434 research outputs found
Condiciones para una ética económica
Estas son las cuatro cuestiones que articulan la ponencia: a) Solo puede hablarse con propiedad de “ética económica” si en un discurso estrictamente científico-económico se encuentran incorporados elementos de naturaleza ética que, en cuanto tales, jueguen a la vez en ese discurso un papel estrictamente científico-económico. b) Ese es el caso, en una economía de mercado, del concepto “demanda”. Es en el juego entre la demanda y la oferta en donde se forman los precios del mercado. La demanda constituye así un elemento “científico-técnico” en la explicación del funcionamiento “técnico” del mercado. Pero a la vez, y sin confusión con la demanda en cuanto elemento técnico del mecanismo del mercado, la demanda es portadora de sustancia ética y es susceptible por tanto de ser juzgada según criterios éticos como “buena” o como “mala” a la vez que es contemplada como elemento “técnico” determinante del precio de la droga. c) Este concepto de “ética económica” es susceptible de ser articulado dentro de una “teoría de la sociedad”. d) Un claro ejemplo de esa articulación se encuentra en la obra del economista y sociólogo alemán de la Escuela de Tubinga Albert Schäffle (1831-1903) sobre la base de la teoría de la sociedad del filósofo Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832) que tanto influyó en España. Palabras clave: ética, economía, sociología.</p
Transport interchanges effects on their surroundings in Tunja (Colombia) and cordoba (Spain): A comparative approach
ABSTRACT: This article proposes a methodology to study the urban implications of transport interchanges. The methodology was evaluated through the study of commercial establishments and urban quality in the surroundings of two transport interchanges. The case studies are a bus station in Colombia and a combined high-speed rail and bus station in Spain. The article draws two types of conclusions; firstly, that the comparative methodology proposed is effective in determining the influence of transport interchanges and secondly that it provides specific conclusions about the activities in the station's surrounding area. The article demonstrates that the surroundings of the transport interchanges have greater commercial activity than similar areas of the city. It also concludes that the different income levels of HSR and bus users provoke a variety and quantity of commercial activities within each type of station. Furthermore, it concludes that the perceived quality of the interchange surroundings is deeply influenced by its level of integration within the urban plan, despite the negative side effects related to transport
Newtonian Collapse of Scalar Field Dark Matter
In this letter, we develop a Newtonian approach to the collapse of galaxy
fluctuations of scalar field dark matter under initial conditions inferred from
simple assumptions. The full relativistic system, the so called
Einstein-Klein-Gordon, is reduced to the Schr\"odinger-Newton one in the weak
field limit. The scaling symmetries of the SN equations are exploited to track
the non-linear collapse of single scalar matter fluctuations. The results can
be applied to both real and complex scalar fields.Comment: 4 pages RevTex4 file, 4 eps figure
Evolution of the Schr\"odinger--Newton system for a self--gravitating scalar field
Using numerical techniques, we study the collapse of a scalar field
configuration in the Newtonian limit of the spherically symmetric
Einstein--Klein--Gordon (EKG) system, which results in the so called
Schr\"odinger--Newton (SN) set of equations. We present the numerical code
developed to evolve the SN system and topics related, like equilibrium
configurations and boundary conditions. Also, we analyze the evolution of
different initial configurations and the physical quantities associated to
them. In particular, we readdress the issue of the gravitational cooling
mechanism for Newtonian systems and find that all systems settle down onto a
0--node equilibrium configuration.Comment: RevTex file, 19 pages, 26 eps figures. Minor changes, matches version
to appear in PR
Evolution of 3D Boson Stars with Waveform Extraction
Numerical results from a study of boson stars under nonspherical
perturbations using a fully general relativistic 3D code are presented together
with the analysis of emitted gravitational radiation. We have constructed a
simulation code suitable for the study of scalar fields in space-times of
general symmetry by bringing together components for addressing the initial
value problem, the full evolution system and the detection and analysis of
gravitational waves. Within a series of numerical simulations, we explicitly
extract the Zerilli and Newman-Penrose scalar gravitational waveforms
when the stars are subjected to different types of perturbations. Boson star
systems have rapidly decaying nonradial quasinormal modes and thus the complete
gravitational waveform could be extracted for all configurations studied. The
gravitational waves emitted from stable, critical, and unstable boson star
configurations are analyzed and the numerically observed quasinormal mode
frequencies are compared with known linear perturbation results. The
superposition of the high frequency nonspherical modes on the lower frequency
spherical modes was observed in the metric oscillations when perturbations with
radial and nonradial components were applied. The collapse of unstable boson
stars to black holes was simulated. The apparent horizons were observed to be
slightly nonspherical when initially detected and became spherical as the
system evolved. The application of nonradial perturbations proportional to
spherical harmonics is observed not to affect the collapse time. An unstable
star subjected to a large perturbation was observed to migrate to a stable
configuration.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figure
Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter phase transition from finite temperature symmetry breaking of Klein-Gordon fields
In this paper the thermal evolution of scalar field dark matter particles at
finite cosmological temperatures is studied. Starting with a real scalar field
in a thermal bath and using the one loop quantum corrections potential, we
rewrite Klein-Gordon's (KG) equation in its hydrodynamical representation and
study the phase transition of this scalar field due to a Z_2 symmetry breaking
of its potential. A very general version of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
is obtained. When introducing Madelung's representation, the continuity and
momentum equations for a non-ideal SFDM fluid are formulated, and the
cosmological scenario with the SFDM described in analogy to an imperfect fluid
is then considered where dissipative contributions are obtained in a natural
way.Additional terms appear compared to those obtained in the classical version
commonly used to describe the \LambdaCDM model, i.e., the ideal fluid. The
equations and parameters that characterize the physical properties of the
system such as its energy, momentum and viscous flow are related to the
temperature of the system, scale factor, Hubble's expansion parameter and the
matter energy density. Finally, some details on how galaxy halos and smaller
structures might be able to form by condensation of this SF are given.Comment: Substantial changes have been made to the paper, following the
referees recommendations. 16 pages. Published in Classical and Quantum
Gravit
On the Space Time of a Galaxy
We present an exact solution of the averaged Einstein's field equations in
the presence of two real scalar fields and a component of dust with spherical
symmetry. We suggest that the space-time found provides the characteristics
required by a galactic model that could explain the supermassive central object
and the dark matter halo at once, since one of the fields constitutes a central
oscillaton surrounded by the dust and the other scalar field distributes far
from the coordinate center and can be interpreted as a halo. We show the
behavior of the rotation curves all along the background. Thus, the solution
could be a first approximation of a ``long exposition photograph'' of a galaxy.Comment: 8 pages REVTeX, 11 eps figure
Design and evaluation of PM Ti surfaces modified by colloidal techniques and diffusion processes for biomedical applications
The aim of this work was the modification of the composition and surface microstructure of powder metallurgy titanium to improve the wear resistance and reduce the elastic modulus while maintaining the corrosion behavior, characteristics needed for biomedical applications. For this purpose, Mo and Nb coatings were produced by colloidal techniques. Stable aqueous suspensions were prepared from micro-sized powder of Mo and Nb particles, deposited onto the powder metallurgy titanium substrates (green or sintered). After a heat treatment to promote the diffusion and the consolidation of the layers, microstructural changes were obtained. In the case of green substrates, the co-sintering process provides a diffusion depth of 85-100 micron. In the as-sintered case, a uniform depth of 40-65 microns was reached. The surfaces were characterised by micro-hardness, corrosion and tribocorrosion testing, and the results showed that hardened surfaces presented lower tendency to corrosion both under static conditions and under sliding.Funds were provided by Spanish Government (programme MINECO, ref. MAT2012-38650-C02-01), Regional Government of Madrid (programme MULTIMAT-CHALLENGE, ref. S2013/MIT-2862) and Institute of Alvaro Alonso Barba (IAAB) for the research stay in CMEMS-UMINHO (University of Minho).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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