matching
on variables common to both files. In this research note, we present an
approach based on probabilistic record linkage that enables matching survey
participants in the Chinese Immigrants in Raleigh-Durham (ChIRDU) Study to
records from InfoUSA, an information provider of residential records. The two
files use different Chinese name romanization practices, which we address
through a novel and generalizable strategy for constructing records' pairwise
comparison vectors for romanized names. Using a fully Bayesian record linkage
model, we characterize the geospatial distribution of Chinese immigrants in the
Raleigh-Durham area
Membrane Structure of Aquaporin Observed with Combined Experimental and Theoretical Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy
A negative mass theorem for surfaces of positive genus
We define the "sum of squares of the wavelengths" of a Riemannian surface
(M,g) to be the regularized trace of the inverse of the Laplacian. We normalize
by scaling and adding a constant, to obtain a "mass", which is scale invariant
and vanishes at the round sphere. This is an anlaog for closed surfaces of the
ADM mass from general relativity. We show that if M has positive genus then on
each conformal class, the mass attains a negative minimum. For the minimizing
metric, there is a sharp logarithmic Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality and a
Moser-Trudinger-Onofri type inequality.Comment: 8 page
A note on entropic uncertainty relations of position and momentum
We consider two entropic uncertainty relations of position and momentum
recently discussed in literature. By a suitable rescaling of one of them, we
obtain a smooth interpolation of both for high-resolution and low-resolution
measurements respectively. Because our interpolation has never been mentioned
in literature before, we propose it as a candidate for an improved entropic
uncertainty relation of position and momentum. Up to now, the author has
neither been able to falsify nor prove the new inequality. In our opinion it is
a challenge to do either one.Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures, 2 references adde
Extracellular Vesicle Concentration but Not Size Differs Between Men and Women During Military Operational Stress
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Neuroendocrine Responses to Cold Pressor Stimuli in Midshipmen Participating in the Naval Special Warfare Screener.
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On Poincare and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for a class of singular Gibbs measures
This note, mostly expository, is devoted to Poincar{\'e} and log-Sobolev
inequalities for a class of Boltzmann-Gibbs measures with singular interaction.
Such measures allow to model one-dimensional particles with confinement and
singular pair interaction. The functional inequalities come from convexity. We
prove and characterize optimality in the case of quadratic confinement via a
factorization of the measure. This optimality phenomenon holds for all beta
Hermite ensembles including the Gaussian unitary ensemble, a famous exactly
solvable model of random matrix theory. We further explore exact solvability by
reviewing the relation to Dyson-Ornstein-Uhlenbeck diffusion dynamics admitting
the Hermite-Lassalle orthogonal polynomials as a complete set of
eigenfunctions. We also discuss the consequence of the log-Sobolev inequality
in terms of concentration of measure for Lipschitz functions such as maxima and
linear statistics.Comment: Minor improvements. To appear in Geometric Aspects of Functional
Analysis -- Israel Seminar (GAFA) 2017-2019", Lecture Notes in Mathematics
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