Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Offshoring, Relocation and the Speed of Convergence in the Enlarged European Union

Economic convergence of the new member states (NMS) of the EU towards the old EU countries (EU-15), not only in terms of real income, but also in nominal terms, is of paramount importance for the whole of the EU. We build a dynamic CGE model, starting from the Balassa-Samuelson two-sector framework, but modify and enlarge it with forward-looking investment, consumption, and labour mobility behaviour to address several other issues like welfare and sustainability in terms of foreign indebtedness. At the same time we evaluate the impact of convergence on the EU-15 countries also, by endogenising offshoring and the related FDI flows from them to the NMS. Thereby we identify various effects of relocation and globalisation on the EU-15 enlarging the standard set of effects of globalisation and demonstrate the key role of their dynamic nature in the process of convergence. We find that in a general equilibrium setting fears of large adverse effects of a relocation of EU-15 manufacturing to the NMS are not well founded. In contrast, offshoring appears to be a win-win case for both the EU-15 and the NMS in terms of real income. The convergence of the NMS is fairly rapid, but will involve a persistent rapid inflation rate.
Milk postharvest handling practices across the supply chain in Eastern Ethiopia

Objective: This study was conducted to assess hygienic cow milk handling practices of milk producers, traders (informal collectors, transporters and vendors) and consumers across the milk supply chain in the Eastern Ethiopia. Materials and methods: A total of 160 milk producers in Babile district were selected using multistage stratified sampling technique. Moreover, a total of 54 milk collectors and transporters (5, 40, 9 from Jigjiga, Harar and Dire Dawa town, respectively), 152 vendors (40 from Bable, Harar and Dire Dawa town and 32 from Jigjiga town) and 160 consumers (40 from each town) were selected using snowball sampling technique. Data from the selected actors were collected using focus group discussion, questionnaire survey and observations. Results: The study revealed that the majority of milk handling operations in the study area is carried out by females. The majority of respondent milk producers (87.5-92.5%), collectors and transporters (88.9-100%), vendors (77.5-90.7%) and some consumers (37.5-47.5%) performing milk handling operations were illiterate. Most of the observed actors in the study area perform malpractices (such as failure to stop milk handling while showing disease symptoms, improper hand washing and handling of risk factors) while working with milk. Majority of respondent milk producers (87.5-97.5%), all traders and some consumers (12.5-32.5%) use plastic containers for milk handling. Milk handling equipments were commonly washed using warm water, detergent and sand; however, in most case they were not properly protected from risk factors after washing. Majority of respondent milk producers (55-65%), collectors and transporters (60-66.7%), and some vendors (0-50%) and consumers (0-55%) use water from non-tap sources for hygienic practices. Conclusion: In general; the findings indicated that milk handling practices performed across the supply chain in the study area were unhygienic and therefore suggested the need for improving hygienic practices. http://doi.org/10.5455/javar.2016. c139
Effect of-1 Effect of striatal and extrastriatal D 2-receptor BP on memory and symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder

The integrity of particular dopaminergic projections via the striato-thalamiccortical feedback loop potentially influences specialized aspects of cognition and psychopathology. Research has identified a role for striatal D2 receptors in the cognitive impairments and psychopathological symptoms associated with disorders of the schizophrenia spectrum. Recent developments in PET neuroimaging methods currently permit visualization of D2/D3 receptors in extrastriatal regions. This study evaluated potential correlations between the regional D2/D3 receptor BP in striatal and extrastriatal areas and psychopathological symptoms and memory performance. Significant correlations were observed between particular regions of D2/D3 receptor BP and both verbal and visual memory sub-scales of the Wechsler Memory Scale-III.
Yelmochelys rosarioae gen. et sp. nov., a stem kinosternid (t estudines; Kinosternidae) from the l ate Cretaceous of Coahuila, Mexico

Author(s): Brinkman, Don; Aguillon-Martinez, Martha Carolina; Hutchison, J. Howard; Brown, Caleb | Abstract: A small smooth-shelled kinosternoid from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation and the early Maastrichtian Canyon del Tule Formation of Coahuila, Mexico that is abundantly represented by isolated elements is described as Yelmochelys rosarioae gen. et sp. nov. A phylogenetic analysis concludes that Y. rosarioae is a representative of the stem lineage of the Kinosternidae. Inclusion of Y. rosarioae in Kinosternidae is supported by presence of a groove for the musk duct, the loss of the eleventh peripheral and twelfth marginal, reduced articulation between the plastron and carapace, and diamond-shaped vertebral scales. A basal position within Kinosternidae is indicated by the presence of distinct abdominal scales that meet at the midline and the presence of a relatively long costiform processes. The inclusion of Y. rosarioae in Kinosternidae supports the hypothesis that Kinosternidae and Dermatemydidae had diverged by the Late Campanian.
Response to Selection for Body Weight in Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

The present studyinvestigated the impact of selection for body weight (BW) on productive performance, predicted BW and genetic improvement of related traits in Japanese quail. Base population, selected parent and F1 progeny were tested. Pens and cages were used for rearing and breeding. A total of 240 birds in two successive generations, 27 sires and 54 dams (as selected parents) were used. Body weight from multiple regression equation, covariance analysis and combining models were estimated, response to selection, realized heritability and genetic correlation were computed for BW, weight gain (WG), feed intake (FI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR). The results showed that the response to selection for BW, WG, FI and FCR were 11.48 g, 27.04 g, 37 g and -0.2, respectively. The estimated heritabilities for the same traits were 0.78, 0.67, 0.52 and 0.77, respectively. Predicted equation (DUHOK equation) for BW as dependent variable on the initial body weight and sex ratio was derived. The final response for the body weight was determined as 5.84 % of live BW.
MOUNTAIN PASS SOLUTIONS FOR NONLOCAL EQUATIONS

This work is devoted to study the existence of solutions to nonlocal equations involving the p-Laplacian. More precisely, we prove the existence of at least one nontrivial weak solution, and under additional assumptions, the existence of infinitely many weak solutions. In order to apply mountain pass results, we require rather general assumptions on on the local operator. Finally, a concrete application is presented.
EPISTEMIC ENTITLEMENT AND THE LEACHING PROBLEM

ABSTRACT Crispin Wright has explored and defended the proposal that we are rational in accepting certain ‘cornerstone’ propositions that play an epistemically foundational role on the basis of non-evidential warrants – entitlements – rather than on the basis of evidential justifications. One of the principal objections to this proposal, formulated by Wright himself, is the leaching problem. Put metaphorically, the problem is that it's hard to see how a superstructure of justified belief and knowledge could have something less epistemically secure lying at its foundations. In this paper I discuss how to best formulate the objection behind the metaphor, and I argue that it remains a live worry despite Wright's attempts to neutralize it. I also aim to clarify Wright's conservatism in light of some conflicting remarks he has made about whether he takes acquiring (as opposed to claiming to possess) justification or knowledge to be subject to the conservative requirement that one must have antecedent warrant for accepting the relevant cornerstone propositions. A major theme of the paper is that these two issues are intimately linked – that formulating Wright's conservatism in the most stable and motivated way leaves him without a response to the leaching problem considered in its strongest form.
The Curse of the One-size-fits-all Fix

In the context of falls in extractive commodities prices since 2011, this chapter examines the history of thinking about the interplay between extractive industries and economic development. Just as ‘the resource curse’ fails as a generic explanation on account of the huge diversity in country contexts, so does the one-size-fits-all governance solution, which international aid agencies, industry, and banks have promoted in support of ‘extractives-led growth’ since the early 2000s. Asking why the sector has not in many cases yielded more durable economic gains reveals the need for greater attention to a country’s capacity to diversify, options for pacing development, and appropriate performance measures.
Water in star-forming regions with Herschel (WISH). II. Evolution of 557 GHz 110-101 emission in low-mass protostars

Context. Water is a key tracer of dynamics and chemistry in low-mass star-forming regions, but spectrally resolved observations have so far been limited in sensitivity and angular resolution, and only data from the brightest low-mass protostars have been published. Aims. The first systematic survey of spectrally resolved water emission in 29 low-mass (L 10 km s(-1)). The water abundance in the outer cold envelope is low, greater than or similar to 10(-10). The different H2O profile components show a clear evolutionary trend: in the younger Class 0 sources the emission is dominated by outflow components originating inside an infalling envelope. When large-scale infall diminishes during the Class I phase, the outflow weakens and H2O emission all but disappears.
Inventory changes and future returns December , 2001 ( First version : March 1999 ) by

We find that the negative relation between accruals and future abnormal returns documented by Sloan (1996) is due mainly to inventory changes. We propose three explanations for this result, derived from the prior literature, but find evidence inconsistent with all three explanations. To assist future investigations in formulating additional explanations, we document several empirical regularities for extreme inventory change deciles. We speculate that demand shifts explain our results, and examine the feasibility of alternative reasons for the stock market’s apparent inability to recognize the impending profitability reversals. Our evidence is consistent with earnings management masking the implications of demand shifts. Inventory changes and future returns Sloan (1996) documents a startling finding: investing long/short in firms in the bottom/top decile of accruals (scaled by average beginning and ending total assets) generates a hedge portfolio return of about 10 percent in the following year, and about 5 percent and 3 percent in the two years after that. He concludes that the stock market fails to recognize that accruals and cash flows, the two components of reported earnings, have different persistence. As a result, firms with high (low) accruals, or low (high) cash flows, report earnings in the following year that are predictably lower (higher) than market expectations, and stock prices move accordingly. This result has been investigated extensively in the recent literature, and the collective evidence suggests that while managers recognize the implications of accruals (e.g., Beneish and Vargus 2001), stock prices and relatively sophisticated stock market participants do not (e.g., Bradshaw, Richardson, and Sloan 2001). Our first objective is to identify the components of Sloan’s accrual measure that are primarily responsible for this apparent market inefficiency. We find that inventory changes represent the one component that exhibits a consistent and substantial relation with future returns. Our second objective is to understand how inventory changes, a seemingly innocuous item (since inventory acquisitions represent accruals that affect operating cash flows but not earnings), are linked to subsequent abnormal returns. We first propose three explanations with testable predictions, which are derived from results documented in the prior literature, but find evidence inconsistent with all three explanations. We then switch to documenting empirical regularities and fashioning an explanation that is potentially consistent with our evidence. Since limitations of available data hamper our efforts to directly test this conjecture, our contribution lies in laying the groundwork for subsequent investigations.
Title Representation of sharp rifts and faultsmechanics in modeling ice shelf flow dynamics : Application to Brunt / Stancomb-Wills Ice Shelf , Antarctica Permalink

Ice shelves play a major role in buttressing ice sheet flow into the ocean, hence the importance of accurate numerical modeling of their stress regime. Commonly used ice flow models assume a continuous medium and are therefore complicated by the presence of rupture features (crevasses, rifts, and faults) that significantly affect the overall flow patterns. Here we apply contact mechanics and penalty methods to develop a new ice shelf flow model that captures the impact of rifts and faults on the rheology and stress distribution of ice shelves. The model achieves a best fit solution to satellite observations of ice shelf velocities to infer the following: (1) a spatial distribution of contact and friction points along detected faults and rifts, (2) a more realistic spatial pattern of ice shelf rheology, and (3) a better representation of the stress balance in the immediate vicinity of faults and rifts. Thus, applying the model to the Brunt/Stancomb-Wills Ice Shelf, Antarctica, we quantify the state of friction inside faults and the opening rates of rifts and obtain an ice shelf rheology that remains relatively constant everywhere else on the ice shelf. We further demonstrate that better stress representation has widespread application in examining aspects affecting ice shelf structure and dynamics including the extent of ice mélange in rifts and the change in fracture configurations. All are major applications for better insight into the important question of ice shelf stability.
A NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF YOUNG FIELD ULTRACOOL DWARFS

We present a near-infrared (0.9–2.4 μm) spectroscopic study of 73 field ultracool dwarfs having spectroscopic and/or kinematic evidence of youth (≈10–300 Myr). Our sample is composed of 48 low-resolution (R ≈ 100) spectra and 41 moderate-resolution spectra (R ≳ 750–2000). First, we establish a method for spectral typing M5–L7 dwarfs at near-IR wavelengths that is independent of gravity. We find that both visual and index-based classification in the near-IR provides consistent spectral types with optical spectral types, though with a small systematic offset in the case of visual classification at J and K band. Second, we examine features in the spectra of ∼10 Myr ultracool dwarfs to define a set of gravity-sensitive indices based on FeH, VO, K i, Na i, and H-band continuum shape. We then create an index-based method for classifying the gravities of M6–L5 dwarfs that provides consistent results with gravity classifications from optical spectroscopy. Our index-based classification can distinguish between young and dusty objects. Guided by the resulting classifications, we propose a set of low-gravity spectral standards for the near-IR. Finally, we estimate the ages corresponding to our gravity classifications.
The warm water inflow into the western tropical Atlantic boundary regime, spring 1994

During March 1994 a survey of the western boundary of the tropical Atlantic, between 10 degrees N and 10 degrees S, was carried out by conductivity-temperature-depth and current profiling using shipboard and lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers. In the near-surface layer, above sigma. = 24.5, the inflow into the boundary regime came dominantly from low latitudes; out of the 14 Sv that crossed the equator in the upper part of the North Brazil Current (NBC), only 2 Sv originated from south of 5 degrees S, while 12 Sv came in from the east at 1 degrees-5 degrees S with the South Equatorial Current (SEC). After crossing the equator near 44 degrees W, only a minor fraction of the near-surface NBC retroflected eastward, while a net through flow of about 12 Sv above sigma. = 24.5 continued northwestward along the boundary, By contrast, in the isopycnal range sigma. = 24.5-26.8 encompassing the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC), the source waters of the equatorial circulation were dominantly of higher-latitude South Atlantic origin. While only 3 Sv of eastern equatorial water entered the region through the SEC at 3 degrees-5 degrees S, there was an inflow of 10 Sv of South Atlantic water in the North Brazil Undercurrent (NBUC) along the South American coast that originated south of 10 degrees S, The transport of 14 Sv arriving at the equator along the boundary in the undercurrent layer was almost entirely retroflected into the EUC with only marginal northern water additions along its path to 35 degrees W. The off-equatorial undercurrents in the upper thermocline, the South and North Equatorial Undercurrents carried only small transports across 35 degrees W, of 5 Sv and 3 Sv, respectively, dominantly supplied out of SEC recirculation rather than out of the boundary current. Still deeper, three zonal undercurrents were observed: the westward-flowing Equatorial Intermediate Current (EIC) in the depth range 200-900 m below the EUC, and two off-equatorial eastward undercurrents, the Northern and Southern Intermediate Countercurrents (NICC, SICC) at 400-1000 m and 1 degrees-3 degrees latitude. In the lower part of the NBUC there was an Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) inflow along the coast of 6 Sv, and there was a clear connection at the AAIW level to the SICC by low salinities and high oxygens and a weaker suggestion also that some supply of the NICC might be through AAIW out of the deep NBUC.
Study of D → a 0 ( 980 ) e + ν e decay in the light-cone sum rules approach

Within the QCD light-cone sum rule (LCSR) approach, we investigate the transition form factors ofD → a0(980) up to the twist-3 light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of the scalar meson a0(980) in the two-quark picture. Using these form factors, we calculate the differential decay widths and branching ratios of the D → a0(980)eνe semileptonic decays. We obtain B(D0 → a0 (980)eνe) = (4.08 +1.37 −1.22)×10 and B(D+ → a0(980)eνe) = (5.40 −1.59)× 10−4. The results are sensitive to the a0(980) inner structure. These decays can be searched for at BESIII experiment, and any experimental observations will be useful to identify internal quark contents of the a0(980) meson, which will shed light on understanding theoretical models. ∗chengxd@mails.ccnu. edu.cn †lihb@ihep.ac. cn ‡weibinwuli@163.com §yuanguoxv@163.com ¶yangmz@nankai.edu.cn 1 ar X iv :1 70 6. 01 01 9v 2 [ he pph ] 6 J un 2 01 7
Notes on Nonlinear Dynamics

We present a selective survey of modern nonlinear modeling techniques relevant to the field of applied financial econometrics. We first established the usefulness of nonlinear modeling of financial time series and its relevance for forecasting by means of Sims’s (1984) definition. Then, we describe specific univariate and multivariate nonlinear models that can be classified either as stochastic or as deterministically chaotic. We also provide several novel numerical applications of these models along with their estimation techniques and tests. We conclude this literature review by presenting an application which compares the UHF‐GARCH model with the parsimonious model‐free realized volatility approach. Additionally, we present an extension to the multivariate case, referred as the realized covariance. This model‐free measure of dependence might be useful in order to evaluate the volatility feedback, which is an alternative explanation to the leverage effect theory.
Impact of the shadow banking system on monetary policy in China

The shadow banking system in China has its own characteristics compared to conventional commercial banks and the foreign shadow banking system. Its emergence is important to the economic development and financial system in China. However, it also challenges the implementation of monetary policy and regulation. China is in the economic shunt period and their monetary policy system is somewhat lagging behind the advanced economic system. This paper is therefore designed to figure out the impacts of the shadow banking system on monetary policy. After analysis of SVAR model, OLS regression, trend graph and correlation coefficient, results show that an increase in the growth rate of the shadow banking system would affect the monetary policy by increasing money supply and the value of CPI. Moreover, the implementation of easy or tight monetary policy by increasing or decreasing the benchmark interest rate would not be able to achieve the original goals due to the activities of the shadow banking system. It is suggested that the Chinese authorities should follow the market requirement to improve the monetary policy system by means of supervision and regulation on the shadow banking system which would the monetary policy effect.
A NEW INTERLEAVED THREE LEVEL AC-DC CONVERTER

A new single stage ac-dc converter with an interleaved input section is proposed in this paper to reduce line current harmonics while achieving power factor correction. The proposed converter can operate with a continuous output current for all load conditions and minimize the input electromagnetic interference filter size. In this paper, the operation of the new converter is explained, its features and design are discussed in results, and its operation is confirmed with experimental results obtained from a prototype.
Politicians, Firms and the State of Institutional Environment

The model we develop analyses how the state of an institutional environment influences resources allocation in a transition economy. We capture the interaction between politicians who influence firms’ decisions regarding resources allocation and managers, introducing a parameter which measures the strength of institutions. The results of our model confirm that building up strong institutions in a transition economy can play a central role in privatisation and restructuring processes and motivate agents to agree on a better resources allocation.