BWB investigate whether exchange rate unpredictability is due to instabilities of the relationship between exchange rates and its fundamentals. In their exercise, BWB calibrate on actual data a model where the parameters linking exchange rates and fundamentals are allowed to change over time. BWB find that the pattern of out-of-sample (un)predictability assessed on data generated from a fixed c...

The advent of new imaging techniques is broadening our understanding of the major psychiatric illnesses. The increased knowledge of brain function will have consequences for the expert medical witness who has to give evidence in court. Both the insanity defence and the defence of automatism depend on disorders of the mind. Psychiatry is now able in many cases to produce evidence that these are ...

1 Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68182-0681, [email protected]. Abstract  The purpose of this paper is to show the merits of using the order-of-magnitude analysis in engineering education to solve engineering and science problems, e.g., taken from the fields of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. By this approach, the engineering stude...

In this paper we address the problem of classifying objects (e.g. person or car) and actions (e.g. hugging or eating) [2]. The more successful methods are based on a uniform pyramidal representation (SPM) built on a visual word vocabulary [1]. In this paper, we augment the classification by adding more flexible spatial information. This will be formulated more generally as inferring additional ...

had considerable experience of " shell-shock" in the war, and included eminent neurologists. They heard evidence from a number of distinguished men, representing opinion on the military, medical and legal aspect of the subject, and also from officers and men who had suffered from " shell-shock." They have made a lengthy and exhaustive report which must long remain the authoritative work on the ...

The four principles of Western medical bioethics, i.e., autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice, published by Beauchamps Childress in their seminal ‘Principles Biomedical Ethics’, are understood as universal. However, Non-Western governments argue that they refer to cultural contexts, neglecting specifics Non-Western, for instance Islamic, civilizations. This paper addresses the claim...

After decades of digitization, the web hosts a large scale museum, consisting of millions of digital cultural objects. To balance the drawbacks of parsimonious search-centric interfaces, various approaches have been developed to enable also visual access to these collections, and to browse and explore the cultural richness of existing archives. This paper reviews information visualization appro...

Given that Peighambarieh street in the historical context And valuable Qazvin, Which has historical and cultural, But it seems This street appeared during the time period until today, There were many inconsistencies, Therefore, it is necessary that this study, considering all the physical and non-cellular factors affecting the range, Provide solutions for it. Research Objectives include: 1- Rec...