Entomological surveys on Aedes aegypti (L.) often focus on residential premises, while ignoring non-residential premises. It has been proposed that the latter should be subject to specific monitoring strategies, since they have the potential to contribute a large proportion of the overall mosquito population. In this study, we used traps for ovipositing females to compare the levels of Ae. aegy...

although default rates on residential mortgages have been relatively low in recent years, policymakers and economists should still be concerned about mortgage default for several reasons. First, while the foreclosure rate in the u.s. has averaged only 1 percent over the past 20 years, there have been dramatic swings in regional default rates over this period. For example, in the early 1990s for...

We use the Wilson renormalization group (RG) formulation to solve the fine-tuning procedure needed in renormalization schemes breaking the gauge symmetry. To illustrate this method we systematically compute the non-invariant couplings of the ultraviolet action of the SU(2) pure Yang-Mills theory at one-loop order.

We study D-branes in a nonsupersymmetric orbifold of type C/Γ, perturbed by a tachyon condensate, using a gauged linear sigma model. The RG flow has both higgs and coulomb branches, and each branch supports different branes. The coulomb branch branes account for the “brane drain” from the higgs branch, but their precise relation to fractional branes has hitherto been unknown. Building on the re...

We propose that the UV/IR relation that underlies the AdS/CFT duality may provide a natural mechanism by which high energy supersymmetry can have large distance consequences. We motivate this idea via (a string realization of) the Randall-Sundrum scenario, in which the observable matter is localized on a matter brane separate from the Planck brane. As suggested via the holographic interpretatio...

The purpose of this paper is to lay the foundations for a quantitative theory of relations among discriminants of hermitian RG-modules which are induced by character relations. This is accomplished by introducing an invariant δ(M) attached to an RG-module M which plays the role of a correction term in such relations and to study its functorial properties such as localization and induction theor...

Apparently on the basis of room modes being excited in residential dwellings one concept has been to ignore high quality field measurement recordings (Wave files) and use the narrow band (FFT) Leq results of a 10-minute sample to create, by superimposing a number of sine waves, a trapezoidal time signal as the source for subjective testing and restricting the bandwidth to only infrasound. Other...

This paper considers the effects of rent control on community socioeconomic composition. In particular, do rent controls increase the presence of poor and minority residents in a locale? Theoretically, the effect of rent controls on community composition depends on a tradeoff between lower prices which might favor the disadvantaged and a landlord imposed rationing mechanism which likely does no...

We study the Renormalization Group (RG) evolution of the couplings in a model with a real SU(2) triplet in the Higgs sector. Insisting that the model remain valid up to 1 TeV we show that it is possible for there to be no light Higgs bosons without any otherwise dramatic deviation from the physics of the Standard Model.

Within a self-consistent proper-time Renormalization Group (RG) approach we investigate an effective QCD trace anomaly realization with dilatons and determine the finite-temperature behavior of the gluon condensate. Fixing the effective model at vanishing temperature to the glueball mass and the bag constant a possible gluonic phase transition is explored in detail. Within the RG framework the ...