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Europe vs. The United States: Is There a Trade-Off Between Mobility and Inequality?
This paper asses the scope of income mobility from a comparative perspective and explores if there is an observable relationship with inequality. More specifically, the main hypotheses to be tested are the existence of notable differences in mobility between the USA and the European Union which could offset the observed differences in inequality, the possible differences within the European Union and, finally, whether or not the factors which determine mobility differ greatly. To this end, a broad range of mobility indicators is used, their structure in each country is studied and the principal determinants are analyzed by means of different decomposition exercises.
Orientation, sphericity and roundness evaluation of particles using alternative 3D representations
Sphericity and roundness indices have been used mainly in geology to analyze the shape of particles. In this paper, geometric methods are proposed as an alternative to evaluate the orientation, sphericity and roundness indices of 3D objects. In contrast to previous works based on digital images, which use the voxel model, we represent the particles with the Extreme Vertices Model, a very concise representation for binary volumes. We define the orientation with three mutually orthogonal unit vectors. Then, some sphericity indices based on length measurement of the three representative axes of the particle can be computed. In addition, we propose a ray-casting-like approach to evaluate a 3D roundness index. This method provides roundness measurements that are highly correlated with those provided by the Krumbein's chart and other previous approach. Finally, as an example we apply the presented methods to analyze the sphericity and roundness of a real silica nano dataset.Postprint (published version
Finite Temperature QCD Sum Rules: a Review
The method of QCD sum rules at finite temperature is reviewed, with emphasis
on recent results. These include predictions for the survival of charmonium and
bottonium states, at and beyond the critical temperature for de-confinement, as
later confirmed by lattice QCD simulations. Also included are determinations in
the light-quark vector and axial-vector channels, allowing to analyse the
Weinberg sum rules, and predict the dimuon spectrum in heavy ion collisions in
the region of the rho-meson. Also in this sector, the determination of the
temperature behaviour of the up-down quark mass, together with the pion decay
constant, will be described. Finally, an extension of the QCD sum rule method
to incorporate finite baryon chemical potential is reviewed.Comment: Minor typos corrected. To be published in the review section of
Advances in High Energy Physic
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Block co-polyMOFs: morphology control of polymer-MOF hybrid materials.
The hybridization of block copolymers and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to create novel materials (block co-polyMOFs, BCPMOFs) with controlled morphologies is reported. In this study, block copolymers containing poly(1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid, H2bdc) and morphology directing poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) or poly(cyclooctadiene) (poly(COD)) blocks were synthesized for the preparation of BCPMOFs. Block copolymer architecture and weight fractions were found to have a significant impact on the resulting morphology, mediated through the assembly of polymer precursors prior to MOF formation, as determined through dynamic light scattering. Simple modification of block copolymer weight fraction allowed for tuning of particle size and morphology with either faceted and spherical features. Modification of polymer block architecture represents a simple and powerful method to direct morphology in highly crystalline polyMOF materials. Furthermore, the BCPMOFs could be prepared from both Zr4+ and Zn2+ MOFs, yielding hybrid materials with appreciable surface areas and tuneable porosities. The resulting Zn2+ BCPMOF yielded materials with very narrow size distributions and uniform cubic morphologies. The use of topology in BCPMOFs to direct morphology in block copolymer assemblies may open new methodologies to access complex materials far from thermodynamic equilibrium
Gluon density in nuclei
In this talk we present our detail study ( theory and numbers) [1] on the
shadowing corrections to the gluon structure functions for nuclei. Starting
from rather contraversial information on the nucleon structure function which
is originated by the recent HERA data, we develop the Glauber approach for the
gluon density in a nucleus based on Mueller formula [2] and estimate the value
of the shadowing corrections in this case. Than we calculate the first
corrections to the Glauber approach and show that these corrections are big.
Based on this practical observation we suggest the new evolution equation which
takes into account the shadowing corrections and solve it. We hope to convince
you that the new evolution equation gives a good theoretical tool to treat the
shadowing corrections for the gluons density in a nucleus and, therefore, it is
able to provide the theoretically reliable initial conditions for the time
evolution of the nucleus - nucleus cascade.Comment: Talk at RHIC'96, 43 pages, 23 figure
Faster ASV decomposition for orthogonal polyhedra using the Extreme Vertices Model (EVM)
The alternating sum of volumes (ASV) decomposition is a widely used
technique for converting a B-Rep into a CSG model. The obtained CSG
tree has convex primitives at its leaf nodes, while the contents of
its internal nodes alternate between the set union and difference
operators.
This work first shows that the obtained CSG tree T can also be
expressed as the regularized Exclusive-OR operation among all the
convex primitives at the leaf nodes of T, regardless the structure and
internal nodes of T. This is an important result in the case in which
EVM represented orthogonal polyhedra are used because in this model
the Exclusive-OR operation runs much faster than set union and
difference operations. Therefore this work applies this result to EVM
represented orthogonal polyhedra. It also presents experimental
results that corroborate the theoretical results and includes some
practical uses for the ASV decomposition of orthogonal polyhedra.Postprint (published version
VolumeEVM: A new surface/volume integrated model
Volume visualization is a very active research area in the field of scien-tific
visualization. The Extreme Vertices Model (EVM) has proven to be
a complete intermediate model to visualize and manipulate volume data
using a surface rendering approach. However, the ability to integrate the
advantages of surface rendering approach with the superiority in visual exploration
of the volume rendering would actually produce a very complete
visualization and edition system for volume data. Therefore, we decided
to define an enhanced EVM-based model which incorporates the volumetric
information required to achieved a nearly direct volume visualization
technique. Thus, VolumeEVM was designed maintaining the same EVM-based
data structure plus a sorted list of density values corresponding to
the EVM-based VoIs interior voxels. A function which relates interior
voxels of the EVM with the set of densities was mandatory to be defined.
This report presents the definition of this new surface/volume integrated
model based on the well known EVM encoding and propose implementations
of the main software-based direct volume rendering techniques
through the proposed model.Postprint (published version
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