682 research outputs found
Anton Wildgans: Speech about Austria
No full textTitle: Rede über Österreich (Speech about Austria) Originally published: Rede über Österreich (Vienna: F. G. Speidel, 1930) Language: German The excerpts used are from Anton Wildgans, Zu Zeit und Welt (Vienna: Bellaria Verlag, 1958), pp. 412, 416, 421–22. About the author Anton Wildgans [1881, Vienna–1932, Mödling, Lower Austria]: lawyer, poet, playwright, cultural functionary, and journalist. He practiced as an examining magistrate from 1909 to 1911, before turning to writing full-time, inco..
Piano music. Selections
No full text"Volume I contains a biographical sketch of the author by Philip Hale." --- Vol. 1. Melody in F. Op. 3, No. 2.--Barcarole in F minor. Op. 30, No. 2.--Romance in F. Op. 26, No. 1.--Nocturne in G♭. Op. 28, No. 1.--Impromptu in G. Op. 44, No. 4.--Scherzo in A. Op. 44, No. 2.--Kamennoi-Ostrow. Op. 10, No. 22.--Valse from "Miniatures."--vol. 2. March à la Turque.--Romance in E♭. Op. 44, No. 1.--Cracovienne. Op. 5, No. 2.--Tarantelle. Op. 6.--Polka (Boheme).--Op. 82, No. 7.--Près du ruisseau, from "Miniatures."--À la fenêtre, from "Miniatures.
Tax-efficient asset management via loss harvesting
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 63).In this thesis, we study loss-harvesting--an investment strategy that realizes capital losses immediately but defers realizing capital gains as long as possible. We begin by describing a computational framework for studying the properties of loss-harvesting empirically. The main advantage of our framework is flexibility. In particular, our framework is independent of any particular choice of a source for stock return time series. After combining the framework with the Capital Asset Pricing Model as a source for simulated stock returns data, we perform a thorough sensitivity analysis and study the performance of loss-harvesting under various conditions of the financial market. By combining the framework with historical stock return time series from the S&P 500 Index, we study the performance of loss-harvesting from a different and more practical, point of view. Through this empirical exploration, we identify three new findings about loss-harvesting: (1) introducing a transaction cost rate of 1% reduces alpha by about 50% after taxes; (2) introducing regular cash contributions reduces alpha after taxes; and (3) under specific market conditions, a simple passive buy-and-hold investment strategy outperforms loss-harvesting.by Anton G. Anastasov.M. Eng
VONROSAS,ANTON (1791-1855) - ON THE OCCASION OF THE BICENTENNIAL OF HIS BIRTH .2. A SURVEY OF HIS SCIENTIFIC WORKS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON SPECIFIC TOPICS
No full textThe author outlines the scientific works of Anton (von) Rosas (1791-1855), professor of ophthalmology in Padua and Vienna. Rosas' scientific opinions are compared with those of his teacher (G. J. Beer) and contemporaries. Three topics of medical and surgical ophthalmology have been analyzed in detail: epidemic-contagious ophthalmia of the army, cataract and artificial pupil. Rosas appears as a protagonist of the ophthalmologic culture of his time
PESI - a taxonomic backbone for Europe
No full textThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), 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
Evaluating global macroeconomic models : a case study of MULTIMOD
No full textThis paper is a contribution to the understanding of global interconnections through the evaluation and validation of the capabilities and properties of MULTIMOD, a multiregional macroeconomic model, developed and maintained at the International Monetary Fund. The author finds the model relatively small and simple in its theoretical specification, but advanced in its modeling techniques, exemplified by its"forward looking"features. This property allows faster adjustment of all prices, including exchange rates and interest rates, than do conventional macro models. A major strength of the model is the effective transmission of policy changes across countries. MULTIMOD can also be used to discuss North-South issues. Simulation examples are presented for monetary and fiscal policy scenarios in the North (with their impacts on the developing economies), oil price shocks, and debt relief schemes.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Geographical Information Systems,Educational Technology and Distance Education,Economic Stabilization
A note on ordinal exponentiation and derivatives of normal functions
No full textMichael Rathjen and the present author have shown that Π11‐bar induction is equivalent to (a suitable formalization of) the statement that every normal function has a derivative, provably in ACA0. In this note we show that the base theory can be weakened to RCA0. Our argument makes crucial use of a normal function f with f(α)≤1+α² and f′(α)=ωωα. We shall also exhibit a normal function g with g(α)≤1+α·2 and g′(α)=ω1+α
Serial femtosecond crystallography datasets from G protein-coupled receptors
No full textabstract: We describe the deposition of four datasets consisting of X-ray diffraction images acquired using serial femtosecond crystallography experiments on microcrystals of human G protein-coupled receptors, grown and delivered in lipidic cubic phase, at the Linac Coherent Light Source. The receptors are: the human serotonin receptor 2B in complex with an agonist ergotamine, the human δ-opioid receptor in complex with a bi-functional peptide ligand DIPP-NH[subscript 2], the human smoothened receptor in complex with an antagonist cyclopamine, and finally the human angiotensin II type 1 receptor in complex with the selective antagonist ZD7155. All four datasets have been deposited, with minimal processing, in an HDF5-based file format, which can be used directly for crystallographic processing with CrystFEL or other software. We have provided processing scripts and supporting files for recent versions of CrystFEL, which can be used to validate the data.The final version of this article, as published in Scientific Data, can be viewed online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata20165
“I Will Write That I no Longer Respect My Colleagues”. Parties in G.P. Fedotov’s Conflict with the Board of St. Sergius Orthodox Institute in Paris (1939)
No full textHistorians, who study the history of Post-Revolutionary Russian emigration, the history of St. Sergius Orthodox Institute in Paris, and the biography of Georgy P. Fedotov, are well aware of G.P. Fedotov’s conflict with the Board of this Theological Institute in 1939. For a long time, researchers had only one basic source on these events at their disposal. It is a biographical sketch by G. Fedotov’s wife, which precedes the first volume of his article’s collection published in Ymca-Press publishing house. However, a considerable number of documents (mainly from the Bakhmetiev archive, Columbia University, USA) have been published over the past several decades. They allow considering the conflict in more detail. The author of the article makes an attempt to identify parties of the conflict, their goals and objectives. From his point of view, the published documents point to the complicated nature of the conflict. It had at least two levels: 1) the conflict of G. Fedotov with rector of the Institute, Metropolitan Eulogy (Georgievsky), which was quite quickly resolved, and 2) the conflict of G. Fedotov with some members of the Board who sought his dismissal from the Institute. In contrast to the events of 1936, G. Fedotov was strongly supported by Nikolay Berdyaev and G. Fedotov’s friends from the organisation Pravoslavnoye Delo (mother Maria (Skobtsova), Fedor Pianov and others). It can be supposed with a high degree of probability that the main opponent of G. Fedotov at the Institute was Father Georges (Florovsky). In conformity with indirect data, it can also be assumed that Florovsky was supported by Anton Kartashev and Vasily Zenkovsky. Some members of the Board, father Sergius (Bulgakov), Nikolai Afanasyev, archimandrite Cassian (Bezobrazov), probably remained neutral. The position of the rest members of the Board is still unclear. However, it is clear that no one of the Board supported G. Fedotov. G. Fedotov called the deed of their colleagues dishonest. This conflict can be really described as a conflict of Georgy Fedotov with all the Board of the Institute, and the published documents confirm this point of view
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
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