This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of the first round of quantitative easing (QE) by the Bank of England which started in March 2009. Although Bank Rate, the UK policy rate, was reduced to 1⁄2%, effectively its lower bound, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee felt that additional measures were necessary to meet the inflation target in the medium term. The policy of QE entailed buying...

This article examines the performance of the updated quality effects (QE) estimator for meta-analysis of heterogeneous studies. It is shown that this approach leads to a decreased mean squared error (MSE) of the estimator while maintaining the nominal level of coverage probability of the confidence interval. Extensive simulation studies confirm that this approach leads to the maintenance of the...

While the benefits of both an external focus of attention (FOA) and of a longer quiet eye (QE) duration have been well researched in a wide range of sporting activities, little is known about the interaction of these two phenomena and how a potential interaction might influence performance. It was this study's aim to investigate the interaction and potential effect on performance by using typic...

In the field, plants are exposed to fluctuating light, where photosynthesis occurs under conditions far from a steady state. Excess energy dissipation associated with energy quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence (qE) functions as an efficient photo-protection mechanism in photosystem II. PsbS is an important regulator of qE, especially for the induction phase of qE. Beside the regulatory energy...

The absolute flux calibration of the standard WFC and HRC filters is derived from the available constraining observations of spectrophotometric standard stars. Values for the encircled energy (EE) of one arcsec radius relative to an infinite aperture radius are derived for hot stars and compared to the EE for cooler stars. The sensitivity degradation for the five year ACS lifetime is defined an...

Query expansion (QE) improves the retrieval quality in average, even though it can dramatically decrease performance for certain queries. This observation drives the trend to suggest selective approaches that aim at choosing the best function to apply for each query. Most of selective approaches use a learning process on past query features and results. This paper presents a new selective QE me...

Predicting the quality of machine translations is a challenging topic. Quality estimation (QE) of translations is based on features of the source and target texts (without the need for human references), and on supervised machine learning methods to build prediction models. Engineering well-performing features is therefore crucial in QE modelling. Several features have been used so far, but the...

In this paper, we report various strategies for query expansion (QE) in the NTCIR-8 IR4QA subtask. We submit the results of twelve runs from the formal run, which include cross-language information retrieval from English to traditional Chinese, from English to simplified Chinese, and from English to Japanese in the official T-run, D-run and DN-run. Our approach uses Google translation and the O...

A hybrid adsorbent (FOAE) prepared by loading ferric oxyhydroxide on anion exchanger was applied for adsorptive removal of Cr(VI) from water. Effects of initial Cr(VI) concentration, pH, temperature and competition of other anions on Cr(VI) adsorption were investigated in batch experiments. The equilibrium adsorption capacity (Qe) of the FOAE increased with initial Cr(VI) concentrations (from 2...

We use the isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background to place stringent constraints on a possible electrical charge asymmetry of the universe. We find the excess charge per baryon to be qe−p < 10 e in the case of a uniform distribution of charge, where e is the charge of the electron. If the charge asymmetry is inhomogeneous, the constraints will depend on the spectral index, n, of the induce...