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The Ave Valley, northern Portugal: an archaeological survey of Iron Age and Roman settlement
No full textThe article presents the results of the HRB-funded survey of a sample of the Ave valley undertaken between 1994 and 1998. Introductory sections describe the geographical background and summarise the approaches followed. The field-walking results are then presented with especial emphasis on the ceramics. The field-walking evidence is used to identify a series of newly discovered sites which are assessed. The results of geophysical surveys of several of these sites are also presented. Information about the settlement patterns is presented based on a GIS analysis of both previously known sites and the results of the field-walking. Patterns in the changing distribution of settlement are discussed in relation to local social dynamics and the Roman annexation and exploitation of the region.The article is supported by databases which present the results of the field-walking and ceramic analyses.The article is jointly authored by: Martin Millett, Francisco Queiroga (Universidade Fernando Pessao, Porto), Kris Strutt, Jeremy Taylor and Steven Willis. The nature of a field-walking survey which produces a sequence of related databases (for field and finds) attached to a sequence of maps is particularly appropriate for electronic publication. Attempting such a publication in electronic form seems a worthwhile project in itself aside from the importance of the results
Robert Schwart, Jr., Michael A Tomaszewski, and Jeremy F. Taylor on DTP: The Texas Experience
No full textElucidating the genetic basis of an oligogenic birth defect using whole genome sequence data in a non-model organism, Bubalus bubalis
No full textRecent strong selection for dairy traits in water buffalo has been associated with higher levels of inbreeding, leading to an increase in the prevalence of genetic diseases such as transverse hemimelia (TH), a congenital developmental abnormality characterized by absence of a variable distal portion of the hindlimbs. Limited genomic resources available for water buffalo required an original approach to identify genetic variants associated with the disease. The genomes of 4 bilateral and 7 unilateral affected cases and 14 controls were sequenced. A concordance analysis of SNPs and INDELs requiring homozygosity unique to all unilateral and bilateral cases revealed two genes, WNT7A and SMARCA4, known to play a role in embryonic hindlimb development. Additionally, SNP alleles in NOTCH1 and RARB were homozygous exclusively in the bilateral cases, suggesting an oligogenic mode of inheritance. Homozygosity mapping by whole genome de novo assembly also supported oligogenic inheritance; implicating 13 genes involved in hindlimb development in bilateral cases and 11 in unilateral cases. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) predicted additional modifier genes. Although our data show a complex inheritance of TH, we predict that homozygous variants in WNT7A and SMARCA4 are necessary for expression of TH and selection against these variants should eradicate TH.Lynsey K. Whitacre, Jesse L. Hoff, Robert D. Schnabel, Sara Albarella, Francesca Ciotola, Vincenzo Peretti, Francesco Strozzi, Chiara Ferrandi, Luigi Ramunno, Tad S. Sonstegard, John L. Williams, Jeremy F. Taylor & Jared E. Decke
Frank, F. July 13, 2017. J. Harnum and B. Staple interviewing Frank French, Winterton.
No full textJeremy Harnum and Benjamin Staple interviewing Frank French about growing up in Winterton; types of boats used in the community; boat design and uses; wooden boat building in Winterton; fishing stages; settlement patterns; three-piece moulds traditionally used for wooden boat design; community heritage; traditional versus modern methods of wooden boat construction; and building a boat designed by his father, Marcus French, that was documented by David Taylor during research in the 1970s
Interim Report
No full textAuthor: F. R. Rodgers for N. H. Taylor for Sage Improvement CommitteeReason: C. W. Farr reviewing for declassificationMemo regarding 1956 interim repor
Implementation of taylor type rules in nascent money and capital markets under managed exchange rates
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.We investigate the practical use of Taylor-type rules in Trinidad and Tobago, which is in the process of implementing market based monetary policy and seeks to implement flexible inflation targeting in the presence of a managed exchange rate. This is motivated by the idea that normative Taylor rules can be shaped by the practical experience of developing countries. We find that the inflation – exchange rate nexus is strong, hence the country may be unwilling to allow the exchange rate to float freely. We contend that despite weak market development the Taylor rule can still be applied as the central bank is able to use moral suasion to achieve full pass through of the policy rate to the market rate.
Our evidence rejects Galí and Monacelli’s (2005) argument that the optimal monetary policy rule for the open economy is isomorphic for a closed economy. Rather, our evidence suggests that the rule for the open economy allows for lower variability when the rule is augmented by the real exchange rate as in Taylor (2001). We also reject Galí and Monacelli’s (2005) hypothesis that domestic inflation is optimal for inclusion in the Taylor-type rule. Instead we find that core CPI inflation leads to lower variability. Additionally, our evidence suggests that the monetary rule, when applied to Trinidad and Tobago, is accommodating to the US Federal Reserve rate.
Further, we expand the work of Martin and Milas (2010) which considered the pass through of the policy rate to the interbank rate in the presence of risk and liquidity. By extending the transmission to the market lending rate, we are able to go beyond those disruptive factors by considering excess liquidity and spillovers of international economic disturbances. We found that these shocks are significant for Trinidad and Tobago, but it is not significant enough to disrupt the pass through. As a result, full pass through was robust to the presence of these disruptive factors
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