he Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute cosponsored a conference on “International Linkages in a Globalized World and Implications for Monetary Policy” with the School of International Business Administration at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE) and Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law. The event was held at SHUFE on June 21–22. The theme was the impact of globalizati...

The stream of information that enters a sensory system is a product of the ecological niche of an organism and the way in which the information is sampled. The most salient characteristic of this sensory stream is the rich temporal structure that is caused by changes in the environment and self motion of sensors (for example, rapid eye or whisker movements). In recent years, substantial progres...

In this paper the SU(2) Skyrme model will be reformulated as a gauge theory and the hidden symmetry will be investigated and explored in the energy spectrum computation. To this end we purpose a new constraint conversion scheme, based on the symplectic framework with the introduction of Wess-Zumino (WZ) terms in an unambiguous way. It is a positive feature not present on the BFFT constraint con...

We survey nearly 1300 OWL ontologies and RDFS schemas. The collection of statistical data allows us to perform analysis and report some trends. Though most of the documents are syntactically OWL Full, very few stay in OWL Full when the syntactic errors are fixed. We also report the frequency of occurrences of OWL language constructs and the shape of class hierarchies in the ontologies. Finally,...

We initiate the systematic construction of gauged matter-coupled supergravity theories in two dimensions. Subgroups of the affine global symmetry group of toroidally compactified supergravity can be gauged by coupling vector fields with minimal couplings and a particular topological term. The gauge groups typically include hidden symmetries that are not among the target-space isometries of the ...