93 research outputs found
UBS M III 77 : [Gratulation an Fürsterzbischof Jakob Ernst Graf von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn zum Namenstag]
No full text1r-4v: Gratulation an den Fürsterzbischof zum Namenstag. (1r) Chronogramm: Io. RegIr FVrst Von LIeChtensteIn. DeIn Lob VnD PreIJs WIrD EWIg seIJn. (1r) Widmung: Ihro Hochf[ü]r[s]tl. G[na]d[e]n Dem Hochwürdigst Hochgebohrnen des H.R. Reichs Fürsten v[nd]. H[errn]H[err]n Iacobo Ernesto. Ertz-Bischoff zu Saltzburg ... (2r) Inc.: Obwollen zwar alle getreyen Unterthans Dieneren und Vasallen ohnaufhörliches bitten ... (4v) Expl.: … gegen abstattung Lebenslänglich ohnaußlöschl.en Gebetts zu gratificieren geruhen. Euer Hochf. Gdn. Vnterthänigst-Gehorsamster Hof Raths Canzelyst. Joseph Mathias Lackner mp (aus Joseph Mathias Lackners eigener Hand ab "Vnterthänigst").[Joseph Mathias Lackner]Joseph Mathias Lackner war Hofratskanzlist.Lagen: 1VS-Bl. + II[4]+ 1NS-Bl.; moderne Blattzählung
REPEATED ACQUISITION AND PERFORMANCE OF CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATIONS AS A BEHAVIORAL BASELINE FOR STUDYING DRUG EFFECTS
No full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-02, Section: B, page: 1009.Ph.D. American University 1976.Englis
Platform camera aircraft detection for approach evaluation and training
No full textApproach training currently relies solely on manual observation of and verbal feedback to the pilot. This project aims to provide both pilots and landing signal officers (LSOs) with valuable information about individual approaches in the carrier landing environment. The author investigated fully automatic flight path acquisition by means of computer vision-based analyses of platform camera video. The obtained data supports enhanced LSO training, real-time approach analysis and pilot self-improvement through advanced review capabilities.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.US Navy (USN) author.http://archive.org/details/platformcamerair10945361
Financial safety nets and incentive structures in Latin America
No full textThe literature on safety nets has become technically more precise by drawing on advances in contract theory and optimal governance structure. This paper begins with a treatment of some aspects of the theory. The author's approach draws more on institutional economics, and more precisely on the approach taken by Kindleberger (1978), in the sense that he believes the design of good financial safety nets for Latin America depends upon an understanding of the way that formal ex-ante safety nets have broken down during times of crisis over the past one hundred years. In this paper then author explores issues surrounding safety nets for financial systems in small open economies like those in Latin America. The starting point in Section 2 is the idea that asymmetric information will generally restrict the scope for lending to potential borrowers. Section 3 shows that government regulation of financial intermediaries can frequently lower the cost of lending. Section 4 discusses the creation of central banks in Latin America in the 1920s as an innovation to promote financial deepening. Section 5 shows that the extension of the safety net to depositors is a relatively new and untested development. Section 6 concludes with a discussion of the design of safety nets that takes into account the principles developed in the paper.Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Financial Intermediation,Banks&Banking Reform,Labor Policies,Financial Intermediation,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform
Evaluation of instruction for the graduating class enrolled in the Milwaukee Area Technical College Associate Degree Program Fire Science
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Improving situational awareness on submarines using augmented reality
No full textModern submarines are complex machines operating in a harsh environment. Although technology has been rapidly introduced in the submarine fleet, submariners must process more information due to increases in sensor capability and information available for decision-making. Unfortunately, improvements in the human-systems interfaces have not kept up with the new technology. Incidents involving human error are still occurring at an unacceptable rate in the modern fleet. This thesis addresses the deficiency in display information that occurs for the key decision maker in control, the Officer of the Deck. The results from a cognitive task analysis (CTA) provide insights on the information flow and display uses for the critical periscope depth procedure. This thesis also identifies the Level of SA associated with each step of the CTA. An analysis of the data from the CTA provides the deficiencies of the current system and suggests that the breakdown of SA occurs at Level 2. Through subject observations and personal experience, the author details the required information necessary for the OOD to make prompt decisions in control. This thesis attempts to provide an answer to the information display problem by introducing the emerging technology of augmented reality as a candidate solution.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.US Navy (USN) author.http://archive.org/details/improvingsituati10945390
When do special interests run rampant ? disentangling the role in banking crises of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances
No full textThe author investigates the political determinants of government decisions that benefit special interest groups - especially government decisions to deal with banking crises. He finds that the better informed the voters, the more proximate elections, and the larger the number of political veto players ( conditional on the costs to voters of relevant policy decision), the smaller the government's fiscal transfer are to the financial sector and the less likely the government is to exercise forbearance in dealing with insolvent financial institutions. The results suggest that policies thatmight be appropriate for mitigating banking crises in the United States might be less effective in settings where voters are less informed, where elections are less competitive, and where there are fewer veto players, because in these settings checks and balances are missing. These policies include: a) Disseminating information about the costs of inefficient government decisions. b) Improving the structure of legislative regulatory oversight. c) Intervening early in insolvent banks. The author concludes that the more veto players there are, the less likely policies are to favor special interest groups (contrary to previous views). Moreover, the closer the elections, the less likely policies are to favor special interest groups.
Light manipulation with photonic fibers and optical light guides : dynamic structural color and light distribution in microalgae cultures
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-68).Optical and photonic fibers represent versatile systems for light manipulation. They are used to guide, reflect, emit, and absorb light, and can be designed to alter the light's spectral composition in any of these light-matter interactions. Additional functionality arises from the combination of these effects in single fibers, and the ability to employ fibers as individual strands, or as woven networks. Two distinct light-manipulating-fiber systems are the focus of this thesis: (1) photonic fibers, which have vivid structural color that changes reversibly in response to mechanical or electrical stimuli, and (2) leaky light guides, which emit light along their length when illuminated from one end. Mechanochromic fibers that convert a mechanical perturbation into an optical response can be used, standalone or integrated into textiles, as easy-to-read strain sensors. Such fibers respond to elongation with a gradual shift in their reflected color through the visible range of light.In particular, their use in compressive bandages - discussed in detail in this thesis - could greatly improve the efficiency of compression therapy for chronic venous ulcers and other vascular maladies. Electrochromic fibers exploit the electrochemically-tunable absorption of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiphene) polystyrene sulfonate, a common conducting polymer, to design devices that can be flipped between a vivid, structurally colored state, and a dull, absorption-colored state. Custom optical multilayer and lumped parameter models are used to analyze the behavior of these fibers. Leaky light guides, by distributing light throughout volumes of algae culture, could yield greater productivity in microalgae cultivation, while lowering energy requirements. The combination of these factors could enable the economically favorable generation of algal biomass for fuels, feedstock, pharmaceuticals, and many other uses.A passive system for distributing light throughout culture volumes, by selectively scattering light out of light-guiding fibers, is developed and implemented. The process of designing and manufacturing these leaky light guides, and their use in a variety of laboratory-scale bioreactors with live microalgae cultures, are described.by Joseph D. Sandt.Ph. D.Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineerin
Health insurance reform in four Latin American countries : theory and practice
No full textThe author examines public economics rationales for public intervention in health insurance markets, draws on the literature of organizational design to examine alternative intervention strategies, and considers health insurance reforms in four Latin American countries -- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia -- in light of the theoretical literature. Equity has been the main reason for large-scale public intervention in the health insurance sector, despite the well-known failures of insurance and health care markets associated with imperfect information. Recent reforms have sought less to make private markets more efficient than to make public provision more efficient, sometimes by altering the focus and function of existing institutions (such as the obras sociales in Argentina) or by encouraging the growth of new ones (such as Chile's ISAPREs). Generally, these four Latin American countries have reformed the ways insurance and care are organized and delivered, have tried to extend formal coverage to previously marginalized groups, and have tried to finance this extension fairly. Colombia instituted an implicit two-tiered voucher scheme financed through a proportional wage tax. Chile's financing mechanism is similar but the distribution of benefits is less progressive, so the net effect is less redistributive. Argentina's remodeled obras system went halfway: the financing base is similar and there is some implicit redistribution from richer to poorer obras, but the quality of insurance increases with income. On the face of it, Brazil's health insurance system is less redistributive than those of the other three countries, as no tax is earmarked for financing health insurance. But taxes paid by higher-income taxpayers are not reduced when they choose private insurance, highlighting the problem of examining the health sector independent of the general tax and transfer system.Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Insurance Law,Economic Theory&Research
The AWAKE Run 2 programme and beyond
No full textAutores: Edda Gschwendtner, Konstantin Lotov, Patric Muggli, Matthew Wing, Riccardo Agnello, Claudia Christina Ahdida, Maria Carolina Amoedo Goncalves, Yanis Andrebe, Oznur Apsimon, Robert Apsimon, Jordan Matias Arnesano, Anna-Maria Bachmann, Diego Barrientos, Fabian Batsch, Vittorio Bencini, Michele Bergamaschi, Patrick Blanchard, Philip Nicholas Burrows, Birger Buttenschön, Allen Caldwell, James Chappell, Eric Chevallay, Moses Chung, David Andrew Cooke, Heiko Damerau, Can Davut, Gabor Demeter, Amos Christopher Dexter, Steffen Doebert, Francesa Ann Elverson, John Farmer, Ambrogio Fasoli, Valentin Fedosseev, Ricardo Fonseca, Ivo Furno, Spencer Gessner, Aleksandr Gorn, Eduardo Granados, Marcel Granetzny, Tim Graubner, Olaf Grulke, Eloise Daria Guran, Vasyl Hafych, Anthony Hartin, James Henderson, Mathias Hüther, Miklos Kedves, Fearghus Keeble, Vadim Khudiakov, Seong-Yeol Kim, Florian Kraus, Michel Krupa, Thibaut Lefevre, Linbo Liang, Shengli Liu, Nelson Lopes, Miguel Martinez Calderon, Stefano Mazzoni, David Medina Godoy, Joshua Moody, Kookjin Moon, Pablo Israel Morales Guzmán, Mariana Moreira, Tatiana Nechaeva, Elzbieta Nowak, Collette Pakuza, Harsha Panuganti, Ans Pardons, Kevin Pepitone, Aravinda Perera, Jan Pucek, Alexander Pukhov, Rebecca Louise Ramjiawan, Stephane Rey, Adam Scaachi, Oliver Schmitz, Eugenio Senes, Fernando Silva, Luis Silva, Christine Stollberg, Alban Sublet, Catherine Swain, Athanasios Topaloudis, Nuno Torrado, Petr Tuev, Marlene Turner, Francesco Velotti, Livio Verra, Victor Verzilov, Jorge Vieira, Helmut Vincke, Martin Weidl, Carsten Welsch, Manfred Wendt, Peerawan Wiwattananon, Joseph Wolfenden, Benjamin Woolley, Samuel Wyler, Guoxing Xia, Vlada Yarygova, Michael Zepp, Giovanni Zevi Della Porta. ::: Publisher: [MDPI] ::: Location: [
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