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Jim Wallis, Author of God's Politics, to speak at UMC
No full textLemos, Krista. (2005). Jim Wallis, Author of God's Politics, to speak at UMC. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/220557
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The Holbrook bequest for commemorative plaques: tradition, narrative and 'local patriotism' in Victorian Nottingham
No full textThe Customs Union issue: Why do we observe so few of them?
No full textThe number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can be considered to be fully fledged customs unions. This paper develops a political economy model of trade policy under imperfect competition to provide a positive explanation for the prevalence of free trade areas. In a three country setting, a representative from each prospective member is elected to determine the tariffs to be applied on imported goods. Under a customs union, the necessity to coordinate tariff leads voters to strategically delegate power to more protectionist representatives. Contrary to most of the existing literature, we show that strategic delegation may imply that free trade areas increase welfare compared to customs unions. Moreover, the model also indicates that free trade areas are more likely to be politically viable than customs unions.Strategic delegation, Preferential Trade Agreements.
M.E. Taylor Memorial Window
No full textIcons: Dove, Anchor, Chalice. Inscription: TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF / MARY ELDER TAYLOR. / ERECTED BY HER SONS JEREMY AND REV. KENNETH TAYLOR, 1935. Signed: C. WALLIS / LONDON / ONTARIO/ 1964. Lead Investigator: C. Cody Barteet ([email protected]). Photograph: Katie Oateshttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/chriswallis_stainedglass_on_london_stmarks/1012/thumbnail.jp
Combining forecasts : forty years later
No full textThis article is dedicated to the memory of Clive Granger, a founding editor of this journal. Its title echoes the title of his invited review article in a special issue of the Journal of Forecasting in 1989. That issue marked the twentieth anniversary of the publication of his article with John Bates, which is widely regarded as the seminal article in the field of forecast combination. This article returns to two of the topics in ‘Combining forecasts – twenty years later’ that are of much current interest, namely the impact of forecasters’ different information sets on the original point forecast combination result, and properties of different methods of combining density forecasts. A parallel result to his inefficiency-of-mean-forecasts result for point forecasts is seen to apply to density forecasts, where logarithmic combination is shown to have some advantage over linear combination
Why Death is so Important in YA Fiction
No full textShould adults be concerned about how much death appears in teen books? Not at all, argues YA author Rupert Wallis, in fact, they could learn a lot about life and death by reading them to
The properties of some goodness-of-fit tests
No full textThe properties of Pearson’s goodness-of-fit test, as used in density forecast evaluation, income distribution analysis and elsewhere, are analysed. The components-of-chi-squared or “Pearson analog” tests of Anderson (1994) are shown to be less generally applicable than was originally claimed. For the case of equiprobable classes, where the general components tests remain valid, a Monte Carlo study shows that tests directed towards skewness and kurtosis may have low power, due to differences between the class boundaries and the intersection points of the distributions being compared. The power of individual component tests can be increased by the use of nonequiprobable classes
Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States: Early Development and Comparative Perspective
No full textJohn Wallis (1616–1703)
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Three centuries after its publication, John Wallis’ Grammatica Linguae An-glicanae (1653) is still worth the attention of the readers interested in the study of English. Considered within the context of its day, it appears as a significant contribution to the field, and indeed a work which constitutes a landmark in the history of the study of English. Its author, a remarkable mathematician looked upon as one of the most important precursors of Newton, succeeded in handling facts of the English language (both phonetics and grammar) better than any of his predecessors. His work, which illustrates the empirical approach, is important through the degree of independence attained in it from the Latin model which, at that time, still exerted a strong influence on attempts at describing the European vernaculars. In the advent of comparative linguistics in the 19th century Wallis’ grammar fell into disgrace. Even in our time scholars often repeat, with little justification, earlier criticisms of Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae – thus suggesting that Wallis’ contribution to the study of English has not always been examined in terms of the advances it represented when it was first published more than three centuries ago. When mapping out the development of linguistics in a historiography of our discipline there are two aspects in which Wallis’ grammar of English deserves special mention: when tracing the evolution of articulatory phonetics and when examining the roots of modern structural descriptivism.</jats:p
Des limites de l'insularité. Le cas de Wallis (Polynésie) (About the notion of insularity. The case of Wallis French Polynesia)
No full textAbstract. - The author shows the economic dependancy of the island of Wallis and the necessity of emigration. The continued growth of the wallisian population forbids return migrations, because home production is still too low. The author thinks that the main reason of this situation is the underdevelopment, and not the insularity.Résumé. - L'auteur montre le dépendance économique de l'île, et la nécessité de l'émigration (successivement vers les Nouvelles Hébrides et la Nouvelle Calédonie). La persistance de la croissance démographique dans l'île interdit le retour des émigrés, du fait de la faiblesse des ressources. Pour l'auteur le sous-développement compte plus dans cette situation que l'insularité.Saussol Alain. Des limites de l'insularité. Le cas de Wallis (Polynésie) (About the notion of insularity. The case of Wallis French Polynesia). In: Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français, 65e année, 1988-3 ( juin). pp. 271-281
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