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FINANCING COMMUNITY FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE PARKS AND RECREATIONAL GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND MEASURE OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
No full textThis study of the City of San Jose’s Parks and Recreation General Obligation (GO) Bond Measure seeks to identify the politics-, management-, and planning-related lessons learned by the City as it developed its community facilities using the GO bonds proceeds. The study finds that these lessons include: be conservative in what you promise the residents; be prepared for changes in economic environment by identifying supplementary funding sources should the primary source not yield adequate funds; make sure that the jurisdiction is organizationally capable of handling the increased workload; and prepare detailed project plans prior to the bond issuance.Community Infrastructure and Services; Municipal Bonds; Public Finance
Technology Trade, Productivity and Growth
No full textInternational trade is a major channel for technology diffusion. However regressing trade in R&D intensive goods to evaluate the effect of technology imports on productivity in a cross section of countries may be misleading because of simultaneity bias. I identify the effect of technology trade on productivity using geographical instruments for the trade variable as in Frankel and Romer (1999). I make several contributions. First, I provide evidence that OLS estimates are downward biased. Second, the effect is robust to the exclusion of outliers, the inclusion of latitude, and to different subsamples. Finally, I document the channels throughout technology imports affect productivity.Growth, Technology Diffusion, Instrumental Variables, R&D Spillovers, Capital Goods.
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Correction to: Pathogenesis, Clinical Signs and Treatment Recommendations in Brittle Nails
No full textUnfortunately, the co-author name was incorrectly published as “Jose L. López-Esterbaranz” instead of ‘Jose L. López-Estebaranz” in the original article. The correct version of author name is updated here. The original article has been corrected.SCOPUS: er.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Explicitness of Task Instructions Supports Motor Learning and Modulates Engagement of Attentional Brain Networks
No full textMotor learning is a complex cognitive and motor process underlying neurorehabilitation. Cognitive (e.g., attentional) engagement is important for motor learning, especially early in the learning process. In this study, we investigated if task instructions enforcing the underlying task rule of a virtual sailing task modulate attentional engagement and motor learning. Our results suggest that enforcing the rule of a motor task using explicit knowledge or visual cues enhances motor learning compared with no enforcement of task rules. Further, training with visual cues may support early visuo-attentional engagement.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Human-Robot Interactio
Why do coastal seeds fail? Evidence of local adaptation of northern red oak ( Quercus rubra ) in Minnesota coastal forests - Genomics and Geospatial Data
No full textThere are two gzipped VCF (Variant Calling Format) files with variants from ipyRAD and Freebayes. For the ipyRAD pipeline, a total of 412 individuals and 225,954 loci were identified, the dataset consisted of 358 northern red oak and 45 northern pin oak samples. For the Freebayes pipeline, a total of 412 individuals and 140,785 loci were identified, the dataset consisted of 358 northern red oak and 45 northern pin oak samples. No Filtering has been applied to any of these VCF files. A file containing sample IDs is also available
There is also a .csv file containing the geospatial data of the visited populations in Minnesota. Populations were identified using the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources releve data. Coastal populations were located between 0-10 miles from the coast of Lake Superior, inland populations were located between 11-50 miles from the shore, and interior populations between 51-100 miles from the shore of Lake Superior.Genomic and Geospatial data for 30 northern red oak (Quercus rubra) used in a study to identify population structure and investigate poor performance of coastal seeds. We used restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) of 358 northern red oak (Quercus rubra) leaf tissue samples from trees across the state of Minnesota and 45 northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) leaf tissue samples used as outgroups. We used the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources releve data, to identify populations across the state of Minnesota that had presence of Q. rubra trees.This data share was prepared by Maria Jose Gomez Quijano, Briana L. Gross and Julie R. Etterson using Federal funds under award NA17NOS4190062 from the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, administered by the Office for Coastal Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce provided to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for Minnesota’s Lake Superior Coastal Program. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA’s Office of Coastal Management, the U.S. Department of Commerce, or the Minnesota DNR.Gomez Quijano, Maria Jose; Gross, Briana, L.; Etterson, Julie, R.. (2020). Why do coastal seeds fail? Evidence of local adaptation of northern red oak ( Quercus rubra ) in Minnesota coastal forests - Genomics and Geospatial Data. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/dqet-h494
Ethical Orientation in Banks
No full textOver the past 30 years, the banking sector has been characterized by increasing attention to ethics, which intensified as a consequence of the global financial crisis. Banks have the privilege and responsibility of directly interacting with a wide and diversified clientele and are supposed to base their long-lasting relationship with this clientele on trust, transparency, and proper behavior. Special types of banks, “alternative” to traditional banks in what they consider ethical behavior, have been increasingly present in the market. While alternative banks still cover a limited market share in terms of intermediated funds, awareness on their values and operational choices has been spreading throughout the financial community. The concept of social impact finance, currently permeating the financial sector, is a product of such a process. One interesting question, therefore, emerges: are these banks truly special and clearly distinguished from traditional banking? A second concern focuses on the role that these banks may play in the financial system due to a more intense ethical orientation. To answer these questions, it is necessary to outline a suitable analytical framework. Differently from the common approach, which is purely based on banks’ investment choices, this contribution draws from some cornerstone work on ethical business and is enriched by the original view of a classical author of the Italian business economics academic community. The resulting holistic approach bases banks’ ethical orientation on the institutional nature of financial intermediaries, their ultimate strategic goals, and their role in the economy and in society. To make the analysis more concrete, the suggested theoretical framework is used to study two types of banks that are commonly considered particularly ethically oriented: cooperative and alternative banks. It emerges that a small size may be critical in facilitating the achievement of a high degree of ethical orientation. The conclusions drawn based on these cases are used to offer some critical perspectives on the role of ethics in the current overall banking system
Author correction: obesity and ethnicity alter gene expression in skin
No full textDaniel Butler was omitted from the author list in the original version of this Article. The Author contributions section now reads: “J.M.W. designed, conducted, and contributed to the writing of the manuscript, prepared Fig. 1. S.G. evaluated and did statistical analysis on the skin and fat samples, prepared Figs. 2–9. J.O.A. evaluated and contributed to writing the manuscript. D.B prepared and sequenced DNA libraries for the skin microbiota data, and wrote the applicable parts of the methods section. C.M. analyzed and wrote up the skin microbiota data, prepared Fig. 10. All authors have read the manuscript and approved its contents. D.D. analyzed and wrote up the skin microbiota data. S.Z. ran and analyzed the skin metabolite data. J.S. assisted in design, analysis and wrote up the skin metabolite data. J.K. assisted in analysis write up of skin and fat data. J.L.B. assisted in analysis, interpretation and writing of the manuscript. P.R.H. designed, analyzed, interpreted the data, and was the primary author of the manuscript.” This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article, and in the accompanying Supplementary Information file.</p
Correction to: Pathogenesis, Clinical Signs and Treatment Recommendations in Brittle Nails: A Review (Dermatology and Therapy, (2020), 10, 1, (15-27), 10.1007/s13555-019-00338-x)
No full textUnfortunately, the co-author name was incorrectly published as “Jose L. López-Esterbaranz” instead of ‘Jose L. López-Estebaranz” in the original article. The correct version of author name is updated here. The original article has been corrected. © 2020, The Author(s)
Monitoring Key Agricultural CROPS in the Netherlands using Sentinel-1
No full textIn this study, we performed ground validation to support the interpretation of Sentinel-1 imagery during a full growing season of five key crop types in the Netherlands. Crop height and growth stage were monitored weekly in a total of 25 parcels of maize, potato, sugar beet maize and English rye grass in the province of Flevoland. Hydrometeorological data were collected throughout the season. Here, these results are used to interpret time series of Sentinel-1 data processed for the province of Flevoland. Results demonstrate that Sentinel-1 data follow the phenological stages and can be used to identify key moments in crop development. Combined with the guaranteed availability of observations regardless of cloud cover, this makes Sentinel-l data a valuable resource for agencies and commercial entities providing advice to farmers and agro-industrial co-operatives.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Water ResourcesOptical and Laser Remote Sensin
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