This is a special conference for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and for me personally. The role of monetary aggregates in monetary policy was intensely controversial when I joined the staff of the Board of Governors in May 1969. I was immediately asked to join the staff of the newly formed FOMC Committee on the Directive. Governor Sherman Maisel chaired that committee; the other two member...

A lagrangian for gauge fields coupled to fermions with the Kac-Moody group as its gauge group yields, for the pure fermions sector, an ideal gas of Kac-Moody fermions. The canonical partition function for the Û(1) case is shown to have a maximum temperature kTM = |λ|/π, where λ is the coupling of the super charge operator G0 to the fermions. This result is similar to the case of strings but unl...

When epidemic cholera appeared in Haiti in October 2010, the medical community there had virtually no experience with the disease and needed rapid training as the epidemic spread throughout the country. We developed a set of training materials specific to Haiti and launched a cascading training effort. Through a training-of-trainers course in November 14-15, 2010, and department-level training ...

framing is a very important subject in picture aestheticism. this contains a capacity which might be investigated through different approaches, and the film-makers have used this method to improve the visual aesthetics of their works. but, despite the importance of this subject, rare studies could be found along with their works based on the framing and its different dimensions inside iranian c...