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THE CALIFORNIA ROCKFISH CONSERVATION AREA AND GROUNDFISH TRAWLERS AT MOSS LANDING HARBOR
This article uses a bioeconomic model and data for groundfish trawlers at Moss Landing Harbor in Central California to analyze effects of spatial closures that were implemented recently by West Coast fishery managers to reduce bycatch of overfished groundfish stocks. The model has a dynamic linear rational expectations structure, and estimates of its parameters exhibit spatial variation in microeconomic and ecological factors that affect decisions about where and when to fish. Test results show that variation in marginal costs of crowding externalities and biological rates of stock productivity are the most significant factors to consider in the spatial management of roundfish trawlers at Moss Landing.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Letter to Philander Chase
A. & G. Ralston inform Philander Chase they received a draft to withdraw $200 in Chase\u27s name, but with no prior notice. They ask him to inform them in the future.https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/2065/thumbnail.jp
Holographic optical elements: Fabrication and testing
The basic properties and use of holographic optical elements were investigated to design and construct wide-angle, Fourier-transform holographic optical systems for use in a Bragg-effect optical memory. The performance characteristics are described along with the construction of the holographic system
Hadron Helicity Violation in Exclusive Processes: Quantitative Calculations in Leading Order QCD
We study a new mechanism for hadronic helicity flip in high energy hard
exclusive reactions. The mechanism proceeds in the limit of perfect chiral
symmetry, namely without any need to flip a quark helicity. The fundamental
feature of the new mechanism is the breaking of rotational symmetry of the hard
collision by a scattering plane in processes involving independent quark
scattering. We show that in the impulse approximation there is no evidence for
of the helicity violating process as the energy or momentum transfer is
increased over the region 1 GeV^2 < Q^2 < 100 GeV^2. In the asymptotic region
Q^2> 1000 GeV^2, a saddle point approximation with doubly logarithmic accuracy
yields suppression by a fraction of power of Q^2. ``Chirally--odd" exclusive
wave functions which carry non--zero orbital angular momentum and yet are
leading order in the high energy limit, play an important role.Comment: uuencoded LaTeX file (21 pages) and PostScript figure
Comparative study of radio pulses from simulated hadron-, electron-, and neutrino-initiated showers in ice in the GeV-PeV range
High energy particle showers produce coherent Cherenkov radio emission in
dense, radio-transparent media such as cold ice. Using PYTHIA and GEANT
simulation tools, we make a comparative study among electromagnetic (EM) and
hadronic showers initiated by single particles and neutrino showers initiated
by multiple particles produced at the neutrino-nucleon event vertex. We include
all the physics processes and do a complete 3-D simulation up to 100 TeV for
all showers and to 1 PeV for electron and neutrino induced showers. We
calculate the radio pulses for energies between 100 GeV and 1 PeV and find
hadron showers, and consequently neutrino showers, are not as efficient below 1
PeV at producing radio pulses as the electromagnetic showers. The agreement
improves as energy increases, however, and by a PeV and above the difference
disappears. By looking at the 3-D structure of the showers in time, we show
that the hadronic showers are not as compact as the EM showers and hence the
radiation is not as coherent as EM shower emission at the same frequency. We
show that the ratio of emitted pulse strength to shower tracklength is a
function only of a single, coherence parameter, independent of species and
energy of initiating particle.Comment: a few comments added, to bo published in PRD Nov. issue, 10 pages, 3
figures in tex file, 3 jpg figures in separate files, and 1 tabl
Lunar surface dynamics: Some general conclusions and new results from Apollo 16 and 17
Exposure ages of Apollo 17 rocks as measured by tracks and the Kr-Kr rare gas method are reported. Concordant ages of 22 - or + 1 million year (my) are obtained for the station 6 boulder sample 76315. This value is interpreted as the time when the station 6 boulder was emplaced in its present position. Reasonable agreement is also obtained by the two methods for another station 6 boulder, sample 76015. Discordant ages (respectively 5 and 28 my by the track and rare gas methods) are obtained for the station 7 boulder sample, 77135, indicating that the boulder was emplaced at least 5 my ago. The 72 my exposure age of 75035, in general agreement with previous measurements of approximately 85 my for another Camelot boulder, may well date the formation of Camelot. Rock 76015 was split and one surface exposed to the sky through a very small solid angle
The solution structure of sarafotoxin-c: implications for ligand recognition by endothelin
The solution structure of sarafotoxin-c has been determined using NMR spectroscopy. A total of 112 interproton distance constraints derived from two-dimensional MMR spectra were used to calculate a family of structures using a combination of distance geometry and dynamical simulated annealing calculations. The structures reveal a well defined cu helix extending from Glu(9) to Cys(15) and an N-terminal region (Cys(1)-Asp(8)) that is tightly constrained by disulfide bands to Cys residues in the central helix. In contrast, the C-terminal region (His(16)-Trp(21)) does not adopt a defined conformation in the final family of structures. This is consistent with the paucity of NMR-derived structural constraints obtained for this region and leads to the suggestion that the C-terminal region oscillates rapidly between a number of substantially different conformers. It is proposed that differences between the central helix of the endothelin and sarafotoxin isopeptides might be important in binding of these ligands by the G protein-coupled endothelin receptors
Exclusive Hadronic Processes and Color Transparency
We review the current status of high energy exclusive processes and color
transparency.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures, based on talk given at International Symposium
on Nuclear Physics, Mumbai, Dec 18-22, 200
Systematic Analysis Method for Color Transparency Experiments
We introduce a data analysis procedure for color transparency experiments
which is considerably less model dependent than the transparency ratio method.
The new method is based on fitting the shape of the A dependence of the nuclear
cross section at fixed momentum transfer to determine the effective attenuation
cross section for hadrons propagating through the nucleus. The procedure does
not require assumptions about the hard scattering rate inside the nuclear
medium. Instead, the hard scattering rate is deduced directly from the data.
The only theoretical input necessary is in modelling the attenuation due to the
nuclear medium, for which we use a simple exponential law. We apply this
procedure to the Brookhaven experiment of Carroll et al and find that it
clearly shows color transparency: the effective attenuation cross section in
events with momentum transfer is approximately $40\ mb\ (2.2\
GeV^2/Q^2)$. The fit to the data also supports the idea that the hard
scattering inside the nuclear medium is closer to perturbative QCD predictions
than is the scattering of isolated protons in free space. We also discuss the
application of our approach to electroproduction experiments.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures (figures not included, available upon request),
report # KU-HEP-92-2
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