EXPLANATION OF THE BASIC FORMULA PRICE PROVISIONS OF THE PROPOSED RULE

An important segment of milk marketing order reform involves replacing the current BFP. This working paper explains the background of the BFP issue, the options considered and the provisions of the proposed rule as related to the BFP issue.Marketing,

Stellar Motion around Spiral Arms: Gaia Mock Data

We compare the stellar motion around a spiral arm created in two different scenarios, transient/co-rotating spiral arms and density-wave-like spiral arms. We generate Gaia mock data from snapshots of the simulations following these two scenarios using our stellar population code, SNAPDRAGONS, which takes into account dust extinction and the expected Gaia errors. We compare the observed rotation velocity around a spiral arm similar in position to the Perseus arm, and find that there is a clear difference in the velocity features around the spiral arm between the co-rotating spiral arm and the density-wave-like spiral arm. Our result demonstrates that the volume and accuracy of the Gaia data are sufficient to clearly distinguish these two scenarios of the spiral arms.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of "The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases", Barcelona, 1-5 December 2014, eds. N. Walton, F. Figueras, C. Soubira

Optimal Capital Accumulation and Corporate Investment Behavior

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The catalog of radial velocity standard stars for the Gaia RVS: status and progress of the observations

A new full-sky catalog of Radial Velocity standard stars is being built for the determination of the Radial Velocity Zero Point of the RVS on board of Gaia. After a careful selection of 1420 candidates matching well defined criteria, we are now observing all of them to verify that they are stable enough over several years to be qualified as reference stars. We present the status of this long-term observing programme on three spectrographs : SOPHIE, NARVAL and CORALIE, complemented by the ELODIE and HARPS archives. Because each instrument has its own zero-point, we observe intensively IAU RV standards and asteroids to homogenize the radial velocity measurements. We can already estimate that ~8% of the candidates have to be rejected because of variations larger than the requested level of 300 m/s.Comment: Proceedings of SF2A2010, S. Boissier, M. Heydari-Malayeri, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud (eds), 3 pages, 2 figure

Discovery of dumbbell-shaped Cs*He_n exciplexes in solid He 4

We have observed several new spectral features in the fluorescence of cesium atoms implanted in the hcp phase of solid helium following laser excitation to the 6$^{2}$P states. Based on calculations of the emission spectra using semiempirical Cs-He pair potentials the newly discovered lines can be assigned to the decay of specific Cs*He$_{n}$ exciplexes: an apple-shaped Cs$(A\Pi _{3/2})$He$_{2}$ and a dumbbell-shaped Cs$(A\Pi_{1/2})$He$_{n}$ exciplex with a well defined number $n$ of bound helium atoms. While the former has been observed in other enviroments, it was commonly believed that exciplexes with $n>2$ might not exist. The calculations suggest Cs$(A\Pi_{1/2})$He$_{6}$ to be the most probable candidate for that exciplex, in which the helium atoms are arranged on a ring around the waist of the dumbbell shaped electronic density distribution of the cesium atom.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

Relaxation mechanisms of multi-quantum coherences in the Zeeman structure of atomic Cs trapped in solid He

This paper extends our previous work on near-degenerate magnetic resonance transitions in alkali ground states involving the simultaneous absorption of multiple radio-frequency quanta. New experimental results with an improved spectral resolution were obtained with cesium atoms trapped in the cubic phase of a helium crystal. The main objective of the paper is a theoretical study of the influence of stochastic perturbations of given multipole orders on the various multi-photon coherences. Algebraic and numerical results for perturbations of both dipolar and quadrupolar symmetry are presented. The present experimental resolution does not yet allow us to distinguish between these two most likely relaxation mechanisms. Nonetheless, the experimental spectra are very well described when allowing in the calculations for a magnetic field inhomogeneity of 2×10-