480 research outputs found
An integrated microfinancing concept for rural electrification by photovoltaics in developing countries
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Valt er geld te verdienen aan het voorspellen van Voetbaluitslagen?
No full textIn dit verslag is onderzocht of er geld te verdienen valt aan het spelen van online voetbaltoto. Er zijn twee modellen onderzocht; één op basis van onderlinge resultaten en de ander op basis van achtergrondvariabelen. Vervolgens zijn deze getest op fictieve en historische data en met elkaar vergeleken. Als conclusie is er gevonden dat er zeker een kans bestaat dat de modellen winstgevend kunnen zijn, maar dat er te weinig data is om dit met zekerheid te zeggen.StatisticsApplied mathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Te weinig geld, capaciteit en kennis vertragen transformaties
No full textEen gebrek aan financiën, menskracht en expertise bij gemeenten zorgt voor vertraging bij gebiedstransformaties. Dat blijkt uit een survey-onderzoek van de TU Delft onder deelnemende gebiedsprojecten binnen het programma Stedelijke Transformatie. Voortgang wordt geboekt op het vlak van plannen maken, convenanten en overeenkomsten sluiten en netwerken vormen. Maar gemeenten hebben ook meer hulp nodig van het Rijk om verder te versnellen
Der Geld- und Devisenmarkt Rußlands
No full text'Die Entwicklung des Geld- und Devisenmarktes ist das Spiegelbild des Entstehungsprozesses einer sozialen Marktwirtschaft in Rußland. Die fehlende klare Reformstrategie und die mangelnde Konsequenz in der Durchführung einer effizienten Politik der Kursstabilisierung des Rubel sowie bei der Regulierung der Tätigkeit von Geschäftsbanken und des Devisenmarktes hatten einige schwierige Funktionsprobleme des Geld- und des Devisenmarktes zur Folge. Im ersten Teil wird die Spezifik des Bankensystems und des Geldmarktes untersucht. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf den Status der Zentralbank sowie die Methoden der Geld- und Kreditregulierung gerichtet, die sich von den Einflußmöglichkeiten des Geldmarktes in den westlichen Ländern grundsätzlich unterscheiden. Es werden die Struktur und die Transaktionen der Geschäftsbanken sowie die Besonderheiten in den Beziehungen zwischen der Bank von Rußland und ihnen untersucht. Auch auf das Problem der 'Dollarisierung' der russischen Wirtschaft wird eingegangen. Der zweite Teil ist der Analyse der rechtlichen und institutionellen Bedingungen für das Funktionieren des Devisenmarktes, seiner Struktur, seinen Entwicklungsetappen und den Problemen des Rubelwechselkurses gewidmet. Hier verdient die Tendenz zur Herausbildung eines einheitlichen Devisenmarktes des Landes Aufmerksamkeit. Als Quellen wurden Gesetzgebungsakte, Regierungsbeschlüsse, Instruktionen der Bank von Rußland, Materialien der Moskauer Interbanken-Devisenbörse, Periodika sowie Arbeiten des Verfassers benutzt.' (Autorenreferat)'The development of the money and foreign exchange markets offers a mirror image of the process in which a social market economy has been emerging in Russia. The absence of a clear reform strategy and the lack of any consistency in implementing an effective exchange rate stabilization policy for the rouble or in regulating the activity of commercial bands and the foreign exchange market have led to serious functional problems on the money and foreign exchange markets. The first part of this report looks at the specific make-up of the banking system and the money market. Special attention is given to the status of the central bank and to the ways in which money and loans are regulated, which differ fundamentally from the intervention opportunities available to money markets in Western countries. The report examines the structure and transactions of commercial banks together with the special characteristics of relations between them and the Bank of Russia. The problem of the 'dollarization' of the Russian economy is also addressed. The second part of the report is devoted to an analysis of the legal and institutional conditions that enable the foreign exchange market to function, the way it is structured, its development stages, and problems related to the rouble exchange rate. A closer look is taken at the trend toward the creation of a single foreign exchange market in Russia. The report draws on legislative acts, government decrees, directives of the Bank of Russia, materials from the Moscow interbank foreign exchange market, periodicals, and previous studies prepared by the author.' (author's abstract
Investigating meaning construal in the language of the blind: a cognitive linguistic perspective
No full textRad se bavi istraživanjem konstruiranja značenja u jeziku slijepih. Raspravlja se o ključnim pitanjima u ovom prilično neistraženom području i predlažu istraživačke smjernice na temelju opisa četiriju studija koje je autorica sa suradnicima provela u razdoblju od 2006. do 2013. godine. Središnja se rasprava temelji na osnovnoj kognitivnolingvističkoj pretpostavci da je jezik iskustvena pojavnost koja je nerazdvojiva od općih kognitivnih procesa. Autorica se bavi ulogom istaknutosti odnosno pažnje i nastoji pokazati kako je navedeni proces kodiran u jeziku. Glavni dio rada započinje opisom studija kojima je cilj bio utvrditi moguće razlike u kodiranju pažnje u
jeziku slijepih. Raspravlja se o rezultatima i doprinosu navedenih studija za formuliranje novih, preciznijih hipoteza za studiju čiji opis također slijedi u radu. Temeljno istraživačko pitanje nove studije vezano je uz istaknutost prostornih elemenata u jeziku slijepih. Nakon rasprave o dobivenim rezultatima koji potvrđuju važnost navedenih elemenata, autorica predlaže model koji integrira unutarjezične i izvanjezične čimbenike za koje vjeruje da utječu na konstruiranje
značenja kod slijepe populacije. Rad završava opisom četvrte studije kojoj je cilj bio revalidirati instrument upotrijebljen u prijašnjim studijama te potvrditi prethodne rezultate vezane uz prostorne (topološke) jezične elemente. Cilj je postignut i opisan u radu.This paper describes and discusses issues pertaining to investigating meaning construal in
the language of the blind. It introduces key problems in this largely unexplored area and
proposes possible avenues of research by outlining four studies conducted over a period of
eight years. The central arguments are built around the fundamental cognitive linguistic
premise that language is an experiential phenomenon intimately related to general cognitive
processes. The author focuses on the role of salience (or attention) and demonstrates
how it is coded in the language of the blind. The main part of the paper starts with the
outline of two exploratory studies the aim of which was to identify possible differences in
salience and situatedness. The author discusses the contribution of the two studies and
proceeds by describing a more focused study whose hypotheses were motivated by some
of the questions raised in the previous two studies. The primary research question was
related to the idea of the primacy of space in the blinds’ mental imagery and meaning
construal. Finally, the author proposes a model integrating key language internal and
language external factors affecting the process of meaning construal in this extraordinary
population, and finishes by describing the fourth study whose primary aim was to double–
test the research instrument used to investigate spatial (topological) elements in the
language of the blind
Monetary theory and monetary policy : reflections on the development over the last 150 years
No full textIn this paper, we provide some reflections on the development of monetary theory and monetary policy over the last 150 years. Rather than presenting an encompassing overview, which would be overambitious, we simply concentrate on a few selected aspects that we view as milestones in the development of this subject. We also try to illustrate some of the interactions with the political and financial system, academic discussion and the views and actions of central banks
Investigating meaning construal in the language of the blind: a cognitive linguistic perspective
No full textThis paper describes and discusses issues pertaining to investigating meaning construal in
the language of the blind. It introduces key problems in this largely unexplored area and
proposes possible avenues of research by outlining four studies conducted over a period of
eight years. The central arguments are built around the fundamental cognitive linguistic
premise that language is an experiential phenomenon intimately related to general cognitive
processes. The author focuses on the role of salience (or attention) and demonstrates
how it is coded in the language of the blind. The main part of the paper starts with the
outline of two exploratory studies the aim of which was to identify possible differences in
salience and situatedness. The author discusses the contribution of the two studies and
proceeds by describing a more focused study whose hypotheses were motivated by some
of the questions raised in the previous two studies. The primary research question was
related to the idea of the primacy of space in the blinds’ mental imagery and meaning
construal. Finally, the author proposes a model integrating key language internal and
language external factors affecting the process of meaning construal in this extraordinary
population, and finishes by describing the fourth study whose primary aim was to double–
test the research instrument used to investigate spatial (topological) elements in the
language of the blind
Monetary theory and monetary policy : reflections on the development over the last 150 years : [Version 8 Dezember 2012]
No full textIn this paper, we provide some reflections on the development of monetary theory and monetary policy over the last 150 years. Rather than presenting an encompassing overview, which would be overambitious, we simply concentrate on a few selected aspects that we view as milestones in the development of this subject. We also try to illustrate some of the interactions with the political and financial system, academic discussion and the views and actions of central banks
Step Location Control to Overstep Obstacles for Running Robots
No full textObstacles in the path of a running robot need to be avoided in order to avoid falling down. Currently, there are no control strategies that determine the appropriate step locations to obtain a successful overstep of an obstacle. The objective of this simulation study is to maximize the gap size by determining the step locations. The step strategy is tested on the SLIP-model and a model containing leg damping and push-off. With the means of an optimization, it is found that the optimal step strategy consists out of 3 phases: an adaptive phase from running cycle to the optimal state for the beginning of the leap, the beginning and end of the leap and another adaptive phase to end in a desired end state. For the SLIP-model is found that the maximum gap size is almost independent of the initial velocity of the model and mostly depends of the system’s energy. In order to maximize the gap size, the first and second step location have to be coincident. Furthermore, the damping and push-off proved to be an important factor for the step locations and the obtained gap size, as the first and second step locations do not coincident anymore and the gap size is reduced significantly.BMDBioMechanical EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
Woningbouw: van vertraging naar vooruitgang
No full textOp Prinsjesdag 2019 presenteerde het kabinet een investeringsfonds van 2 miljard euro, onder meer voor de woningbouw. Maar in onze complexe verstedelijkingsopgave helpt geld alleen in combinatie met visie, regels en samenwerking. Alleen zo kunnen we de woningbouwpuzzel leggen. In vier stappen leggen we uit hoe dit mogelijk is.Practice Chair Urban Area DevelopmentUrban Development Managemen
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