132 research outputs found
Deconfining the rotational Goldstone mode: the superconducting nematic liquid crystal in 2+1D
The Goldstone theorem states that there should be a massless mode for each
spontaneously broken symmetry generator. There is no such rotational mode in
crystals, however superconducting quantum nematics should carry rotational
Goldstone modes. By generalization of thermal 2D defect mediated melting theory
into a 2+1D quantum duality, the emergence of the rotational mode at the
quantum phase transition from the solid to the nematic arises as a
deconfinement phenomenon, with the unusual property that the stiffness of the
rotational mode originates entirely in the dual dislocation condensate.Comment: 5 page
The Role of Gender in Preparedness and Response Behaviors towards Flood Risk in Serbia
Adverse outcomes from 2014 flooding in Serbia indicated problematic response phase management accentuated by a gender imbalance. For this reason, we investigated the risk perceptions and preparedness of women and men regarding these types of events in Serbia. Face-to-face interviews, administered to 2500 participants, were conducted across 19 of 191 municipalities. In light of the current findings, men seemed to be more confident in their abilities to cope with flooding, perceiving greater individual and household preparedness. By contrast, women displayed a deeper understanding of these events. Perhaps owing to a deeper level of understanding, women demonstrated more household-caring attitudes and behaviors and were more prone to report a willingness to help flood victims at reception centers. Emergency management agencies and land planners should account for these differences in gender awareness and preparedness. Based on these findings, doing so may increase citizen participation and shared responsibility under flood hazard scenarios
On the modeling of neural cognition for social network applications
In this paper, we study neural cognition in social network. A stochastic
model is introduced and shown to incorporate two well-known models in Pavlovian
conditioning and social networks as special case, namely Rescorla-Wagner model
and Friedkin-Johnsen model. The interpretation and comparison of these model
are discussed. We consider two cases when the disturbance is independent
identical distributed for all time and when the distribution of the random
variable evolves according to a markov chain. We show that the systems for both
cases are mean square stable and the expectation of the states converges to
consensus.Comment: submitted to IEEE CCAT 201
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