Kovacs and Toxic Wastes in Bankruptcy

Toxic wastes and kidney disease: research needs.

In 1981 over one billion dollars will be spent sustaining the lives of patients with end-stage renal disease by hemodialysis and renal transplantation, but less than 0.02% of this amount will be invested in studies of nephrotoxicity (1). Any knowledge of the effect of industrial waste on human kidney disease gained from this miniscule effort will probably be serendipitous. Our monumental ignora...

Agnes Kovacs

The estimation of the tensile strength of certain brittle fibers at extremely short lengths from tensile strength measurements of these fibers at longer lengths is of fundamental importance in the theory of modern fiber composite materials. We examine a competing risks model in which the fiber strength arises as the minimum of two (independent) Weibull random variables having distinct Weibull e...

Priorities and Priority in Bankruptcy

Kovacs-Like Memory Effect in Athermal Systems: Linear Response Analysis

We analyze the emergence of Kovacs-like memory effects in athermal systems within the linear response regime. This is done by starting from both the master equation for the probability distribution and the equations for the physically-relevant moments. The general results are applied to a general class of models with conserved momentum and non-conserved energy. Our theoretical predictions, obta...

Crossover (or Kovacs) effect in an aging molecular liquid.

We study by means of molecular dynamics simulations the aging behavior of a molecular model of ortho-terphenyl. We find evidence of a nonmonotonic evolution of the volume during an isothermal-isobaric equilibration process, a phenomenon known in polymeric systems as the crossover (or Kovacs) effect. We characterize this phenomenology in terms of landscape properties, providing evidence that, fa...