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Showing 1 to 20 of 383 for “"imperfections"”.
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Essays on financial market imperfections
… consists of three chapters on financial market imperfections, in particular, information imperfections. Chapter 1 studies how the existence of a fixed cost per transaction faced by uninformed investors hampers information revelation through price and exacerbates adverse selection. The …
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Thermodynamic Properties of Crystals Containing Imperfections
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Practical systems for overcoming processor imperfections
… modern, thoroughly verified pro- cessors contain imperfections. Processor imperfections, being in the lowest layer of the system, pose a significant problem not only for software devel- opers during design and debug, but also serve as weaknesses to the security mechanisms implemented in upper …
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Thermodynamics properties of crystals containing imperfections
Using thermodynamics and elasticity theory, a unified treatment of changes in the properties of crystals containing the major types of defects is given. Some previously derived results are recovered in the present calculations, such as the formula for volume changes of self-stressed media derived …
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Market imperfections and market-based policy instruments
The first chapter discusses procurement auction mechanisms under the political constraint that the contractor is in effect protected from ex-post loss. Many construction procurers who use first price auctions eliminate abnormally low bids in order to reduce the probability of ex-post bid …
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Essays in asset pricing and market imperfections
The first part of the thesis studies the impact of liquidity crashes on asset prices. In financial markets, liquidity could have large downward jumps. The thesis proposes a dynamic model where investors face the risk of potential liquidity crises. We find that investors choose optimal portfolios …
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Essays on Imperfections in Money and Capital Markets
The first essay explores the demand for M1, M3 and broad money (BM) and economic uncertainty in Australia over the period 1976:2-2008:4. The results suggest that we have evidence of cointegration between money, economic activity, interest rate and price for the pre-deregulation sub-period. The …
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Chaucerian imperfections: The other and the turbulant self
This thesis is interested in forms of “imperfection” in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. I define “imperfection” as an authorial gesture performed to narrate an idealized virwhile depriving it from its idealism. The imperfection of a virtue, however, does not happen absolutely. It is the …
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Financial market imperfections and their asset pricing implications
… consists of two studies on financial market imperfections. The first study (Chapters 2 and 3) investigates illiquidity, which is a reflection of different imperfections, and its pricing implications in the corporate bond market. The second study (Chapter 4) evaluates the impact of a …
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Sensitivity to Imperfections of Analog Quantum Simulation on Atomic Qudits
… an AQS result in the presence of inevitable imperfections. Here, we present the results of using our exper- iment as a testbed for studying the impact of errors on AQS. We have developed a small but highly-accurate processor over a 16-dimensional Hilbert space comprising the combined …
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Characterisation of imperfections in single crystals of high purity synthetic quartz
The work described in this thesis is a study of imperfections in high purity, low dislocation content synthetic quartz single crystals which are grown on a commercial scale by the General Electric Company. Hydrogen and metal ion impurities in quartz were studied using low temperature transmission …
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Space charge resulting from imperfections and effects thereof in ionic crystals
The equilibrium defect distribution is calculated for a pure ionic crystal of the type M+X=. It is shown that the normally assumed state of bulk electrical neutrality is a consequence of the presence of potential fields beneath the surfaces and around edge dislocations. These potential fields~ …
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Bayesian robust optimisation of buckling loads of trusses with random imperfections
… nonlinear structural behaviour and random imperfections different from the ideal design often need to be considered. Optimised lightweight structures, such as truss-based shallow domes and slender towers, are usually prone to sudden failure through buckling so that structural nonlinearities …
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Fabrication and buckling of thin spherical shells containing precise geometric imperfections
… pressure and explore the effect that geometric imperfections can have on their buckling behavior. Since the 1960s, numerous theoretical and computational studies have addressed the imperfection sensitivity of buckling of thin elastic shells. However, there is a lack of precise experiments to …
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Electrical and thermal transport in 2D materials: role of environment and imperfections
… in nanoelectronics. The role of interfaces and imperfections is an important topic for such nanoscale devices and materials due to their reduced dimensions and large surface-to-volume ratios. In this dissertation we address some of the factors limiting the electrical and thermal transport in 2D …
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Effects of imperfections on the response of composite structures with scarf joints
… of the configuration, whereas there will be imperfections that arise during manufacture and installation of a real scarf joint. Parametric studies that consider scarf joint configurations have generally considered only the linear behavior of the adhesive material, although adhesive materials …
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Effect of surface imperfections on the stability of compressible laminar boundary layers
The accuracy of the compressible interacting boundary-layer computations is investigated and their limitations are established by comparison with solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations both for the mean flow profiles and for the stability characteristics. The instabilities of flows around smooth …
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Determination of Mueller matrix elements in the presence of imperfections in optical components
The Polarizer-Sample-Analyzer (PSA) arrangement with the optical components P and A rotating with a fixed speed ratio (3:1) was originally introduced to determine nine Mueller matrix elements from Fourier analysis of the output signal of a photodetector. The arrangement is modified to the P'PSAA' …
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Computational study and analysis of structural imperfections in 1D and 2D photonic crystals
… known about the practical effects of dielectric imperfections on their technologically useful optical properties. In order to address this issue, a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) code is employed to study the effect of three specific dielectric imperfections in 1D and 2D photonic crystals. …
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