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The vibrational predissociation spectroscopy of hydrogen cluster ions
The first infrared spectra of protonated hydrogen clusters in the gas phase have been observed. Predissociation spectra were taken with a tandem mass spectrometer: mass selected hydrogen cluster ions were irradiated inside a rf ion trap by a tunable infrared laser, and the fragment ions created by photodissociation of the clusters were mass selected and detected. Spectra for each product channel were measured by counting fragment ions as a function of laser frequency. Low resolution spectra (Deltanu=10 cm^−1) in the region from 3800 to 4200 cm^−1 were observed for the ions H + 5, H + 7, and H + 9 at 3910, 3980, and 4020 cm−1, respectively. A band was also observed for H + 5 at 3532 cm^−1. No rotational structure was resolved. The frequencies of the band maxima agree well with the frequencies predicted by previous ab initio calculations for the highest modes
Tracking analysis of a first order phase- locked loop with two sinewaves modulation
Phase locked-loop tracking with sine wave modulation in Apollo communication system
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Propagation and smoothing of shocks in alternative social security systems
Even with well-developed capital markets, there is no private market mechanism for trading between current and future generations. This generates a potential role for public old-age pension systems to spread economic and demographic shocks among different generations. This paper evaluates how different systems smooth and propagate shocks to productivity, fertility, mortality and migration in a realistic OLG model. We use reductions in the variance of wealth equivalents to measure performance, starting with the existing U.S. system as a unifying framework, in which we vary how much taxes and benefits adjust, and which we then compare to the existing German and Swedish systems. We find that system design and shock type are key factors. The German system and the benefit-adjustment-only U.S. system best smooth productivity shocks, which are by far the most important shocks. Overall, the German system performs best, while the Swedish system, which includes a buffer stock to relax annual budget constraints, performs rather poorly. Focusing on the U.S. system, reliance solely on tax adjustment fares best for mortality and migration shocks, while equal reliance on tax and benefit adjustments is best for fertility shocks
An underground cosmic ray muon telescope for observation of cosmic ray anisotropy
A telescope housed in a tunnel laboratory has an overburden of 573 hg cm(-2) and is located under the center of a saddle-shaped landscape. It is composed of triple layers of proportional counters, each layer of area approx. 4m x 2m and their separation 0.5m. Events are selected by triple coincidence and software track identification. The telescope is in operation for over a year and the overall count rate is 1280 hr(-1). The structure and operation of the system is reported
On the "Poisson Trick" and its Extensions for Fitting Multinomial Regression Models
This article is concerned with the fitting of multinomial regression models
using the so-called "Poisson Trick". The work is motivated by Chen & Kuo (2001)
and Malchow-M{\o}ller & Svarer (2003) which have been criticized for being
computationally inefficient and sometimes producing nonsense results. We first
discuss the case of independent data and offer a parsimonious fitting strategy
when all covariates are categorical. We then propose a new approach for
modelling correlated responses based on an extension of the Gamma-Poisson
model, where the likelihood can be expressed in closed-form. The parameters are
estimated via an Expectation/Conditional Maximization (ECM) algorithm, which
can be implemented using functions for fitting generalized linear models
readily available in standard statistical software packages. Compared to
existing methods, our approach avoids the need to approximate the intractable
integrals and thus the inference is exact with respect to the approximating
Gamma-Poisson model. The proposed method is illustrated via a reanalysis of the
yogurt data discussed by Chen & Kuo (2001)
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