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The mirage of floating exchange rates
No full textThis note summarizes some of the highlights of my longer paper with Guillermo Calvo”Fear of Floating.” Many emerging market countries have suffered financial crises. One view blames soft pegs for these crises. Adherents to that view suggest that countries move to corner solutions--hard pegs or floating exchange rates. We analyze the behavior of exchange rates, reserves, and interest rates to assess whether there is evidence that country practice is moving toward corner solutions. We focus on whether countries that claim they are floating are indeed doing so. We find that countries that say they allow their exchange rate to float mostly do not--there seems to be an epidemic case of “fear of floating.”fear of floating fixed exchange rates interest rates reserves
Intimate partner violence during COVID-19 restrictions: a study of 30 countries from the I-SHARE Consortium
No full textThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research and/or authorship of this article: JT received support from the US NIH (NIAID K24AI143471, UH3HD096929).Campbell L., Tan R.K.J., Uhlich M., Francis J.M., Mark K., Miall N., Eleuteri S., Gabster A., Shamu S., Plášilová L., Kemigisha E., Olumide A., Kosana P., Hurtado-Murillo F., Larsson E.C., Cleeve A., Calvo González S., Perrotta G., Fernández Albamonte V., Blanco L., Schröder J., Adebayo A., Hendriks J., Saltis H., Marks M., Wu D., Morroni C., Esho T., Briken P., Hlatshwako T.G., Ryan R., Farid N.D.N., Gomez Bravo R., Van de Velde S., Tucker J.D
Characterization of bacterial community in indoor environment
No full textWe report the presence of bacterial colonization in library environment and on the books housed, performing morphological and bacterial molecular analyses. Isolated bacterial colonies were characterised by 16S rRNA locus and ITS (16S-23S rRNA Intergenic Transcribed Spacer) amplification and sequencing.
The results of SEM observation and molecular analysis showed the prevalent presence of bacteria belonging to the family Micrococcaceae. We distinguished Kocuria rosea, Arthrobacter nicotianae, Micrococcus luteus and Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens which shows high cellulolytic activity
On some generalizations of Gevrey classes
No full textWe present a generalization of Gevrey classes, aiming at including the inhomogeneous Gevrey functions introduced by Liess 15 and the ultradifferentiable functions in the sense of Braun et al. 4. Therefore, we treat the related dual spaces, called generalized Gevrey ultradistributions, proving also a version of the Paley-Wiener-Schwartz Theorem in our framework. Two different topologies are treated, following the lines both of Beurling 1 and of Roumieu 21, 22. We finally treat in these spaces the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for weakly hyperbolic operators, extending the previous results of Larsson 14 and Calvo 6, 7. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.The research of M. Carmen Gomez-Collado was partially supported by FEDER and MEC, Proyect No. MTM2007-62643, and Project No. MTM2010-15200.Calvo, D.; Gómez Collado, MDC. (2011). On some generalizations of Gevrey classes. Mathematical News / Mathematische Nachrichten. 284(7):856-874. https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.200910840S856874284
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(B0→K∗0γ )/B(B0s→φγ ) and the directCP asymmetry inB 0→K∗0γ
No full textThe ratio of branching fractions of the radiative B decays B0→K⁎0γ and B0s→ϕγ has been measured using an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=7TeV. The value obtained is
B(B0→K⁎0γ)B(B0s→ϕγ)=1.23±0.06(stat.)±0.04(syst.)±0.10(fs/fd),
where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic uncertainty and the third is associated with the ratio of fragmentation fractions fs/fd. Using the world average value for B(B0→K⁎0γ), the branching fraction B(B0s→ϕγ) is measured to be (3.5±0.4)×10−5.
The direct CP asymmetry in B0→K⁎0γ decays has also been measured with the same data and found to be
ACP(B0→K⁎0γ)=(0.8±1.7(stat.)±0.9(syst.))%.
Both measurements are the most precise to date and are in agreement with the previous experimental results and theoretical expectations
Agustín García Calvo en el 15M
No full textThis article delves into the thought of an author who has not been studied. Besides, it understands that the best way to begin this study is through the Free Assembly of Puerta del Sol in Madrid on May 15th. García Calvo’s position was not influential in this Movement, but it can help us understand it in its origin, in the subsequent development and even in current days. Especially in its inner contradictions: those so called two M15’s souls. The article also analyzes the relationship of the Indignants’ Movement with the 1965’s students’ riot, where García Calvo was also a protagonist. Finally, the article focuses on one of the biggest discrepancies of the thinker from Zamora about the Spanish Revolution, concerning the assessment of Information and Communication Technologies.Este artículo se adentra en el pensamiento de un autor que no ha sido estudiado. Además, entiende que la mejor manera de iniciar su estudio es la Asamblea libre de la Puerta del Sol de Madrid en el 15-M. La posición de García Calvo no fue influyente en este movimiento, pero puede ayudar a comprenderlo: en su origen, en su desarrollo posterior e incluso en nuestros días. Especialmente en sus contradicciones internas, en la dialéctica de esas dos almas del 15-M de las que se ha hablado. El artículo analiza, igualmente, la relación del movimiento de los indignados con la revuelta estudiantil de 1965, del que García Calvo fue también protagonista. Finalmente, se centra en una de las mayores discrepancias del pensador zamorano con la Spanish Revolution, en lo que respecta a la valoración de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación
A Case of Urogenital Human Schistosomiasis from a Non-endemic Area
No full text© 2015 Calvo-Cano et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published version of the article.NHM Repositor
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on liver cancer management (CERO-19)
No full textMuñoz-Martínez, S., Sapena, V., Forner, A., Nault, J.-C., Sapisochin, G., Rimassa, L., Sangro, B., Bruix, J., Sanduzzi-Zamparelli, M., Hołówko, W., El Kassas, M., Mocan, T., Bouattour, M., Merle, P., Hoogwater, F.J.H., Alqahtani, S.A., Reeves, H.L., Pinato, D.J., Giorgakis, E., Meyer, T., Villadsen, G.E., Wege, H., Salati, M., Mínguez, B., Di Costanzo, G.G., Roderburg, C., Tacke, F., Varela, M., Galle, P.R., Alvares-da-Silva, M.R., Trojan, J., Bridgewater, J., Cabibbo, G., Toso, C., Lachenmayer, A., Casadei-Gardini, A., Toyoda, H., Lüdde, T., Villani, R., Matilla Peña, A.M., Guedes Leal, C.R., Ronzoni, M., Delgado, M., Perelló, C., Pascual, S., Lledó, J.L., Argemi, J., Basu, B., da Fonseca, L., Acevedo, J., Siebenhüner, A.R., Braconi, C., Meyers, B.M., Granito, A., Sala, M., Rodríguez-Lope, C., Blaise, L., Romero-Gómez, M., Piñero, F., Gomez, D., Mello, V., Pinheiro Alves, R.C., França, A., Branco, F., Brandi, G., Pereira, G., Coll, S., Guarino, M., Benítez, C., Anders, M.M., Bandi, J.C., Vergara, M., Calvo, M., Peck-Radosavljevic, M., García-Juárez, I., Cardinale, V., Lozano, M., Gambato, M., Okolicsanyi, S., Morales-Arraez, D., Elvevi, A., Muñoz, A.E., Lué, A., Iavarone, M., Reig, M
«Art and Architecture»
No full textThis handbook offers an overview of the main issues regarding the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual and artistic history of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Muslim rule (eighth–fifteenth centuries). A comprehensive list of primary and secondary sources attests the vitality of the academic study of al-Andalus (= Muslim Iberia) and its place in present-day discussions about the past and the present. The contributors are all specialists with diverse backgrounds providing different perspectives and approaches. The volume includes chapters dealing with the destiny of the Muslim population after the Christian conquest and with the posterity of al-Andalus in art, literature and different historiographical traditions. My chapter offers a synthetic and updated academic treatment of the arts and its relation with the society of al-Andalus, In addition to the article, I am also the author of several boxes: Box 21.1 Mozarab and Mudejar Art; Box 21.2 Ivories; Box 29.1 Cordoba; Box 2.2 Murcia.Depto. de Historia del ArteFac. de Geografía e HistoriaTRUEpu
Functional Matrices on Quantum Computing Simulation
No full textIn simulating Quantum Computing by using the circuit model the size of the matrices to deal with, together with the number of products and additions required to apply every quantum gate becomes a really hard computational restriction. This paper presents a data structure, called Functional Matrices, which is the most representative feature of QSimov quantum computing simulator which is also provided and tested. A comparative study of the performance of Functional Matrices with respect to the other two most commonly used matrix data structures, dense and sparse ones, is also performed and summarized within this work
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