We show that a minimal action of finitely generated group polynomial growth on compact metrizable space has comparison. It follows if such an is free and the small boundary property then it almost finite its C⁎-crossed product Z-stable, consequently crossed products are classified by their Elliott invariant.

How will the costs of climate change be distributed? In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott shows that examining struggles around National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) can provide a window onto how ‘climate is and continue to impact people, communities, governments’ (p. 190). While mainstream accounts tend focus on severe disaster events, […]

Motivated by the recent controversy about the importance of spin-flip scattering for ultrafast demagnetization in ferromagnets, we study the spin-dependent electron dynamics based on a dynamical Elliott-Yafet mechanism. The key improvement to earlier approaches is the use of a modified Stoner model with a dynamic exchange splitting between majority and minority bands. In the framework of our mi...

This paper is a continuation of our previous analysis [2] of partition functions zeros in models with first-order phase transitions and periodic boundary conditions. Here it is shown that the assumptions under which the results of [2] were established are satisfied by a large class of lattice models. These models are characterized by two basic properties: The existence of only a finite number o...

The electrocardiogram in complete transposition of the great vessels has been discussed by several authors (Campbell and Suzman, 1951; Astley and Parsons, 1952; Wood, 1956; Keith, Rowe, and Vlad, 1958; Noonan et al., 1960; Elliott et al., 1963a; Calleja, Hosier, and Grajo, 1965; and others). Most authors correlated the electrocardiogram with the underlying pathology of the ventricular septum an...

Some 30 years after integrative theory was first introduced to criminology as an explicit attempt to move beyond mono-disciplinary thinking (Jeffrey, 1978; Johnson, 1979; Elliott, Agerton, & Canter, 1979; Elliott, Huizinger & Ageton, 1985; Colvin & Pauly, 1983; Hawkins & Weis, 1985; Pearson & Weiner, 1985; Messner, Krohn, & Liska, 1989; Akers, 1994; Hagan, 1989), it is surprising that criminolo...

Joal Hill I read with interest the debate about for-profi t versus non-profi t institutional review boards (IRBs) [1], but was disappointed that no one addressed the ability (or inability) of for-profi t IRBs to review studies with the local context of research subjects in mind and then monitor what actually occurs during the consent process throughout the research trial. To my mind the “bignes...

The goal of this seminar is to understand the Nekrasov partition function introduced by Nekrasov in 2003 [Nek03]. This is a generating function for correlation functions in an N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theory, so my goal today is to explain what N = 2 gauge theory is and why we might find it interesting. We begin with the latter question, why is this interesting? There are two intertwined answ...

There has been much recent interest in analyzing the performance of LDPC codes in channels with memory. Density evolution (DE) may be used to analyze estimation-decoding algorithms employing the Sum-Product Algorithm for LDPC codes in Gilbert-Elliott (GE) channels. In this paper, we provide theoretical results which mitigate the complexity of characterizing the 4-dimensional GE parameter space ...

introduction: opiates cause dependency via affect on central nervous system. locus coeruleus nucleus is a main group of noradrenergic neurons in the brain that plays an important role in the expression of opioid withdrawal signs. during opioid withdrawal, brain waves change in addition to physical and behavioral signs. in this study, we examined the effects of locus coeruleus electrical stimula...