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Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Understanding the Flattening Phillips Curve
No full textPolicy-makers have recently noted an apparent flattening of the Phillips curve. The implications of such a change include that a positive output gap would be less inflationary, but the cost of reducing inflation, once established, would increase. This paper’s objective is to review the evidence and possible explanations for the flattening of the Phillips curve in the context of new-Keynesian economic theory. Using data for the United States and Australia, we find that the flattening is evident in the baseline ‘structural’ new-Keynesian Phillips curve. We consider a variety of reasons for this structural flattening, such as data problems, globalisation and alternative definitions of marginal cost, none of which is entirely satisfactory.Phillips curve; inflation
Silent victims 2
No full textA Humanities in Focus video (10 minutes, 42 seconds long), produced by Maricruz Juarez and edited by Tim Phillips. This video is a sequel to the one produced in 2006, showing how the Juarez family is doing four years later. Includes comments by Jorge, Stephany, Monserrat, and Keni
Dark side of the lake
No full textA Humanities in Focus video (25 minutes, 17 seconds long) concerning addiction, produced and directed by Crystal McBride, edited by Tim Phillips. Crystal, age 25, tells her own story of a dysfuctional family, abusive relationships; the effects of methamphetamine addiction in her life, and getting treatment through Odyssey House of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sister Amber also gives her perspectiv
The Real-time Forecasting Performance of Phillips Curves
No full textAnalysts typically use a variety of techniques to forecast inflation. These include both ‘bottom-up’ approaches, for near-term forecasting, as well as econometric methods (such as mark-up models of inflation, which have been found to perform quite well for Australia – see de Brouwer and Ericsson (1998)). One of the econometric approaches to inflation forecasting which is sometimes considered is the use of Phillips curves based on estimates of the output gap. This paper suggests, however, that the real-time capacity of such Phillips curves to forecast inflation is limited, relative even to such simple benchmark forecasting approaches as an autoregressive (AR) model of inflation or a random walk assumption. It appears that the lack of precision with which output-gap-based Phillips curves can be estimated in real time limits their usefulness as a means of forecasting inflation in isolation. Phillips curve-based forecasts may, however, perform a little better than AR model-based ones in at least predicting whether inflation will increase or decrease from its current level. Moreover, combining Phillips curve-based forecasts with those from simple, alternative approaches does seem to offer some scope for improving the real-time forecast accuracy of the latter. These observations suggest that, in spite of their generally disappointing performance as a means of forecasting inflation in isolation, output-gap-based Phillips curves may continue to be useful in real time – as a tool for conditioning gap estimates within a multivariate filtering framework, and as a possible complement to other, alternative inflation forecasting approaches.monetary policy; forecasting inflation; output gaps; real-time data
Letter from Hubert Phillips to American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, August 4, 1942
No full textLetter from Hubert Phillips to American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, enclosing checks for $57 from F. C. Kellogg, Arthur E. Geschke, Claus Bertelsen, and Hubert Phillips. The letter states that the checks represent "the contributions of about twenty-five people made at a dinner held here recently to consider the phases of the status of citizens of Japanese ancestry and is to be applied specifically to helping prosecute the case of Miss Mitsuye Endo. Mr. F. C. Kellogg of the Fowler High School faculty was the author of the idea and deserves the credit for raising the enclosed contribution."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (1944), in which the United States Supreme court unanimously ruled that the federal government could not indefinitely detain United States citizens who were loyal to the government. Files include documents related to the Gordon Hirabayashi Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States
El Cambio
No full textA Humanities in Focus video (15 minutes, 22 seconds long), produced and directed by Natalia Solache. Filmed by Wilmer Valencia, and edited by Wilmer Valencia, Natalia Solache, Judy Fuwell, and Tim Phillips. A Hispanic woman in Salt Lake City tells her experience with domestic violence, becoming homeless, and seeking help at a shelter. English with Spanish subtitle
Rise, Ruby, rise
No full textA Humanities in Focus video (19 minutes, 32 seconds long), produced by Rebecca Lovato and Tonya Davison, directed by Judy Fuwell and Rebecca Lovato; and edited by Judy Fuwell, Brooke Marshall, and Tim Phillips. This video features Ruby Chacon, a muralist who uses her art for social activism. Comments by Ruby Chacon, Virgina Chacon, Melody Chacon, Maria Garciaz, David Chavez, and David Martine
Louise Phillips scrapbooks
No full textTwo scrapbooks compiled by Louise Phillips, a University of Maryland Alumna. She graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Early Childhood Education in 1960 and with an Med. in Curriculum and Instruction in 1991. Phillips was a Montgomery County public school teacher and is the author of children's books. In 1986 she made a documentary about her teaching experiences. The scrapbooks include statements of her philosophy on teaching, vacation photographs, and correspondence. Also included are her two books, The Bald Eagle's Flying Shadow: A Fourth of July Celebration and The First Snowflake of Winter
You could be next
No full textA Humanities in Focus video (16 minutes, 23 seconds long), produced and directed by Jeannette Villalta, filmed by Jeanette Villalta, Maricruz Juarez, and Judy Fuwell; edited by Tim Phillips, Alexa Barajas-Clark, Judy Fuwell, and Craig Wirth. This video concerns the death of a friend, Guillermo, due to complications of AIDS, and others living with HIV or AIDS. Comments by Jeannette Villalta, Rebecca Fronberg of the Utah Department of Health, and other HIV-positive persons; Brenda Chamber
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