Long-period (100-330 s) fundamental-mode Love and Rayleigh waves have been processed to measure the great circle phase velocities for about 200 and 250 paths, respectively. The observations are inverted for regionalized phase velocities and for an even-order harmonic expansion of the lateral velocity heterogeneity. The regionalized inversions achieve a maximum variance reduction of about 65% an...

Sectoral crediting has been proposed as a way to scale up project-level carbon offset programs, and provide sector-wide incentives for developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, simulations presented here suggest that information asymmetries and large uncertainties in predicting counterfactual business-as-usual (BAU) emissions are likely to render sectoral crediting an ex...

An important input to monetary policymaking is estimating the current level of inflation. This paper examines empirically whether the measurement of trend inflation can be improved by using disaggregated data on sectoral inflation to construct indexes akin to core inflation but with a time-varying distributed lags of weights, where the sectoral weight depends on the timevarying volatility and p...

What is the impact of higher technological volatility on asset-prices and macroeconomic aggregates? I find the answer hinges on its sectoral origin. I document several novel empirical facts: Volatility that originates from the consumption sector plays the “traditional” role of depressing the real economy and stock prices, whereas volatility that originates from the investment sector boosts pric...

The occurrence of major zoonotic disease outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa has had a significant impact on the already constrained public health systems. This has, as a result, justified the need to identify creative strategies to address threats from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases at the human-animal-environmental interface, and implement robust multi-disease public health surveill...

Unlike the industrialised countries of the Pacific Rim, the economies of Pacific islands remain dependent on natural resources. Their exports are dominated by minerals, timber, fish, agricultural products and tourism. Moreover, in contrast to Pacific Rim countries—where the majority of the population is fully integrated into the cash economy—a large proportion of the population of the Pacific s...

BACKGROUND In psychiatry, hospital stays and transitions to the ambulatory sector are susceptible to major changes in drug therapy that lead to complex medication regimens and common non-adherence among psychiatric patients. A multi-dimensional and inter-sectoral intervention is hypothesized to improve the adherence of psychiatric patients to their pharmacotherapy. METHODS 269 patients from a...

Sectors are the spinal column of the public sector, offering an orderly and pragmatic way of arranging public sector affairs and dicing up resources. The boundaries between them, however , are more arbitrary than is commonly acknowledged. This has become more apparent in recent years as a number of issues which don't fit comfortably in any of the ascribed boxes have risen up the global developm...

BACKGROUND Two themes consistently emerge from the broad range of academics, policymakers and opinion leaders who have proposed changes to the World Health Organization (WHO): that reform efforts are too slow, and that they do too little to strengthen WHO's capacity to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration. This study seeks to identify possible explanations for the challenges WHO faces in add...