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Carnet de J.D. CHAUPIN
No full textThis 199-page handbook is a monograph on Notre-Dame de Vaulx, a French village located in the Isère département of the Rhône-Alpes region, authored by J.D. CHAUPIN. It was completed in May 1958 and dedicated by the author to his grand-daughter Danielle Marthe CHAUPIN. The first fifty pages contain a glossary of more than 1500 words and the most popular expressions in matheysin patois.The version available here is a second-generation xerox copy of the manuscript collected by Jacqueline DUC, a specialist of matheysin patois.Ce carnet de 199 pages est une monographie sur le village de Notre-Dame de Vaulx, une commune française située dans le département de l'Isère et la région Rhône-Alpes, rédigée par M. J.D. CHAUPIN. Achevé en mai 1958, il est dédicacé à sa petite fille Danielle Marthe CHAUPIN. Il contient sur une cinquantaine de pages un glossaire de plus de 1500 mots ainsi que les expressions les plus courantes en patois matheysin.La version déposée ici est une photocopie de seconde génération du manuscrit réalisée par Jacqueline DUC, spécialiste des patois matheysins
Geology of Graham Island, British Columbia
Full text linkby J.D. Mackenzie.Series ; Bulletin (Geological Survey of Canada : 1921). Geological series ; no. 72. Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada) ; 88. Accompanies Southern portion of Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia [cartographic material] / geology, J.D. Mackenzie ; geography, British Admiralty and Department of the Naval Service of Canada, Department of Lands, British Columbia, J.D. MacKenzie ; C.O. Senecal, geographer and chief draughtsman. Two folded maps in pocket
Genetic diversity and biogeography of Cunninghamia konishii (Cupressaceae), an island species in Taiwan: a comparison with Cunninghamia lanceolata, a mainland species in China
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Three essays on regional business cycle analysis
Full text linkIn this dissertation, regional business activities are analyzed under the assumption of multi-level structure regional economic system. Compared to a single-level regional economic system, a multi-level regional economic system assumes that regional economies are exposed to a common factor that affects its sub-units. In the first essay, it is found that in multi-level structure regional economy, spillovers from neighboring regions are insignificant or small compared to common factor. Adapting the conclusions from the first essay, the second essay studies how the common factor affects the transition dynamics and economic performances of regional economies. The last essay explores how temporal/spatial scale of units of regional observations affects the estimated amount of spillovers under the same data generating process.
The first essay uses a multi-level dynamic factor model suggested by Bai and Wang (2012) to identify the spatio-temporal dynamics of regional business cycles, focusing on six Great Lakes states, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. The identification scheme suggested by Bai and Wang (2012) enables separate identification of the shock common to the Great Lakes region and the individual shock to each region as well as an assessment of the interactions between those shocks. The multi-level approach enables us to assess the effect of a shock originating in one particular region on the other regions separately from the region common shock. In contrast, a single-level approach does not separate the region common shock from the region specific shock. By separating out the global shock from the local observations, this multi-level approach prevents the possible misunderstanding of regional interdependency induced from the comovements of regional business cycles. Since each region is exposed to the region common shock, the degree of comovement of each region’s business cycle is strong, possibly exaggerating or biasing the effect of region specific shocks. The simulation results show that incorporating the multi-level structure in a regional dynamic factor model significantly alters the regional interdependency relationship extracted from the single-level structure model. The variance decomposition shows that much of the region specific business activities can be explained by the region common shock, and the cumulative impulse response function occasionally shows different signs for the long-term response compared to the single-level structure model.
The second essay is composed of two parts. The first part dates the regional business cycle phases using a Markov-switching model under the assumption of a multi-level structure of regional economic system, and it is revealed that the regional cycle phase transition depends on the national cycle phase, but the propagation speed of the national phase into a regional cycle varies across the regions. In the second part, the national factor loadings on regional economies are estimated, and it is showed that the response of a regional economy to a national impact is mostly greater during a national contraction phase.
In the last essay, since our observation of the regional economy depends on the scale of temporal/spatial units, even under the same underlying disaggregated level data generating process, we can encounter different neighborhood effects or spillovers. Thus, in this essay, the amount of spillover is defined by the forecast error variance decomposition (FEVD), and the direction of spillover is defined by the long-run sign of the cumulative impulse response function (CIRF). From an exercise using a constructed regional economic system, the size of spillover was found to decrease with spatial aggregation in a multi-level structure regional economic system. However, no monotonic trend was found in terms of the relative portion of positive/negative spillovers. In addition, the results from the real world data using different levels of aggregations, and the results drawn from the exercise on the constructed regional economic system are compared. From this comparison, a multi-level structure model which assumes the existence of higher level common factor affecting the regional units was found to concord with logical experiments conducted over the constructed regional economic system.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2015-07-22 without embargo termsThe student, Sungyup Chung, accepted the attached license on 2015-04-09 at 09:20.The student, Sungyup Chung, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-04-09 at 09:25.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-04-10 at 11:54.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #7807 on 2015-07-22 at 10:31:33Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T22:16:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Health monitoring method using committee of neural networks
No full textPreventive maintenance and structural safety of large structures such as bridges and buildings may be guaranteed by application of structural health monitoring systems. Damage assessment using structural identification technique is essential for the structural health monitoring. In this study, the committee technique for neural networks is applied to damage estimation of structures for the purpose of the health monitoring. The input to the neural networks consists of the modal parameters, and the output is composed of the element-level damage indices. In the committee technique, multiple neural networks are constructed and each individual networks is trained independently. Then, the estimated damage indices from different neural networks are averaged. Various committee techniques are possible. The architecture, the training patterns, and the input of each individual networks can be taken to be the same and/or different. In this study, the validity of the several committee methods for damage estimation was examined through numerical simulation study. Then, experiments were carried out to verify the effectiveness of the committee technique. It has been found that the estimated damage indices improve significantly by employing the committee of neural networks
J.D. Manning: The Life of a WWII Draftee
No full textabstract: The biography of J.D. Manning tells the story of the first man drafted in the United States at the dawn of World War II. Growing up, he lived an ordinary, small-town life in Washburn, Wisconsin. However, due to a clerical error, by the time he was inducted into the military, J.D. had assumed a second identity. While listed under a different name throughout his military service, J.D. decided to turn the military into a career. He extended his service and went on to Officer Candidate School before serving in the war. Ultimately, J.D. died in the Battle of Cherbourg. His story outlines the importance of humanizing war at a time when statistics and numbers tend to impersonalize such a large, historical event. J.D.'s biography provides an understanding of how even the most ordinary, typical life of a drafted solider during WWII can produce an extraordinary story. J.D. was not special. He was but one death in a body count of over 400,000 American soldiers during the war. Yet, his story teaches us that one does not have to be special to be important. Every American soldier has made a contribution to our country, yet only a select few have ever had their stories told. This biography of J.D. will add one more story to the limited collection existing today
Depolarization and decreased surface expression of K+ channels contribute to NSAID-inhibition of intestinal restitution
No full textNon-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) contribute to gastrointestinal ulcer formation by inhibiting epithelial cell migration and mucosal restitution; however, the drug-affected signaling pathways are poorly defined. We investigated whether NSAID inhibition of intestinal epithelial migration is associated with depletion of intracellular polyamines, depolarization of membrane potential (Em) and altered surface expression of K+ channels. Epithelial cell migration in response to the wounding of confluent IEC-6 and IEC-Cdx2 monolayers was reduced by indomethacin (100μM), phenylbutazone (100μM) and NS-398 (100μM) but not by SC-560 (1μM). NSAID-inhibition of intestinal cell migration was not associated with depletion of intracellular polyamines. Treatment of IEC-6 and IEC-Cdx2 cells with indomethacin, phenylbutazone and NS-398 induced significant depolarization of Em, whereas treatment with SC-560 had no effect on Em. The Em of IEC-Cdx2 cells was: −38.5±1.8mV under control conditions; −35.9±1.6mV after treatment with SC-560; −18.8±1.2mV after treatment with indomethacin; and −23.7±1.4mV after treatment with NS-398. Whereas SC-560 had no significant effects on the total cellular expression of Kv1.4 channel protein, indomethacin and NS-398 decreased not only the total cellular expression of Kv1.4, but also the cell surface expression of both Kv1.4 and Kv1.6 channel subunits in IEC-Cdx2. Both Kv1.4 and Kv1.6 channel proteins were immunoprecipitated by Kv1.4 antibody from IEC-Cdx2 lysates, indicating that these subunits co-assemble to form heteromeric Kv channels. These results suggest that NSAID inhibition of epithelial cell migration is independent of polyamine-depletion, and is associated with depolarization of Em and decreased surface expression of heteromeric Kv1 channels.ID: S0006295207001931; M3: Article; Accession Number: S0006295207001931; Author: L.C. Freeman (b); Author: D.F. Narvaez (a); Author: A. McCoy (a); Author: F.B. von Stein (c); Author: S. Young (b); Author: K. Silver (a); Author: S. Ganta (b); Author: D. Koch (b); Author: R. Hunter (b); Author: R.F. Gilmour (c); Author: J.D. Lillich (a, ⁎); Affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, United States; Affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, United States; Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States; Keyword: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; Keyword: Intestinal epithelial cells; Keyword: Membrane potential; Keyword: Potassium channels; Number of Pages: 12; Language: English;Source type: Electronic(1)http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edselp&AN=S0006295207001931&site=eds-live&scope=sit
L'usage du narratif dans le Testament de Joseph
No full text(Résumé de l'ouvrage) Seventeen innovative studies are collected in this volume which has been produced under the aegis of the Centre for Biblical Studies, University of Manchester, and L'Institut des sciences bibliques, Université de Lausanne. The majority of the studies engage with narrative through providing insightful working examples. Building on the many contributions of recent narratological research, for the most part the studies in this collection avoid the technical language of narratology as they present fresh insights at many levels. Some essays focus more on the implied author, some on the implied reader or hearer, and some on the way particular messages are constructed; some of the studies consider how author, message and reader are all interconnected. There are several creative proposals for refining genre definition, from law and wisdom to gospel and apocryphal writings. Some studies highlight the way in which narratives can contain ethical, religious, and cultural messages. Sensitivity to narrative is also shown by some contributors to expose in intruing ways the redactional processes behind the final form of texts. Students of narrative in the ancient world will find much to consider in this book, and others engaged with literary studies more generally will discover that scholars of the worlds of the Bible and Late Antiquity have much to offer them
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