Poverty and Survival A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes in poverty o...

Making use of an iterated homogenization procedure in finite elasticity, an exact and explicit result is derived for the macroscopic response of Neo-Hookean solids reinforced by a random and isotropic distribution of rigid particles. The key theoretical and practical features of the result are discussed in light of comparisons with recent approximations and full-field simulations. DOI: 10.1115/...

The paper reflects current state of popularization of static elasticity modulus of concrete. This parameter is undoubtedly very important for designing of concrete structures, and very often neglected and rarely determined before designing concrete technology itself. The paper describes assessment and comparison of four mix designs with almost constant dosage of individual components. The only ...

A large class of multiplicative submonoids of the natural numbers is presented, which includes congruence monoids as well as numerical monoids (by isomorphism). For monoids in this class, the important factorization property of finite elasticity is characterized.

This paper shows the effect of investor sentiment on information processing in the financial market. We investigate how disagreement among investors affects the relationship between trading intensity and price volatility around macroeconomic announcements during high and low sentiment periods. By incorporating into the Kandel and Pearson (1995) model a one factor structure with heterogeneous be...

The breakup of droplets in an inhomogeneous flow is the key to emulsification. Frequently, the local flow experienced by the drops is a (quasi-) simple shear flow. The breakup of droplets in a steady, simple shear flow in the absence of emulsifiers has been studied extensively. In the presence of emulsifiers, the droplet interface may acquire viscoelastic properties, which are important in the ...

Eigenvalue elasticity methods have been widely applied in analyzing linear and simple nonlinear systems. In this study, we applied this approach to gain insight into the leverage offered by parameter changes in individual-based viral dynamic models for studying and controlling infectious disease spread. We found that such eigenspace based methods encounter severe limitations when applied to non...

The topic of the article focuses on the evaluation of selected technological factors and their influence on resulting elasticity modulus of concrete. A series of various factors enter into the manufacturing process which, more or less, influences the elasticity modulus. This paper presents the results of concrete in which the influence of water coefficient and the size of maximum fraction of th...