We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less likely. Hence, financial market development has opposite regional implications as trade liberalization. Wh...

The paper deals with strategies for optimizing the transmission of JPEG2000 coded images over a MIMO quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel, by exploiting different available MIMO STBC (Space Time Block Codes), as well as the image content to be transmitted. The aim is to propose a link adaptation scheme based on the variable radio channel’s conditions, by establishing an UEP (Unequal Error Prote...

The behavior of a thin film of nematic liquid crystal with unequal Frank constants is discussed. Distinct Frank constants are found to imply unequal core energies for +1/2 and −1/2 disclinations. Even so, a topological constraint is shown to ensure that the bulk densities of the two types of disclinations are the same. For a system with free boundary conditions, such as a liquid membrane, unequ...

This article examines the relationship between humanitarian aid and ecologically unequal exchange in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. I assess the manner in which humanitarian aid became a central part of the reconstruction process in India's Tamil Nadu state following the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. This article focuses on how the humanitarian “gift” of housing became a ...

We study tree level corrections to precision electroweak physics in the recently proposed Higgsless models in warped space. Such models inherit from their similarity with technicolor theories a large contribution to the oblique parameters, S in particular. We show that it is possible to suppress S using brane induced kinetic terms and unequal left-right bulk gauge couplings, paying the price of...

This study investigated children's evaluations of peer group members who deviated from group norms about equal and unequal allocation of resources. Children, ages 3.5 to 4 years and 5 to 6 years (N = 73), were asked to evaluate a peer group member who deviated from 1 of 2 group allocation norms: (a) equal allocation of resources, or (b) unequal allocation of resources. Most children negatively ...

We study two-dimensional QED with unequal charges at finite temperature, and show that there is a phase with a spontaneously broken Zn symmetry. In spite of this, we were not able to establish the presence of domain walls. The relevance for QCD in higher dimensions is discussed. a Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Stockholm Vanadisvägen 9, S-113 46 Stockholm, Sweden [email protected]...

Loop corrections to unequal-time correlation functions in Minkowski spacetime exhibit secular growth due a breakdown of time-dependent perturbation theory. This is analogous equal-time correlators on backgrounds, except that the divergences must not signal real IR issue. In this paper, we calculate late-time limit two-point correlator for different massless self-interacting scalar quantum field...

Suttee, a Hindoo coolie, aged 30 years, came to the cliaritable dispensary, on the 27th March last, to have a large tumour on the left side of his neck removed. It hung above from the lower jaw, occupying the space between the symphisis and angle. The anterior attachment corresponded to the mesial line, extending from under the chin for 5? inches. The posterior edge was attached to the sterno-m...