This ballet, depicting a barbaric pagan ritual, caused a minor riot when premiered in 1913, but is now widely considered to be the most influential work of the 20 century. The music is dissonant and repetitive. When quiet it is mysterious and ominous. When loud it is mechanical, incessant and strangely elating. How Stravinsky conceived the sound in his head, let alone wrote it down on an orches...

* The Coagulation in Liver Disease 2015 Group: Alex Gatt, Adrian Reuben, Alberto Farias, Carolin Lackner, Charles Eby, Charles Greenberg, Craig Jenne, Cynthia R Leveille-Webster, David Kleiner, Dick Rijken, Dominique Valla, Don Gabriel, Edoardo Giannini, Erica Villa, Gia Deangelis, Helena Cortez-Pinto, Ian Wanless, James Gorham, James Luyendyk, Juan Carlos C Garcia-Pagan, Marco Senzolo, Maria M...

Archaeological discoveries during the past century provide documentary evidence for the ratio of rolls to codices during the first four centuries of our era. This ratio differs markedly from Christian to Jewish and pagan writings, suggesting that our book form may initially have been a Christian strategy to distinguish Christian from other writings and that this format, when its physical advant...

This paper presents a GARCH type volatility model with a time-varying unconditional volatility which is a function of macroeconomic information. It is an extension of the SPLINE GARCH model proposed by Engle and Rangel (2005). The advantage of the model proposed in this paper is that the macroeconomic information available (and/or forecasts) is used in the parameter estimation process. Based on...

This paper takes the parameters in central bank loss functions as fundamental preferences to be estimated from the data. It is these preferences (along with target values) that define the policy regime in operation and that potentially change with senior central bank appointments. Optimizing central banks apply policy rules whose feedback coefficients are functions of its preferences. Consequen...

This article introduces (and hopes to encourage thereby) the econometrics practitioner to (use) a homoscedasticity test referred to in the field of statistics as the modified Levene test. Econometrics orthodoxy (from University to practice level) has focused mainly on three heteroscedasticity tests, namely the Goldfeld-Quandt (GQ), Breusch-Pagan-Godfrey (BPG), and the White (W) test. The differ...

Economic Group Reserve Bank of Australia We thank participants at a Reserve Bank seminar and Adrian Pagan for comments. We are very grateful to John Simon for performing the Monte Carlo simulations in the paper. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Reserve Bank of Australia. Abstract The paper is motivated by two empirical results. Australia's terms o...

Gregory of Nyssa lauded his older sister Macrina as "the common glory of our family" and acclaimed her as "the great Macrina" who had achieved the highest summit of human virtue. Indeed, in two works, the Life of Macrina and The Dialogue on the Soul and the Resurrection, he portrayed her as the ideal Christian teacher and philosopher, seeking God with her whole heart and mind.' In these two wor...