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The "News" View of Economic Fluctuations: Evidence from Aggregate Japanese Data and Sectoral U.S. Data
No full textThis paper uses aggregate Japanese data and sectoral U.S. data to explore the properties of the joint behavior of stock prices and total factor productivity (TFP) with the aim of highlighting data patterns that are useful for evaluating business cycle theories. The approach used follows that presented in Beaudry and Portier [2004b]. The main findings are that (i) in both Japan and the U.S., innovations in stock prices that are contemporaneously orthogonal to TFP precede most of the long run movements in total factor productivity and (ii) such stock prices innovations do not affect U.S. sectoral TFPs contemporaneously, but do precede TFP increases in those sectors that are driving U.S. TFP growth, namely durable goods, and among them equipment sectors.
L'enquête de Leopardo da Foligno dans la viguerie d'Avignon
No full textC’est en janvier 1332 que l’archiprêtre de Benevento et conseiller royal Leopardo da Foligno débute une vaste pérégrination qui le conduit à travers toutes les possessions provençales de son maître, le roi de Naples Robert d’Anjou. Confronté à l’hétérogénéité d’un domaine royal constitué progressivement, il s’efforce avec l’appui de son notaire et de l’administration locale d’en donner une vision homogène et apaisée. Son œuvre ne relève pas seulement de la somme administrative, elle s’avère aussi porteuse d’un discours sur l’autorité de son souverain et sur sa capacité à mettre en ordre, bref sur sa légitimité à gouverner son peuple, tout en répondant à son besoin de justice. Ici est décrite la procédure de l'enquête royale dans le viguerie d'Avignon
Data for: Duration Dependence in US Expansions: A re-examination of the evidence
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Collection de MM. D. F. et T. F. : deuxième partie comprenant bois laqués et incrustés, ivoires, métaux, peintures, céramique chinoise et japonaise, cloisonnés divers, etc... / [expert] Henri Portier
No full text[Vente. Art. 1908-12-18 - 1908-12-19. Paris][Collection. Art. D. F.. 1908]Référence bibliographique : Lugt, 67093Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : VenteEST2Avec mode text
Surgery for rectal prolapse: Orr-Loygue ventral rectopexy with limited dissection prevents postoperative-induced constipation without increasing recurrence
No full textPURPOSE: Abdominal rectopexy is the preferred surgical
technique for the treatment of total rectal prolapse. In
many reported series, its results are impaired by induced
constipation. Lateral rectal ligaments preservation could
prevent constipation but increase recurrence rates. We
report anatomic and functional results of abdominal Orr-
Loygue ventral rectopexy with dissection limited to
anterior and posterior rectal wall. METHODS: Consecutive
patients with total rectal prolapse or intra-anal rectal
prolapse associated to fecal incontinence or outlet obstruction
were treated by abdominal rectopexy. Recurrences,
correction of symptoms, and induced constipation were
prospectively analyzed. RESULTS: Seventy-three patients
were treated between 1993 and 2004. Recurrence was
observed in 3 of 73 patients (4.1 percent) after a mean
follow-up period of 28.6 (range, 6–84) months. Overall
patient satisfaction (correction of prolapse, incontinence,
and/or outlet obstruction) after the procedure was classified
in three categories: Cured: n = 45 (61.6 percent);
Improved: n = 24 (32.9 percent); Failure: n = 4 (5.5
percent). Postoperative constipation appeared in 2 of 36
(5.5 percent) preoperatively nonconstipated patients and
worsened in 2 of 37 (5.4 percent) preoperatively constipated
patients. CONCLUSIONS: Orr-Loygue abdominal
ventral rectopexy with limited dissection and preservation
of rectal lateral ligaments is a safe and effective procedure
for the treatment of complete rectal prolapse, or internal
prolapse associated with fecal incontinence or outlet
obstruction. Preservation of lateral ligaments seems to
prevent postoperative constipation without increasing the
risk of prolapse recurrenc
Comment
No full textIn “Whither News Shocks?”, Barsky, Basu, and Lee (2014) are nicely
updating and extending the analysis of Barsky and Sims (2011). They
identify a technological news shock as the innovation in the expectation
of TFP at a fixed horizon k in the future (typically a few years) that does
not affect TFP on impact—that is, the part of Et
[TFPt+k] – Et–1[TFPt+k] that
is orthogonal to the innovation in TFPt
. The main result that I take from
their work is, as they clearly state it, that “the impact effects of news
shocks clearly does not induce the kind of comovement that is characteristic
of business cycles. In most of our specifications, we find that
consumption rises when there is good news, but investment, consumer
durables purchases and hours worked all fall on impact.” These results
echo those of Barsky and Sims (2011), and contradict those of Beaudry
and Portier (2006) and Beaudry and Portier (2014). In this comment, I
discuss the properties that a news shock should have in order to capture
the short-run effect of a shift in expectations. I show, as already acknowledged
by Barsky, Basu, and Lee, that their identified shock moves
TFP after one or two periods, and therefore mixes changes in expectation
and changes in current fundamentals. I then propose to identify
a technological diffusion shock,1
and show that in that case, I obtain
again a Beaudry and Portier (2006) type of response. I conclude that, if
one is mainly interested in measuring the response of the economy to
a shift in expectation caused by a technological news, it is important to
first check that the identified shock does not move TFP in the short run.
When it is so, the news creates a typical aggregate boom
Structure cristalline des variétés basse et haute température de fluoferrite de rubidium Rb Fe F4
No full textRb Fe F₄ exhibits a reversible polymorphic transformation at 650° C : Rb Fe F₄α ⇆ Rb Fe F₄β. The crystal structures of the two forms α and ß have been determined. These two structures with very similar lattice energy present (FeF₄)n [with n negative charges] layers of ReO₃ type ; rubidium atoms are inserted between these layers.Rb Fe F₄ présente une transformation allotropique réversible à 650° C : Rb Fe F₄α ⇆ Rb Fe F₄β. Les structures des deux variétés α et ß ont été déterminées. Ces deux structures d'énergies réticulaires très voisines sont caractérisées par des feuillets [de charge -n] (FeF₄)n de type ReO₃ entre lesquels s'insèrent les atomes de rubidium.Tressaud A., Galy Jean, Portier Jean. Structure cristalline des variétés basse et haute température de fluoferrite de rubidium Rb Fe F4. In: Bulletin de la Société française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, volume 92, 4, 1969. pp. 335-341
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Afbeelding van den weg der planeet Venus, gezien uit het centrum der aarde, zoo als dezelve op den 6 Junii 1761 nevens het vlak van de zon zal beweegen, gerekent uit de tafels van den grooten sterrekundigen Edmundus Halley, op de middaglyn van Franequer
No full textPamflet van de hoogleraar Nicolaas Ypey uit Franeker voor de Venusovergang van 6 juni 1761, met de tijdstippen opgegeven voor Franeker. De koperplaat werd gegraveerd door de Amsterdamse graveur Jan Caspar Philips sr., die zich baseerde op een tekening ontworpen door Pieter Idzerts Portier
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