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Implementing the AIFMD: Success or failure? ECMI Commentary No. 34, 28 March 2013
No full textThis commentary considers the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) by the European Commission. The AIFMD creates an internal market for asset management and as an endeavour to develop market-based finance is an important piece of legislation for the European economy. The author, Mirzha de Manuel Aramendía, considers the implementation of some of the provisions that raised concern among industry participants. He finds that, on balance, a practical and flexible approach to implementation has been followed that should help secure the success of the framework, which at present is still uncertain. The commentary also considers the remuneration guidelines adopted recently by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). It encourages EU and national authorities to commit to the success of the AIFMD framework, as part of a broader effort to develop capital markets and reduce the historical reliance of the European economy on bank finance
PLANK, Carlos (Gen.)
No full textTelegrams of Gen. Carlos Plank, Mr. Manuel Vargas, and Gen. Alvaro Obregón, related to the political tour of Gen. Obregón in the State of Sonora, indicating the date he will arrive in Magdalena, Sonora, File P-014 / Telegramas entre el Gral. Carlos Plank, el Sr. Manuel Vargas y el Gral. Alvaro Obregón, relativos a la gira política del Gral. Obregón por el estado de Sonora, indicando éste la fecha en que arribará a la población de Magdalena, Son. Exp. P-01
Configuration and diffusion of trapped polymer molecules
No full textThe purpose of this work was to study both the static and dynamic behaviour of polymer chains "trapped" within polymeric networks. In recent years there has been a large amount of theoretical work dedicated to towards the study of polymer chains in concentrated, entangled media and quantitative theories have been advanced describing both the mechanism of diffusion of polymer chains within a polymeric network as well as the size of the loose chain within the network. There have, however been relatively few experimental studies of the properties of such systems, due to considerable the difficulties involved in the preparation of suitable samples. This work has centred on the preparation of model polymer networks containing a very low sol fraction and the trapping of a series of probe chains within these networks to determine the properties of the probe chain. A series of well characterised polymer networks containing probe chains have been prepared by anionic polymerisation using a novel difunctional initiator recently developed in another laboratory. Properties of the networks alone have been measured by both SANS and QELS and analysed in terms of renormalisation group and mean-field theories. Good agreement has been found with theory, though the correlation length of the network has been found not scale as predicted and appears to be determined by the synthetic conditions employed in the preparation of the network. SANS has been used to determine the size of the probe chain in bulk networks, the results of which have been found to be different to that predicted by the theories of a chain in a "random medium". In solvent swollen networks, the size of the chain has been found to be independent of the cross link density, the behaviour being associated with that of a semi-dilute solution and the appropriate region of the polymer phase diagram has been identified. QELS has been used in an attempt to determine the mechanism of diffusion of the probe chain within the network and in semi-dilute solutions so as to ascertain any differences between the two cases. Analysis centred around deconvolution of the autocorrelation function its components (the probe chain and the collective motions of the network). However difficulties in the interpretation of the data have prevented a fiall clarification of the experimental situation
Towards A Reliable Ground-Truth For Biased Language Detection
No full textReference texts such as encyclopedias and news articles can manifest biased language when objective reporting is substituted by subjective writing. Existing methods to detect bias mostly rely on annotated data to train machine learning models. However, low annotator agreement and comparability is a substantial drawback in available media bias corpora. To evaluate data collection options, we collect and compare labels obtained from two popular crowdsourcing platforms. Our results demonstrate the existing crowdsourcing approaches' lack of data quality, underlining the need for a trained expert framework to gather a more reliable dataset. By creating such a framework and gathering a first dataset, we are able to improve Krippendorff's = 0.144 (crowdsourcing labels) to = 0.419 (expert labels). We conclude that detailed annotator training increases data quality, improving the performance of existing bias detection systems. We will continue to extend our dataset in the future
Towards A Reliable Ground-Truth For Biased Language Detection
No full textReference texts such as encyclopedias and news articles can manifest biased language when objective reporting is substituted by subjective writing. Existing methods to detect bias mostly rely on annotated data to train machine learning models. However, low annotator agreement and comparability is a substantial drawback in available media bias corpora. To evaluate data collection options, we collect and compare labels obtained from two popular crowdsourcing platforms. Our results demonstrate the existing crowdsourcing approaches' lack of data quality, underlining the need for a trained expert framework to gather a more reliable dataset. By creating such a framework and gathering a first dataset, we are able to improve Krippendorff's = 0.144 (crowdsourcing labels) to = 0.419 (expert labels). We conclude that detailed annotator training increases data quality, improving the performance of existing bias detection systems. We will continue to extend our dataset in the future
Manuel Puig: un destino melodramático
No full textEl trabajo es un extracto de una larga investigación en los archivos del escritor argentino Manuel Puig, la génesis de su producción y su relación con el campo intelectual internacional. En este extracto se presenta un estudio del uso del melodrama en la producción 'espectacular' del autor y la publcación de un inédito que incluí como primicia en 1996 en la revista Orbis Tertius No. 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.The work is an extract of one long recherch in the archives of the Argentine writer Manuel Puig, the genesis of its production and its relation with international the intellectual field. In this extract is analyzed the use of the melodrama in “the spectacular” production of the author. The publication of an unpublished is included , published for the first time by me in 1996 in the Orbis Tertius Nº 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
Letter from Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] to Wayne M. Collins, May 29, 1953
No full textIn this letter to Mr. Wayne M. Collins, Mr. Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] explains that he will need to pay Mr. Collins in segments. Mr. Collins is a lawyer in San Francisco.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Neural Media Bias Detection Using Distant Supervision With BABE - Bias Annotations By Experts
No full textOral History Interview with Manuel Medrano, June 18, 2015
No full textInterview with Manuel Medrano, an historian and author from Brownsville, Texas. In his interview, Medrano discusses his family background and childhood, education, experiences with discrimination, political activism, and the Chicano movement
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