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Roughness of two nonintersecting one-dimensional interfaces.
2006
The dynamics of two spatially discrete one-dimensional single-step model interfaces with a noncrossing constraint is studied in both nonsymmetric propagating and symmetric relaxing cases. We consider possible scaling scenarios and study a few special cases by using continuous-time Monte Carlo simulations. The roughness of the interfaces is observed to be nonmonotonic as a function of time, and in the stationary state it is nonmonotonic also as a function of the strength of the effective force driving the interfaces against each other. This is related on the one hand to the reduction of the available configuration space and on the other hand to the ability of the interfaces to conform to eac…
Revisiting the Trade-off Between Risk and Incentives: The Shocking Effect of Random Shocks?
2019
Despite its central role in the theory of incentives, empirical evidence of a trade-off between risk and incentives remains scarce. We reexamine this trade-off in a workplace lab environment and find that, in line with theory, principals increase fixed pay while lowering performance pay when the relationship between effort and output is noisier. Unexpectedly, agents produce substantially more in the noisy environment than in the baseline despite weaker incentives. In addition, principals’ earnings are significantly higher in the noisy environment. We show that these findings can be accounted for when agents maximize a non-CARA utility function or when they exhibit loss aversion. Data and t…
Changes in the Intra-Metropolitan Location of Producer Services in Ile-de-France (1978-1997) : do information technologies promote a more dispersed s…
2003
Because of their intensive need for face-to-face contacts, producer services have, historically, been found at the core o f CBDs. However, it has been suggested that advances in information technologies could lead to the erosion o f the CBD’s economic base, rendering face-to-face contacts obsolete and enabling producer services to suburbanize. Although a considerable amount o f empirical work has been done on the suburbanization o f these activities in North-America, the same is not true of France. In this paper, we adopt an original methodology to study the role played by face-to-face contacts in the spatial distribution of producer services in the Ile-de-France region between 1978 and 199…
Studium zum Vorgang der Wasserstoffübertragung, 50. Elektroreduktion und phasentransferkatalysierte Borhydrid-reduktion prochiraler Ketone
1978
Prochirale Carbonylverbindungen wurden in die entsprechenden sekundaren Alkohole ubergefuhrt a) durch Elektroreduktion und b) mit NaBH4, in beiden Fallen mit den gleichen Ephedriniumsalzen, und zwar fur a) als optisch aktive Leitsalze und fur b) als optisch aktive Phasentransfer-Katalysatoren. Es wurden bei der Elektroreduktion und bei der Phasentransfer-Katalyse die Ausbeuten an Carbinol (und Pinakol)3), die optische Ausbeute und die absolute Konfiguration des bevorzugt gebildeten Enantiomeren bestimmt. In der uberwiegenden Mehrzahl der untersuchten Beispiele besitzen die unter Mitwirkung optisch aktiver Ephedriniumsalze nach beiden Methoden erhaltenen Uberschusenantiomeren die entgegenges…
Detecting self-similarity in surface microstructures
2000
The relative configurational entropy per cell as a function of length scale is a sensitive detector of spatial self-similarity. For Sierpinski carpets the equally separated peaks of the above function appear at the length scales that depend on the kind of the carpet. These peaks point to the presence of self-similarity even for randomly perturbed initial fractal sets. This is also demonstrated for the model population of particles diffusing over the surface considered by Van Siclen, Phys. Rev. E 56 (1997) 5211. These results allow the subtle self-similarity traces to be explored.
On a Continuous Sárközy-Type Problem
2022
Abstract We prove that there exists a constant $\epsilon> 0$ with the following property: if $K \subset {\mathbb {R}}^2$ is a compact set that contains no pair of the form $\{x, x + (z, z^{2})\}$ for $z \neq 0$, then $\dim _{\textrm {H}} K \leq 2 - \epsilon $.
ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of (-)-Auricularic Acid and its C-4 Epimer. The Absolute Configuration of Auricularic Acid.
2010
Abstract A synthesis of (−)-auricularic acid (2a) starting from methyl (+)-13-oxo- podocarp-8(14)-en-19-oate (3a) and a synthesis of its C-4 epimer (2b) starting from methyl (+)-13-oxopodocarp-8(14)-en-18-oate (3b) are described. The absolute configuration of natural auricularic acid is stablished as (4R, 5S, 8S, 9R, 10S, 14S).
Comprehensive Modeling and Experimental Testing of Fault Detection and Management of a Nonredundant Fault-Tolerant VSI
2015
This paper presents an investigation and a comprehensive analysis on fault operations in a conventional three-phase voltage source inverter. After an introductory section dealing with power converter reliability and fault analysis issues in power electronics, a generalized switching function accounting for both healthy and faulty conditions and an easy and feasible method to embed fault diagnosis and reconfiguration within the control algorithm are introduced. The proposed system has simple and compact implementation. Experimental results operating both at open- and closed-loop current control, obtained using a test bench realized using a dSPACE system and the fault-tolerant inverter protot…
Pannello precompresso di vetromattoni assemblati a secco per la realizzazione di involucri traslucidi
2012
L’invenzione riguarda la realizzazione di un pannello di vetromattoni montati “a secco” -da impiegare per la realizzazione di involucri edilizi traslucidi anche nel caso di edifici alti- che è in grado di rispondere adeguatamente alle sollecitazioni orizzontali (quali quelle dovute a vento e sisma) grazie all’applicazione della tecnica della precompressione mondirezionale. Per offrire una risposta ai limiti imposti dalla tecnica di assemblaggio tradizionale dei vetromattoni (“ad umido”), l’applicazione della precompressione consente, infatti, di dare ai pannelli preassemblati “a secco” una rigidezza adeguata anche in direzione normale al loro piano di posa, sfruttando le buone caratteristic…
Psi4: an open-source ab initio electronic structure program
2011
The Psi4 program is a new approach to modern quantum chemistry, encompassing Hartree–Fock and density-functional theory to configuration interaction and coupled cluster. The program is written entirely in C++ and relies on a new infrastructure that has been designed to permit high-efficiency computations of both standard and emerging electronic structure methods on conventional and high-performance parallel computer architectures. Psi4 offers flexible user input built on the Python scripting language that enables both new and experienced users to make full use of the program's capabilities, and even to implement new functionality with moderate effort. To maximize its impact and usefulness, …