cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Macroprudential Regulation and Systemic Capital Requirements
Creators: name: Gauthier, Céline
name: Lehar, Alfred
name: Souissi, Moez
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2010

description: In the aftermath of the financial crisis, there is interest in reforming bank regulation such that capital requirements are more closely linked to a bank's contribution to the overall risk of the financial system. In our paper we compare alternative mechanisms for allocating the overall risk of a banking system to its member banks. Overall risk is estimated using a model that explicitly incorporates contagion externalities present in the financial system. We have access to a unique data set of the Canadian banking system, which includes individual banks' risk exposures as well as detailed information on interbank linkages including OTC derivatives. We find that systemic capital allocations can differ by as much as 50% from 2008Q2 capital levels and are not related in a simple way to bank size or individual bank default probability. Systemic capital allocation mechanisms reduce default probabilities of individual banks as well as the probability of a systemic crisis by about 25%. Our results suggest that financial stability can be enhanced substantially by implementing a systemic perspective on bank regulation.
description: Au lendemain de la crise financière, l'idée de réformer la réglementation bancaire de telle sorte que les exigences de fonds propres soient plus étroitement rattachées à la contribution de chaque banque au risque global du système financier suscite de l'intérêt. Les auteurs comparent divers mécanismes de répartition du risque global d'un système bancaire parmi les banques membres. Le risque global est estimé à l'aide d'un modèle qui intègre explicitement les externalités de contagion présentes dans le système financier. L'ensemble de données unique sur le système bancaire canadien auquel les auteurs ont accès renseigne sur les expositions des banques individuelles au risque et contient des informations détaillées sur les liens interbancaires, y compris ceux qui se rapportent aux produits dérivés de gré à gré. Les auteurs constatent que les résultats de la répartition systémique des fonds propres peuvent différer de jusqu'à 50 % des niveaux de fonds propres observés au deuxième trimestre de 2008 et que leur relation avec la taille ou la probabilité de défaut de chaque banque n'est pas simple. Les mécanismes de répartition systémique des fonds propres permettent de réduire d'environ 25 % les probabilités de défaut des banques individuelles ainsi que la probabilité d'une crise systémique. Les résultats des auteurs indiquent que l'application d'une approche systémique en matière de réglementation bancaire peut accroître substantiellement la stabilité financière.
title: Παραγωγή ζύθου με μη συμβατικές ζύμες
title: Brewing with non-conventional yeasts
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Τσαγκάρη, Νίνα-Αικατερίνη
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Μπίρα
Αρωματικό προφίλ
Non-Saccharomyces

description: Τα τελευταία χρόνια στον χώρο της ζυθοποιίας παρατηρείται μια αδιάκοπη έρευνα που αφορά στη βελτίωση και την αύξηση της αρωματικής πολυπλοκότητας των παραγόμενων προϊόντων. Κύριο αντικείμενο των ερευνών αυτών είναι οι ζυμομύκητες οι οποίοι μέσα από διαφορετικά μεταβολικά μονοπάτια είναι δυνατό να παράξουν ένα πλήθος ουσιών που επιδρούν στο αρωματικό προφίλ της μπίρας. Ένα σύνολο μικροοργανισμών που ανήκουν στην κατηγορία των non-Saccharomyces ζυμών μελετώνται για τις αρωματικές ενώσεις που τελικά παράγουν, με σκοπό να αντικαταστήσουν ή ακόμη και να δουλέψουν σε συνδυασμό με τον συμβατικό ζυμομύκητα Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Στην παρούσα εργασία επιχειρήθηκε η παραγωγή μπίρας τύπου American Pale Ale από μικτές καλλιέργειες του μη συμβατικού ζυμομύκητα Metshnikowia pulcherrima σε συνδυασμό με τον Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Συγκεκριμένα πραγματοποιήθηκαν τέσσερις διαφορετικές ζυμώσεις του ίδιου ζυθογλεύκους. Οι ζυμώσεις διέφεραν ως προς την αναλογία των μικροοργανισμών στην καλλιέργεια και τη θερμοκρασία ζύμωσης. Έτσι πραγματοποιήθηκαν ζυμώσεις αναλογίας μικροοργανισμών 1:1 και 1:10 σε δύο θερμοκρασίες ζύμωσης 20 °C και 13 °C. Μελετήθηκαν πέρα από τον χρόνο ζύμωσης, τη συγκέντρωση των μη καταναλωθέντων σακχάρων, τη μεταβολή του pH, τον ρυθμό κατανάλωσης του διαθέσιμου αμμωνιακού αζώτου και την περιεκτικότητα σε αιθανόλη, οι συγκεντρώσεις των παραγόμενων αρωματικών ενώσεων για τις διάφορες ζυμώσεις. Δείγματα για την μέτρηση των αρωματικών ενώσεων πάρθηκαν μια εβδομάδα μετά την εμφιάλωση καθώς και μετά από ένα μήνα παλαίωσης. Μελετήθηκε έτσι το αρωματικό προφίλ των διαφορετικών μπιρών. Ειδικότερα διαπιστώθηκε η έντονη παραγωγή ισοαμυλικής, ενεργής αμυλικής, τρυπτοφόλης και φαινυλαιθυλικής αλκοόλης. Σημαντικές ποσότητες οκτανοϊκού οξέος και αιθυλεστέρα οκτανοϊκού οξέος ανιχνεύθηκαν στις παραγόμενες μπίρες. Διακρίθηκαν έτσι ενδιαφέροντα στοιχεία φρούτων και λουλουδιών χωρίς τη συμβολή ουσιών με αρνητικά αρώματα (off-flavor). Πραγματοποιήθηκε επίσης και ζύμωση καθαρής καλλιέργειας του ζυμομύκητα Metshnikowia pulcherrima σε δύο θερμοκρασίες (13 °C και 20 °C) για σύγκριση των αποτελεσμάτων του χρόνου ζύμωσης, της συγκέντρωσης των μη καταναλωθέντων σακχάρων, του ρυθμού κατανάλωσης του διαθέσιμου αμμωνιακού αζώτου, της περιεκτικότητας σε αιθανόλη και των παραγόμενων αρωματικών ενώσεων.
Confinement of two-body systems and calculations in $d$ dimensions
Creators: name: Garrido, E.
name: Jensen, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A continuous transition for a system moving in a three-dimensional (3D) space to moving in a lower-dimensional space, 2D or 1D, can be made by means of an external squeezing potential. A squeeze along one direction gives rise to a 3D to 2D transition, whereas a simultaneous squeeze along two directions produces a 3D to 1D transition, without going through an intermediate 2D configuration. In the same way, for a system moving in a 2D space, a squeezing potential along one direction produces a 2D to 1D transition. In this work we investigate the equivalence between this kind of confinement procedure and calculations without an external field, but where the dimension $d$ is taken as a parameter that changes continuously from $d=3$ to $d=1$. The practical case of an external harmonic oscillator squeezing potential acting on a two-body system is investigated in details. For the three transitions considered, 3D~$\rightarrow$~2D, 2D~$\rightarrow$~1D, and 3D~$\rightarrow$~1D, a universal connection between the harmonic oscillator parameter and the dimension $d$ is found. This relation is well established for infinitely large 3D scattering lengths of the two-body potential for 3D~$\rightarrow$~2D and 3D~$\rightarrow$~1D transitions, and for infinitely large 2D scattering length for the 2D~$\rightarrow$~1D case. For finite scattering lengths size corrections must be applied. The traditional wave functions for external squeezing potentials are shown to be uniquely related with the wave functions for specific non-integer dimension parameters, $d$.
Glass and Media Facades - Energy Refurbishment
Creators: name: Čikić Tovarović, Jasna
name: Ivanović-Šekularac, Jelena
name: Šekularac, Nenad
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: Modern cities and their architectural structures undergo significant functional and physical changes. In recent years, the interventions on building envelopes have increased. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze potential remodeling of glass facades, along with applying the concept of smart technologies, in order to increase energy efficiency of the existing buildings. This paper analyzes the modernization process of devastated glass façade of the tall Slavija hotel, built in 1960s in Belgrade, Serbia, taking into consideration some positive examples of transformation and reskinning of buildings, where the aspect of medialization is an active part of urban renewal. The subject of this paper is the analysis of research findings about the improved thermal comfort of this building, after performing the replacement of its glass façade and converting the hotel building into a office building. Special attention was paid to the implementation of media facades technologies and final effects on energy balance of the newly designed facade. The proposed solution is supposed to evaluate the improved thermal comfort that was achieved by a radical renovation of the facade and by replacing the existing facade with a new single façade (double and triple glazed units), with media elements as well as without them. The research results are presented as proposals for improving EE public buildings by implementing the latest system of curtain walls in order to increase the value of the buildings. One of the most important criteria included in the process of energy refurbishment is technological improvement of the existing buildings, along with the presentation of media facades. The case study is based on Energy Plus simulations.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
title: The Propagation of U.S. Shocks to Canada: Understanding the Role of Real-Financial Linkages
Creators: name: Beaton, Kimberly
name: Lalonde, René
name: Snudden, Stephen
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2010

description: This paper examines the transmission of U.S. real and financial shocks to Canada and, in particular, the role of financial frictions in affecting the transmission of these shocks. These questions are addressed within the Bank of Canada's Global Economy Model (de Resende et al. forthcoming), a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with an active banking sector and a detailed role for financial frictions. We find that U.S. financial shocks, as well as real shocks, have important effects on the Canadian economy. Moreover, financial frictions on both the demand and supply sides of credit amplify the first round impact of all types of U.S. shocks on the U.S. economy, as well as the second round impact on Canada. Real-financial linkages also increase the persistence of the Canadian response to U.S. shocks. We find that the interaction between the endogenous response of commodity prices and U.S. financial frictions plays an important role in the propagation of U.S. shocks to the Canadian economy. Finally, real-financial linkages also help to generate the positive cross correlation between domestic demand in the United States and Canada observed in the data, which is difficult to explain with a model where the transmission of shocks between countries is only based only on trade.
description: Les auteurs étudient comment les chocs qui touchent l'économie réelle et le secteur financier aux États-Unis se propagent au Canada et, en particulier, l'incidence que peuvent avoir les frictions financières dans leur diffusion. Ils exploitent à cette fin le modèle de l'économie mondiale utilisé par la Banque du Canada (de Resende et autres, à paraître), un modèle d'équilibre général dynamique et stochastique qui comporte un secteur bancaire actif et délimite précisément le rôle des frictions financières. Ils constatent que les chocs provenant des États-Unis, relatifs tant au secteur financier qu'à l'économie réelle, ont d'importantes répercussions sur l'économie canadienne. De plus, les frictions financières qui s'exercent aussi bien sur la demande que sur l'offre de crédit amplifient les effets de première vague de tous les types de chocs touchant l'économie américaine, ainsi que les effets de seconde vague au Canada. Les liens entre l'économie réelle et la sphère financière augmentent aussi la persistance des réactions canadiennes aux chocs survenant aux États-Unis. Les auteurs établissent que l'interaction entre la réaction endogène des prix des produits de base et les frictions financières joue un grand rôle dans la propagation au Canada des chocs nés aux États-Unis. Enfin, ces liens contribuent également à rendre compte de la corrélation positive croisée entre les demandes intérieures américaine et canadienne qui ressort des données, corrélation difficile à expliquer à l'aide d'un modèle dans lequel la transmission des chocs d'un pays à l'autre se fonde uniquement sur les échanges commerciaux existants.
Collisions and Mergers of Disk Galaxies: Hydrodynamics of Star Forming Gas
Creators: name: Lamb, Susan A.
name: Hearn, Nathan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the results of numerical simulations of colliding gas-rich disk galaxies in which the impact velocity is set parallel to the spin axes of the two galaxies. The effects of varying the impact speed are studied with particular attention to the resulting gaseous structures and shockwave patterns, and the time needed to produce these structures. The simulations employ an N-body treatment of the stars and dark matter, together with an SPH treatment of the gas, in which all components of the models are gravitationally active. The results indicate that for such impact geometries, collisions can lead to the very rapid formation of a central, rapidly rotating, dense gas disk, and that in all cases extensive star formation is predicted by the very high gas densities and prevalence of shocks, both in the nucleus and out in the galactic disks. As the dense nucleus is forming, gas and stars are dispersed over very large volumes, and only fall back towards the nucleus over long times. In the case of low impact velocities, this takes an order of magnitude more time than that needed for the formation of a dense nucleus.
description: To be published in Proceedings of 'The Evolution of Galaxies III- From simple approaches to self-consistent models,' held in Kiel, Germany, July 2002, Astrophysics and Space Science (Kluwer), vol. 284, p. 479, 2003
Heterocerus intermuralis
Creators: name: King, Jonas G.
name: Lago, Paul K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Heteroceridae
Heterocerus
Heterocerus intermuralis

description: 7. Heterocerus intermuralis (Pacheco)
 New Combination
(Fig. 12, 34, 60)
 Neoheterocerus intermuralis Pacheco 1964: 91.
 Description. Length 3.9 - 5.9 mm. Elytra grayish-brown, without reddish hue; dominated by pale markings that are highly variable in shape and definition and only vaguely trifasciate (Fig. 12); striae absent. Pronotal disc usually darker than elytra, apical angles of the pronotum pale or lateral pronotal margins evenly pale. Post-metathoracic coxal and post-mesothoracic coxal lines absent. Male genitalia (Fig. 34) of the typical Heterocerus type; anterior one-third of phallobase constricted to half of its greatest width, dorsal plate strongly notched on anterior and posterior edges (as in Fig. 38); parameres triangular, with medial edges diverging slightly. Hypermandibulate males common.
 Diagnosis. This species is easily separated from similar H. pallidus and H. gnatho due to its grayishbrown elytral hue. The elytra of the other two species range from testaceous to dark brown. If there is a question of identity, the male genitalia should be examined. The anterior third of the phallobase is constricted to a far greater extent than any other North American Heterocerus that lack post-mesothoracic coxal lines.
 Notes. During this study, specimens of H. intermuralis were collected from a variety of riparian habitats in Mississippi, as well as from widely separated spring fed mud-banked ponds and lakes in west Texas. Specimens were collected by Testa and Lago near brackish ponds on Point Clear Island, Hancock County, Mississippi, but this species was not reported as such by Lago et al. (2002).
 Distribution. Heterocerus intermuralis was previously recorded only from southern Texas. As part of this study, it was collected from three lacustrain locations in west Texas and eight in Mississippi (Fig. 60). Six Mississippi collection sites are located along rivers on the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, and another on the Pascagoula River, 2 miles from the Mississippi sound. Two specimens were collected on Point Clear Island, Hancock County, Mississippi, by Testa and Lago (reported as H. fatuus in Lago et al. 2002). Several series from the Dominican Republic were discovered among specimens in the Carnegie Museum, which marks the first Caribbean record for H. intermuralis.
 Specimens examined. 171 (See Appendix).
description: Published as part of King, Jonas G. & Lago, Paul K., 2012, The variegated mud-loving beetles (Coleoptera: Heteroceridae) of Mississippi and Alabama, with discussion and keys to the species occurring in the southeastern United States, pp. 1-53 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (275) on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5188356
Noise-Enhanced Parametric Resonance in Perturbed Galaxies
Creators: name: Sideris, Ioannis V.
name: Kandrup, Henry E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes how parametric resonances associated with a galactic potential subjected to relatively low amplitude, strictly periodic time-dependent perturbations can be impacted by pseudo-random variations in the pulsation frequency, modeled as coloured noise. One aim thereby is to allow for the effects of a changing oscillation frequency as the density distribution associated with a galaxy evolves during violent relaxation. Another is to mimic the possible effects of internal substructures, satellite galaxies, and or a high density environment. The principal conclusion is that allowing for a variable frequency does not vitiate the effects of parametric resonance; and that, in at least some cases, such variations can increase the overall importance of parametric resonance associated with systematic pulsations.
description: 9 pages, inclduing 8 figures
Visual Perception and Modelling in Unstructured Orchard for Apple Harvesting Robots
Creators: name: Kang, Hanwen
name: Chen, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vision perception and modelling are the essential tasks of robotic harvesting in the unstructured orchard. This paper develops a framework of visual perception and modelling for robotic harvesting of fruits in the orchard environments. The developed framework includes visual perception, scenarios mapping, and fruit modelling. The Visual perception module utilises a deep-learning model to perform multi-purpose visual perception task within the working scenarios; The scenarios mapping module applies OctoMap to represent the multiple classes of objects or elements within the environment; The fruit modelling module estimates the geometry property of objects and estimates the proper access pose of each fruit. The developed framework is implemented and evaluated in the apple orchards. The experiment results show that visual perception and modelling algorithm can accurately detect and localise the fruits, and modelling working scenarios in real orchard environments. The $F_{1}$ score and mean intersection of union of visual perception module on fruit detection and segmentation are 0.833 and 0.852, respectively. The accuracy of the fruit modelling in terms of centre localisation and pose estimation are 0.955 and 0.923, respectively. Overall, an accurate visual perception and modelling algorithm are presented in this paper.
description: 21 pages,10 figures
Theory of Quantum Optical Control of Single Spin in a Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Chen, Pochung
name: Piermarocchi, C.
name: Sham, L. J.
name: Gammon, D.
name: Steel, D. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory of quantum optical control of an electron spin in a single semiconductor quantum dot via spin-flip Raman transitions. We show how an arbitrary spin rotation may be achieved by virtual excitation of discrete or continuum trion states. The basic physics issues of the appropriate adiabatic optical pulses in a static magnetic field to perform the single qubit operation are addressed.
gzip archive containing Supplemental Files 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, associated with the submitted paper 'The identification of the replicative helicase loader gene dciA within the Helicobacter pylori genome challenges current replication initiation models for this bacterium'
Creators: name: Brézellec, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Supplemental file 1: 

List of the 77 Campylobacterales reference proteomes in UniProt/Proteome

Supplemental file 2:

List of the 49 proteins with the DUF721 domain (DciA signature) from Campylobacterales 'reference' proteomes

Supplemental file 3:

KEGG descriptions are provided for the two genes flanking the 24 dciA genes selected from the 49 previously identified genes with KEGG annotations

Supplemental file 4:

HHpred results for HP_0820/O25498_HELPY (default parameters) against Pfam-A (version 37, June 2024, 21,979 families)

Supplemental file 5: 

HHpred results for HPG27_779/B5Z7I5_HELPG (default parameters) against Pfam-A (version 37, June 2024, 21,979 families)
title: What Drives Exchange Rates? New Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Dollar Bilateral Exchange Rates
Creators: name: Cayen, Jean-Philippe
name: Coletti, Donald
name: Lalonde, René
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2010

description: We use a novel approach to identify economic developments that drive exchange rates in the long run. Using a panel of six quarterly U.S. bilateral real exchange rates – Australia, Canada, the euro, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom – over the 1980-2007 period, a dynamic factor model points to two common factors. The first factor is driven by U.S. shocks, and cointegration analysis points to a long-run statistical relationship with the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio, relative to all other countries in our sample. The second common factor is driven by commodity prices. Incorporating these relationships directly into a state-space model, we find highly significant coefficients. Then, we decompose the historical variation of each exchange rate into U.S. shocks, commodities, and a domestic component. We find a strong role for economic fundamentals: Changes in the two common factors, which are driven by the (relative) U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio and commodity prices, can explain between 36 and 96 per cent of individual countries’ exchange rates in our panel.
description: Les auteurs empruntent une approche inédite pour identifier les déterminants économiques de l’évolution des taux de change à long terme. À partir d’un modèle à facteurs dynamiques qu’ils estiment pour la période 1980-2007 au moyen de données de panel trimestrielles concernant le taux de change bilatéral réel du dollar É.-U. par rapport à six autres monnaies (dollars australien, canadien et néo-zélandais, euro, livre sterling et yen), ils dégagent deux facteurs communs. Le premier est influencé par les chocs qui surviennent aux États-Unis. Une analyse de cointégration révèle en effet une relation statistique de long terme entre ce facteur et le ratio de la dette américaine au PIB mesuré comparativement à celui observé dans chacun des autres pays considérés. Le second facteur commun est influencé par l’évolution des prix des produits de base. Si ces relations sont directement intégrées dans un modèle espace d’états, les coefficients obtenus sont très significatifs. Les variations passées de chaque taux de change sont ensuite décomposées en trois éléments : chocs enregistrés aux États-Unis, évolution des prix des produits de base et une composante intérieure. Les variables économiques fondamentales tiennent un rôle explicatif important : les modifications des deux facteurs communs associées au ratio (relatif) de la dette américaine au PIB et à l’évolution des prix des produits de base peuvent rendre compte de 36 à 96 % des fluctuations des six taux de change examinés.
A Chandra X-ray Study of the Globular Cluster M80
Creators: name: Heinke, C. O.
name: Grindlay, J. E.
name: Edmonds, P. D.
name: Lloyd, D. A.
name: Murray, S. S.
name: Cohn, H. N.
name: Lugger, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report our analysis of a Chandra X-ray observation of the rich globular cluster M80, in which we detect some 19 sources to a limiting 0.5-2.5 keV X-ray luminosity of 7*10^30 ergs/s within the half-mass radius. X-ray spectra indicate that two of these sources are quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries (qLMXBs) containing neutron stars. We identify five sources as probable cataclysmic variables (CVs), one of which seems to be heavily absorbed, implying high inclination. The brightest CV may be the X-ray counterpart of Nova 1860 T Sco. The concentration of the X-ray sources within the cluster core implies an average mass of 1.2+/-0.2 Msun, consistent with the binary nature of these systems and very similar to the radial distribution of the blue stragglers in this cluster. The X-ray and blue straggler source populations in M80 are compared to those in the similar globular cluster 47 Tuc.
description: Submitted to ApJ. 15 pages, 6 figures
title: Assembling a Real-Financial Micro-Dataset for Canadian Households
Creators: name: Faruqui, Umar
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2010

description: The lack of consolidated Canadian micro data on household balance sheets and expenditures has been an important impediment to empirical research into real-financial linkages in the Canadian household sector. Our paper attempts to fill this data gap by merging household balance sheet data from the Canadian Financial Monitor survey with household expenditure data from the Survey of Household Spending. The merge process uses a categorical matching framework aimed at preserving the heterogeneity in the underlying datasets. The resulting combined dataset is a novel source of Canadian micro data on household finances and spending patterns. The dataset covers the period 1999 till 2005 and contains roughly 11,000 observations (households) for each year. We plan to use these combined data to test key real-financial linkages (like those between house prices, debt and household expenditures) for the Canadian household sector.
description: L'absence de microdonnées regroupant les informations sur les bilans des ménages canadiens et leurs dépenses a sensiblement entravé la recherche empirique sur les liens entre variables réelles et variables financières dans le secteur des ménages. Les auteurs cherchent à combler cette lacune en fusionnant les données sur les bilans des ménages tirées de l'enquête Canadian Financial Monitor et celles provenant de l'Enquête sur les dépenses des ménages. Ils procèdent à cette fusion en appliquant un cadre d'appariement par catégories qui préserve l'hétérogénéité des données sous-jacentes. L'ensemble de données réuni représente une nouvelle source de microdonnées canadiennes sur les finances des ménages et leurs profils de dépenses. Il s'étend de 1999 à 2005 et renferme quelque 11 000 observations (ménages) par année. Les auteurs prévoient utiliser les données regroupées pour étudier certains des principaux liens entre variables réelles et variables financières dans le secteur canadien des ménages, par exemple ceux qui unissent les prix des maisons, la dette et les dépenses des ménages.
MOESM1 of Prevalence and determinants of anaemia in pregnant women receiving antenatal care at a tertiary referral hospital in Northern Ghana
Creators: name: Wemakor, Anthony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Study Questionnaire. This is the questionnaire used to collect the study data.
title: Time Variation in Okun's Law: A Canada and U.S. Comparison
Creators: name: Beaton, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2010

description: This article investigates the stability of Okun's law for Canada and the United States using a time varying parameter approach. Time variation is modeled as driftless random walks and is estimated using the median unbiased estimator approach developed by Stock and Watson (1998). Okun's law exhibits structural instability in both countries, with the sensitivity of the unemployment rate to movements in output growth increasing recently over time in both Canada and the United States.
description: L'auteure étudie la stabilité de la loi d'Okun au Canada et aux États-Unis au moyen d'un modèle à paramètres variables dans le temps. La variation temporelle est modélisée sous forme de marches aléatoires sans dérive et estimée à l'aide de la méthode d'estimation sans biais de la médiane élaborée par Stock et Watson (1998). La loi d'Okun affiche une instabilité structurelle dans les deux pays, la sensibilité du taux de chômage aux fluctuations de la croissance de la production s'étant graduellement accrue ces derniers temps tant au Canada qu'aux États-Unis.
Structural Strength of Laminated Glass
Creators: name: Rodichev, Yurii
name: Veer, Frederic
name: Strizhalo, Vladimir
name: Soroka, Elena
name: Shabetia, Alexander
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: The subject area "structural strength of materials" is defined generally as а complex of strength characteristics of materials and structural elements, obtained under special mechanical tests. It is shown that these tests should take into account not only the physical and mechanical properties of the material, but technology, blank processing, sphere of application, the influence of shape and sizes of elements as well as of their specific loading and operating conditions. Methods for evaluating the structural strength of glass as a linearly elastic material with high sensitivity to technological defects and operational damage are discussed in the paper. Some results of the study of the strength of elements of architectural and bulletproof laminated glass are given. The sizes of technological defects such as cracks in large-sized building elements are determined on the basis of the results of tests of sheet glass plates on bending. The bending strength of sheet float glass with a thickness up to 10 mm reinforced with modification of the glass surface using various industrial technologies is considered. Some methods and results of experimental study the features of the change in the strength and rigidity of laminated armored glass under multiple ballistic tests are also presented.
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Heterocerus angustatus Chevrolat 1864
Creators: name: King, Jonas G.
name: Lago, Paul K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Heteroceridae
Heterocerus
Heterocerus angustatus

description: 8. Heterocerus angustatus Chevrolat
(Fig. 17, 35, 61)
 Heterocerus angustatus Chevrolat 1864: 407.
 Neoheterocerus angustatus (Chevrolat): Pacheco 1964: 80.
 Description. Length 4.5 - 5.5 mm. Reddish brown. Elytra trifasciate; striae weakly indicated (Fig. 17). Post-metathoracic coxal and post-mesothoracic coxal lines absent. Male genitalia (Fig. 35) of the typical Heterocerus type; phallobase constricted to 80% of its greatest width anteriorly, then expanded slightly; median plate with faint brown ovate sclerites on either side anteriorly, median plate tapering anteriorly to a distinct point; dorsal plate ovoid, posterior edge truncate, neither end deeply notched; medial edges of parameres slightly divergent. Hypermandibulate males unknown.
 Diagnosis. Heterocerus angustatus is most similar to H. fatuus and H. sandersoni. Heterocerus angustatus and H. fatuus usually exhibit elytral striae that are much less distinct than those of H. sandersoni. Heterocerus angustatus usually has more extensive and paler elytral markings than H. fatuus; however, the male genitalia are the most reliable means of separating the three species. The simple (not notched), ovoid dorsal plate and the pointed medial plate distinguish this species from all other southeastern Heteroceridae.
 Notes. This species is known from a variety of habitats and appears to be most common in coastal areas in the Southeast. Within the region, it is most abundant in Florida, from which the great majority of specimens were seen. In fact, of the three species of Heterocerus occurring in that state, H. angustatus is by far the most abundant.
 Distribution. Heterocerus angustatus is widely distributed throughout the Caribbean and occurs north through most of the southeastern United States (Fig. 61), with two county records from Ohio. Pacheco (1964) reported localities from New York and Massachusetts, but no specimens from that far north were seen during this study.
 Specimens examined. 1085 (See Appendix).
description: Published as part of King, Jonas G. & Lago, Paul K., 2012, The variegated mud-loving beetles (Coleoptera: Heteroceridae) of Mississippi and Alabama, with discussion and keys to the species occurring in the southeastern United States, pp. 1-53 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (275) on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5188356
FUSE Spectra of the Black Hole Binary LMC X-3
Creators: name: Hutchings, J. B.
name: Winter, K.
name: Crampton, D.
name: Cowley, A. P.
name: Schmidtke, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Far-ultraviolet spectra of LMC X-3 were taken covering photometric phases 0.47 to 0.74 in the 1.7-day orbital period of the black-hole binary (phase zero being superior conjunction of the X-ray source). The continuum is faint and flat, but appears to vary significantly during the observations. Concurrent RXTE/ASM observations show the system was in its most luminous X-ray state during the FUSE observations. The FUV spectrum contains strong terrestrial airglow emission lines, while the only stellar lines clearly present are emissions from the O VI resonance doublet. Their flux does not change significantly during the FUSE observations. These lines are modelled as two asymmetrical profiles, including the local ISM absorptions due to C II and possibly O VI. Velocity variations of O VI emission are consistent with the orbital velocity of the black hole and provide a new constraint on its mass.
description: 12 pages including 1 table, 4 diagrams To appear in AJ
Thermo-mechanical Investigation of Novel GFRP-glass Sandwich Facade Components
Creators: name: Bedon, Chiara
name: Agullo, Carlos Pascual
name: Luna-Navarro, Alessandra
name: Overend, Mauro
name: Favoino, Fabio
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: Modern building envelopes are typically high-technological systems that need to meet strict requirements regarding architectural intent, structural capacity, energy-efficiency and durability. The study presented in this paper is based on recent research performed at the Glass & Façade Technology Research Group (University of Cambridge) that investigates high-performance engineered unitised systems as an alternative to traditional curtain-walls for building facades. The proposed unitised systems has a sandwich design made of two outer glass face sheets separated by, and bonded to, glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) pultruded profiles. This arrangement results in a lightweight and slim structure that could potentially provide high structural and thermal performances. Results discussed in this paper constitute a preliminary outcome of an extended investigation aimed to assess and compare, by means of Finite Element (FE) numerical simulations, the thermal and structural performances of novel frame-integrated (GFRP-glass) sandwich systems and traditional non-integrated frame curtain wall systems. The reported FE results, as shown, give evidence of the potential of the novel design concept, with improved thermal and structural performances compared to traditional non-integrated systems (up to +10% and +15%, respectively).
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title: Price Level Targeting: What Is the Right Price?
Creators: name: Shukayev, Malik
name: Ueberfeldt, Alexander
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2010

description: Various papers have suggested that Price-Level targeting is a welfare improving policy relative to Inflation targeting. From a practical standpoint, this raises an important yet unanswered question: What is the optimal price index to target? This paper derives the optimal price level targeting index defined over the eight main components of the Consumer Price Index. It finds that such an index places a heavier weight, relative to the expenditure weight, on sectors with slow price adjustments. However, using the expenditure weights instead of the optimal ones results in very small welfare cost.
description: Plusieurs études tendent à montrer que la poursuite d'une cible axée sur le niveau des prix apporte un gain en bien-être par rapport à un régime de ciblage de l'inflation. Sur le plan pratique, ce résultat soulève une question importante mais encore sans réponse : en fonction de quel indice des prix devrait-on définir cette cible? Les auteurs tentent d'établir la composition de l'indice cible optimal, à partir des huit grandes composantes de l'indice des prix à la consommation. Dans l'indice optimal obtenu, les secteurs dont les prix s'ajustent lentement sont affectés d'une pondération supérieure à celle des dépenses. Il reste qu'assigner aux différents secteurs un poids égal à celui des dépenses qui leur sont consacrées au lieu de pondérations optimales se traduit par un coût très faible en matière de bien-être.
Some basic aspects of quantum phase transitions
Creators: name: Shopova, D. V.
name: Uzunov, D. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several basic problems of the theory of quantum phase transitions are reviewed. The effect of the quantum correlations on the phase transition properties is considered with the help of basic models of statistical physics. The effect of quenched disorder on the quantum phase transitions is also discussed. The review is performed within the framework of the thermodynamic scaling theory and by the most general methods of statistical physics for the treatment of phase transitions: general length-scale arguments, exact solutions, mean field approximation, Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation, Feynman path integral approach, and renormalization group in the field theoretical variant. Some new ideas and results are presented. Outstanding theoretical problems are mentioned.
description: 81 pages, Latex2e, 8 figures, Phys. Rep.(2003) in press
Convergence of least squares estimators in the adaptive Wynn algorithm for a class of nonlinear regression models
Creators: name: Freise, Fritjof
name: Gaffke, Norbert
name: Schwabe, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62L05 (Primary) 62F12, 62J12 (Secondary)

description: The paper continues the authors' work on the adaptive Wynn algorithm in a nonlinear regression model. In the present paper it is shown that if the mean response function satisfies a condition of `saturated identifiability', which was introduced by Pronzato \cite{Pronzato}, then the adaptive least squares estimators are strongly consistent. The condition states that the regression parameter is identifiable under any saturated design, i.e., the values of the mean response function at any $p$ distinct design points determine the parameter point uniquely where, typically, $p$ is the dimension of the regression parameter vector. Further essential assumptions are compactness of the experimental region and of the parameter space together with some natural continuity assumptions. If the true parameter point is an interior point of the parameter space then under some smoothness assumptions and asymptotic homoscedasticity of random errors the asymptotic normality of adaptive least squares estimators is obtained.
Thermo-mechanical Numerical Modelling of Structural Glass under Fire - Preliminary Considerations and Comparisons
Creators: name: Bedon, Chiara
name: Louter, Christian
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: In this paper, careful consideration is paid for structural glass elements under fire loading. In particular, a thermo-mechanical Finite Element (FE) numerical investigation is carried out in ABAQUS on small-scale structural glass elements exposed to fire. Taking advantage of past literature efforts, major thermal effects on the material properties are taken into account in the form of key input parameters for numerical simulations. Further validation of the so calibrated FE models is then carried out towards past small-scale experimental fire tests on monolithic glass panels. A sensitivity FE study is hence proposed, giving evidence of major influencing parameters on the thermo-mechanical performance of the same structural glass elements, including variations in the fire exposure, thermal-to-mechanical loading ratio, geometrical and mechanical features of the specimens.
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title: Alternative Optimized Monetary Policy Rules in Multi-Sector Small Open Economies: The Role of Real Rigidities
Creators: name: De Resende, Carlos
name: Dib, Ali
name: Kichian, Maral
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2010

description: Inflation-targeting central banks around the world often state their inflation objectives with regard to the consumer price index (CPI). Yet the literature on optimal monetary policy based on models with nominal rigidities and more than one sector suggests that CPI inflation is not always the best choice from a social welfare perspective. We revisit this issue in the context of an estimated multi-sector New-Keynesian small open economy model where sectors are heterogeneous along multiple dimensions. With key parameters of the model estimated using data from an inflation targeting economy, namely Canada, we particularly focus on (i) the role of sector-specific real rigidities, specially in the form of factor mobility costs, and (ii) welfare implications of targeting alternative price indices. Our estimations reveal considerable heterogeneity across sectors, and in several dimensions. Moreover, in contrast to existing studies, our welfare analysis comparing simple optimized policy rules based on alternative sectoral inflation rates provides support for CPI-based targeting policies by central banks. Capital mobility costs matter importantly in this regard.
description: Les banques centrales de par le monde qui poursuivent des cibles d'inflation fixent fréquemment leurs objectifs par référence à l'indice des prix à la consommation (IPC). Or, selon la littérature qui fait appel, pour l'analyse de la politique monétaire optimale, à des modèles multisectoriels englobant des rigidités nominales, l'IPC ne serait pas toujours le meilleur étalon sous l'aspect du bien-être social. Les auteurs examinent de nouveau la question en se servant d'un modèle de type nouveau keynésien représentant une petite économie ouverte composée de plusieurs secteurs hétérogènes à différents égards. Ils estiment les principaux paramètres du modèle au moyen de données tirées d'une économie à régime de cibles d'inflation, en l'occurrence le Canada. Ils étudient notamment le rôle des rigidités réelles sectorielles, tout particulièrement sous forme de coûts de mobilité des facteurs, et les conséquences pour le bien-être du choix d'indices de prix autres que l'IPC. Leurs estimations révèlent une hétérogénéité intersectorielle appréciable, et ce, à plusieurs titres. Qui plus est, leur analyse du bien-être, fondée sur une comparaison de règles de politique monétaire simples et optimales sur la base de différents taux d'inflation sectoriels, accrédite les politiques de ciblage de l'inflation d'après l'IPC pratiquées par les banques centrales, à l'opposé des études antérieures. Les coûts de mobilité du capital sont déterminants à ce chapitre.
The HDF-North SCUBA Super-map I: Submillimetre maps, sources and number counts
Creators: name: Borys, C.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Halpern, M.
name: Scott, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the emission of sub-millimetre-wave radiation from galaxies in a 165 square arcminute region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North. The data were obtained from dedicated observing runs from our group and others using the SCUBA camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and combined using techniques specifically developed for low signal-to-noise source recovery. The resulting `Super-map' is derived from about 60 shifts of JCMT time, taken in a variety of observing modes and chopping strategies, and combined here for the first time. At 850 micron we detect 19 sources at >4 sigma, including 5 not previously reported. We also list an additional 15 sources between 3.5 and 4.0 sigma (where 2 are expected by chance). The 450 micron map contains 5 sources at >4 sigma. We present a new estimate of the 850 micron and 450 micron source counts. The number of sub-mm galaxies we detect account for approximately 40% of the 850 micron sub-mm background, and we show that mild extrapolations can reproduce it entirely. A clustering analysis fails to detect any significant signal in this sample of SCUBA detected objects. A companion paper describes the multiwavelength properties of the sources.
description: 15 pages, accepted by MNRAS
Gene Polymorphism of XRCC1 in Systemic Lupus Erythematous
Creators: name: Maysaa Mostafa
name: Abdelsalam, Mostafa
name: Sherine Abdel Rahman Abdel Karim Bassiouni
name: Osman, Asmaa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110703 Autoimmunity
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: word file of the article
MOESM1 of Comparison of different methods for the estimation of aortic pulse wave velocity from 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Creators: name: Houriez--Gombaud-Saintonge, Sophia
name: Mousseaux, Elie
name: Bargiotas, Ioannis
name: Cesare, Alain
name: Dietenbeck, Thomas
name: Bouaou, Kevin
name: Redheuil, Alban
name: Soulat, Gilles
name: Giron, Alain
name: Umit Gencer
name: Craiem, Damian
name: Messas, Emmanuel
name: Bollache, Emilie
name: Chenoune, Yasmina
name: Kachenoura, Nadjia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Bland-Altman plots for comparisons of 4D flow MRI aoPWV with Cf-PWV and BH-PWV.