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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957163203321

Titolo

The measurement of individual well-being and group inequalities : essays in memory of Z. M. Berrebi / / edited by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

9702033912

1-136-88228-6

0-415-86084-9

0-203-83910-2

1-136-88229-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 319 p. : ill

Collana

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 133

Altri autori (Persone)

BerrebiZ. M (Zizi Moshe)

DeutschJoseph <1950->

SilberJacques

Disciplina

306.01/5118

Soggetti

Well-being - Social aspects

Satisfaction

Income distribution - Statistical methods

Group identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Deprivation, happiness, and well-being -- A survey on income deprivation / Conchita D'Ambrosio -- Happiness, deprivation, and the alter ego / Paolo Verme -- Polarization -- Measuring bi-polarization and polarization: a survey / Zoya Nissanov, Ambra Poggi, and Jacques Silber -- Inequality and polarization : an axiomatic approach / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Bhargav Maharaj -- Rank-dependent measures of bi-polarization and marginal tax reforms / Paul Makdissi and Stéphane Mussard -- Analyzing the impact of income sources on changes in bi-polarization / Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber -- Distributional change and mobility -- Distributional change / Frank Cowell -- Galton's fallacy and the measurement of wage mobility / Michal Weber -- On the decomposition of income and wage inequality



-- The Gini inequality index decomposition : an evolutionary study / Giovanni Maria Giorgi -- On the Ghapley value and decompositions of the gender gap / Osnat Israeli -- A note on the determinants of wage inequality between and within genders / Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi -- Individual well-being and poverty -- A new model for constructing poverty thresholds / Nanak Kakwani -- Comparing multidimensional poverty with qualitative indicators of well-being / Yélé Maweki Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos -- Empirical modeling of deprivation contagion among social exclusion dimensions / Ambra Poggi and Xavier Ramos.

Sommario/riassunto

Although most traditional economic theory puts the individual at the centre of analysis, more recent approaches have acknowledged the importance of a wider sense of identity as a determinant of individual behaviour. Whether it is ethnicity, religion or gender, group membership is a central part of human life. This book presents new advances in areas which consider both the individual and the group when measuring inequalities and well-being.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910863152903321

Autore

Roskes Jeffrey

Titolo

A Boson Learned from its Context, and a Boson Learned from its End / / by Jeffrey Roskes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-58011-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 130 p. 77 illus., 70 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5061

Disciplina

523.01

539.721

Soggetti

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Elementary particles (Physics)

Quantum field theory

Particle accelerators

Astrophysics

Particle Physics

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Accelerator Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Experiment -- Chapter 3: Alignment and calibration of the CMS tracker -- Chapter 4: Phenomenology of Higgs boson interactions -- Chapter 5: Higgs boson data analysis -- Chapter 6: Conclusions and future directions.

Sommario/riassunto

This thesis develops fundamental ideas and advanced techniques for studying the Higgs boson’s interactions with the known matter and force particles. The Higgs boson appears as an excitation of the Higgs field, which permeates the vacuum. Several other phenomena in our Universe, such as dark energy, dark matter, and the abundance of matter over antimatter, remain unexplained. The Higgs field may prove to be the connection between our known world and the “dark” world, and studies of the Higgs boson's interactions are essential to reveal possible new phenomena. The unique feature of this work is simultaneous measurement of the Higgs boson’s associated production (its context, to use the language of the title) and its decay (its end), while allowing for multiple parameters sensitive to new phenomena. This includes computer simulation with Monte Carlo techniques of the complicated structure of the Higgs boson interactions, the matrix-element calculation of per-event likelihoods for optimal observables, and advanced fitting methods with hundreds of intricate components that cover all possible parameters and quantum mechanical interference. This culminates in the most advanced analysis of LHC data in the multi-parameter approach to Higgs physics in its single golden four-lepton decay channel to date. Optimization of the CMS detector’s silicon-based tracking system, essential for these measurements, is also described.