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A practical guide to managing systemic financial crises : a review of approaches taken in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, and Thailand
Full text linkThe author examines experiences in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, and Thailand in confronting systemic financial crises during the 1990s. He draws on the knowledge and experience of World Bank staff who managed the Bank's financial and technical assistance to those countries. In reviewing the principal actions taken by the governments to resolve the crises, the author describes key challenges that governments face in tackling crises, defines basic guidelines and principles for responding to those challenges, and proposes steps to improve the ability of governments to deal with crises when they do occur, as well as to mitigate the risk of crises in the first place. The author addresses matters such as the provision of liquidity, institutional arrangements for crisis resolution, use of public funds, diagnosis of problems, resolution, recapitalization, restructuring of banks, privatization of banks, restructuring of troubled debt, and use of asset management companies. He goes on to develop the conceptual underpinnings for two fundamental improvements in crisis management practices, one to develop an explicit, comprehensive crisis resolution strategy, and the second to link the provision of support to banks explicitly to the actual outcomes of troubled debt restructuring. A common theme in both is to maximize the impact of public funds used in crisis resolution. Finally the author identifies steps that governments can take to mitigate the risk of crisis and be better prepared to deal with shocks should they occur, including the use of contingency planning in the context of liquidity management and intervention in weak banks.Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Municipal Financial Management,Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Financial Intermediation,National Governance,Municipal Financial Management
Improving measurements of SF<sub>6</sub> for the study of atmospheric transport and emissions
Full text linkSulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a potent greenhouse gas and useful atmospheric tracer. Measurements of SF6 on global and regional scales are necessary to estimate emissions and to verify or examine the performance of atmospheric transport models. Typical precision for common gas chromatographic methods with electron capture detection (GC-ECD) is 1–2%. We have modified a common GC-ECD method to achieve measurement precision of 0.5% or better. Global mean SF6 measurements were used to examine changes in the growth rate of SF6 and corresponding SF6 emissions. Global emissions and mixing ratios from 2000–2008 are consistent with recently published work. More recent observations show a 10% decline in SF6 emissions in 2008–2009, which seems to coincide with a decrease in world economic output. This decline was short-lived, as the global SF6 growth rate has recently increased to near its 2007–2008 maximum value of 0.30±0.03 pmol mol−1 (ppt) yr−1 (95% C.L.)
2441. Bataille de Muret
No full text2441. Bataille de Muret. In: Molinier Auguste. Les Sources de l'histoire de France - Des origines aux guerres d'Italie (1494). III. Les Capétiens, 1180-1328. Paris : A. Picard et fils, 1903. p. 68
2441. Bataille de Muret
No full text2441. Bataille de Muret. In: Molinier Auguste. Les Sources de l'histoire de France - Des origines aux guerres d'Italie (1494). III. Les Capétiens, 1180-1328. Paris : A. Picard et fils, 1903. p. 68
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Analysis of photometric observations of the variable HS 2231+2441
Full text linkВ работе выполнены анализ фотометрических наблюдений и определение параметров молодой предкатаклизмической переменной с sdB-субкарликом, HS 2231+2441. При дифференциальной обработке наблюдений построены кривые блеска объекта в полосах V и R. Их модельный анализ проведен с применением моделей облучаемых звездных атмосфер при совместном учете эффектов отражения и несферичности компонент. В итоге оптимального описания наблюдаемых кривых блеска переопределена часть параметров системы: угол наклона и большая полуось орбиты, радиусы и массы компонент HS 2231+2441. Полученный набор параметров хорошо соответствует современным представлениям о характеристиках подобных систем.The paper analyzes photometric observations and determines the parameters of a young precataclesmic variable with the subdwarf B, HS 2231+2441. During differential processing of observations, the light curves of the object in the V and R bands were constructed. Their model analysis was carried using models of irradiated stellar atmospheres with the combined consideration of the effects of reflection and nonsphericity of the components. As a result of the optimal description of the observed light curves, some of the parameters of the system were redefined: the inclination angle and semi-major axis of the orbit, the radii and masses of the components of HS 2231+2441. The resulting set of parameters is in good agreement with modern ideas about the characteristics of such systems
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