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Can the Philippines' Human Resource Base Meet the Challenge of a Liberalized Financial Sector?
Is the Philippines ready to face foreign competition in the financial sector? Does it have enough supply of professionals who are capable of meeting the human resource requirements of domestic and foreign financial corporations in this kind of liberalized environment? Professor Tullao seeks to provide the answers in this Policy Notes.financial sector, financial liberalization, human resource development
Compactness for Holomorphic Supercurves
We study the compactness problem for moduli spaces of holomorphic supercurves
which, being motivated by supergeometry, are perturbed such as to allow for
transversality. We give an explicit construction of limiting objects for
sequences of holomorphic supercurves and prove that, in important cases, every
such sequence has a convergent subsequence provided that a suitable extension
of the classical energy is uniformly bounded. This is a version of Gromov
compactness. Finally, we introduce a topology on the moduli spaces enlarged by
the limiting objects which makes these spaces compact and metrisable.Comment: 38 page
A plain linear rule for fatigue analysis under natural loading considering the sequence effect
Fatigue under variable amplitude loading is currently assessed with the Palmgren-Miner rule in structural standards, ignoring the order of loading, which would require non-linear or mixed rules, especially for the random loading sequences applied to certain structures. Therefore, the goal is to develop a practical and simple correction factor ensuring the linear summation of damage is conservative, so as to take the sequence effect into account in random loading from natural sources. The theoretical consistency of this approach is demonstrated and a case study is developed to test the feasibility of the new rule and its simplicity
Panchromatic observations and modeling of the HV Tau C edge-on disk
We present new high spatial resolution (<~ 0.1") 1-5 micron adaptive optics
images, interferometric 1.3 mm continuum and 12CO 2-1 maps, and 350 micron, 2.8
and 3.3 mm fluxes measurements of the HV Tau system. Our adaptive optics images
reveal an unusually slow orbital motion within the tight HV Tau AB pair that
suggests a highly eccentric orbit and/or a large deprojected physical
separation. Scattered light images of the HV Tau C edge-on protoplanetary disk
suggest that the anisotropy of the dust scattering phase function is almost
independent of wavelength from 0.8 to 5 micron, whereas the dust opacity
decreases significantly over the same range. The images further reveal a marked
lateral asymmetry in the disk that does not vary over a timescale of 2 years.
We further detect a radial velocity gradient in the disk in our 12CO map that
lies along the same position angle as the elongation of the continuum emission,
which is consistent with Keplerian rotation around an 0.5-1 Msun central star,
suggesting that it could be the most massive component in the triple system. We
use a powerful radiative transfer model to compute synthetic disk observations
and use a Bayesian inference method to extract constraints on the disk
properties. Each individual image, as well as the spectral energy distribution,
of HV Tau C can be well reproduced by our models with fully mixed dust provided
grain growth has already produced larger-than-interstellar dust grains.
However, no single model can satisfactorily simultaneously account for all
observations. We suggest that future attempts to model this source include more
complex dust properties and possibly vertical stratification. (Abridged)Comment: 26 pages, 11 figures, editorially accepted for publication in Ap
CP Violation in \tau ->\nu\pi K_S and D->\pi K_S: The Importance of K_S-K_L Interference
The -factories have measured CP asymmetries in the and
modes. The state is identified by its decay to two pions at
a time that is close to the lifetime. Within the Standard Model and many
of its extensions, the asymmetries in these modes come from CP violation in
mixing. We emphasize that the interference between the
amplitudes of intermediate and is as important as the pure
amplitude. Consequently, the measured asymmetries depend on the times over
which the relevant decay rates are integrated and on features of the
experiment.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
High temperatures effect on morpho-physiological indicators in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) plants during the germination and growth in non-optimum season
The knowledge about high temperature effect on plant crop is important for adaptation strategies to Climate Change. For this reason the aim of the paper was to analyze its abiotic effect on common bean cultivation in a Red Ferralitic soil. A sowing of twelve varieties was performed in non-optimum season (high heat environment) during three years: 2013, 2014 and 2015 through an alpha-Latin design using three replicates per accession. The number of germinated plants was measured within the first 11 days after sowing to obtain the survival percentage. In the same way absolute (AGR) and relative (RGR) growth rate between 21 and 30 days and the plant height from 20 to 70 days with measurement ranges of 10 and 15 days were also evaluated and plotted by a logistic model. The values of daily mean temperature (DMT) were registered to calculate the accumulative temperature during the germination and growth phases. For the statistical evaluation, AGR and RGR were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance and a Tukey comparison where significance was defined with a probability level of P<0.05. The results showed that plant survival percentage was significantly affected by increasing temperature following a sigmoid model, where differences among varieties were observed, while a prediction of survival behavior was also carried out for extreme values of temperature. The model corroborated that DMT above 28 C decreases the survival percentage until values less than 30%. On the other hand the most sensible varieties in the germination stage showed a higher relative growth rate which contributes for understanding the physiological effect of thermal stress in common bean plants
Application of Python 3.9 framework to investigate the dynamics of vortex-solitons
In our study the stability of solitons of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation is investigated via the computation the dynamics of vortex rings. To do that we use the modern PY-PDE package in the framework of Python 3.9. The main purpose of this package is to simulate the partial differential equations (PDE) in simple geometry. Temporal evolution of the PDE is determined using the line method by explicitly sampling space, using fixed grids with simultaneous temporal visualization of dynamics. Such a system supports the use of object-oriented programming and the numba-compiled method to speed up computations. With the use of PY-PDE package we numerically investigate the dynamic phenomenon in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) placed in an external potential. The same model can also be applied to study the spatial electromagnetic solitons in fibers. Both the one-dimensional and two-dimensional cases are considered
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