The theory of cultural dimensions constitutes the foundation of a significant portion of comparative cross-cultural business research. From Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck (1961) to the GLOBE study (2004), researchers have refined its conceptualization and empirical methods. Even though the theory of cultural dimensions can be criticized from several points of view, it has shown its usefulness for bot...

The theory of phase ordering kinetics for the O(2) model using the gaussian auxiliary field approach is reexamined from two points of view. The effects of fluctuations about the ordering field are included and we organize the theory such that the auxiliary field correlation function is analytic in the short-scaled distance (x) expansion. These two points are connected and we find in the refined...

Low energy excitations of fractional quantumHall states are described by Landau–Ginzburg theory of superfluid coupled with a vector potential whose effective action includes a Chern–Simons term. In [1], Susskind suggested that a better description of these states is provided by a non-commutative Chern–Simons theory with gauge group U(1). This idea was refined by Polychronakos [2], who proposed ...

The prescription of the AdS/CFT correspondence is refined by using a regularization procedure, which makes it possible to calculate the divergent local terms in the CFT two-point function. We present the procedure for the example of the scalar field. It has been stated in most papers on this subject that the correspondence between a fields theory on anti-de Sitter space (AdS) and a conformal fi...

We present a range of mesh-dependent inequalities for piecewise constant and continuous piecewise linear finite element functions u defined on locally refined shape-regular (but possibly nonquasi-uniform) meshes. These inequalities involve norms of the form �h � u� W s,p (Ω) for positive and negative s and �, where h is a function which reflects the local mesh diameter in an appropriate way. Th...