ORANG MELAYU DI KOTA TERNATE ABAD XV-XIV

Leticia Arroyo Abad

Using a new dataset, this paper presents new evidence on inequality in Latin America for the 19th century and studies the effects of factor endowments and trade on inequality. Recent research has highlighted the link between the colonial origins of inequality and its persistence in Latin America. We find that inequality varied substantially throughout the century a...

Wallace, Darwin and Ternate 1858.

Recent debates on the mailing date of Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Ternate essay' to Charles Darwin in the spring of 1858 have ignored certain details that, once taken into account, alter the matter considerably. Here, a closer look is taken at the critical question of whether Wallace's manuscript-accompanying letter represented a reply to the Darwin letter that arrived in Ternate on 9 March; it is...

Dottorato Di Ricerca in Ingegneria Informatica Ed Elettronica Industriali - Xv Ciclo Omnidirectional Vision for Mobile Robots

This dissertation describes the work done by the author in the period of his Ph.D. in the field of omnidirectional vision. After a general presentation on omnidirectional vision, the dissertation focuses on omnidirectional vision for mobile robotics. Each chapter of the dissertation covers a different topic in omnidirectional vision for mobile robotics. The three main chapters describe the evol...

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-Monetary policy operates in a different environment than it did a decade ago. Financial market innovations have eroded the distinctions among monetary assets, making the definition of money increasingly arbitrary. Deregulation of interest rates and banking activity is changing the behavior of the monetary aggregates, as banks pay interest on monetary assets and nonbanks offer monetary-like ass...

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