This paper evaluates the short-term impact of Thailand’s ‘Million Baht Village Fund’program, among the largest scale government microfinance iniative in the world, using preand post-program panel data and quasi-experimental cross-village variation in credit-per-household. We find that the village funds have increased total short-term credit, consumption, agricultural investment, income growth (...

1.1. This article surveys some developments in pure mathematics which have, to varying degrees, grown out of the ideas of gauge theory in Mathematical Physics. The realisation that the gauge fields of particle physics and the connections of differential geometry are one and the same has had wide-ranging consequences, at different levels. Most directly, it has lead mathematicians to work on new ...

The kinetic spherical model with long-ranged interactions and an arbitrary initial order m0 quenched from a very high temperature to T (≤ Tc) is solved. In the short-time regime, the bulk order increases with a power law in both the critical and phase-ordering dynamics. To the latter dynamics, a power law for the relative order mr ∼ −t−k is found in the intermediate time-regime. The short-time ...

Nucleon-nucleon scattering at large momentum transfer is analyzed within the framework of quantum chromodynamic quark and gluon interactions. The spin dependence of the hadronic amplitude is found to be particularly sensitive to the underlying dynamical mechanisms. Detailed discussions of the quark interchange and Landshoff pinch singularity contributions are given for large angle pp, np and pi...

Geospatial data is gathered through a variety of different methods. The integration and handling of such data-sets within a Digital Earth framework are very important in many aspects of science and engineering. One means of addressing these tasks is to use a Discrete Global Grid System and map points of the Earth’s surface to cells. An indexing mechanism is needed to access the data and handle ...

We solve the dynamic equation for the kinetic spherical model that initially is in an arbitrary equilibrium state and then is left to evolve in a heat-bath with another temperature. Flows of the Renormalizational group are determined. PACS numbers: 64.60.Ht, 64.60.Cn, 05.70.Ln, 05.70.Fh

All complete, axially symmetric surfaces of constant mean curvature in R lie in the one-parameter family Dτ of Delaunay surfaces. The elements of this family which are embedded are called unduloids; all other elements, which correspond to parameter value τ ∈ R, are immersed and are called nodoids. The unduloids are stable in the sense that the only global constant mean curvature deformations of...