1,691 research outputs found
Using Accelerometry to Detect Upper-Extremity Motor Deficits and Delays in Early Childhood
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
Identifying subtle motor delays in early childhood is challenging. Accelerometry is a novel way to characterize upper-extremity motor patterns in typically developing children. Differences were identified between typically developing children and children with hemiparesis ages 0–5 yr.
Primary Author and Speaker: Catherine Hoyt Drazen
Contributing Authors: Annie Nguyen, Elyse Everet, Melanie Berner, Jonathan Koller, Dustin K. Ragan, Nico U. F. Dosenbach</jats:p
The Exchange Rate and Canadian Inflation Targeting
No full textThe author provides a non-technical explanation of the role played by the exchange rate in Canada's inflation-targeting monetary policy. He reviews the motivation for inflation targeting and describes the monetary transmission mechanism. Though the exchange rate is an integral component of the transmission mechanism, the author explains why it is not a target for monetary policy. He provides a simple taxonomy for exchange rate movements, distinguishing between movements associated with direct shocks to aggregate demand and those unrelated to such direct shocks. He explains the importance to monetary policy of determining the cause of any given movement in the exchange rate, and of determining the net effect on aggregate demand. The author also describes Canadian monetary policy during the 2003-04 period, a time when the Canadian dollar appreciated sharply against the U.S. dollar.Exchange rates; Inflation targets; Monetary policy implementation
The lobster parasite Anophryoides haemophila (Scuticociliatida: Orchitophryidae): Nuclear 18S rDNA sequence, phylogeny and detection using oligonucleotide primers
No full textWe have determined the nucleotide sequence of the nuclear gene encoding small-subunit ribosomal ribonucleic acid of the ciliate Anophryoides haemophila, a parasite of the American lobster Homarus americanus. The gene is 1763 bp in length, and has a guanosine-plus-cytosine content of 43.9%. Inferred phylogenetic frameworks strongly support the monophyly of the scuticociliates, and suggest that order Scuticociliatida should be elevated to at least subclass rank. Oligonucleotide probes based on A. haemophila ssu-rDNA can discriminate between DNAs of A. haemophila and other investigated hymenostome ciliates, and effectively prime polymerase chain reaction-based detection of A. haemophila deoxyribonucleic acid against at least a 1600-fold excess of total deoxyribonucleic acid from H. americanus
Fixing Canada’s CPI: A Simple and Sensible Policy Change for Minister Flaherty
No full textFixing measurement errors in the Consumer Price Index is a small idea that offers big payoffs to Canadians and the government. In this paper, the author says if the upcoming federal budget devoted the resources needed to improve Statistics Canada’s measurement of the Consumer Price Index, Canadians would have a truer sense of changes in the cost of living, monetary policy would be guided by a more accurate measure of inflation, and Minister Flaherty would more easily achieve the government’s commitment to balance the federal budget by 2015/16.Monetary Policy, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Statistics Canada, inflation rate
Cheer Up!
No full text(Color) Four poem stanzas written as doses I-IV, in accordance with the poem's subtitle, "A Dose of Optimism." The red, white, and blue medicine bottle reads "Optimism The Does to be Taken as Required" and a British Flag is pinned into the cork stopper. A message on the back informs potential buyers of the card to obtain them directly from the author, Jule Critten at her residence. This card is uninscribed and unposted.This collection previously belonged to Dominic Hibberd, an English biographer most noted for the biographies of Wilfred Owen and Harold Monro, World War I poets. He collected these postcards for research purposes
Courage
No full text(Color) This postcard displays an image of seven Allied flags (United Kingdom, France, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Italy, and Japan) with an accompanying poem to encourage the soldiers and folks back home to "Just Keep On!" The back indicates that the text author produces the poems herself out of a hotel, and proceeds go to the "Comforts for the Wounded at the Army Nursing Homes, Folkestone." This card is uninscribed and unposted.This collection previously belonged to Dominic Hibberd, an English biographer most noted for the biographies of Wilfred Owen and Harold Monro, World War I poets. He collected these postcards for research purposes
Search for the decay B plus or minus going to chi cK plus or minus at CDF.
No full text mesons are reconstructed through the decay chain and Using data taken at the Collider Detector at Fermilab in collisions at = 1.8 TeV during the 1988/89 run, we have seen the signal of the mesons from this decay channel although the statistics still need to be improved. By Monte Carlo methods, we also conclude that it is possible to resolve the individual and states by making higher photon energy cuts
The Valley of Sweat
No full text(Black and White) This postcard is a poetry text with one graphic adornment under the title. This card is uninscribed and unposted.This collection previously belonged to Dominic Hibberd, an English biographer most noted for the biographies of Wilfred Owen and Harold Monro, World War I poets. He collected these postcards for research purposes
The elasticity of taxable income of high earners: Evidence from Hungary
No full textThe paper studies how high-income taxpayers responded to the introduction of the ‘extraordinary tax on individuals’ in Hungary in 2007. The study is based on a panel of tax returns compiled by the Hungarian Tax Authority for the purposes of this study, containing information on 10 percent of tax-filers from 2005 and three subsequent years. We estimate the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the marginal net-of-tax rate and find that the taxable income of Hungarian high earners is moderately responsive to taxation: the estimated elasticity is about 0.2. This means that if the upper tax rate of the 2010 Hungarian tax system were increased by a small amount, the behavioral response of taxpayers would reduce the additional tax revenue by about 60 percent. We find evidence suggesting that the elasticity is a reflection of a labor supply response to the tax change on the intensive margin, and not a reflection of tax shifting, avoidance or evasion.taxable income elasticity, personal income tax, tax avoidance
The Kingdom is the Lord's
No full text(Black and White) The heading of this card is a verse from the Bible, Psalm 22:28, and is accompanied with a poem by Riggs. The card displays preprinted spaces for the sender to fill out "to" and "from." This card is uninscribed and unposted.This collection previously belonged to Dominic Hibberd, an English biographer most noted for the biographies of Wilfred Owen and Harold Monro, World War I poets. He collected these postcards for research purposes
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