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An explanation of movements in the labor force participation rate, 1957-76
Labor market ; Labor supply
A monetarist view of demand management: the United States experience
Monetary policy ; Macroeconomics
Deep anistropic shell program for tire analysis
A finite element program was constructed to model the mechanical response of a tire, treated as a deep anisotropic shell, to specified static loads. The program is based on a Sanders Budiansky type shell theory with the effects of transverse shear deformation and bending-extensional coupling included. A displacement formulation is used together with a total Lagrangian description of the deformation. Sixteen-node quadrilateral elements with bicubic shape functions are employed. The Noor basis reduction technique and various type of symmetry considerations serve to improve the computational efficiency
Optical properties of carbon grains: Influence on dynamical models of AGB stars
For amorphous carbon several laboratory extinction data are available, which
show quite a wide range of differences due to the structural complexity of this
material. We have calculated self-consistent dynamic models of circumstellar
dust-shells around carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars, based on a number
of these data sets. The structure and the wind properties of the dynamical
models are directly influenced by the different types of amorphous carbon. In
our test models the mass loss is not severely dependent on the difference in
the optical properties of the dust, but the influence on the degree of
condensation and the final outflow velocity is considerable. Furthermore, the
spectral energy distributions and colours resulting from the different data
show a much wider spread than the variations within the models due to the
variability of the star. Silicon carbide was also considered in the radiative
transfer calculations to test its influence on the spectral energy
distribution.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures. To appear in A&
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