Estimating income mobility using census data

This study uses the entropy method to overcome the problem with estimating income distribution dynamics in the absence of data that allow identifying and following up economic units over time. The axiomatic mobility approach (Shorrocks, 1976) [1] and the tools developed by Aebi et al. (1999) [2] were considered. This strategy assumes that income mobility between two time periods is governed by a first-order Markov process. In this context, the measurement of the dynamics of income distribution will be equivalent to fitting cell probabilities for contingency tables, where only marginal distributions are observed. Results suggest that Brazil has low intragenerational income mobility, indicating that its social framework is relatively rigid. In other words, the income class in which an individual is inserted will determine his/her future social position.     

Economic inequality and mobility in kinetic models for social sciences

Statistical evaluations of the economic mobility of a society are more difficult than measurements of the income distribution, because they require to follow the evolution of the individuals’ income for at least one or two generations. In micro-to-macro theoretical models of economic exchanges based on kinetic equations, the income distribution depends only on the asymptotic equilibrium solutions, while mobility estimates also involve the detailed structure of the transition probabilities of the model, and are thus an important tool for assessing its validity. Empirical data show a remarkably general negative correlation between economic inequality and mobility, whose explanation is still unclear. It is therefore particularly interesting to study this correlation in analytical models. In previous work we investigated the behavior of the Gini inequality index in kinetic models in dependence on several parameters which define the binary interactions and the taxation and redistribution processes: saving propensity, taxation rates gap, tax evasion rate, welfare means-testing etc. Here, we check the correlation of mobility with inequality by analyzing the mobility dependence from the same parameters. According to several numerical solutions, the correlation is confirmed to be negative.     

Social and place-focused communities in location-based online social networks

Thanks to widely available, cheap Internet access and the ubiquity of smartphones,millions of people around the world now use online location-based social networkingservices. Understanding the structural properties of these systems and their dependenceupon users’ habits and mobility has many potential applications, including resourcerecommendation and link prediction. Here, we construct and characterise social andplace-focused graphs by using longitudinal information about declared social relationshipsand about users’ visits to physical places collected from a popular online location-basedsocial service. We show that although the social and place-focused graphs are constructedfrom the same data set, they have quite different structural properties. We find that thesocial and location-focused graphs have different global and meso-scale structure, and inparticular that social and place-focused communities have negligible overlap.Consequently, group inference based on community detection performed on the social graphalone fails to isolate place-focused groups, even though these do exist in the network. Bystudying the evolution of tie structure within communities, we show that the time periodover which location data are aggregated has a substantial impact on the stability ofplace-focused communities, and that information about place-based groups may be moreuseful for user-centric applications than that obtained from the analysis of socialcommunities alone.     

The relationships between electricity consumption and GDP in Asian countries,using hierarchical structure methods

This study uses hierarchical structure methods (minimal spanning tree (MST) and hierarchical tree (HT)) to examine the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in a sample of 30 Asian countries covering the period 1971–2008. These countries are categorized into four panels based on the World Bank income classification, namely high, upper middle, lower middle, and low income. In particular, we use the data of electricity consumption and real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita to detect the topological properties of the countries. We show a relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth by using the MST and HT. We also use the bootstrap technique to investigate a value of the statistical reliability to the links of the MST. Finally, we use a clustering linkage procedure in order to observe the cluster structure. The results of the structural topologies of these trees are as follows: (i) we identified different clusters of countries according to their geographical location and economic growth, (ii) we found a strong relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for all income groups considered in this study and (iii) the results are in good agreement with the causal relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth.     

国际物理教育研究的现状与动向——基于PRPER近15年物理教育研究论文(2005-2019)的内容分析

以权威期刊PRPER近15年的文章为研究对象,运用内容分析法对国际物理教育研究的现状和动向进行分析.结果表明PRPER论文数量逐年增加,主要聚焦于评价、物理课程与教学、学生和教师的态度和信念等研究主题,涉及力学、电学、量子物理等学科领域.当前国际物理教育研究具有研究方向多样化、重视以学科为基础的教育研究模式和关注信息化资源共享等特点.     

Distribution of the Japanese posted land price and the generalized entropy

The land price can be considered as the economic data which reflects the interactive activity of markets (land market). Since the cumulative distributions often exhibit power law behavior in a number of complex systems, we attempted to investigate the posted land prices available in Japan for the most recent six years of the recession period after the bubble economy. They also seem to be in this category within a certain range. We observe that the generalized exponential function with one parameter which has been frequently used in generalized thermostatistics serving to track the annual change of the distributions.Received: 20 November 2003, Published online: 8 June 2004PACS: 05.90. + m Other topics in statistical physics, thermodynamics, and nonlinear dynamical systems - 89.90. + n Other topics in areas of applied and interdisciplinary physics - 89.75.Da Systems obeying scaling laws     

Group velocity matters for accurate prediction of phonon-limited carrier mobility

First-principles approaches have recently been developed to replace the phenomenological modeling approaches with adjustable parameters for calculating carrier mobilities in semiconductors. However, in addition to the high computational cost, it is still a challenge to obtain accurate mobility for carriers with a complex band structure, e.g., hole mobility in common semiconductors. Here, we present a computationally efficient approach using isotropic and parabolic bands to approximate the anisotropy valence bands for evaluating group velocities in the first-principles calculations. This treatment greatly reduces the computational cost in two ways: relieves the requirement of an extremely dense κ mesh to obtain a smooth change in group velocity, and reduces the 5-dimensional integral to 3-dimensional integral. Taking Si and SiC as two examples, we find that this simplified approach reproduces the full first-principles calculation for mobility. If we use experimental effective masses to evaluate the group velocity, we can obtain hole mobility in excellent agreement with experimental data over a wide temperature range. These findings shed light on how to improve the first-principles calculations towards predictive carrier mobility in high accuracy.     

Alloy-disorder scattering of the interacting electron gas in quantum wells and heterostructures of Al x Ga1 − x As

The question whether alloy disorder is screened or unscreened is of fundamental importance. Therefore, we calculate the mobility of the interacting two-dimensional electron gas as realized in Al _x Ga_{1 ? x} As quantum wells and heterostructures in the presence of alloy-disorder scattering. For the screening we use the randomphase approximation and we include many-body effects due to exchange and correlation. We propose to determine the alloy disorder potential V _AD from mobility measurements. If we use V _AD = 1.04 eV we can explain recent experimental results obtained for quantum wells and heterostructures with ultrahigh mobility. From the anomalous linear temperature dependence of the mobility measured in heterostructures, we conclude that the alloy disorder is screened. More experiments are needed to confirm the screening of the alloy disorder and we propose some measurements.     

On Mobility and Einstein Relation for Tracers in Time-Mixing Random Environments

In this paper we rigorously establish the existence of the mobility coefficient for a tagged particle in a simple symmetric exclusion process with adsorption/desorption of particles, in a presence of an external force field interacting with the particle. The proof is obtained using a perturbative argument. In addition, we show that, for a constant external field, the mobility of a particle equals to the self-diffusivity coefficient, the so-called Einstein relation. The method can be applied to any system where the environment has a Markovian evolution with a fast convergence to equilibrium (spectral gap property). In this context we find a necessary relation between forward and backward velocity for the validity of the Einstein relation. This relation is always satisfied by reversible systems. We provide an example of a non-reversible system, where the Einstein relation is valid.This revised version was published online in March 2005 with corrections to the page numbers.     

疫情期间工科院校大学物理线上教学模式探究

为了适应新冠肺炎疫情时期线上教学要求,保证大学物理课程教学的顺利实施,本学期开始我校就对特殊时期的线上教学模式进行了探索.通过调研不同教学平台线上教学特点,最终决定采用钉钉和雨课堂作为主要的授课软件,学校网络教学平台作为教学资源上传平台,保证学生有系统的线上文件库.因为雨课堂的数据记录与分析功能,雨课堂被选为单元测试及课堂测试平台.通过在各平台实施“课前预习、课中直播讨论学习、课后复习”的全过程教学模式,不仅有效的开展了线上教学,还能采集到学生的学习数据,有效掌握学生的学习情况,为大学物理线上教学提供保障.     

Preparation of smooth Fe (001) on MgO (001)

The high mobility of metal adsorbates on perfect oxide surfaces favours an island-growth mode, which results in a granular morphology for metallic thin films. At low temperature, a fast substrate coverage is achieved due to the reduced mobility which, on the other hand, inhibits the development of an atomically smooth surface. In this study we used a controlled procedure to grow smooth epitaxial films of a few nanometres of Fe on MgO (001). The development of the dynamic conductivity as a measure of morphological roughness was observed during metal deposition by means of in-situ infrared spectroscopy. At various steps of thin-film preparation we used low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) for a characterisation of the crystalline surface quality. With ex situ atomic force microscopy (AFM) we investigated the surface topology of the prepared films with respect to smoothness. For example, for a controlled-growth 2-nm film, we observed a sharp LEED pattern and a metallic dynamic conductivity, and we did not find the distinct grooves which are characteristic of a granular structure. Received: 23 June 2000 / Accepted: 19 December 2000 / Published online: 21 March 2001     

Transport studies of MBE-grown InAs/GaSb superlattices

We report on the results of transport studies of MBE-grown InAs/GaSb superlattices. We demonstrate that the in-plane mobility is limited by interface roughness scattering by showing that, as a function of InAs layer width L, the in-plane mobility behaves as μ ∝ L^5.3, which closely follows the classic sixth power dependence expected from theory for interface-roughness-limited mobility. Fits to the mobility data indicate that, for one monolayer surface roughness, the roughness correlation length is about 35 Å. Next, we show that the in-plane carrier mobility in InAs/GaSb superlattices is inversely proportional to carrier density in n- and p-type samples, the result of screened interface roughness scattering.     

云环境下基于多虚拟机的在线视频监控系统设计

针对常规视频监控系统在线实时性不强,海量视频数据传输迟滞,任务管理单一等问题,提出了构建在云计算环下基于多虚拟机技术在线视频监控系统 ,利用云计算平台中的物理资源与服务资源提升在线视频监控系统数据处理能力,虚拟机可同时处理大量的视频监控数据,并将视频数据以云存储的方式存储于云端服务器,降低了设备建设成本,可根据不同用户需求定制相关服务。本系统基于云计算平台设计,应用数十台乃至数百台虚拟机对在线视频监控数据进行处理,设计实现了云平台下在线视频监控系统的结构设计、以太网通信接口设计、服务器硬件配置和虚拟机控制。在软件设计方面通过对各虚拟机资源利用率的计算而动态分配资源,从而可以有效减少网络传输系统状态信息的带宽开销。通过系统功能与性能测试表明,在常规公共网络10M带宽的情况下,本系统在线视频监控数据的传输延迟时间相比于传统视频监控减少了85%以上,监控视频数据量减少了75%以上。     

有机场效应晶体管的非线性注入模型

有机场效应晶体管(Organic field effect transistor,OFET)的非线性特性是指其输出特性曲线在较低的漏极电压下出现类似于二极管的电压电流特性曲线,这种现象在有机场效应晶体管的实验研究中极为常见。Simonetti等通过引入随栅极电压变化的迁移率提出了模型并成功解释了这一现象,但实验中从器件转移特性得出的迁移率通常与栅极电压无关。本文通过引入常数迁移率对该模型进行改进,运用改进的模型研究了影响OFET非线性特性的主要因素,并对如何更加准确地获得器件参数进行了探究。     

A study of phase stability in invar Fe--Ni alloys obtained by non-conventional methods

It is known that thermodynamic equilibrium in Fe--Ni alloys, in the invar composition at temperatures below 450^°C, is difficult to achieve because of the slow diffusion rate at low temperatures. One of the ways in which we can study phase transformation which may be responsible for invar behavior is to investigate: (i) materials of similar composition obtained by non-conventional methods, known to allow the enhancement of diffusion at temperatures where atomic mobility is nil on the laboratory time scale; (ii) materials which have been treated for very long periods of time (geological time scale) in the same temperature range, such as in meteorites. In this context we have studied the phase stability of Fe--Ni phases in mechanically alloyed powders, in ion-beam mixed multilayers and in meteorites. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Intuitionistic Fuzzy TOPSIS as a Method for Assessing Socioeconomic Phenomena on the Basis of Survey Data

In the assessment of most complex socioeconomic phenomena with the use of multicriteria methods, continuous data are used, the source of which are most often public statistics. However, there are complex phenomena such as quality of life and quality of services in the assessment, for which questionnaire surveys and ordinal measurement scales are used. In this case, the use of classic multicriteria methods is very difficult, taking into account the way of presenting this type of data by official statistics, as well as their permissible transformations and arithmetic operations. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was the presentation of a novel framework which can be applied for assessing socioeconomic phenomena on the basis of survey data. It was assumed that the object assessments may contain positive or negative opinions and an element of uncertainty expressed in the form a “no”, “difficult to say”, or “no opinion” answers. For this reason, the intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS (IF-TOPSIS) method is proposed. To demonstrate the potential of this solution, the results of measuring the subjective quality of life of the inhabitants of 83 cities in EU countries, EFTA countries, the UK, the Western Balkans, and Turkey are presented. For most cities, a high level of subjective quality of life was observed using the proposed approach. The highest level of quality of life was observed in Zurich, whereas the lowest was observed in Palermo.     

Selection of the Optimal Number of Topics for LDA Topic Model—Taking Patent Policy Analysis as an Example

This study constructs a comprehensive index to effectively judge the optimal number of topics in the LDA topic model. Based on the requirements for selecting the number of topics, a comprehensive judgment index of perplexity, isolation, stability, and coincidence is constructed to select the number of topics. This method provides four advantages to selecting the optimal number of topics: (1) good predictive ability, (2) high isolation between topics, (3) no duplicate topics, and (4) repeatability. First, we use three general datasets to compare our proposed method with existing methods, and the results show that the optimal topic number selection method has better selection results. Then, we collected the patent policies of various provinces and cities in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) as datasets. By using the optimal topic number selection method proposed in this study, we can classify patent policies well.     

Psychological evaluation of sound environment in a compartment of a high-speed train

Sound environment in a compartment of high-speed trains (Shinkansen) was examined in relation to speech communication and annoyance. Three experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, the annoyance caused by the compartment noise was judged. In Experiment 2, both the compartment noise and the conversation were presented together and the annoyance of the combined sounds was judged. In Experiment 3, both sounds were presented and only the disturbance of conversation was judged. The results showed that: The annoyance of compartment noise showed good correlation with L_Aeq. The annoyance of the combination of the compartment noise (N) and the conversation (C) increased as C/N decreased. There was, however, a tendency that annoyance increased as C/N increased in some conditions. This suggests that there exists an optimum level of compartment noise at 50-60 dBA taking the level of conversation into consideration. The disturbance of the conversation increased as C/N increased. However, when the level of conversation became high, it was judged as being disturbing regardless of the level of compartment noise.     

Transport properties of photo-excited carriers in slightly compensated Hg0.785Cd0.215Te

Photo-Hall measurements are presented for slightly compensated n-type Hg_0.785Cd_0.215Te at 4 K where the electron mobility is limited by charged scattering centers. Using a 10.6 μm laser as the optical source, we observe that the electron mobility passes through a maximum as a function of photo-excited carrier density. Mobility expressions based on the Kane-band model are modified to incorporate neutralization of charged scattering centers by photo-excited carriers. Calculated mobility values are found to be in satisfactory agreement with the data. The observed decrease in mobility for high carrier densities is attributed to electron-hole scattering. The mobility enhancement at lower carrier densities is explained in terms of neutralization of charged acceptors.