cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: What To Do about Bilateral Credit Limits in the LVTS When a Closure Is Anticipated: Risk versus Liquidity Sharing among LVTS Participants
Creators: name: O’Connor, Sean
name: Caldwell, Greg
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: The authors examine the effect of a trade-off between shared credit risk and liquidity efficiency, among participants in Tranche 2 of the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS T2), on their decisions to leave open, or close, their bilateral credit limits (BCLs) to a participant at risk of imminent closure. The authors' analysis considers a network of three banks, in a settlement system similar to the LVTS T2. Although it is widely believed that closure of one bank is imminent, the exact timing of the closure – during or after the settlement cycle – is uncertain. The other two banks face an "open or close" choice regarding their BCLs to the problem participant. Based on the expected net payoff of each choice, which includes the value of network externalities, the analysis shows that, when the expected credit loss is sufficiently low, an open-BCL pure-strategy Nash equilibrium can exist and can be Pareto efficient. This result dispels the generality of the frequent assertion that participants in the LVTS T2 will close their BCLs to a participant that is subject to imminent closure.
description: Les auteurs examinent comment un arbitrage entre le partage du risque de crédit et l'efficience de la gestion de la liquidité amène les participants au Système de transfert de paiements de grande valeur (STPGV) ayant opté pour des paiements de tranche 2 soit à continuer d'octroyer une limite de crédit bilatérale à un participant menacé par une fermeture imminente, soit à clore cette ligne de crédit. Leur analyse porte sur un réseau bancaire tripartite dont le système de règlement s'apparente au mécanisme de tranche 2 du STPGV. La fermeture d'une des trois banques considérées est globalement jugée comme imminente, même si on en ignore le moment précis, c'est-à-dire si elle surviendra pendant ou après le cycle de règlement. Les deux autres banques sont placées devant une alternative : maintenir la limite de crédit qu'elles accordent au participant problématique ou lui en clore l'accès. Les avantages nets escomptés de chaque option, notamment la valeur des externalités du réseau, permettent de montrer que, dans l'éventualité où les créances irrécouvrables anticipées sont suffisamment faibles, un équilibre de Nash en stratégies pures est possible et peut être efficient selon le critère de Pareto si les limites de crédit sont maintenues. Cette conclusion vient réfuter l'idée reçue – souvent avancée – selon laquelle les participants au mécanisme de tranche 2 du STPGV cloront l'accès de leur limite de crédit bilatérale à un participant confronté à l'imminence d'une fermeture.
title: The Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds on International Financial Stability
Creators: name: Gomes, Tamara
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: Over the recent period, many emerging-market economies and commodity-exporting nations have experienced unprecedented growth and accumulated substantial amounts of foreign exchange reserves. The management of these foreign reserves has led to the emergence of important financial actors: sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). While SWFs have existed in one form or another since the 1950s, they have recently risen in prominence and been exposed to public scrutiny and debate. The author outlines their possible impact on international financial stability. She concludes that SWFs are long-term investors that can play a stabilizing role in financial markets by supplying liquidity and reducing market volatility. While characteristics such as a lack of transparency highlight the potential for destabilization by one or more SWFs, there is little evidence that this has occurred during the recent period. Similarly, the rise of financial protectionism, as host countries adopt rules to protect sensitive industries, might unduly restrict global capital flows, but it is not likely to destabilize the international financial system.
description: Ces dernières années, les économies émergentes et les nations exportatrices de matières premières ont été nombreuses à connaître une expansion économique inédite et à accumuler des réserves de change considérables, dont la gestion a induit la montée en puissance d'importants acteurs financiers : les fonds souverains. Alors que ces fonds existent sous une forme ou une autre depuis les années 1950, ils se trouvent depuis peu au centre de l'attention et font l'objet d'un examen et d'un débat publics. L'auteure décrit brièvement les effets que pourraient avoir les fonds souverains sur la stabilité financière internationale. Ces derniers, conclut-elle, sont des investisseurs à long terme susceptibles de remplir un rôle stabilisateur sur les marchés financiers en y injectant de la liquidité et en y atténuant la volatilité. Si des traits comme le manque de transparence font ressortir le risque de déstabilisation émanant de certains fonds, les données disponibles ne confirment guère la matérialisation de cette éventualité au cours de la période récente. De même, l'attisement du protectionnisme financier, avec l'adoption de règles par les pays destinataires d'investissements pour défendre leurs secteurs névralgiques, peut restreindre à tort la circulation des capitaux dans le monde, sans toutefois être de nature à perturber le système financier international.
The Effect of COVID-19 on Housing Affordability in the USA
Creators: name: Dandikatla, Rajneesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350205
subject: Household finance and financial literacy

description: This research paper, titled "The Effect of COVID-19 on Housing Affordability in the USA", examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing prices across four U.S. counties—Clark, Cobb, Maricopa, and Pima—compared to the national housing market. Utilizing descriptive statistics, t-tests, correlation analysis, and regression models, the study evaluates housing price trends across three distinct time periods: before, during, and after the pandemic.
title: The Canadian Dollar and Commodity Prices: Has the Relationship Changed over Time?
Creators: name: Maier, Philipp
name: DePratto, Brian
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: The authors examine the impact of the recent run-up in energy and non-energy commodity prices on the Canadian dollar. Using the Bank of Canada's exchange rate equation, they find that the differences between the actual value of the Canadian exchange rate and the simulated values observed in 2007 are not historically large. Still, given that there is some evidence that the sensitivity of the standard exchange rate equation to changes in energy and non-energy commodities may have changed over time, the authors explore different ways of modelling the impact of energy and non-energy commodity prices. Their results indicate that specifications that explicitly consider the importance of energy and non-energy commodities in Canada's export or production basket may yield more stable coefficient estimates, particularly over recent periods. Future research should investigate the robustness of these findings, particularly if, at some point, price increases for energy and non-energy commodities were to moderate.
description: Nous étudions l'incidence de la récente escalade des prix des produits de base énergétiques et non énergétiques sur le dollar canadien. Les écarts observés pour 2007 entre la valeur effective du dollar et sa valeur calculée à l'aide de l'équation de taux de change de la Banque du Canada ne sont pas très supérieurs à ceux constatés dans le passé. Mais comme certains éléments incitent à croire que la sensibilité de l'équation de taux de change traditionnelle à l'évolution des cours des produits énergétiques et non énergétiques pourrait avoir changé avec le temps, nous avons décidé d'explorer différentes façons de modéliser les effets associés aux prix de ces produits. Les résultats obtenus montrent que les équations qui tiennent expressément compte du poids des produits énergétiques et non énergétiques dans le panier des biens exportés ou fabriqués par le Canada peuvent donner lieu à des estimations plus stables des coefficients, notamment pour les périodes récentes. La robustesse de ces résultats devra être analysée plus à fond, surtout en cas de ralentissement de la hausse des cours des produits de base.
title: "San Giovanni Battista", copia da Sanzio Raffaello, inv. 420 (ITA/EN)
title: Scheda catalogo digitale Borghese
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Puddu, Pier Ludovico
name: Galleria Borghese
Publisher: name: Galleria Borghese
Year: 2024

description: Pubblicazione delle schede delle opere conservate nel museo ed estratte dal catalogo digitale di Galleria Borghese, nelle due versioni esistenti online, in italiano e inglese.

Collegamento al catalogo digitale:

ITA: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/

EN: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en
title: Financial Constraints and the Cash-Holding Behaviour of Canadian Firms
Creators: name: McVanel, Darcey
name: Perevalov, Nikita
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: The proportion of assets held by the average Canadian firm in the form of cash has increased steadily since the early 1990s, and is now roughly twice as large as in 1990. The literature has established that the cash-holding behaviour of firms is highly correlated with financial constraints and firm characteristics. The authors use a firm-level data set covering Canadian firms from 1980 to 2006 to understand which firm characteristics are associated with higher cash holdings. They find that financial constraints are likely important for explaining firms' higher cash holdings, and that the recent increase in the cash holdings of Canadian firms can be almost entirely explained by changes in firm characteristics. Specifically, higher recent cash holdings are correlated with the average Canadian firm having become smaller, having more variable cash flow, holding lower levels of cash substitutes, having higher expenditure on research and development, and being more likely to be financially distressed. The authors also find that the average Canadian firm has a cash ratio that is only slightly higher than would be predicted by out-of-sample forecasts over the 1990s and 2000s, though the divergence between the actual and predicted values has been increasing in recent years.
description: Depuis le début des années 1990, la proportion d'actifs détenus par l'entreprise canadienne moyenne sous forme de liquidités s'accroît régulièrement et a pratiquement doublé au cours de cette période. Des études ont montré que la détention d'actifs liquides est fortement corrélée avec les contraintes financières et les caractéristiques des sociétés. Les auteurs utilisent un ensemble de données individuelles relatives aux entreprises canadiennes pour les années 1980 à 2006 afin de cerner les caractéristiques associées au maintien d'un volant important de liquidités. Ils constatent que les contraintes financières constituent probablement un élément décisif à cet égard et que l'évolution des caractéristiques des entreprises explique presque entièrement l'accroissement récent de leurs actifs liquides. Ils font notamment ressortir une corrélation entre ce dernier phénomène et le fait que la taille de l'entreprise moyenne a diminué au Canada, que ses flux de trésorerie sont plus variables, qu'elle détient moins de substituts d'actifs liquides, que ses dépenses en recherche et développement ont augmenté et qu'elle est plus susceptible de connaître des difficultés financières. Les auteurs constatent en outre que le ratio des liquidités de l'entreprise canadienne moyenne est seulement légèrement supérieur à ce qu'indiqueraient les prévisions hors échantillon pour les décennies 1990 et 2000, bien que l'écart entre les valeurs réelles et prévues se soit creusé ces dernières années.
Demonstration. AiRT project
Creators: name: Santamarina-Campos, Virginia
name: De-Miguel-Molina, Blanca
name: de-Miguel-Molina, María
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: AiRT
RPAS
indoor positioning systems
aerial filming photography
intelligent navigation
3D scene reconstruction
advanced safety measure
IPS
Design Thinking
design for effectiveness
methodology
active toolkit
Storyboards
Storytelling
PAR
focus group
innovation
indoor drone
robotics
TRL
aerial film
creative industries
end-users
stakeholder

description: The objective of this deliverable number 18, D5.5 Report on results of demonstration, is to present the results obtained during the development of the activity TASK 5.3. Demonstration of the capacities of AiRT system, in a relevant scenario, which is part of the WP5: Integration, validation and demonstration. The scenario is the Science Museum, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, which is located in the City of Arts and Sciences (CAC). Nowadays, the CAC is considered as the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia. Therefore, this is an optimal environment to draw attention to our project and to demonstrate the potential of AiRT.

In order to perform the demonstration, we applied the PAR method, based on the critical analysis of the AiRT RPAS & software, with the active participation of some Cultural and Creative Industry (CCIs) stakeholders. This method combines two processes, to know and to act, involving the CCIs in both of them. Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) coordinated this activity because it has specialists in PAR for validating the process, with the collaboration of all partners.

 
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nº 732433.
Drapetisca socialis
Creators: name: Trilikauskas, Laimonas A.
name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Drapetisca
Drapetisca socialis

description: Drapetisca socialis (Sundevall, 1833) *
 Material. 1♀ (ISEA), KBR, upper reaches of Katun River, Zaichikha River mouth, 49°37.138’N 85°43.064’E, 1302 m a.s.l., near Zaichikha Ranger Station, 17.VIII.2020, leg. LT.
 Habitats. Green moss spruce forests.
 Range. Palaearctic.
description: Published as part of Trilikauskas, Laimonas A. & Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2021, New Data On Spider Fauna Of The Katunskiy State Nature Biosphere Reserve (Altai, Russia), With Description Of The Male Oreonetides Sajanensis Eskov, 1991 (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 137-153 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (2) on page 142, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12649834
title: A Survey and Risk Analysis of Selected Non-Bank Retail Payments Systems
Creators: name: Chande, Nikil
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: Payment services offered by non-banks have flourished in recent years. The author provides an overview of the different kinds of non-bank retail payments schemes currently available in Canada, illustrating each by focusing on a specific example. Current players in the Canadian marketplace include electronic bill consolidators, such as epost; online payment providers, like PayPal; and pre-funded schemes, such as retailers' gift cards. The author also discusses the main risks associated with each of the schemes, such as bankruptcy, banker, security, market, and liquidity risks. While the author does not undertake a complete analysis of the market failures that may justify regulation of non-bank retail payment services, he does set out a broad framework for considering whether users and providers of these services have the incentives to manage the associated risks. Since any regulatory response, if deemed to be justifiable after a more complete analysis, must be balanced in its approach, some of the costs of regulation in this area are also considered.
description: Les services de paiement offerts par les établissements non bancaires se sont largement développés au cours des dernières années. L'auteur brosse un tableau d'ensemble des divers types de services de paiement au détail non bancaires disponibles en ce moment au Canada et illustre chacun en mettant l'accent sur un exemple précis. À l'heure actuelle, on trouve sur le marché canadien des services de consolidation de factures électroniques, tels que postel; des services de paiement en ligne, dont PayPal; et des solutions de prépaiement, telles que les cartes-cadeaux de détaillants. L'auteur passe également en revue les principaux risques associés à chaque type de services, comme le risque du banquier, le risque lié à la sécurité ainsi que les risques de faillite, de marché et de liquidité. Même s'il n'analyse pas de façon exhaustive les défaillances du marché qui pourraient justifier la réglementation des services de paiement au détail non bancaires, l'auteur expose un cadre général qui permet d'évaluer la présence d'incitations à la gestion des risques chez les utilisateurs et les fournisseurs de ces services. Puisque l'introduction de toute contrainte réglementaire – dans l'éventualité où celle-ci serait jugée justifiable après une analyse plus complète de la question – doit répondre à un principe d'équilibre, l'auteur prend également en considération certains coûts qu'entraînerait une réglementation de ces services.
title: The Carry Trade, Portfolio Diversification, and the Adjustment of the Japanese Yen
Creators: name: Luu, Corinne
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: In this paper, the author considers whether fundamentals or other factors can explain the yen's ongoing weakness. In particular, the importance of capital outflows due to the carry trade and longer-term portfolio investment outflows, which may be delaying the adjustment of the yen, are investigated. A simple portfolio model is developed, composed of a speculative component and a minimum variance portfolio, to address the underlying motivation for capital outflows from Japan over the past ten years. The author's main findings suggest that a substantial portion of outflows may be attributed to diversification. Furthermore, given that considerable 'home bias' remains in Japanese households' portfolios, the results suggest that capital outflows from households, largely driven by diversification, may continue to dampen a long-run appreciation of the yen going forward. That said, evidence of substantial speculative outflows, through carry trades, complicates the outlook for the yen.
description: L'auteure se demande si des facteurs fondamentaux ou d'autres éléments justifient la faiblesse prolongée du yen. Elle s'attache plus précisément à évaluer le rôle des sorties de capitaux liées aux opérations de portage et aux placements à long terme, sorties qui sont susceptibles de retarder l'ajustement du yen. Pour cerner les mobiles qui sous-tendent depuis dix ans les sorties de fonds hors du Japon, l'auteure élabore un modèle de gestion de portefeuille simple intégrant une composante spéculative et un portefeuille de variance minimale. Les principaux résultats obtenus indiquent que les sorties de capitaux sont en grande partie motivées par une volonté de diversification. Qui plus est, comme les portefeuilles des ménages nippons restent largement composés d'actifs japonais, les fonds expatriés par les ménages, surtout à des fins de diversification, pourraient encore freiner dans l'avenir l'appréciation du yen à long terme. Cela dit, les signes d'importantes sorties de capitaux spéculatifs induites par les stratégies de portage compliquent les perspectives du yen.
Rural-Urban Residence and Stroke Risk and Severity in Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative
Creators: name: Cote, M.L
name: Booza, J
name: Sealy-Jefferson, S
name: Roseland, M
name: Whitsel, E.A
name: Simon, M.S
name: Lehman, A
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Background: The impact of rural-urban residence on stroke risk and poor stroke outcomes among postmenopausal women is unknown. Methods: We used data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) (1993-2014; n = 155,186) to test the hypothesis that women who live in rural compared with urban areas have higher stroke risk and worse stroke outcomes than urban women. We used rural-urban commuting area codes to categorize geocoded participant addresses into urban, large rural, or small rural areas. Incident strokes during follow-up were adjudicated by neurologists who used standardized criteria for reviewing brain imaging reports and other medical records and determining stroke subtype. Stroke functional recovery was measured with the Glasgow Stroke Outcomes Scale ascertained from the hospital record. We used univariable and multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards models as well as logistic regression models to test whether rural-urban residence predicted stroke risk and odds of poor stroke outcome. Results: Among the 155,186 women in our cohort, 2.3% (n = 3514) had an incident stroke. We observed a modest reduction in risk of incident stroke among women who lived in urban (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR]: 0.86, confidence interval [95% CI]: 0.71-1.05) and large rural areas (aHR: 0.79, 95% CI: 0.60-1.04) compared with women who lived in small rural areas. In contrast, women who lived in urban compared with large rural areas had a similarly modest increased risk of stroke (aHR: 1.09, 95% CI: 0.89-1.32). Women who lived in urban compared with large rural areas were more likely to have poor stroke outcome (odds ratio [OR]: 1.41, 95% CI: 1.06-1.88), but the association was attenuated after adjustment for covariates (adjusted OR [aOR]: 1.27, 0.93-1.74). Conclusions: Future studies should confirm and examine the potential pathways of the reported associations among postmenopausal women.
Pteropus keyensis
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Pteropus
Pteropus keyensis

description: 188.
Kai Flying Fox
Pteropus keyensis
French: Roussette des Kei / German: Kei-Flughund / Spanish: Zorro volador de Kei
Other common names: Kei Flying Fox
Taxonomy. Pteropus melanopogon var. keyensis Peters, 1867,
“Key-Inseln [= Kai Islands],” Indonesia.
Pteropus keyensis is in the melanopogon species group and was previously considered a subspecies of P. melanopogon. Monotypic.
Distribution. Kai Is, Indonesia.
Descriptive notes. Head-body 290 mm (tailless), ear 33 mm, hindfoot 54- 4 mm, forearm 179-188 mm. Greatest lengths of skulls are 78-90 mm and tibia 86- 5 mm. The Kai Flying Fox is similar to the Blackbearded Flying Fox (P. melanopogon) but with noticeably shorter rostrum. Ears are of moderate length, with rounded tips. Color 1s nearly uniformly yellow throughout, with whiter color at bases of hairs. Fur is like that of the Aru Flying Fox (P. aruensis), adpressed, silky, and longer than that of the Black-bearded Flying Fox, with fur thinly scattered on upperside of forearm in front of elbow. Tibia is naked. Uropatagium is reduced; calcar is small. Wing membranes do not arise much closer along sides of posterior spinal ridge as they do in the Aru Flying Fox and the Black-bearded Flying Fox. Skull of the Kai Flying Fox is typical pteropine;it is extremely heavy and robust, with large orbits, crests, and postorbital processes. Dental formula has 32 teeth as P! is missing. Dentition is heavy, with well-defined but narrow cingulum in upper and lower canines. C, is recurved. P| is slightly smaller than M* and slightly larger than M,. M" is 1-5 times longer than wide.
Habitat. Suspected dependence on mangroves.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. The Kai Flying Fox is nocturnal. It roosts in forested areas with low levels of disturbance.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. CITES Appendix II. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. The Kai Flying Fox is restricted to the Kai Islands, which are only 1440 km ” and have projected continuing habitat degradation, potentially qualifying it for Endangered status in the near future. Kai Kecil Island has been listed as a marine protected area, but there have been no confirmed records of the Kai Flying Fox in this area.
Bibliography. Andersen (1912b), Bergmans (2001), Corbet & Hill (1992), Simmons (2005), Tsang (2016k).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Pteropodidae, pp. 16-162 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 161, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6448815
DNA methylation-based estimator of telomere length
Creators: name: Baccarelli, A.A
name: Lu, A.T
name: Chen, W
name: Stewart, J.D
name: Deary, I.J
name: Raj, K
name: Li, Y
name: Wilson, J.G
name: Seeboth, A
name: Taylor, A
name: Whitsel, E.A
name: Bell, J.T
name: Mangino, M.
name: Kooperberg, C
name: Horvath, S
name: Ferrucci, L
name: Marioni, R.E
name: Aviv, A
name: Corley, J
name: Harris, S.E
name: Li, S
name: Assimes, T.L
name: Tsai, P.-C
name: Quach, A
name: Reiner, A.P
name: Sun, D
name: Hou, L
Publisher: name: Impact Journals LLC
Year: 2019

description: Telomere length (TL) is associated with several aging-related diseases. Here, we present a DNA methylation estimator of TL (DNAmTL) based on 140 CpGs. Leukocyte DNAmTL is applicable across the entire age spectrum and is more strongly associated with age than measured leukocyte TL (LTL) (r ~-0.75 for DNAmTL versus r ~ -0.35 for LTL). Leukocyte DNAmTL outperforms LTL in predicting: i) time-to-death (p=2.5E-20), ii) time-to-coronary heart disease (p=6.6E-5), iii) time-to-congestive heart failure (p=3.5E-6), and iv) association with smoking history (p=1.21E-17). These associations are further validated in large scale methylation data (n=10k samples) from the Framingham Heart Study, Women's Health Initiative, Jackson Heart Study, InChianti, Lothian Birth Cohorts, Twins UK, and Bogalusa Heart Study. Leukocyte DNAmTL is also associated with measures of physical fitness/functioning (p=0.029), age-at-menopause (p=0.039), dietary variables (omega 3, fish, vegetable intake), educational attainment (p=3.3E-8) and income (p=3.1E-5). Experiments in cultured somatic cells show that DNAmTL dynamics reflect in part cell replication rather than TL per se. DNAmTL is not only an epigenetic biomarker of replicative history of cells, but a useful marker of age-related pathologies that are associated with it.
Erigone cristatopalpus Simon 1884
Creators: name: Trilikauskas, Laimonas A.
name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Erigone
Erigone cristatopalpus

description: Erigone cristatopalpus Simon, 1884 *
 Material. 1♀ (ISEA), KBR, env. of Taimenye Lake, floodplain of Kharyuzovka River, 49°48’53.6”N 85°47’42.0”E, 1652 m a.s.l., 11.VIII.2019, leg. LT.
 Habitats. Dry riverbeds on a small islands, among plant residues.
 Range. Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Trilikauskas, Laimonas A. & Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2021, New Data On Spider Fauna Of The Katunskiy State Nature Biosphere Reserve (Altai, Russia), With Description Of The Male Oreonetides Sajanensis Eskov, 1991 (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 137-153 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (2) on page 143, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12649834
Orthosia Ochsenheimer 1816
Creators: name: Saldaitis, Aidas
name: Benedek, Balázs
name: Visinskiene, Giedre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Orthosia

description: Genus Orthosia Ochsenheimer, 1816
Orthosia Ochsenheimer, 1816, Schmett. Eur. 4: 79. Type species: Noctua instabilis [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775 (= Phalaena incerta Hufnagel, 1766). L.t.: Austria, Vienna district.
[Synonymy: Cuphanoa Hübner, 1816; Orthoa Billberg, 1820; Taeniocampa Guenée, 1839; Cyphonoa Agassiz, 1846, emend.; Microrthosia Berio, 1980.]
description: Published as part of Saldaitis, Aidas, Benedek, Balázs & Visinskiene, Giedre, 2011, Description of two new species of Noctuidae from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), pp. 60-68 in Zootaxa 3020 on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206835
title: Understanding Productivity: A Review of Recent Technical Research
Creators: name: Dion, Richard
name: Fay, Robert
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro levels. They focus primarily on papers written about Canada, but also draw on selected studies from other countries, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors extract the key results of the studies and signal important methodological features that underpin those results. They also identify areas for further research.
description: Les auteurs procèdent à une recension du nombre croissant d'études, tant macroéconomiques que microéconomiques, consacrées à la productivité. Bien qu'ils accordent une grande place dans leur recension aux travaux canadiens, les auteurs analysent aussi certaines études réalisées dans d'autres pays, notamment aux États-Unis, où la recherche éclaire par des contributions importantes des aspects précis de la croissance de la productivité. Les auteurs présentent les principaux résultats des travaux et leurs éléments méthodologiques les plus importants. Ils signalent enfin des pistes de recherche à explorer.
title: Sterilized Intervention in Emerging-Market Economies: Trends, Costs, and Risks
Creators: name: Lavigne, Robert
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: The author examines recent trends in sterilized intervention among emerging-market economies, to determine the size and extent of this policy in relation to earlier periods of heavy reserve accumulation. He then analyzes whether the domestic costs and risks of substantial and prolonged sterilization are beginning to manifest themselves. In particular, the author discusses the fiscal costs of sterilization and the recent increase in non-market-friendly sterilization methods, such as the rapid rise in reserve requirement ratios.
description: L'auteur examine les tendances récemment observées dans les économies émergentes au chapitre des interventions sur le marché des changes afin de déterminer l'ampleur et le degré de stérilisation de celles-ci par rapport aux périodes antérieures de forte accumulation de réserves officielles. Puis, il évalue si les coûts internes et les risques associés à des interventions stérilisées importantes et prolongées commencent à se matérialiser. Il s'intéresse en particulier aux coûts budgétaires de ces mesures et à l'augmentation récente de la popularité de certaines méthodes de stérilisation hétérodoxes, telle la hausse rapide des coefficients de réserves obligatoires.
Flagelliphantes bergstroemi
Creators: name: Trilikauskas, Laimonas A.
name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Flagelliphantes
Flagelliphantes bergstroemi

description: Flagelliphantes bergstroemi (Schenkel, 1931) *
 Material. 1♂ (ISEA), KBR, upper reaches of Katun River Valley, downstream of Zaichikha River, 500 m E of its mouth, 19.VIII.2020, leg. LT; 1♀ (ISEA), same locality, Zaichikha River Valley, 1 km upstream of its mouth, 49.619488N 85.717588E, 20.VIII.2020, leg. LT.
 Habitats. Tall herb spruce forests.
 Range. Fennoscandian-Siberian.
description: Published as part of Trilikauskas, Laimonas A. & Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2021, New Data On Spider Fauna Of The Katunskiy State Nature Biosphere Reserve (Altai, Russia), With Description Of The Male Oreonetides Sajanensis Eskov, 1991 (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 137-153 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (2) on page 143, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12649834
Synthesis, properties and applications of functionalized porphyrins and carboranes compounds
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: In the first part of the thesis, we described the design, synthesis, and characterization of five fluorinated zinc tetraphenyl porphyrins (FnZnTPPs). The compounds were fluorinated either on all ortho positions of the meso phenyl rings or in β-positions with two, four, six or eight fluorine groups. The FnZnTPPs were employed to investigate the effect of fluorine in on-surface synthesis approaches. Additionally, derivatives with bulkier substituents were synthesized and studied for a direct comparison with the corresponding fluorinated compounds. The structures and properties of the compounds were characterized by X-ray crystallography, UV-vis absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopies as well as electronic structure calculations of the ground state molecular properties. Steric and electronic effects of fluorination were also explored. Moreover, we investigated their application towards C−C bond formation on the surfaces of single metal crystals such as Cu(100), Ag(100), and Au(111) by dehydrofluorination. In the second part of the thesis, we reported two ortho-carborane triads, DMA-oCB-PhEPy and p-BrPh-oCB-PhEPy, where DMA is p-N,N-Dimethylaniline, PhEPy is 1-(p-phenylethynyl)pyrene and p-BrPh is p-Bromobenzene were studied in solution, as crystals and in the solid state. Both compounds exhibited aggregation-induced emission. The crystal structures of both triads exhibit novel non-covalent interactions between pyrene units and the carborane cages resulting in intermolecular charge transfer between the pyrene units and o-carborane moiety. Remarkably, these molecules display multiple emissive species, positioning them as potential candidates for single molecule white-light emission and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). Moreover, we also explored about how to modulate the efficiency of electron transfer in donor–bridge–acceptor (DBA) system by mid-infrared excitation. We employed carboranes (C2B10H12) as IR-sensitive bridge which connects the donor (D) and an acceptor (A) in DBA assemblies. Initially, we select a meta-carborane as the bridge(B), pyrene with a phenylethynyl unit (A) and N,N-dimethylaniline (D). The ortho-(1,2) carborane triad (DMA-oC-Preppy), meta-(1,7) carborane triad (DMA-much-PhEPy) and meta-(1,7) carborane triad (DMO-TPA-CB-ph-C2-NAP) are studied, as each will differ in D-A distance and electronic properties.
title: China's Exchange Rate Policy: A Survey of the Literature
Creators: name: Lafrance, Robert
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: China's integration into the world economy has benefited its people by reducing poverty and raising living standards, and it has benefited the industrialized world by producing manufactured goods at lower cost. It has also raised geopolitical concerns as China's power grows, economic concerns as the manufacturing base in many industrialized countries erodes, and polemics as proposals of protectionist measures to counter China's export growth are put forward. The author reviews the literature on how China's exchange rate regime could evolve and contribute, through greater flexibility, to tempering domestic inflationary pressures and to facilitating an orderly resolution of global imbalances. His main conclusions are that China would benefit from moving towards a more flexible exchange rate regime and allowing the People’s Bank of China greater independence to pursue an inflation-control objective. In a transition phase, a managed float would be useful to limit volatility as firms adapt to the new system and the banking system is put on a sounder footing, a monetary policy framework is put in place, and capital controls are progressively eased. Shock therapy (a quick and pronounced revaluation) would be ill advised.
description: L'intégration de la Chine dans l'économie mondiale profite à ce pays, où elle favorise le recul de la pauvreté et la hausse du niveau de vie, ainsi qu'aux États industrialisés, qui bénéficient pour leur part de la baisse du coût de production des biens manufacturés. Mais cette intégration soulève aussi des inquiétudes. Inquiétudes géopolitiques, du fait de la montée en puissance de l'empire du Milieu, et inquiétudes économiques – dans le contexte de l'érosion du tissu manufacturier de nombreux pays industrialisés – auxquelles s'ajoute une dimension polémique, alimentée par les mesures protectionnistes proposées pour contrer la croissance des exportations chinoises. L'auteur passe en revue les travaux publiés sur la manière dont une évolution du régime de change en Chine vers un flottement plus libre du yuan pourrait contribuer à l'atténuation des pressions inflationnistes intérieures et à la correction ordonnée des déséquilibres mondiaux. Sa principale conclusion est que la Chine gagnerait à adopter à terme un régime de changes flottants et à accorder à sa banque centrale davantage de latitude pour la poursuite d'un objectif de maîtrise de l'inflation. Pendant la transition, un régime de flottement dirigé aiderait à contenir la volatilité du taux de change, facilitant ainsi l'adaptation des entreprises, alors que les autorités s'attachent à assouplir graduellement le contrôle des mouvements de capitaux, à assainir le système bancaire et à mettre en place un cadre approprié pour la conduite de la politique monétaire. Administrer un remède de cheval, à savoir réévaluer le yuan de façon subite et marquée, serait ici mal inspiré.
Hilaira herniosa Trilikauskas 2019
Creators: name: Trilikauskas, Laimonas A.
name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Hilaira
Hilaira herniosa

description: Hilaira herniosa Trilikauskas, 2019: 287.
 Material. 1♂ & 8♀ (ISEA), KBR, upper reaches of Katun River, near Zaichikha River mouth, 49°37.138’N 85°43.064’E, 1302 m a.s.l., 16–26. VIII.2020, leg. LT; 5♂ & 5♀ (ISEA), KBR, upper reaches of Katun River Valley, Zaichikha River Valley, 1 km upstream of its mouth, 49.619488N 85.717588E, 18,20. VIII.2020, leg. LT; 3♂ & 10♀ (ISEA), KBR, upper reaches of Katun River Valley, downstream of Zaichikha River, 500 m E of its mouth, 15–26.VIII.2020, leg. LT; 3♀ (ISEA), KBR, same locality, 3.5 km upstream of Zaichikha River mouth, 49.614980N 85.717212E, 24.VIII.2020, leg. LT.
 Habitats. Green moss spruce forests, tall herb spruce forests, spruce-poplar forests.
 Range. Holarctic
description: Published as part of Trilikauskas, Laimonas A. & Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2021, New Data On Spider Fauna Of The Katunskiy State Nature Biosphere Reserve (Altai, Russia), With Description Of The Male Oreonetides Sajanensis Eskov, 1991 (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 137-153 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (2) on page 143, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12649834
title: Reforming the IMF: Lessons from Modern Central Banking
Creators: name: Maier, Philipp
name: Santor, Eric
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: The authors examine the institutional and governance framework of modern central banks to determine whether there are lessons that can be applied to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) institutional framework. Such a comparison is appealing for two reasons. First, both central banks and the IMF carry out tasks that can be described as "delegated responsibilities." Second, while monetary policy has yielded mixed results in many countries for decades, it has recently enjoyed considerable success in reducing inflation. Substantial changes to the institutional frameworks of central banks have, at least partly, contributed to this success. This raises a simple question: can the lessons learned from modern central banking help to strengthen the governance of the IMF? The authors argue they can. Governance reform would enhance the IMF's decision-making process and make the Fund more transparent and accountable, thus improving the effectiveness of its main instruments – surveillance and lending. The reforms proposed by the authors in this paper should not be viewed as immediately achievable goals; rather, they constitute a set of guiding principles for long-term governance reform.
description: Nous examinons le cadre institutionnel et de gouvernance des banques centrales modernes en cherchant à déterminer si celui-ci peut fournir des leçons applicables au cadre institutionnel du Fonds monétaire international (FMI). La comparaison présente de l'intérêt pour deux raisons. D'une part, tant les banques centrales que le FMI assument des responsabilités qu'on peut qualifier de « déléguées ». De l'autre, la politique monétaire a remporté depuis peu beaucoup de succès dans la réduction de l'inflation, après avoir donné lieu durant des décennies à des résultats mitigés dans de nombreux pays. Cette réussite découle – du moins en partie – des changements substantiels qui ont été apportés au cadre institutionnel des banques centrales. D'où cette question simple : les leçons inspirées de l'expérience des banques centrales peuvent-elles contribuer à renforcer la gouvernance du FMI? Nous soutenons que oui. La réforme de la gouvernance permettrait d'améliorer le processus décisionnel de l'organisme et amènerait le Fonds à faire preuve d'une plus grande transparence et à mieux rendre compte de ses actes. Résultat, l'efficacité des principaux instruments de l'institution – soit la surveillance et les prêts – s'en trouverait accrue. Les réformes que nous proposons ne représentent pas des objectifs immédiatement réalisables; il convient plutôt d'y voir un ensemble de principes directeurs susceptibles de baliser une réforme de longue haleine de la gouvernance.
Hypomma bituberculatum Levina & Mikhailov 2004
Creators: name: Trilikauskas, Laimonas A.
name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Hypomma
Hypomma bituberculatum

description: Hypomma bituberculatum Levina & Mikhailov, 2004: 45.
 Material. 1♀ (ISEA), KBR, env. of Taimenye Lake, floodplain of Kharyuzovka River, 49°48’53.6”N 85°47’42.0”E, 1652 m a.s.l., 11.VIII.2019, leg. LT.
 Habitats. Dry riverbeds on small islands, among plant residues.
 Range. Palaearctic.
description: Published as part of Trilikauskas, Laimonas A. & Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2021, New Data On Spider Fauna Of The Katunskiy State Nature Biosphere Reserve (Altai, Russia), With Description Of The Male Oreonetides Sajanensis Eskov, 1991 (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 137-153 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (2) on page 143, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12649834
title: The Effects of a Disruption in CDSX Settlement on Activity in the LVTS: A Simulation Study
Creators: name: Embree, Lana
name: Millar, Kirby
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: The Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) for settling large payments, and CDSX for settling debt and equity trades, are two of the main settlement systems in Canada. They are closely linked; for example, at the end of the day the final CDSX payment obligations must settle on the Bank of Canada's books, with payments made through the LVTS. CDSX settlement payments account for an important portion of LVTS activity. Therefore, any event that disrupts CDSX settlement may have systemic implications for the LVTS. Through simulation analysis, the authors quantitatively assess the potential impacts of a disruption to CDSX settlement on LVTS activity, and examine the mitigating actions implemented during such an event. Their results indicate that a disruptive event could lead to a considerable amount of rejected payments and payment delays. These findings highlight the importance of business continuity plans to prevent disruptions, contingency measures to ensure that delays are short, and mitigating actions that can be taken to reduce the impacts of a disruption when it does occur.
description: Le Système de transfert de paiements de grande valeur (STPGV), qui assure le règlement des gros paiements, et le CDSX, qui prend en charge le règlement des opérations sur titres de dette et de participation, comptent parmi les principaux systèmes de règlement du Canada. Les deux sont étroitement liés; par exemple, en fin de journée, le règlement final des obligations de paiement dans le CDSX doit être effectué dans des comptes tenus à la Banque du Canada, et les paiements connexes transitent par le STPGV. Les paiements de règlement dans le CDSX représentent une part élevée des opérations du STPGV. Par conséquent, toute perturbation du processus de règlement du CDSX peut avoir des répercussions systémiques sur le STPGV. Par une analyse de simulation, les auteurs de l'étude évaluent quantitativement les effets potentiels de ce type d'incident sur l'activité du STPGV, et ils passent en revue les mesures d'atténuation mises en oeuvre dans une telle situation. Leurs résultats indiquent qu'une perturbation du processus de règlement du CDSX peut entraîner un nombre considérable de rejets et de retards de paiement. Dans leurs conclusions, les auteurs soulignent l'importance des plans de continuité des opérations, pour prévenir les perturbations, des mesures de contingence, qui permettent de limiter la durée des retards, et des mesures d'atténuation, destinées à réduire les effets des perturbations.
title: The Global Effects of U.S. Fiscal Policy
Creators: name: Beaton, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2008

description: The author examines the global impact of U.S. fiscal policy using the Bank of Canada's Global Economy Model (Lalonde and Muir 2007). In particular, she examines the global macroeconomic implications of the expiration of major tax cuts in the United States and of expected increases in U.S. entitlement program expenditures. The results of her analysis suggest that the expiration of previously enacted tax cuts in the United States will impose short-run costs on the U.S. economy. However, the rest of the world will benefit from an associated decline in the world real interest rate and from a redistribution of wealth linked to a partial reversal of global current account imbalances as U.S. government debt declines. The author's analysis of the expected increase in U.S. entitlement program expenditures, financed through debt, suggests that entitlement program expenditures will crowd out economic growth in the United States and the rest of the world.
description: À l'aide du modèle de l'économie mondiale de la Banque du Canada (Lalonde et Muir, 2007), l'auteure examine l'incidence de la politique budgétaire américaine à l'échelle internationale. Elle s'intéresse en particulier aux conséquences macroéconomiques mondiales que peuvent avoir l'expiration d'importantes réductions de taxes et d'impôts aux États-Unis ainsi que les hausses prévues des dépenses au titre des programmes américains de droits à prestations. Les résultats de son analyse donnent à penser que l'expiration de ces baisses de taxes et d'impôts imposera des coûts à court terme à l'économie américaine. Cependant, le reste du monde profitera d'une réduction du taux d'intérêt mondial réel et d'une redistribution de la richesse liée à la correction partielle des déséquilibres des balances courantes à l'échelle du globe, parce que la dette du gouvernement américain diminue. L'analyse faite par l'auteure de l'accroissement prévu des dépenses liées aux programmes de droits à prestations aux États-Unis (financé par endettement) indique que ces dépenses exerceront un effet d'éviction sur la croissance économique aux États-Unis et dans le reste du monde.