Lectures on Young Measures

Effectiveness of Tobacco Control Measures in Reducing Tobacco Use among Adolescents and Young Adults in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Background: Sri Lanka became a signatory to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in September 2003 and ratified in November 2003. Aiming to reduce tobacco burden in Sri Lanka, National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act [NATA] No. 27 was authorized in 2006. The objective of this study was to assess the behavioral changes related to tobacco use among adolescents and young adults fol...

Lectures on Young Measure Theory and Its Applications in Economics ((nal Version)

Lens Lectures on Aleksandrov-clark Measures

In this series of three 90 minute lectures I will give a gentle introduction to the topic of Aleksandrov-Clark measures which turn out to have an uncanny way of appearing in various areas of analysis. In short, for an analytic map φ : D→ D, where D is the open unit disk, there is a family {μα : |α| = 1} of positive finite measures on the unit circle T associated with φ by the formula 1− |φ(z)|2...

Effectiveness of The Virtual Reality Package on Social panic and social lectures

Introduction: Fear of emergence in society and social discourse is one of the most common types of social fears and this disorder is recognized as a multifaceted disorder. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of virtual reality package on social panic and social lectures. Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design and a...

9 Lectures on dimers Richard Kenyon

1 Overview 3 1.1 Dimer definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Uniform random tilings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Limit shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.4 Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.5 Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.5.1 Erg...