159 research outputs found
Joseph Haydn - String Quartets Op.20 - Harmonic Analysis Annotations Dataset
No full text<p>This dataset accompanies the Master Thesis from the same author. It is a manually-annotated corpus of harmonic analysis in **harm syntax.</p>
<p>The dataset contains the following scores:<br>
Haydn, Joseph<br>
1. E-flat major, op. 20 no. 1, Hob. III-31<br>
I. Allegro moderato<br>
II. Menuetto. Allegretto<br>
III. Affettuoso e sostenuto<br>
IV. Finale. Presto<br>
2. C major, op. 20 no. 2, Hob. III-32 <br>
I. Moderato<br>
II. Capriccio. Adagio<br>
III. Menuetto. Allegretto<br>
IV. Fuga a 4 soggetti<br>
3. G minor, op. 20 no. 3, Hob. III-33<br>
I. Allegro con spirito<br>
II. Menuetto. Allegretto<br>
III. Poco adagio<br>
IV. Finale. Allegro molto<br>
4. D major, op. 20 no. 4, Hob. III-34<br>
I. Allegro di molto<br>
II. Un poco adagio e affettuoso<br>
III. Menuet alla Zingarese & Trio<br>
IV. Presto e scherzando<br>
5. F minor, op. 20 no. 5, Hob. III-35<br>
I. Allegro moderato<br>
II. Menuetto<br>
III. Adagio<br>
IV. Finale. Fuga a due soggetti<br>
6. A major, op. 20 no. 6, Hob. III-36<br>
I. Allegro di molto e scherzando<br>
II. Adagio. Cantabile<br>
III. Menuetto. Allegretto<br>
IV. Fuga a 3 soggetti. Allegro</p>
Debt maturity and firm performance : a panel study of Indian companies
No full textEconomic policy makers traditionally hold the view that, because of imperfections in capital markets, a shortage of long-term finance acts as a barrier to industrial performance and growth. Long term finance is thought to allow firms to invest in more productive technologies, even when they do not produce immediate payoffs, without fear of premature liquidation. As a result, special state-supported term-lending institutions have been established, especially in developing countries. But some believe that short-term finance may offer better incentives because it allows suppliers of finance to monitor and control firms more effectively, thus improving the firms'performance. The authors empirically investigate the determinants and consequences of the term structure of debt. Using a rich panel of data on privately owned companies in India, they also examine the influence of debt maturity structures on those firm's performance, especially on productivity. The results are not conclusive, but seem to support conventional beliefs about the importance of long term finance to firm performance. Heavy leveraging, however, has a strong negative impact on productivity. They base their econometric evidence on estimates of a maturity equation and of a production function augmented by financial variables. The data on which these results are based have been generated by a financial system in which there is little competition, in which state-owned financial institutions are not guided by the profit motive and have no control over interest rates, so one cannot say whether short term finance would have been more beneficial in a less regulated system. Moreover, by the end of the 1980s, the capital base of India's government-owned financial institutions had been severely eroded and they carried a heavy burden of nonperforming assets. This means that the benefits of long term finance must be weighed against the costs.Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Municipal Financial Management,Environmental Economics&Policies
the middle class consensus and economic development
No full textModern political economy stresses"society's polarization"as a determinant of development outcomes. Among the most common dorms of social conflict are class polarization, and ethnic polarization. A middle class consensus is defined as a high share of income for the middle class and a low degree of ethnic polarization. A middle class consensus distinguishes development successes from failures. A theoretical model shows how groups - distinguished by class or ethnicity - will under-invest in human capital and infrastructure when there is"leakage"to another group. The author links the existence of a middle class consensus to exogenous country characteristics, such as resource endowments, along the lines of the provocative thesis of Engerman and Sokoloff (1997), that tropical commodity exporters are more unequal than other societies. The author confirms this hypothesis with cross-country data. This makes it possible to use resource endowments as instruments for inequality. A higher share of income for the middle class and lower ethnic polarization, are empirically associated with higher income, higher growth, more education, better health, better infrastructure, better economic policies, less political instability, less civil war (putting ethnic minorities at risk), more social"modernization,"and more democracy.Economic Theory&Research,Decentralization,Gender and Social Development,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,Achieving Shared Growth,Governance Indicators,Economic Development,Inequality,Economic Theory&Research
Boondoogles and expropriation : rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure
No full textMost analyses of property rights and economic development point to the negative influence of insecure property rights on private investment. The authors focus instead on the largely unexamined effects of insecure property rights on government policy choices. They identify one significant anomaly-dramatically higher public investment in countries with insecure property rights-and use it to make the following broad claims about insecure property rights; 1) They increase rent-seeking. 2) They may reduce the incentives of governments to use tax revenues for productive purposes, such as public investment. 3) They do so whether one regards the principal problem of insecure property rights as the maintenance of law and order, which government spending can potentially remedy, or as the threat of expropriation by government itself, and therefore not remediable by government spending. The authors present substantial empirical evidence to support these claims.Environmental Economics&Policies,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Labor Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,National Governance,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Land and Real Estate Development
Screening for Future Cardiovascular Disease Using Age Alone Compared with Multiple Risk Factors and Age
No full textThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Dataset for the systematic mapping study 'Management of quality requirements in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping study' https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2019.106225
No full textThe data-set includes list of the primary studies and different classifications and mappings reported in the systematic mapping study, Management of quality requirements in agile and rapid software development: A systematic mapping study.
Behutiye, W., Karhapää, P., Lopez, L., Burgués, X., Martínez-Fernández, S., Vollmer, A. M., ... & Oivo, M. (2019). Management of quality requirements in agile and rapid software development: a systematic mapping study. Information and Software Technology. 106225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2019.106225
The dataset includes four excel files that describe the findings and classifications reported in the study as follows.
- Primary studies and classification.xlsx
Present the list of 156 primary studies and the result of their classification by research method, author affiliation, venue , publication year and contexts
-ICB domain classification.xlsx
Presents the ICB domain classification of the domains reported in the primary studies
- Distribution of quality requirement types.xlsx
Presents the result of the distribution of quality requirement types reported in the study
- Mapping QR management strategies to challenges.xlsx
Presents the mapping of the Quality requirement management strategies to challenges reported in the stud
Author Correction: Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing
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Predicting willingness to pay and implement different rooftop strategies to characterize social perception of climate change mitigation and adaptation
No full textWith the latest IPCC report, dramatic global climate action must be taken immediately to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, or face more frequent and extreme weather events with catastrophic implications. Cities must invest in climate resilience development; however, government policies are only effective if they are supported by the society in which they serve. As such, this study aims to characterize the social perception of climate resilience development, in particular the implementation of sustainable urban rooftop strategies, to support policy makers and enable individual action. This was accomplished through the analysis of 1,100 answered surveys in Cerdanyola del Vallès (Spain), to assess one’s willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to implement (WTI) rooftop strategies according to: 1. socio-demographical characteristics; 2. social perceptions and beliefs; and 3. surrounding land use and land cover, and vulnerabilities identified through temperature and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) maps. The results of this study found age played a significant role in predictability, with 18-39-year-olds being the most willing to pay and implement the various rooftop scenarios. However, our results uncovered societal inequality as those 85+ were the second group most interested in rooftop agriculture but the most financially restricted. Belief in the viability of rooftop strategies increased respondents WTP and WTI while having access to ones’ rooftop increased willingness to partake in rooftop food cultivation and enhance rooftop greenery. A new finding presented by this study is the quantifiable impact that urban greenery plays on increasing survey respondents WTP and WTI.Integral Design & Managemen
Analysis of the effects of a Constructivist-Based Mathematics Problem Solving Instructional Program on the achievement of Grade Five Students in Belize, Central America.
No full textThis thesis examined whether social constructivist activities can improve the mathematical competency of grade five students in Belize, Central America. The sample included 342 students and eight teachers from two rural and urban schools. A switching replication design was employed enabling students in the experimental groups to be taught using social constructivist activities for 12 weeks and the controls exposed to similar instructional practices from weeks 7 to 12. Students‘ performance was assessed using Pre-test, Post test 1 and 2 with an internal consistency of 0.89, 0.90 and 0.93 respectively. As revealed by the repeated measures ANOVA within subject analysis, there were significant differences among the pre-test and post test 1 and 2 results. That is, students in the control groups, who were instructed using a procedural approach from weeks 1 to 6, demonstrated higher gains than the experimental groups who were immersed in social constructivist activities. Furthermore, when the control groups became immersed in similar activities from weeks 7 to 12, they continued to outperform the experimental groups who were exposed to social constructivist activities alone. Hence, due to this unexpected result, the aim of this thesis became to explain why these results came about and what implications for teaching were highlighted by the consideration.
Besides the quantitative results highlighted above, qualitative data was also obtained as part of the study. For example, students were videoed within constructivist math groups and their performance analyzed using Pirie and Kieren‘s (1994) Model of Growth for Mathematical Understanding. The data from the video recording revealed that use of one step math problems did not enabled students to restructure their thinking to solve innovative problems. Data from semi-structured interviews also revealed that some students lacked basic math skills and were not exposed or guided to solve complex problems. Besides the need for careful examination of social constructivist activities on performance, this thesis underscores the importance of relevant teaching and learning activities, the important role of teachers during social constructivist activities and the need to identify suitable forms of assessment to measure performance
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