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Letter from Mas Sakai to Sakai family, October 12, 1942
No full textTwo letters from Mas Sakai to the Sakai Family, sent from Tanforan Assembly Center, informing the family that he will be leaving for Utah the following day. The letter is laced with sarcasm as Sakai describes living conditions at Tanforan ("it wouldn't be right if I called it a concentration camp would it? After all we get the freedom of the track, don't we?"), and incarcerees' expectations of life at Topaz ("we all look to Utah with a song in our hearts (a funeral march) for there are our golden opportunities. Wonderful, trackless, sand to plant in, and cool refreshing salt water to drink. We especially look forward to the toilets (no seats)").Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Risk Aversion over Incomes and Risk Aversion over Commodities
No full textThis note determines the precise connection between an agent's attitude towards income risks and his attitude over risks in the underlying consumption space. Our results follow a general mathematical theory connecting the curvature properties of an objective function with the ray-curvature properties of its dual.risk aversion, concavity, duality
A long-term study on the setting reaction of glass ionomer cements by Al-27 MAS-NMR spectroscopy
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Escritura y oralidad en la literatura sefardí
No full textIn this paper several examples of mutual influence between writing and orality in Sephardic literature will be analysed: 1) oral literature samples which have come through writing (in quotations of Hebrew hymnbooks, in editions of Spanish written in Arabic characters and in manuscripts of personal use)2) elements of orality in written literature (poetry written to be sung, public reading of written text, traditionalism of texts with bookish origin) and 3) tradicionalism of author literature spread by oral means, not traditional ones (performance, radio, records, etc)Peer reviewe
Central bank independence : a critical view
No full textWhile expansive literature on central bank independence contains some criticisms to the independent central bank quasi-paradigm, few critical analyses have been undertaken in the years between Friedman (1962) and Posen (1994). The author extends Posen's analysis to developing countries, discussing more broadly and systematically the reasons why merely instituting an independent central bank may not bring about its professed benefits, especially in developing countries. The author argues that widely reported empirical tests that are purported to support the central bank independence proposition are plagued by potential problems of simultaneity, reverse causality, missing variables, and measurement errors. Yet one can not make positive recommendations about institutional arrangements for central banks if causality relations are not well established. Institutions are shaped by a country's record of and preferences for inflation and may have little influence on them. The author also argues that the purported benefits of an independent central bank may be eroded by conflicts between fiscal and monetary policy and by inherent problems of central bank institutional design (especially mechanisms for board appointments, public accountability, and budgetary control). If these institutional problems are not solved, problems of dynamic inconsistency traditionally associated with monetary policy are not eliminated,but merely transformed. The author suggests that the benefits of central bank independence are less likely obtained in less developed countries with shallow financial markets. Accordingly, central bank independence should be granted at a later stage in a country's financial sector development. If a less developed country seeks to establish a low-inflation path, it should concentrate on instituting financial policy reforms (such as liberalization and privatization) that bolster opposition to inflation rather than easily reversible and practically meaningless changes in legal and institutional structures. This will better ensure the sustainability -- and hence the credibility -- of the government's anti-inflation stance. Fiscal policy is often at the root of macroeconomic disturbances in developing countries. Fiscal policy is more deserving of special protection from politics because of fiscal dominance over monetary policy and its greater vulnerability to private interests. The author suggests that the solution might be to make fiscal policy less susceptible to political pressures by creating an independent fiscal board. Tying the fiscal hands of government may seem a far-fetched idea. But would it not make more sense to force discipline on fiscal policy directly rather than indirectly through monetary policy?Economic Theory&Research,National Governance,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Stabilization,Macroeconomic Management
Osservazioni su alcune incertezze e incongruenze nella terminologia dendrometrica
No full textConsiderations on uncertainties and inconsistencies in the dendrometric terminology. In the italian forestry
literature, the adjective “cormometric” combined with the noun volume or its equivalent, is used with
three different meanings which are respectively linked to the stem, to the trunk or large timber. To find the
origins and also the reasons for these different meanings of the term, we need to go back in history. The first
definition is by Alfonso Di Berenger first director of the Vallombrosa Forest, the first seat of higher Forestry
education in Italy between 1869 and 1951. He defined cormometric the volume of the “legname sociale” (industrial
timber), or the trunk. Follows the definition of Vittorio Perona that, in the wake of the German concept
of Derbholz, considers cormometric volume as including also portions of branches above seven centimeters.
Giuseppe Di Tella, Professor of forest mensurations and forest management in Florence between 1916
and 1937 is the author of a large general volume table for fir where the cormometric volume is defined as the
“stem including the top”, but also, following the doctrine, as a measure expressing the volume of the part of
the stem that can provide wood for building or industry. Subsequently, with the definitions of the Professors
Generoso Patrone and Guglielmo Giordano confirming the doctrinal meaning of Di Tella, the sense of the
term remains unchanged. In 1986 Hellrigl called cormometric mass, the aboveground woody tree mass limi -
ted to trunk and limbs to be determined; however, this definition did not find any application. Alternative
definitions by Roberto Del Favero and Orazio La Marca consider cormometric volume including top and
cormometric volume excluding top. In the forest literature, instead, there were more changes in 2007, when
the Forestry Research Portal published a notation regarding cubing of forest stands, stating “in the cubing of
forest stands, woody volume estimated for conifers is, in general, cormometric (i.e., volume of the stem including
bark)” which gave rise to the present note. Alongside, and again in connection with the meaning of
the term cormometric, certain combinations of terminology reported in two multilingual glossaries of IUFRO
are highlighted
Analisis Penerapan Akuntansi Pada Pt. Fajar Mas Murni Pekanbaru
No full textThe purpose of this study is to determine the suitability of the application of accounting carried out by PT. Fajar Mas Murni with generally accepted accounting principles. The research design used by the author is qualtitative where the process of finding knowledge is based on numerical data. The data used in this study are primary data and secondary data. The data collection methods used in this study were interviews and documentation. With the research conducted by the author, PT. Fajar Mas Murni conducts recording using the accrual base system. PT. Fajar Mas Murni in preparing financial statements does not make journals, general ledgers, balance sheets, reports of changes in equity, cash flow statements and notes to financial statements. From the results of the study, the author concludes that the application of accounting carried out by PT. Fajar Mas Murni has not complied with generally accepted accounting principles
Characterization of the mas protein as an angiotensin ii receptor, 1994
No full textThe mas proto-oncogene encodes a seven transmembrane protein (MAS) which is suggested to function as a receptor for angiotensin. It (MAS) was initially identified in NIH-3T3 cells that were transformed with DNA isolated from a human epidermoid carcinoma. These cells formed foci in culture and tumors when injected into nude mice. On the other hand, untransformed cells did not. Further analysis of these cells showed that transformed cells bind increased levels of angiotensin when compared to untransformed cells. These studies also demonstrated that the Mas protein was structurally similar to the angiotensin receptor transmembrane proteins, AT1 and AT2 . This investigation was undertaken to examine the ability of the Mas protein to function as an receptor for angiotensin and promote cell proliferation. To this end, quantitation of mas genes by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and serial dilutions, and Southern blot analysis support an increased in mas genes in transformed cells. Northern blot analysis demonstrated an increased expression of the mas gene in transformed cells. No changes in the level of the AT2 angiotensin receptor gene expression was observed in the transformed and untransformed cell lines. Expression of the AT1 angiotensin receptor gene was not observed in these cell lines. Anti-peptide antibodies were generated against the 1st and 2nd extracellular regions of the Mas protein. Flow cytometric analysis using these antibodies indicated an increased presence of the Mas protein on the surf ace of transformed cells recognized by anti-peptide antibodies. Western blot analysis showed two cross-reacting proteins of approximately ll0kd and 66kd in transformed cells; whereas, only a 66kd protein was found in untransformed cells. Transformed cells exposed to mas antisense oligos greatly reduced the synthesis of Mas, decreased cell proliferation and the binding of angiotensin. Binding studies using [3H]-DUP- 753 (a non-peptidyl ligand which recognizes Ang subtype AT 1 receptors) showed little binding to transformed cellsSimilar studies using PD-123319 (a non-peptidyl ligand that recognizes AT2 subtype receptors) indicated that approximately 60% of [125I]-Ang II was displaced using PD-123319. Further binding analysis of transformed cells suggests that [Sarl]-Ang II (an Ang II antagonist) could not completely displace [ 125I]-Ang II. Taken together, these data suggest that Mas protein is an Ang receptor which functions in the regulation of cell proliferation. Mas appears to be a member of a subtype different from A1 or A2
Infrastructures and New Technologies as Sources of Spanish Economic Growth
No full textThe paper revises the impact of infrastructures and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth. It takes Spain as a reference case due to the accessibility to capital services estimates. The Spanish database allows the measurement of the impact on growth of three ICT assets (software, hardware and communication) and six different types of infrastructures (roads, railways, airports, ports, as well as urban and water infrastructures). It also allows the distinction between public and privately owned infrastructures. As a first step, the paper recommends the adjustment of the National Accounts (NA) figures, especially when the endogenous approach to compute the user cost is utilized. The rationale for the adjustment relies on the need to recognize explicitly the services provided by public capital, not fully included in NA.ICT, Infrastructures, growth accounting
Prediction of estimated time of arrival for multi-airport systems via “Bubble” mechanism
No full textPredicting Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) for a Multi-Airport System (MAS) is much more challenging than for a single airport system because of complex air route structure, dense air traffic volume and vagaries of traffic conditions in an MAS. In this work, we propose a novel “Bubble” mechanism to accurately predict medium-term ETA for a Multi-Airport System (MAS), in which the prediction of travel time of an origin–destination (OD) pair is decomposed into two stages, termed as out-MAS and in-MAS stages. For the out-MAS stage, Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) is used to predict the travel time of a flight to reach the MAS boundary. For the in-MAS stage, we construct new spatio-temporal features based on clustering analysis of trajectory patterns facilitated by a novel data-driven hybrid polar sampling method. A sequence-to-sequence prediction model, Multi-variate Stacked Fully connected Bidirectional Long–Short Term Memory, is further developed to achieve multi-step-ahead predictions of in-MAS travel time for each trajectory pattern using the spatio-temporal features as input. Finally, the medium-term ETA prediction for an MAS is achieved by integrating the out-MAS and in-MAS prediction with the help of trajectory pattern prediction via random forest. A case study of predicting medium-term ETA for a typical MAS in China, Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, is conducted to demonstrate the usage and promising performance of the proposed method in comparison to several commonly used end-to-end learning methods.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Air Transport & Operation
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