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Application of the IS-MP-IA model to the German economy and policy implications
No full textExtending the IS-MP-IA model developed by Romer (2000) and applying the GARCH (Engle, 1982, 2001) methodology, the author finds that equilibrium GDP in Germany is positively affected by stock market performance and real exchange rate appreciation, and negatively influenced by the expected inflation rate, the government deficit/GDP ratio, and the U.S. federal funds rate. The relatively low deficit/GDP ratio of 1.83% in 2003 indicates that its fiscal condition was healthy. However, some other EU members may need to exercise fiscal discipline. Because real appreciation has a positive impact on output, a stronger euro may not be a concern for Germany but may be worried by those EU member nations which depend upon exports to stimulate their economies.
Phymatosmylus Adams 1969
No full textPhymatosmylus Adams, 1969 Most of the forewing crossveins have a single seta borne on a swelling at midpoint of each veinlet; forewing has MP forks in the middle of the length of the wing, CuA anteriorly pectinate and A1 fuses with A2; in male forewing there may be one, two or three nygmata between proximal branch of Rs and MA, sometimes there is one between last two branches of Rs, and a few, between MA and MP; all veins are thickened and filled with granular substance in male forewing, in female only bases of Cu and A1 are slightly thickened. Hindwing has basal piece of MA joining R before the origin of Rs-MA; between last branch of Rs and MA there is a distal nygma, one or two nygmata can be seen in the region between last two branches of Rs. Anterior coxa of female has two irregular rows of pedestalled setae; arolium is bilobed (Adams 1969). Distribution. Chile, Argentina.Published as part of Martins, Caleb Califre, Ardila-Camacho, Adrian & Aspöck, Ulrike, 2016, Neotropical osmylids (Neuroptera, Osmylidae): Three new species of Isostenosmylus Krüger, 1913, new distributional records, redescriptions, checklist and key for the Neotropical species, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 4149 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25680
Phymatosmylus Adams 1969
No full textPhymatosmylus Adams, 1969 (Figs 54–56) Type species. Phymatosmylus caprorum Adams, 1969: 5 (by original designation). Diagnosis. Female forecoxa with anterior patch of pedicellate setae; wings elongate and falcate with acute apex, highly variably in colour and extent of markings; female with FW CuP and 1A veins incrassate, male with all FW veins generally thicker than in HW; costal area relatively narrow; FW stem of RP short, RP originating close to wing base, RP1 originating close to origin of RP; RP branches strongly sinuous distally in both wings; endtwigging irregular and intermittent along posterior margin of wing; FW M forked midway along wing, both MA and MP dichotomously branched; CuA and CuP only slightly arched towards posterior wing margin beyond of M fork; FW 2A terminates in wing margin at level of origin of first branch of RP; male tergite 8 partially fused to tergite 9, and in turn tergite 9 partially fused to ectoproct; ectoproct without angular process; gonarcus rounded, anterior apodeme present, narrow; entoprocesses curved and apically rounded; female sternite 8 concave with posterolateral setose process; gonapophysis 9 short, bilobed; spermatheca spherical. Comments. A highly variable monotypic genus likely closely related to Isostenosmylus; while the large falcate wings with dense venation show a superficial similarity to Kempynus, Phymatosmylus is clearly placed in Stenosmylinae. Adams (1969) suggested that this genus displayed an intermediate position in Stenosmylinae, exhibiting a series of ‘generalised’ features, including the more proximal fork of the forewing medial vein and only partial fusion of the male abdominal tergites 8 and 9. Individuals examined by Adams (1969) and in this study exhibit tremendous variation not only in pigmentation, but also vein branching, notably in the position of the medial fork, presence or absence of forking in various RP branches and partial fusion of MP branches with CuA. The latter vein fusion is rare and when present it not symmetrical in individuals. See Cousin & Béthoux (2015) for discussion of this phenomenon in other Stenosmylinae. Included species. P. caprorum Adams, 1969 (Argentina, Chile)Published as part of Winterton, Shaun L., Martins, Caleb Califre, Makarkin, Vladimir, Ardila-Camacho, Adrian & Wang, Yongjie, 2019, Lance lacewings of the world (Neuroptera: Archeosmylidae, Osmylidae, Saucrosmylidae): review of living and fossil genera, pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 4581 (1) on pages 75-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4581.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/263384
Winning redefined, a new brand positioning for MP Motorsport
No full textMP Motorsport is a talent educating race team participating in the classes below the Formula 1. The problem with the lower classes and therefore MP Motorsport as well is that these classes don’t get much attention and exposure. As a company run by people with passion the branding and positioning is more something that naturally emerged from this passion rather than a series of conscious decisions. This makes it fragile. A more conscious strategy and vision on how MP Motorsport needs to be branded and positioned against their competition that is more than “look how cool racing is” is needed to become more attractive for sponsoring. This report describes the process from analysis to finding the right positioning and an advise for a new brand identity and an implementation plan to help becoming more attractive for sponsoring goals. The analysis done with employees showed a unique characteristic that will help the team to position themselves against the competition; the family atmosphere. This atmosphere is what also characterises their contradictory personality. This personality is on one hand leading and ambitious and on the other hand modest and involved. Competition and stakeholder analysis have been performed to find the right combination of being unique to the competition, desirable for the stakeholders (the fans and sponsors) and builds upon the core strengths of the company. Then using the brand key model, a positioning is made with the essence: Be your best self. The belief, “in everyone hides a talent” and values like “everyone is equal” and “together we succeed” combined with the essence and the positioning resulted in a brand story that describes the feeling MP Motorsport wants to communicate. To manifestate the brand, an advise has been set up for a tone of voice and tone of image. Wrapped in a concept called “winning redefined” this advise is part of the whole implementation plan that should lead the way for the team to implement the newly created brand in short and long term actions. In 3 phases MP Motorsport is advised to start with a clear brand introduction to the target groups Gen Z and potential sponsors. The next phase revolves around creating a community to attract both Gen Z talents and subsequently sponsors to interact with the team and each other. Finally the last phase is long term focused and aims for sustainable growth. In this phase the community is established and can expect various opportunities to discover and develop a whole range of talents, sponsors and gen z are connected to each other via MP Motorsport and the team is able to finance the lower classes without the pressure of the money drivers bring along.Strategic Product Desig
Derivations (MP) and Evaluations (OT)
No full textThe main claim of this paper is that the minimalist framework and optimality theory adopt more or less the same architecture of grammar: both assume that a generator defines a set S of potentially well-formed expressions that can be generated on the basis of a given input, and that there is an evaluator that selects the expressions from S that are actually grammatical in a given language L. The paper therefore proposes a model of grammar in which the strengths of the two frameworks are combined: more specifically, it is argued that the computational system of human language CHL from MP creates a set S of potentially well-formed expressions, and that these are subsequently evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion.The definitive version of this paper is published in Linguistics in Potsdam 25 (2006).Broekhuis, H. (2006). Derivations (MP) and Evaluations (OT)*. In H. Broekhuis & R. Vogel (Eds), Linguistics in Potsdam 25. Optimality Theory and Minimalism: A possible Convergence? Potsdam : Universitätsverlag PotsdamISBN: 9783939469544 (published book)This research is supported by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO), grant 276-70-00
Lifting of characters on p-adic orthogonal and metaplectic groups
No full textLet F be p-adic field of characteristic zero. Consider a dual pair (Mp(2n), SO(2n+1)_+), where Mp(2n) is the metaplectic cover of the symplectic group Sp(2n) and SO(2n+1)_+ is the split orthogonal group over F. We show that there is a matching of Cartan subgroups between SO(2n+1)_+ and Mp(2n) via stabilized orbit correspondence. We say two representations of SO(2n+1)_+ and Mp(2n) correspond, if their characters on matching Cartan subgroups differ by a transfer factor, which is essentially character of the difference of the two halves of the oscillator representation. We show that this correspondence is compatible with parabolic induction: if two representations of Levi factors correspond, then after parabolic induction the two resulting representations also correspond. These results were motivated by the paper "Lifting of characters on orthogonal and metaplectic groups" by J. Adams who considered the case F is the field of real numbers
Stroom- en sedimentmeting Roompot-Veerse Dam (mp.8), 15 en 22 januari 1996
No full textStroom- en sedimentmeting Roompot-Veerse Dam (mp.8) 15 en 22 januari 1996.Deltawerken, Oosterscheld
A novel approach to MP-PIC: Continuum particle model for dense particle flows in fluidized beds
No full textA novel approach to Multiphase-Particle-in-Cell (MP-PIC), called Continuum Particle Model (CPM), is developed for dense gas-particle flows. CPM has high computational speed, comparable to that of MP-PIC, but a robustness and accuracy closer to that of a Discrete Element Model (DEM). The gas phase is treated as a continuum phase and particles are tracked discretely, but particle collisions are modelled by considering the divergence of the continuum particle stress tensor. Details on efficient solution to the model are presented. For comparison, a parametric study is performed for quasi-2D fluidized beds. Comparison of CFD-CPM is made with MP-PIC and CFD-DEM. The particle stress models by Harris and Crighton, and by Srivastava and Sundaresan are tested in our CFD-CPM. Results from CFD-CPM based on the Srivastava and Sundaresan particle stress model show good agreement with CFD-DEM results. We validate our model by comparison with experimental benchmark results from Gopalan et. al. (2016).Complex Fluid Processin
Archaeochrysa Adams 1967
No full textGenus Archaeochrysa Adams, 1967 Archaeochrysa Adams, 1967: 217, 219, 220, 229; Schlüter 1984: 7; Yang & Hong 1990: 20; Willmann & Brooks 1991: 126, 128, 130, 131; Adams & Penny 1992a: 39; Adams & Penny 1992b: 221; Carpenter 1992: 347; Willmann 1993: 242, 244; Peñalver et al. 1995: 486; Ren & Guo 1996: 471; Nel et al. 2005: 67; Makarkin & Archibald 2013: 134, 141, 142, 144; Archibald et al. 2014: 191; Makarkin 2014: 4; Archibald & Makarkin 2015: 359, 362, 364; Archibald & Makarkin 2017: 400; Makarkin et al. 2018: 534; Tauber 2019a: 14, 15; Tauber 2019b: 36. Type species. Palaeochrysa creedei Carpenter, 1935, by original designation. Emended diagnosis. May be distinguished from other genera of Nothochrysinae by a combination of the following. Forewing: (1) M forked far distad origin of RP [other genera: proximad to slightly distad]; (2) one crossvein between RA, RP proximad 1r-m present [other genera: absent]; (3) im relatively narrow, elongate [Cimbrochrysa Schlüter, 1982, Danochrysa Wilmann, 1993, Asiachrysa Makarkin, 2014, Okanaganochrysa Makarkin & Archibald, 2013, Leptochrysa: broadly pentagonal; Hypochrysa, Asthenochrysa: broadly triangular]; (4) two gradate series in radial space [Okanaganochrysa, Triplochrysa: three; Dictyochrysa, Adamsochrysa Makarkin & Archibald, 2013: four or more]. Hind wing: (5) MA not fused with RP (connecting by crossvein 1r-m) [other genera: fused (except Leptochrysa, Stephenbrooksia Wilmann, 1993)]; (6) MP not fused with CuA (connecting by crossvein 2m-cu) [probably all other genera: fused or contacting] Species included. Six species: Archaeochrysa profracta Makarkin & Archibald, 2013 (early Eocene of McAbee, British Columbia, Canada); A. sanikwa Archibald & Makarkin, 2015 (early Eocene of Driftwood Canyon, British Columbia, Canada); A. paranervis Adams, 1967, A. fracta (Cockerell, 1914), A. cockerelli sp. nov. (all from late Eocene of Florissant, Colorado, USA); A. creedei (Carpenter, 1935) (Oligocene of Creede, Colorado, USA). Occurrence. Eocene (Ypresian to Priabonian) and Oligocene of North America.Published as part of Makarkin, Vladimir N., Antell, Gwen S. & Archibald, S. Bruce, 2022, A revision of Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) from the late Eocene Florissant Formation Colorado, with description of new species, pp. 301-345 in Zootaxa 5133 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5133.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/652244
TALKS: A systematic framework for resolving model-data discrepancies
No full textModels and data play an important role in informing decision-making in environmental systems, providing different and complementary information. Multiple frameworks have been developed to address model limitations and there is a large body of research focused on improving the quality of data. However, when models and data disagree the focus is usually on fixing the model, rather than the data. In this study, we introduce the framework TALKS (Trigger, Articulate, List, Knowledge elicitation, Solve) as a way of resolving model-data discrepancies. The framework emphasises that a mismatch between data and model outputs could be due to issues in the model, the data or both. Through three case studies, we exemplify how models can be used to identify and improve issues with the data, and hence make the most out of models and data. The framework can be applied more broadly to better integrate models and data in environmental decision making.Maria P. Vilas, Felix Egger, Matthew P. Adams, Holger R. Maier, Barbara Robson, Jonathan Ferrer Mestres, Lachlan Stewart, Paul Maxwell, Katherine R. O, Brie
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