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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3117076
title: Volatile voters, short-term choices? An analysis of the vote choice determinants of stable and volatile voters in Great Britain<sup>†</sup>

description: The increase of electoral volatility in established democracies is typically interpreted as proof that short-term factors are increasingly important determinants of vote choice. The empirical evidence to support this assertion, however, is relatively weak. This paper addresses this question by investigating the impact of both long- and short-term determinants on the vote choices of stable and volatile voters in Britain. Analysis of three British election panels (1992–1997, 1997–2001 and 2005–2010) indicates that short-term factors – especially economic issues – do have more weight in determining the vote choices of volatile voters compared with stable voters. However, the results also reveal that the growth in instability of voting behaviour is driven mainly by the weakening impact of long-term factors and not by increasing importance of short-term determinants of the vote choice. Short-term predictors are becoming more important, therefore, but this gain in strength is in relative rather than absolute terms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3117094.v1
title: Simultaneous standardisation of modules and their components: a global economic perspective

description: This paper deals with the problem of simultaneous standardisation of a set of modules and of several sets of components that may be combined in these modules. The aim is to minimise future costs of production and procurement. We introduce a multilevel standardisation that permits to link the level of forecasts used in manufacturing companies with the modules. This formulation determines the composition of the module i.e. their Bill of Material instead of using a predetermined one. The model takes into account coupling restrictions between components and also permits to modelise the possibility of lifting some of them through ‘junction components’. Our model proposes an efficient approach to deal with temporal dimension in the standardisation process. This approach is illustrated with a real case from the automotive industry and some of the related implementation problems are discussed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3117076.v2
title: Volatile voters, short-term choices? An analysis of the vote choice determinants of stable and volatile voters in Great Britain<sup>†</sup>

description: The increase of electoral volatility in established democracies is typically interpreted as proof that short-term factors are increasingly important determinants of vote choice. The empirical evidence to support this assertion, however, is relatively weak. This paper addresses this question by investigating the impact of both long- and short-term determinants on the vote choices of stable and volatile voters in Britain. Analysis of three British election panels (1992–1997, 1997–2001 and 2005–2010) indicates that short-term factors – especially economic issues – do have more weight in determining the vote choices of volatile voters compared with stable voters. However, the results also reveal that the growth in instability of voting behaviour is driven mainly by the weakening impact of long-term factors and not by increasing importance of short-term determinants of the vote choice. Short-term predictors are becoming more important, therefore, but this gain in strength is in relative rather than absolute terms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3117076.v1
title: Volatile voters, short-term choices? An analysis of the vote choice determinants of stable and volatile voters in Great Britain

description: The increase of electoral volatility in established democracies is typically interpreted as proof that short-term factors are increasingly important determinants of vote choice. The empirical evidence to support this assertion, however, is relatively weak. This paper addresses this question by investigating the impact of both long- and short-term determinants on the vote choices of stable and volatile voters in Britain. Analysis of three British election panels (1992–1997, 1997–2001 and 2005–2010) indicates that short-term factors – especially economic issues – do have more weight in determining the vote choices of volatile voters compared with stable voters. However, the results also reveal that the growth in instability of voting behaviour is driven mainly by the weakening impact of long-term factors and not by increasing importance of short-term determinants of the vote choice. Short-term predictors are becoming more important, therefore, but this gain in strength is in relative rather than absolute terms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3117031
title: Ubicación de los Incendios alrededor de la Reserva Nacional Hidráulica de Burro Negro y la Zona Protectora Machango, estado Zulia, Venezuela, entre enero 2015 y marzo 2016

description: Ante las alertas sobre el incremento de los incendios en la cuenca del Lago de Maracaibo, y especialmente en los alrededores del embalse Pueblo Viejo (Burro Negro) y Machango, en el primer trimestre de 2016 elaboré una serie de imágenes que permiten visualizar la acumulación de incendios mensuales entre enero de 2015 y marzo 2016 (hasta el 16 de marzo) en la costa oriental del lago de Maracaibo del estado Zulia, y estados aledaños en Venezuela. <br><br>En las imágenes se puede observar la ubicación de fuegos activos (reportados para el mes de referencia) y recientes (reportados para los tres meses anteriores al mes de referencia). <br><br>Las imágenes permiten comparar el desarrollo temporal de los incendios y contrastar las diferencias entre años. Se observa un dramático incremento en el primer trimestre de 2016 comparado con los trimestres anteriores e incluso con la situación observada en el primer trimestre de 2015.<br><br>Los eventos de fuegos e incendios fueron consultados en el servicio FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) de la NASA (disponible en https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/firms). La imágen de fondo es un capa de cobertura de la tierra (disponible en http://glcf.umd.edu/data/lc/). Los datos de cobertura de la tierra y el algoritmo de detección de eventos de fuego son derivados de productos de los sensores remotos MODIS Terra y MODIS Aqua. <br><br><b>Referencias:<br></b>Channan, S., K. Collins, and W. R. Emanuel. 2014. Global mosaics of the standard MODIS land cover type data. University of Maryland and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, Maryland, USA.<br><br>Friedl, M.A., D. Sulla-Menashe, B. Tan, A. Schneider, N. Ramankutty, A. Sibley and X. Huang (2010), MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets, 2001-2012, Collection 5.1 IGBP Land Cover, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA<br><br>Giglio, L., Descloitres, J., Justice, C. O. and Kaufman, Y. 2003. An enhanced contextual fire detection algorithm for MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment 87:273-282. doi: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00184-6<br> <br>
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3117034
title: Mechanistic insights into transient severe mitral regurgitation

description: Acute mitral regurgitation (AMR), a known complication of acute coronary syndromes, is usually associated with posterior papillary muscle dysfunction/rupture. In severe cases, management of AMR requires surgical intervention. Reversible severe AMR in patients in the absence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction and coronary artery stenosis may result from processes which cause transient subendocardial ischemia, such as intermittent episodes of hypotension or coronary artery vasospasm. We present two cases of reversible transient AMR due to subendocardial and/or endocardial ischemia, both of which offer insight into the mechanism of transient severe AMR.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3117034.v1
title: Mechanistic insights into transient severe mitral regurgitation

description: Acute mitral regurgitation (AMR), a known complication of acute coronary syndromes, is usually associated with posterior papillary muscle dysfunction/rupture. In severe cases, management of AMR requires surgical intervention. Reversible severe AMR in patients in the absence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction and coronary artery stenosis may result from processes which cause transient subendocardial ischemia, such as intermittent episodes of hypotension or coronary artery vasospasm. We present two cases of reversible transient AMR due to subendocardial and/or endocardial ischemia, both of which offer insight into the mechanism of transient severe AMR.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116959
title: Restrictions on Risk Prices in Dynamic Term Structure Models

description: Restrictions on the risk-pricing in dynamic term structure models (DTSMs) tighten the link between cross-sectional and time-series variation of interest rates, and make absence of arbitrage useful for inference about expectations. This article presents a new econometric framework for estimation of affine Gaussian DTSMs under restrictions on risk prices, which addresses the issues of a large model space and of model uncertainty using a Bayesian approach. A simulation study demonstrates the good performance of the proposed method. Data for U.S. Treasury yields calls for tight restrictions on risk pricing: only level risk is priced, and only changes in the slope affect term premia. Incorporating the restrictions changes the model-implied short-rate expectations and term premia. Interest rate persistence is higher than in a maximally flexible model, hence expectations of future short rates are more variable—restrictions on risk prices help resolve the puzzle of implausibly stable short-rate expectations in this literature. Consistent with survey evidence and conventional macro wisdom, restricted models attribute a large share of the secular decline in long-term interest rates to expectations of future nominal short rates. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116971
title: Frank, Vul, & Saxe (2011), Infancy - Raw Data

description: Raw data for Frank, Vul, & Saxe (2011), Infancy, repository to analyze is at github.com/mcfrank/quantum
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116980
title: AVSNdata.zip

description: Here you can find the raw data for the manuscript entitled "Audio-Visual and Meaningful Semantic Context Enhancements in Older and Younger Adults." The files include individual accuracy data and amalgamated neuropsychological z-scores, and hearing thresholds for both young adults and older adults.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116971.v1
title: Frank, Vul, & Saxe (2011), Infancy - Raw Data

description: Raw data for Frank, Vul, & Saxe (2011), Infancy, repository to analyze is at github.com/mcfrank/quantum
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116980.v1
title: AVSNdata.zip

description: Here you can find the raw data for the manuscript entitled "Audio-Visual and Meaningful Semantic Context Enhancements in Older and Younger Adults." The files include individual accuracy data and amalgamated neuropsychological z-scores, and hearing thresholds for both young adults and older adults.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116956
title: Inferring the Predictability Induced by a Persistent Regressor in a Predictive Threshold Model

description: We develop tests for detecting possibly episodic predictability induced by a persistent predictor. Our framework is that of a predictive regression model with threshold effects and our goal is to develop operational and easily implementable inferences when one does not wish to impose à priori restrictions on the parameters of the model other than the slopes corresponding to the persistent predictor. Differently put our tests for the null hypothesis of no predictability against threshold predictability remain valid without the need to know whether the remaining parameters of the model are characterized by threshold effects or not (e.g., shifting versus nonshifting intercepts). One interesting feature of our setting is that our test statistics remain unaffected by whether some nuisance parameters are identified or not. We subsequently apply our methodology to the predictability of aggregate stock returns with valuation ratios and document a robust countercyclicality in the ability of some valuation ratios to predict returns in addition to highlighting a strong sensitivity of predictability based results to the time period under consideration.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116887
title: Efficient production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from <i>Pseudomonas mendocina</i> PSU using a biodiesel liquid waste (BLW) as the sole carbon source

description: Conditions for the optimal production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) by <i>Pseudomonas mendocina</i> PSU using a biodiesel liquid waste (BLW) were determined by response surface methodology. These were an initial carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N) of 40 (mole/mole), an initial pH of 7.0, and a temperature of 35 °C. A biomass and PHA concentration of 3.65 g/L and about 2.6 g/L (77% DCW), respectively, were achieved in a growth associated process using 20 g/L glycerol in the BLW after 36 h of exponential growth. The PHA monomer compositions were 3HB (3-hydroxybutyrate), a short-chain-length-PHA, and the medium-chain-length-PHA e.g. 3-hydroxyoctanoate and 3-hydroxydecanoate. Both the <i>phbC</i> and <i>phaC</i> genes were characterized. The <i>phbC</i> enzyme had not been previously detected in a <i>Pseudomonas mendocina</i> species. A 2.15 g/L of an exopolysaccharide, alginate, was also produced with a similar composition to that of other <i>Pseudomonas</i> species. PHA biosynthesis from biodiesel liquid waste (BLW) by <i>Pseudomonas mendocina</i> PSU.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116956.v1
title: Inferring the Predictability Induced by a Persistent Regressor in a Predictive Threshold Model

description: We develop tests for detecting possibly episodic predictability induced by a persistent predictor. Our framework is that of a predictive regression model with threshold effects and our goal is to develop operational and easily implementable inferences when one does not wish to impose à priori restrictions on the parameters of the model other than the slopes corresponding to the persistent predictor. Differently put our tests for the null hypothesis of no predictability against threshold predictability remain valid without the need to know whether the remaining parameters of the model are characterized by threshold effects or not (e.g., shifting versus nonshifting intercepts). One interesting feature of our setting is that our test statistics remain unaffected by whether some nuisance parameters are identified or not. We subsequently apply our methodology to the predictability of aggregate stock returns with valuation ratios and document a robust countercyclicality in the ability of some valuation ratios to predict returns in addition to highlighting a strong sensitivity of predictability based results to the time period under consideration.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116959.v2
title: Restrictions on Risk Prices in Dynamic Term Structure Models

description: Restrictions on the risk-pricing in dynamic term structure models (DTSMs) tighten the link between cross-sectional and time-series variation of interest rates, and make absence of arbitrage useful for inference about expectations. This article presents a new econometric framework for estimation of affine Gaussian DTSMs under restrictions on risk prices, which addresses the issues of a large model space and of model uncertainty using a Bayesian approach. A simulation study demonstrates the good performance of the proposed method. Data for U.S. Treasury yields calls for tight restrictions on risk pricing: only level risk is priced, and only changes in the slope affect term premia. Incorporating the restrictions changes the model-implied short-rate expectations and term premia. Interest rate persistence is higher than in a maximally flexible model, hence expectations of future short rates are more variable—restrictions on risk prices help resolve the puzzle of implausibly stable short-rate expectations in this literature. Consistent with survey evidence and conventional macro wisdom, restricted models attribute a large share of the secular decline in long-term interest rates to expectations of future nominal short rates. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116887.v1
title: Efficient production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from <i>Pseudomonas mendocina</i> PSU using a biodiesel liquid waste (BLW) as the sole carbon source

description: Conditions for the optimal production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) by <i>Pseudomonas mendocina</i> PSU using a biodiesel liquid waste (BLW) were determined by response surface methodology. These were an initial carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N) of 40 (mole/mole), an initial pH of 7.0, and a temperature of 35 °C. A biomass and PHA concentration of 3.65 g/L and about 2.6 g/L (77% DCW), respectively, were achieved in a growth associated process using 20 g/L glycerol in the BLW after 36 h of exponential growth. The PHA monomer compositions were 3HB (3-hydroxybutyrate), a short-chain-length-PHA, and the medium-chain-length-PHA e.g. 3-hydroxyoctanoate and 3-hydroxydecanoate. Both the <i>phbC</i> and <i>phaC</i> genes were characterized. The <i>phbC</i> enzyme had not been previously detected in a <i>Pseudomonas mendocina</i> species. A 2.15 g/L of an exopolysaccharide, alginate, was also produced with a similar composition to that of other <i>Pseudomonas</i> species. PHA biosynthesis from biodiesel liquid waste (BLW) by <i>Pseudomonas mendocina</i> PSU.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116959.v1
title: Restrictions on Risk Prices in Dynamic Term Structure Models

description: Restrictions on the risk-pricing in dynamic term structure models (DTSMs) tighten the link between cross-sectional and time-series variation of interest rates, and make absence of arbitrage useful for inference about expectations. This paper presents a new econometric framework for estimation of affine Gaussian DTSMs under restrictions on risk prices, which addresses the issues of a large model space and of model uncertainty using a Bayesian approach. A simulation study demonstrates the good performance of the proposed method. Data for U.S. Treasury yields calls for tight restrictions on risk pricing: only level risk is priced, and only changes in the slope affect term premia. Incorporating the restrictions changes the model-implied short-rate expectations and term premia. Interest rate persistence is higher than in a maximally-flexible model, hence expectations of future short rates are more variable—restrictions on risk prices help resolve the puzzle of implausibly stable short-rate expectations in this literature. Consistent with survey evidence and conventional macro wisdom, restricted models attribute a large share of the secular decline in long-term interest rates to expectations of future nominal short rates.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116884.v1
title: The discriminative value of inflammatory back pain in patients with persistent low back pain

description: <b>Objectives</b>: To estimate the prevalence of inflammatory back pain (IBP) characteristics and analyse the discriminative value of IBP relative to axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) according to the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) criteria. <b>Method</b>: Patients who had low back pain for &gt; 3 months were selected from a cohort of secondary care patients aged 18–40 years. Data included information on SpA features, human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 typing, C-reactive protein (CRP) level, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the sacroiliac joints, and self-reported IBP questions covering the pain characteristics included in the Calin, Berlin, and ASAS IBP definitions. <b>Results</b>: Of the 759 included patients, 99% [95% confidence interval (CI) 98–100] had at least one IBP characteristic. The prevalence of the single IBP characteristics ranged from 10% (95% CI 7–12) for ‘pain worst in the morning’ to 79% (95% CI 76–82) for ‘morning stiffness’. Two-thirds of the patients (67%, 95% CI 63–70), met at least one of the three IBP definitions. In all, 86 (11%) were classified as ‘SpA according to ASAS’. All three IBP definitions were significantly associated with ‘SpA according to ASAS’; however, the discriminative value was low, with sensitivity, specificity, and balanced accuracy values of 64, 50, and 57% for Calin, 59, 60, and 60% for Berlin, and 35, 79, and 57% for ASAS IBP definitions, respectively. <b>Conclusions</b>: In this study population, IBP characteristics were in general common and the discriminative value was low, as IBP could not differentiate patients with SpA according to ASAS criteria from patients with other causes of back pain.
DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.3116833
title: The homeService corpus v1.0

description: The <em>homeService</em> corpus is a new English database of realistic audio recorded from speakers with severe dysarthria which has been gathered as part of the Natural Speech Technology (NST) showcase, named homeService. The majority of the corpus is recorded in real home environments where voice control is often the normal means by which users interact with their devices.The <i>homeService corpus v1.0</i> is the first release of the audio recorded within the homeService project and it consists of audio recordings of dysarthric speech from 5 different subjects (three male, two female).<br> Each subject's set is composed by two subsets: enrolment data (ER) and interaction data (ID). A 16kHz mono audio resulting from the beam-formed combination of the 6 channels recorded with a microphone array is provided along with manual and automatic transcriptions.An agreement with University of Sheffield has to be signed to use the data.<strong>Audio cannot be redistributed under any circumstance</strong>.To <strong>download</strong> the homeService corpus please send a request to <em>homeservice-group@sheffield.ac.uk</em>
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116815
title: Input file for "Asymmetry between galaxies with clockwise handedness and counterclockwise handedness"

description: Input files for WEKA. Instructions for replicating the experiments can be found in the appendix of "Asymmetry between galaxies with clockwise handedness and counterclockwise handedness".<br><br>The data files include the CSV file to be used in WEKA, and the CSV file to be used by Wndchrm/UDAT.<br><br>There are also two files with randomized galaxy handedness, one to be used with WEKA and one to be used with Wndchrm/UDAT.<br><br>
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3116767
title: Puerto Rico: medios de acceso a la Internet

description: Gráfica que muestra, por tres años consecutivos, los medios para acceder a la Internet, encontrando que el 76.7% lo accede desde celulares, el 53.9% desde computadoras portátiles y el 14.5% desde tabletas (Asociación de Ejecutivos de Ventas y Mercadeo de Puerto Rico, 2014 y Fernández, 2015). Este estudio, comparado con el del año anterior (Rodríguez, 2013), reflejó que el medio con mayor por ciento de crecimiento fue el celular seguido de la tableta, sin embargo, el uso de la portátil registró un descenso de 10% comparado con el año anterior (2013 y 2014).<br><br>