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Implementing the AIFMD: Success or failure? ECMI Commentary No. 34, 28 March 2013
No full textThis commentary considers the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) by the European Commission. The AIFMD creates an internal market for asset management and as an endeavour to develop market-based finance is an important piece of legislation for the European economy. The author, Mirzha de Manuel Aramendía, considers the implementation of some of the provisions that raised concern among industry participants. He finds that, on balance, a practical and flexible approach to implementation has been followed that should help secure the success of the framework, which at present is still uncertain. The commentary also considers the remuneration guidelines adopted recently by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). It encourages EU and national authorities to commit to the success of the AIFMD framework, as part of a broader effort to develop capital markets and reduce the historical reliance of the European economy on bank finance
Identifying ground-robot impedance to improve terrain adaptability in running robots
No full text© The Author(s). To date, running robots are still outperformed by animals, but their dynamic behaviour can be described by the same model. This coincidence means that biomechanical studies can reveal much about the adaptability and energy efficiency of walking mechanisms. In particular, animals adjust their leg stiffness to negotiate terrains with different stiffnesses to keep the total leg-ground stiffness constant. In this work, we aim to provide one method to identify ground-robot impedance so that control can be applied to emulate the aforementioned animal behaviour. Experimental results of the method are presented, showing well-differentiated estimations on four different types of terrain. Additionally, an analysis of the convergence time is presented and compared with the contact time of humans while running, indicating that the method is suitable for use at high speeds.This work was partially funded by the Spanish National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation through grant DPI2013-40504-R. Mr. Juan Carlos Arevalo and Mr. Manuel Cestari would like to thank the Spanish National Research Council and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for funding their PhD research.Peer Reviewe
Manuel Puig: un destino melodramático
No full textEl trabajo es un extracto de una larga investigación en los archivos del escritor argentino Manuel Puig, la génesis de su producción y su relación con el campo intelectual internacional. En este extracto se presenta un estudio del uso del melodrama en la producción 'espectacular' del autor y la publcación de un inédito que incluí como primicia en 1996 en la revista Orbis Tertius No. 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.The work is an extract of one long recherch in the archives of the Argentine writer Manuel Puig, the genesis of its production and its relation with international the intellectual field. In this extract is analyzed the use of the melodrama in “the spectacular” production of the author. The publication of an unpublished is included , published for the first time by me in 1996 in the Orbis Tertius Nº 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
Letter from Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] to Wayne M. Collins, May 29, 1953
No full textIn this letter to Mr. Wayne M. Collins, Mr. Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] explains that he will need to pay Mr. Collins in segments. Mr. Collins is a lawyer in San Francisco.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Oral History Interview with Manuel Medrano, June 18, 2015
No full textInterview with Manuel Medrano, an historian and author from Brownsville, Texas. In his interview, Medrano discusses his family background and childhood, education, experiences with discrimination, political activism, and the Chicano movement
Manuel Muñoz, 38th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textManuel Muñoz is the author of a novel, What You See in the Dark, as well as two short-story collections, Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, which was shortlisted for the Frank O\u27Connor International Short Story Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train and Boston Review and has aired on NPR’s “Selected Shorts. The recipient of an O. Henry Prize and a Whiting Writers\u27 Award, Muñoz lives in Tucson, Ariz., where he is an associate professor at the University of Arizona
A New and Versatile Adjustable Rigidity Actuator with Add-on Locking Mechanism (ARES-XL)
No full textAdjustable compliant actuators are being designed and implemented in robotic devices because of their ability to minimize large forces due to impacts, to safely interact with the user, and to store and release energy in passive elastic elements. Conceived as a new force-controlled compliant actuator, an adjustable rigidity with embedded sensor and locking mechanism actuator (ARES-XL) is presented in this paper. This compliant system is intended to be implemented in a gait exoskeleton for children with neuro muscular diseases (NMDs) to exploit the intrinsic dynamics during locomotion. This paper describes the mechanics and initial evaluation of the ARES-XL, a novel variable impedance actuator (VIA) that allows the implementation of an add-on locking mechanism to this system, and in combination with its zero stiffness capability and large deflection range, provides this novel joint with improved properties when compared to previous prototypes developed by the authors and other state-of-the-art (SoA) devices. The evaluation of the system proves how this design exceeds the main capabilities of a previous prototype as well as providing versatile actuation that could lead to its implementation in multiple joints.: This work has been partially funded by the Spanish National Plan for Research, Development,
and Innovation through grant DPI2013-40504-R and EU-FP7-ECHORD++ Experiment 401 EXOTrainer. Cestari
would like to thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for funding his Ph.D. researc
Manuel Trillo de Leyva. Obra completa 1964-2005
No full textDenis Diderot is credited with saying that men of the past have a great advantage over us in that they did not know the weight of Antiquity. Something of that authority from a bygone era permeates much of the figure of Manuel Trillo de Leyva, a key figure in Seville\u27s architecture in the second half of the 20th century, who has been the subject of this recent monograph promoted by the COAS. For students in the late 2000s, shortly after his untimely death, Manuel Trillo was the name of the auditorium at the School of Architecture, a name that professors imbued with a halo of admiration and that gradually revealed itself to be a life of its own, that of the author of several of the city\u27s landmark buildings. The first of these was precisely that same stage, designed as a result of a competition won together with José Garrido when they were still students.A Denis Diderot se le atribuye haber dicho que los hombres del pasado tienen sobre nosotros la gran ventaja de no haber conocido el peso de la Antigüedad. Algo de esa autoridad de un tiempo anterior impregna mucho de la figura de Manuel Trillo de Leyva, clave para la arquitectura sevillana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, que ha sido objeto de esta reciente monografía impulsada por el COAS. Para el alumnado de finales de la década de los 2000, poco después de su temprano fallecimiento, Manuel Trillo era el nombre del salón de actos de la Escuela de Arquitectura, nombre que los profesores imbuían de un halo de admiración y que poco a poco se desvelaba como una vida propia, la del autor de varios de los edificios señeros de la ciudad. El primero de ellos había sido precisamente ese mismo escenario, diseñado a resultas de un concurso ganado junto con José Garrido cuando aún ocupaban la platea como estudiantes
Manuel Trillo de Leyva. Obra completa 1964-2005
No full textDenis Diderot is credited with saying that men of the past have a great advantage over us in that they did not know the weight of Antiquity. Something of that authority from a bygone era permeates much of the figure of Manuel Trillo de Leyva, a key figure in Seville\u27s architecture in the second half of the 20th century, who has been the subject of this recent monograph promoted by the COAS. For students in the late 2000s, shortly after his untimely death, Manuel Trillo was the name of the auditorium at the School of Architecture, a name that professors imbued with a halo of admiration and that gradually revealed itself to be a life of its own, that of the author of several of the city\u27s landmark buildings. The first of these was precisely that same stage, designed as a result of a competition won together with José Garrido when they were still students.A Denis Diderot se le atribuye haber dicho que los hombres del pasado tienen sobre nosotros la gran ventaja de no haber conocido el peso de la Antigüedad. Algo de esa autoridad de un tiempo anterior impregna mucho de la figura de Manuel Trillo de Leyva, clave para la arquitectura sevillana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, que ha sido objeto de esta reciente monografía impulsada por el COAS. Para el alumnado de finales de la década de los 2000, poco después de su temprano fallecimiento, Manuel Trillo era el nombre del salón de actos de la Escuela de Arquitectura, nombre que los profesores imbuían de un halo de admiración y que poco a poco se desvelaba como una vida propia, la del autor de varios de los edificios señeros de la ciudad. El primero de ellos había sido precisamente ese mismo escenario, diseñado a resultas de un concurso ganado junto con José Garrido cuando aún ocupaban la platea como estudiantes
Manuel Sánchez Asensio (1860-1919) a través de los periódicos que fundó y dirigió
No full textThe life and work of famed journalist Manuel Sánchez Asensio, founder of fourteen newspapers and the author of 15,000 articles, are presented. The diverse publications, their goals, characteristics and contents are covered. The philosophy and thinking of Sánchez Asensio expressed in his very first articles published in the magazine La Tesis until his last texts appearing in the newspaper El Siglo Futuro, are analyzed in depth
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