The effects of size and charge asymmetry on the gas-liquid critical parameters of a primitive model (PM) of ionic fluids are studied within the framework of the statistical field theory based on the collective variables method. Recently, this approach has enabled us to obtain the correct trends of the both critical parameters of the equisize charge-asymmetric PM without assuming ionic associati...

Totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes on lattices with junctions, where particles interact with hard core exclusion and move on parallel lattice branches that at the junction combine into a single lattice segment, are investigated. A simple approximate theory, that treats the correlations around the junction position in a mean-field fashion, is developed in order to calculate stationary...

This paper examines downward price rigidity in Iranian house market and discusses whether this characteristic would result in an asymmetric relationship between house price and monetary policy. To test the downward house price rigidity the threshold GARCH model is employed. The asymmetric adjustment to monetary policy is examined using the asymmetric cointegration and error correction models. T...

In this work-the second of a pair of articles-we consider transport through spatially symmetric quantum dots with leads whose widths or positions do not obey the spatial symmetry. We use the semiclassical theory of transport to find the symmetry-induced contributions to weak localization corrections and universal conductance fluctuations for dots with left-right, up-down, inversion, and fourfol...

We investigate the Nash equilibria of asymmetric, winner-take-all, imperfectly discriminating contests, focusing on existence, uniqueness and rent dissipation. When the contest success function is determined by a production function with decreasing returns for each contestant, equilibria are unique. If marginal product is also bounded, limiting total expenditure is equal to the value of the pri...

We consider N = 1 supersymmetric QCD based on the G2 gauge group and involving 3 chiral matter 7–plets Si α. In that case, the gauge symmetry is broken completely and the instanton–generated superpotential on the classical moduli space is present. If the theory involves the Yukawa term λfαβγS1 αS 2 βS 3 γ , there are six chirally asymmetric vacua. In the limit λ → 0, two of the vacua run away t...

This paper presents a new exact analytical model for Single electron transistor (SET) applicable for circuit simulation. It was developed based on orthodox theory of single electronics using master equation. A scheme was suggested to determine the most probable occupied electron states. The proposed model is more flexible that is valid for single or multi gate, symmetric or asymmetric devices a...

High-affinity antibodies are generated in germinal centers in a process involving mutation and selection of B cells. Information processing in germinal center reactions has been investigated in a number of recent experiments. These have revealed cell migration patterns, asymmetric cell divisions, and cell-cell interaction characteristics, used here to develop a theory of germinal center B cell ...

This paper reports an experiment in which subjects buy and sell lotteries in repeated markets under symmetric and asymmetric information. In the markets with asymmetric information a minority of the subjects, the informed, were given extra information about the lottery’s payout, so had an informational advantage over the majority, the uninformed. In the markets with symmetric information none o...