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Cap and Dividend: How to Curb Global Warming While Protecting the Incomes Of American Families
Creators: name: Boyce, James K.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: This essay examines the distributional effects of a “cap-and-dividend” policy for reducing carbon emission in the United States: a policy that auc-tions carbon permits and rebates the revenue to the public on an equal per capita basis. The aim of the policy is to reduce U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the main pollutant causing global warming, while at the same time protect-ing the real incomes of middle-income and lower-income American families. The number of permits is set by a statutory cap on carbon emissions that gradually diminishes over time. The sale of carbon permits will generate very large revenues, posing the critical question of who will get the money. The introduction of car-bon permits – or, for that matter, any policy to curb emissions – will raise prices of fossil fuels, and have a regressive impact on income distri-bution, since fuel expenditures represent a lar-ger fraction of income for lower-income households than for upper-income households. The net effect of carbon emission-reduction policies depends on who gets the money that households pay in higher prices. We find that a cap-and-dividend policy would have a strongly progressive net effect. Moreover, the majority of U.S. households would be net winners in purely monetary terms: that is, their real incomes, af-ter paying higher fuel prices and receiving their dividends, would rise. From the standpoints of both distributional equity and political feasibil-ity, a cap-and-dividend policy is therefore an attractive way to curb carbon emissions.
The targum (1920:Jan. 13 - 1920:Jan. 20)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1920

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Hubungan Antara Locus Of Control Dengan Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Terhadap Remaja di Bekasi yang Mengalami Kekalahan Dalam Judi Online
Creators: name: Nastiti Sugiarti Rahayu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Penelitian ini menjelaskan tentang hubungan locus of control terhadap self-fulfilling prophecy remaja di Bekasi yang mengalami kekalahan dalam judi online. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengertahui apakah terdapat hubungan antara locus of control terhadap self fulfilling prophecy remaja yang mengalami kekalahan dalam judi online dengan menggunakan 101 responden yang berasal dari Bekasi. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis korelasi dengan tujuan untuk melihat hubungan dari kedua variabel yang diteliti, yang dalam proses analisis data menggunakan bantuan software IBM SPSS 25. Hasil nilai koefisiensi pada uji korelasi dengan metode Spearman dari variabel dan variabel terikat yang menunjukan sebesar 0.865**, yang memiliki arah hubungan positif dengan kategori sangat kuat. Adanya hubungan positif ini menunjukan bahwa, semakin tinggi Locus Of Control maka semakin tinggi Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, begitu pula sebaliknya, semakin rendah Locus Of Control maka semakin rendah Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
Structural annotation of repeated regions in the guava genome and development of molecular markers for regulatory regions
Creators: name: Pires, Giovanna Pinto
name: Fioresi, Vinicius Sartori
name: Drielli Canal
name: Dener Cezati  Canal
name: Miquéias  Fernandes
name:  Adésio  Ferreira
name: Da Silva Ferreira., Márcia Flores
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: This study examines simple sequence repeats (SSRs) impact on gene expression in Psidium guajava L., focusing on Brazilian cultivars Cortibel RM and Paluma. Among 1,107 transcripts, trinucleotide repeats were prevalent in coding sequences, especially in secondary metabolism like terpene metabolism. The analysis identified 72 differentially regulated genes with trinucleotide repeats, highlighting 12 SSRs as potential phenotypic markers for guava and related species.
The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities
Creators: name: Pollin, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: This study is focused on the employment effects of military spending versus channeling some significant part of the military budget into alternative purposes. We begin by introducing the basic input-output modeling technique for considering issues such as these in a systematic way. We also review the results of earlier efforts to compare the employment effects of military spending versus alternative government spending priorities.  We then present some simple alternative spending scenarios, namely devoting $1 billion to the military versus the same amount of money spent for five alternatives: tax cuts which produce increased levels of personal consumption; health care; education; mass transit; and construction targeted at home weatherization and infrastructure repair. We have included tax cuts/personal consumption in this list since it is the most straightforward alternative spending use—that the money freed up from a reduction in military spending goes back directly to taxpayers for them to use as they see fit. We have also, reluctantly, excluded a category for renewable energy investments. This is only because the data now available to us are not adequate to make reliable estimates as to the employment effects of investments in renewable energy projects. As a provisional substitute, one can consider the categories of mass transit and construction on home weatherization as constituting investments in energy conservation.
The Employment Effects of Downsizing the U.S. Military
Creators: name: Pollin, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: This study focuses on the employment effects of military spending versus channeling some significant part of the military budget into alternative purposes. We begin by introducing the basic input-output modeling technique for considering issues such as these in a systematic way. We then present some simple alternative spending scenarios, namely devoting $1 billion to the military versus the same amount of money spent for five alternatives: tax cuts which produce increased levels of personal consumption; health care; education; mass transit; and construction targeted at home weatherization and infrastructure repair. Our first conclusion in assessing such relative employment impacts is straightforward: $1 billion spent on personal consumption, health care, education, mass transit, and construction for home weatherization and infrastructure will all create more jobs within the U.S. economy than would the same $1 billion spent on the military. We then examine the pay level of jobs created through these alternative spending priorities and assess the overall welfare impacts of the alternative employment outcomes. We then consider what would be the impact on employment of transferring all $138 billion in funding that went to the Iraq war in 2007 into alternative peaceful purposes. As we show, a transfer of funds of this magnitude would enable the U.S. government to provide, for example, health insurance for the 45 million U.S. residents who are now uninsured, and still provide funds for significant investments in education and energy conservation. A transfer of the Iraq budget into these alternative purposes would also expand employment in the U.S. by between 600,000 – 1 million jobs, depending on how exactly the $138 billion were allocated.
Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe
Creators: name: Aitchison, Kenneth
name: MacGregor, Gavin
name: van Londen, Heleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430199
subject: Archaeology not elsewhere classified

description: Announcement of start of Europe-wide labour market intelligence for archaeologists project.Aitchison, K., MacGregor, G. & van Londen, H. 2013, “Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe”, The European Archaeologist 40, 18-19.
Financialization: What it is and Why it Matters
Creators: name: Palley, Thomas I.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: Financialization is a process whereby financial markets, financial institutions and financial elites gain greater influence over economic policy and economic outcomes. Financialization transforms the functioning of economic system at both the macro and micro levels.
Its principal impacts are to (1) elevate the significance of the financial sector relative to the real sector; (2) transfer income from the real sector to the financial sector; and (3) increase income inequality and contribute to wage stagnation. Additionally, there are reasons to believe that financialization may render the economy prone to risk of debt-deflation and prolonged recession.
Financialization operates through three different conduits: changes in the structure and operation of financial markets; changes in the behavior of non-financial corporations, and changes in economic policy.
Countering financialization calls for a multi-faceted agenda that (1) restores policy control over financial markets, (2) challenges the neo-liberal economic policy paradigm encouraged by financialization, (3) makes corporations responsive to interests of stakeholders other than just financial markets, and (4) reforms the political process so as to diminish the influence of corporations and wealthy elites.
Emigrant or Sojourner? Migration Intensity and Its Determinants
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Florian
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: This paper develops the concept of migration intensity, defined as the degree to which a migrant shifts his attachment, association and engagement from his place of origin to the migration destination. Among male Mexican migrants to the United States, we find strong complementarities among remittances, migration patterns, and localized investments in physical, social and human capital. Based on these, we derive a unidimensional Index of Migration Intensity (IMI). The IMI reveals that Mexicans use a continuum of migration strategies. The majority of Mexicans are characterized by low levels of migration intensity, but migration intensity has been growing over time. Cross-sectional variation of migration intensity is in accordance with a priori expectations: education, prior migration experience, foreign family ties, and original residence in communities with few economic opportunities all promote higher migration intensity. From the standpoint of sending countries, low migration intensity has the desirable effects of enhancing positive financial transfers and mitigating the resource losses connected to the human outflow. From the standpoint of receiving countries, low migration intensity may also be desirable depending on policy goals.
Review of Genomic features of asexual animals
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This paper addresses the question of whether there are distinct genomic features in animals that reproduce asexually. The authors examine a range of features in the genomes of 26 species representing 18 independent evolutionary origins of asexuality. The reviewers were unanimous that this is an interesting question, and find that exploring it in a broad evolutionary context is the right approach. However, they raised questions about biases in specific analyses that complicated their interpretation, and the extent to which the central claims can be supported without comparison to closely related sexual species.
Promoting Group Justice: Fiscal Policies in Post-Conflict Countries
Creators: name: Strewart, Frances
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: The need to build legitimate and capable states in wartorn societies is now widely recognized. The Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States, adopted by the development ministers of major donor countries in march 2005, declares that statebuilding is ‘the central objective.’ This represents a striking break from the prevailing wisdom in the closing decades of the 20th century, when the state was widely regarded as the problem. The state has been rediscovered: it is now invoked as the solution. The policy rhetoric has changed from downsizing states to building state capacity. Yet little systematic work has been done on what the international community can and should do to strengthen the capacities of post-war states to mobilize, allocate, and spend public resources.
Current Global Imbalances and the Keynes Plan
Creators: name: Costabile, Lilia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: The main objective of the present paper is to ask whether the Currency) Union scheme prepared by Keynes in the Forties, “Keynes Plan”, may still i.e. the Clearing (or at least in principleprovide useful remedies for this “terrorist” type of international imbalances. This will be done in two stages. Firstly, in section 2, the origins of international disequilibria are investigated. The purpose is to enquire whether current international monetary arrangements may generate some of the imbalances referred to above, because of the mechanisms built into them. Secondly, section 3 applies the remedies envisaged by the “Keynes Plan” to this source of international disequilibrium, and tries to assess their implications for current global imbalances. Section 4 concludes.
Exploring the Role of Expected Collision Feedback in Crowded Virtual Environments
Creators: name: Yun, Haoran
name: Ponton, Jose Luis
name: Beacco, Alejandro
name: Andujar, Carlos
name: Pelechano, Nuria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An increasing number of virtual reality applications require environments that emulate real-world conditions. These environments often involve dynamic virtual humans showing realistic behaviors. Understanding user perception and navigation among these virtual agents is key for designing realistic and effective environments featuring groups of virtual humans. While collision risk significantly influences human locomotion in the real world, this risk is largely absent in virtual settings. This paper studies the impact of the expected collision feedback on user perception and interaction with virtual crowds. We examine the effectiveness of commonly used collision feedback techniques (auditory cues and tactile vibrations) as well as inducing participants to expect that a physical bump with a real person might occur, as if some virtual humans actually correspond to real persons embodied into them and sharing the same physical space. Our results indicate that the expected collision feedback significantly influences both participant behavior (encompassing global navigation and local movements) and subjective perceptions of presence and copresence. Specifically, the introduction of a perceived risk of actual collision was found to significantly impact global navigation strategies and increase the sense of presence. Auditory cues had a similar effect on global navigation and additionally enhanced the sense of copresence. In contrast, vibrotactile feedback was primarily effective in influencing local movements.
description: Presented in IEEE VR 2024
External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1979–2006
Creators: name: Blecker, Robert A.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: This paper estimates the effects of external constraints on growth and investment
in the Mexican economy, and how those effects have changed since the economic liberalization
of the 1980s and the formation of NAFTA in 1994. Shocks to net financial inflows, world oil
prices, the U.S. growth rate, and the real value of the peso explain most of the fluctuations in
Mexico’s annual growth since 1979 (with structural breaks in some of these effects due to
liberalization or NAFTA). Both Hausman weak exogeneity tests and simultaneous equations
estimates generally support the view that growth drives investment but not the other way around,
in the short run. Inflows of foreign direct investment have positive effects on investment, but the
coefficients are small and their statistical significance is marginal.
Is Full Employment Possible under Globalization?
Creators: name: Pollin, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: To honor the life work of Professor Sumner Rosen, this lecture examines approaches to promoting full employment at decent jobs within our contemporary era of globalization. The lecture briefly summarizes the theories of unemployment of Marx, Friedman, Keynes and Kalecki. It then addresses the meaning of full employment within the alternative theories and under different historical and country settings. It next considers the issue of the inflation/unemployment trade-off, and the Meidner-Rehn Swedish approach to inflation control under full employment. It concludes by presenting a sketch of something approximating a full employment program for the contemporary U.S. economy, focusing on ending the Iraq war and reallocation public spending toward health care, education, and green growth.
Approximations in first-principles volumetric thermal expansion determination
Creators: name: Rostami, Samare
name: Gonze, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the realm of thermal expansion determination, the quasiharmonic approximation (QHA) stands as a widely embraced method for discerning minima of free energies across diverse temperatures such that the temperature dependence of lattice parameters as well as internal atomic positions can be determined. However, this methodology often imposes substantial computational demand, necessitating numerous costly calculations of full phonon spectra in a possibly many-dimensional geometry parameter space. Focusing on the volumetric thermal expansion only, the volume-constrained zero static internal stress approximation (v-ZSISA) within QHA allows one to limit significantly the number of phonon spectra determinations to typically less than 10. The linear Gruneisen approach goes even further with only two phonon spectra determinations to find the volumetric thermal expansion, but a deterioration of the accuracy of the computed thermal expansion is observed, except at low temperatures. We streamline this process by introducing further intermediate approximations between the linear Gruneisen and the v-ZSISA-QHA, corresponding to different orders of the Taylor expansion. The minimal number of phonon spectra calculations that is needed to maintain precise outcomes is investigated. The different approximations are tested on a representative set of 12 materials. For the majority of materials, three full phonon spectra, corresponding to quadratic order, is enough to determine the thermal expansion in reasonable agreement with the v-ZSISA-QHA method up to 800 K. Near perfect agreement is obtained with five phonon spectra. This study paves the way to multidimensional generalizations, beyond the volumetric case, with the expectation of much bigger benefits.
Discounting Nordhaus
Creators: name: Michl, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: This paper evaluates Nordhaus’s neoclassical complaints about the
Stern Review from the vantage point of classical growth theory. Nordhaus
argues that the Stern Review exaggerates the effects of global
warming because it uses a discount rate that is well below the market
rate of return on capital. From the perspective of classical growth theory,
Nordhaus’s belief in choosing preference parameters for the social
planner based on observed market rates of return filtered through the
Ramsey equation is equivalent to assigning the preferences of the capitalist
agents to the social planner. This equivalence is an implication
of the Cambridge Theorem, which interprets the Ramsey equation as
the saving function of the capitalist agents. The classical theory of
growth interprets the market return to capital as a reflection of the
property relations of capitalist society that does not offer the social
planner any information that would be useful in resolving the problem
of global warming. Contrary to the viewpoint of neoclassical economic
theory, the market return to capital offers no information about preferences
for the social welfare function or about the putative “marginal
product” of conventional capital.
Post-Conflict Recovery: Resource Mobilization and Peacebuilding
Creators: name: Boyce, James K.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: Societies embarked on the fragile transition from war to peace face enormous economic, social, and political challenges. In attempting to support this transition, the international community often provides substantial amounts of external assistance. This aid can play an important and constructive role in meeting pressing social needs and building a durable peace, but it would be naïve to assume either that positive effects are the automatic result of good intentions or that donors are motivated entirely by the objective of peacebuilding. This paper reviews evidence on the impact of aid in “post-conflict” settings and offers suggestions for making aid more effective in supporting efforts to build a durable peace. Part I discusses how economic assistance and conditionalities can be realigned to better serve peacebuilding objectives. Part II considers the other side of the coin: how peacekeeping operations and peacebuilding assistance can better support economic recovery, in particular by helping to build state fiscal capacities. Finally, Part III examines the interests and incentive structures that shape the behavior of aid donors, suggesting that their actions can be part of the problem as well as part of the solution.
Multi-band Image Restoration by Modeling Physical Emission Components
Creators: name: Marshall, Phil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Astrophysics

description: Synoptic imaging surveys have to keep going, whatever the observing conditions: this typically leads to astronomical objects being imaged with a range of different resolutions across the set of bandpasses being used. The best reconstructed image we could hope to make would have effective resolution a little higher than the highest resolution individual image; this would be achieved by fitting an appropriate model to all images simultaneously, such that the information in the higher quality images in one filter can inform the structure of the model in the other filters. A consequence of this line of reasoning is that the model could not be of just the appearance of the object in the individual bands; instead, it must be a model of physical emission components each with its own spectral energy distribution, so that the information can flow between bands as required. A simple example might be a disk-bulge galaxy decomposition; more generally, one could consider fitting a number of different stellar populations each with its own spectrum and morphology. In principle the spectra of the components could also be inferred from the data; certainly we have good hyper-priors for them.
Schur-Weyl Duality for Toroidal Algebras of Type $A$
Creators: name: Chari, Vyjayanthi
name: Grimley, Lauren
name: Lin, Zongzhu
name: Mangum, Chad R.
name: Uhl, Christine
name: Wilson, Evan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We state and prove an analog of the Schur-Weyl duality for a quotient of the classical $2$-toroidal Lie algebra of type $A$. We then provide a method to extend this duality to the $m$-toroidal case, $m > 2$.
Wage flexibility or Wage Coordination? Economic Policy Implications of the Wage-Led Demand Regime in the Euro Area
Creators: name: Stockhammer, Englebert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: Wage shares have fallen substantially in Europe since the early 1980s. To some extent this is due to a macroeconomic policy package that encourages wage flexibility and wage competition. A system of wage coordination in the Euro area would facility a return to a productivity-oriented wage policy by reducing wage competition. In a recent study on the demand effects of changes in functional income distribution Stockhammer, Onaran und Ederer (2007) find that the Euro area is in a wage-led demand regime. According to their results a reduction of the wage share by 1%-point leads to a reduction of demand by around 0.2%-points of GDP. This finding has far reaching implications for economic policy. A stable wage share would help stabilize demand. The paper aims, first, at clarifying some conceptual issues in the design of a European system of productivity-oriented wage coordination and, second, it discusses the economic policy implications of wage coordination. The present policy package assigns wages the role of a shock absorber. However, as wage reductions do have negative demand effects in a wage-led demand regime, this policy has a deflationary bias. A system of wage coordination will thus have to be complemented by a more active nation fiscal policies and more fiscal redistribution within the EU. If so a regime of productivity oriented wage coordination will help to stabilize demand and it is consistent with price stability.
title: Masernimpfpflicht: Zur Notwendigkeit einer Debatte über die Grenzen des (bislang) erlaubten Risikos
Creators: name: Rostalski, Frauke
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Stretch your reach: Studying Self-Avatar and Controller Misalignment in Virtual Reality Interaction
Creators: name: Ponton, Jose Luis
name: Keshavarz, Reza
name: Beacco, Alejandro
name: Pelechano, Nuria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Immersive Virtual Reality typically requires a head-mounted display (HMD) to visualize the environment and hand-held controllers to interact with the virtual objects. Recently, many applications display full-body avatars to represent the user and animate the arms to follow the controllers. Embodiment is higher when the self-avatar movements align correctly with the user. However, having a full-body self-avatar following the user's movements can be challenging due to the disparities between the virtual body and the user's body. This can lead to misalignments in the hand position that can be noticeable when interacting with virtual objects. In this work, we propose five different interaction modes to allow the user to interact with virtual objects despite the self-avatar and controller misalignment and study their influence on embodiment, proprioception, preference, and task performance. We modify aspects such as whether the virtual controllers are rendered, whether controllers are rendered in their real physical location or attached to the user's hand, and whether stretching the avatar arms to always reach the real controllers. We evaluate the interaction modes both quantitatively (performance metrics) and qualitatively (embodiment, proprioception, and user preference questionnaires). Our results show that the stretching arms solution, which provides body continuity and guarantees that the virtual hands or controllers are in the correct location, offers the best results in embodiment, user preference, proprioception, and performance. Also, rendering the controller does not have an effect on either embodiment or user preference.
description: Presented in CHI'24
Right-Financing Security Sector Reform
Creators: name: Middlebrook, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: The need to build legitimate and capable states in wartorn societies is now widely recognized. The Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States, adopted by the development ministers of major donor countries in March 2005, declares that statebuilding is ‘the central objective.’ This represents a striking break from the prevailing wisdom in the closing decades of the 20th century, when the state was widely regarded as the problem. The state has been rediscovered: it is now invoked as the solution. The policy rhetoric has changed from downsizing states to building state capacity. Yet little systematic work has been done on what the international community can and should do to strengthen the capacities of post-war states to mobilize, allocate, and spend public resources.
title: The Applicability of International Disaster Relief Law to Situations of Public Health Emergency: An Examination of the IFRC Model Emergency Decree for the Facilitation and Regulation of International Disaster Relief and Initial Recovery Assistance (2017)
Creators: name: Alba Reina, Miriam
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: International Disaster Relief Law
subject: Public Health Emergency
subject: IFRC Model Emergency Decree
subject: 341

description: Recent public health emergencies (PHEs) such as the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus 2020 have proved that no state can reasonably consider itself immune to the effects of health crises. In the wake of PHEs, in-country capacities are frequently overwhelmed by the prompted increase of needs and the urgency of processing them. It is within this context that the deployment of international relief operations (IROs) plays a substantive role. Up to 2021, there is no global legislative framework to govern the inflow of foreign relief operations in PHE settings on an international scale. This study argues that this void of regulation constitutes a legislative gap and thus explores venues to circumvent it. In doing so, this research examines the application of International Disaster Relief Law (IDRL) to PHEs. The study uses a socio-legal research methodology and, it undertakes the Model Emergency Decree for the Facilitation and Regulation of International Disaster Relief and Initial Recovery Assistance (2017) as the instrument of study. The research firstly assesses whether or to what extent the scope of the Model covers PHE situations and whether or to what extent the provisions of the document encompass the features of health crises. Following this analysis, the study puts forth a compendium of recommendations to accommodate the standing version of the Model (2017) to PHEs.
description: IFHV Working Paper Series, vol. 12.3
O PAPEL DO GESTOR NA INCLUSÃO DE AUTISTAS NO AMBIENTE DE TRABALHO
Creators: name: Noemy da Silva Lenhaverde Baltazar
name: Raiana Gonçalves de Jesus
name: Edmar Lucas Leone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Apesar dos avanços na conscientização sobre o autismo, ainda existem muitos estereótipos e estigmas que dificultam a integração desses profissionais no mercado de trabalho, desta forma, os gestores precisam saber quais são as preocupações infundadas sobre as capacidades e o desempenho das pessoas autistas, o que pode limitar as suas oportunidades de emprego. Uma das principais barreiras é a falta de compreensão e sensibilidade dos empregadores e colegas em relação às necessidades e capacidades das pessoas autistas, também há a falta de conhecimento sobre o espectro do autismo dificulta a integração desses profissionais no ambiente profissional. Por isto é de extrema importância que os gestores de uma empresa possam saber quais os sinais, sintomas e como lidar com essa população, pois não basta dizer que será tudo igualitário, mas sim transformar o ambiente de trabalho em um lugar de equidade e novas oportunidades de desenvolvimento. O que fomentou este trabalho, foi trazer as dificuldades dos gestores e como lidam com os funcionários do espectro autista, bem como qual é seu papel na construção de conhecimento do indivíduo que ali tem sua rotina de trabalho.
The Interplay between Labor and Financial Markets: What are the Implications for Defined Contribution Accounts?
Creators: name: Weller, Christian E.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: The relationship between earnings, savings and retirement is well-known, however the linkage between labor market outcomes and financial market performance is generally unacknowledged. We examine the implications of the link between labor markets and financial markets for workers who save money in individual retirement accounts. Specifically, differences in labor market outcomes across groups may imply differences in the timing of investments, which may reduce savings over time for these groups compared to their counterparts. Using monthly data from the Current Population Survey (1979-2002) we generate hypothetical investment portfolios using stock and bond indices. We exploit differences across demographic groups in unemployment and wage growth, and use these differences to examine each group’s investment outcomes. We then disaggregate the total effects into short-term and long-term components. We find some evidence of short-term market timing effects on investment, but we find much larger long-term effects for some groups. Our findings suggest that, for many people, the retirement savings losses associated with the timing of markets are similar to the costs of annuitizing savings upon retirement. The differences are especially pronounced by education and sex.
The Implications of Aging for the Structure and Stability of Financial Markets
Creators: name: D’Arista, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: Aging populations have altered saving and investment patterns in many developed and emerging market economies. The structural changes that have occurred have important implications for financial stability and for the conduct of monetary policy. As assets and borrowing shifted from banks to pension funds and other institutional investors, the market-based systems that replaced bank-based systems became more procyclical and more vulnerable to systemic risk. In addition, banks’ receding share of financial assets undermined their role in channeling monetary policy initiatives and thus eroded central banks’ ability to counter excessive credit growth and contraction, defuse asset bubbles and act as effective lenders-of-last-resort in crises. This paper offers policy choices and proposals to address the adverse outcomes of these structural and institutional developments that are likely to intensify under the ongoing pressure of demographic change.
Democracy, Income, and Environmental Quality
Creators: name: Gallagher, Kevin P.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: This paper considers the role of democracy in environmental quality and the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Some studies in the EKC literature have examined the extent to which democratic nations are more or less apt to have improving environmental conditions, but they have drawn from static measures of a nation’s current regime. In this paper we examine panel data from 1960 to 2001 and analyze the extent to which both the current level and the stock of a country’s democracy have significant and independent effects on a nation’s sulfur and carbon dioxide emissions. While we find no evidence for the short-run effect of the current level of democracy, we find strong evidence that long-term democracy stock helps lower sulfur and carbon dioxide emissions.
Consultoría KPN Safety Solutions
Creators: name: Traslaviña Pinzón, Jeniffer Alejandra
name: Ortiz Navarro, Jorge Rafael
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Administración de mercadeo
subject: Diagnóstico - Aspectos económicos
subject: Redes sociales
subject: Consultoría
subject: Seguridad industrial
subject: Bomberos
subject: Minería
subject: Marketing digital

description: KPN Safety Solutions es una empresa especializada en soluciones de seguridad industrial, que cuenta con un sitio web dentro del cual se aloja su eCommerce para Colombia. Si bien su core de negocio se centra en la venta consultiva B2B, cuenta con productos disponibles para venta inmediata de forma online. Es por esto que, dentro de la consultoría realizada, se tiene como fundamento la potencialización de los recursos con los que cuenta la compañía para que a través de estrategias de marketing digital esta logre un incremento de sus resultados, mejorando la experiencia de usuario en su eCommerce y llevándolo desde el conocimiento hasta la compra.
description: KPN Safety Solutions is a company specialized in industrial security solutions, which has a website within which its eCommerce for Colombia is hosted. While its core business is focused on B2B advisory sales, it has products available for immediate sale online. This is why, within the consultancy carried out, the foundation is the use of the resources that the company has in a better way, so that through digital marketing strategies it achieves an increase in its results, improving the user experience in their eCommerce and taking it from knowledge to purchase.
O'SIMLIK BIOMASSASINI KIMYOVIY USULDA FRAKSIYALARGA AJRATISH TEXNOLOGIYASI
Creators: name: Shaymardanova, Moxichehra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ion suyuqligi muhitida ishlov berishda lignotsellyuloza kompleksining parchalanishi avvalambor asosiy komponentlar o‘rtasidagi vodorod bog‘larning buzilishi bilan bog‘liq deb hisoblanadi.
Jobless Growth in the Central and Eastern European Countries
Creators: name: Onaran, Özlem
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: This paper estimates a labor demand equation based on the panel data of manufacturing industry in the Central and Eastern European Countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Romania) in order to test the effect of domestic factors (wages and output) and international factors (exports, imports, and FDI) on employment during the era of post-transition recovery. The findings indicate that employment does not respond to wages in more than half of the cases. The output elasticity of labor demand is mostly positive, but low, with a number of cases where employment is completely de-linked from output. An impressive speed of integration to the European economic sphere through FDI and international trade has not prevented job losses in the manufacturing industry. While there are very few cases of positive effects, insignificant effects of trade and FDI dominate the findings with some evidence of negative effects as well.
Ecommerce Llantaya.co
Creators: name: Castaño Mejía, Claudia Johana
name: Quevedo Rozo, Sharon Ximena
name: Rodríguez Ortega, Jenni Yulieth
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Comercio - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
subject: Mercadeo -Equipo
subject: Administración de empresas
subject: E-commerce llantas
subject: Mercado en llantas en Colombia
subject: Como comprar llantas por internet
subject: Mercado digital de llantas
subject: Experiencia de usuario

description: Llantaya.co surge con el fin de resolver la necesidad de una empresa tradicional para incursionar en el mercado digital de llantas. A través de un análisis profundo del mercado actual y del consumidor se realiza una propuesta de un nuevo canal de ventas E-commerce que ayude a llegar a un nuevo consumidor y por consiguiente tener un incremento en las ventas directas de la empresa Cleida. Se hace una propuesta donde a través de analizar la competencia se formula una experiencia de usuario ideal, un diseño amigable y acorde con las necesidades del prospecto de cliente al cual se desea llegar.
description: The idea of llantaya.co emerged to solve the need of a traditional company to penetrate the digital market of tires. Through a deep analysis of the current market and the consumer, a proposal is made to create a new E-commerce sales channel that helps to attract a new consumer and therefore have an increase in direct sales of the company Cleida. A proposal is made where through the analysis of the competition, an ideal user experience is formulated, a friendly design and according to the needs of the prospective customer to which it is desired to reach.
New Estimates of Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries: Linkages with External Borrowing and Policy Options
Creators: name: Ndikumana, Léonce
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: The first objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive set of estimates of capital flight for a sample of 40 African countries over the period of 1970-2004 to help in assessing the magnitude of the capital fight phenomenon. Second, the paper reviews the literature on the causes of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa as a way of identifying the factors that may be reversed by appropriate policy responses. Third, we provide new econometric evidence on the linkages between external borrowing and capital flight, one of the key relationships identified in the empirical literature. We confirm the robustness of the debt-capital flight relationships by estimating the capital flight equation using a proxy of capital flight that is independent of debt in its construction. This proxy is bank deposits held by African non-bank private agents in Western banks. Bank deposits are one of the means by which smuggled funds are held abroad and thus are related to our measure of capital flight. Thus we are able to confidently conclude that the strong relationship between capital flight and external borrowing is not a spurious relationship arising from the definition of capital flight that we use in the paper. Fourth, the paper discusses strategies to prevent and reverse capital flight with a special emphasis on the rationale for advocating the doctrine of odious debt for the repudiation of illegitimate debts. The paper closes with a summary of the evidence and the arguments.
Resources for Peace? Managing Revenues from Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Environments
Creators: name: Le Billon, Philippe
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: The need to build legitimate and capable states in wartorn societies is now widely recognized. The Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States, adopted by the development ministers of major donor countries in March 2005, declares that statebuilding is ‘the central objective.’ This represents a striking break from the prevailing wisdom in the closing decades of the 20th century, when the state was widely regarded as the problem. The state has been rediscovered: it is now invoked as the solution. The policy rhetoric has changed from downsizing states to building state capacity. Yet little systematic work has been done on what the international community can and should do to strengthen the capacities of post-war states to mobilize, allocate, and spend public resources.
The targum (1920:Feb. 3 - 1920:Feb. 24)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1920

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
stjude/CICERO reference files
Creators: name: Liqing Tian
name: Yongjin Li
name: Edmonson, Michael
name: Zhou, Xin
name: Newman, Scott
name: McLeod, Clay
name: Thrasher, Andrew
name: Liu, Yu
name: Tang, Bo
name: Rusch, Michael
name: Easton, John
name: Ma, Jing
name: Davis, Eric
name: Trull, Austyn
name: J. Robert Michael
name: Szlachta, Karol
name: Mullighan, Charles
name: Baker, Suzanne
name: Downing, James
name: Ellison, David
name: Jinghui Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Reference files required for running CICERO
Evaluation of Metal Lattice Structures With X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography: Dimensional Accuracy and Manufacturability
Creators: name: Puttonen, Tuomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: X-Ray Computed Tomography
Additive Manufacturing
Lattice Structures

description: Scripts used for data handling and CT data analysis in the publication of the given title : - Rhinoceros / Grasshopper definition to create lattice structures with the IntraLattice plugin - ImageJ macro to run measurements on all images on a stack - Standalone Python code to count part volume from binary CT data - A Rhinoceros Python script to generate a point cloud from a mesh
The Backward Bending Phillips Curves: A Simple Model
Creators: name: Palley, Thomas I.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: This paper develops a simple macroeconomic model of the backward bending Phillips curve that allows easy comparison with the neo-Keynesian and new classical models of the Phillips curve. There are two separate explanations of the backward bending Phillips curve and the model incorporates both. One explanation focuses on near-rational inflation expectations and aggregation of expectations across workers. The other explanation focuses on nominal wage setting behavior and aggregation of nominal wage behavior across sectors. The paper concludes with some observations about the implications of the backward bending Phillips curve for monetary policy.
Keynesian Models of Deflation and Depression Revisited: Inside Debt and Price Flexibility
Creators: name: Palley, Thomas I.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008

description: This paper extends Tobin’s (1975) Keynesian analysis of deflation to include a range of
additional channels through which deflation exacerbates Keynesian unemployment. The
paper provides further theoretical reasons why downward price level adjustment may not
solve the Keynesian problem. These arguments challenge the received wisdom that
Keynes’ General Theory is a special case resting on downwardly rigid prices and
nominal wages. This conventional wisdom has led many economists to recommend
policies promoting downward flexibility. These policies have created an environment in
which deflation is more likely, giving new relevance to Keynesian analysis of deflation.