As they are devised to fulfil pedagogical needs, textbooks often rely on illustrations as well as text proper. Thus, the relationship between illustration and text has to be accounted for (Peraya & Nyssen, 1995; Reinwein, 1998). Being directed towards pupils and eliciting actual responses, textbooks also challenge text linguistics. The study of the various means for establishing relations with ...

This paper tests the rational expectations theory of the term structure using recent daily, weekly, and monthly observations on New Zealand interest rates. We nd that for many maturities we cannot reject the expectations hypothesis using both short and long versions of the theory. These results are interpreted as further evidence that the failure of the expectations hypothesis in the United Sta...

This article discusses how the performance of leading European news media evolved between 2010 and 2020 regarding normative expectations liberal democracies, focusing on role digital journalism. The rise platforms, crisis consolidation journalism in decade challenge established discourses roles media. It is unclear to what extent may have changed, especially outside United States. draws data fr...

Economic models are used for many purposes, including forecasting and simulation. Economic models are generally nonlinear. Even simple macroeconomic models, where all the stochastic equations in the system may be linear in logarithms, need to be completed by accounting identities that are linear in levels. As a consequence, although a model may be estimated using linear techniques, forecasts wi...

background and purpose   methods   results   conclusion:   key words   journal of medical education fall 2006; 10(1); 3-10 : q uality g ap , e ducational s ervices , s tudent , b andar a bbas negative quality gap means students’ expectations are more than their perceptions. so improvements are needed across all of the five dimensions. : the results demonstrated that in all of the five servqual ...

Abstract What drives the reaction of financial markets to central bank communication on days policy decisions? We highlight role two factors that we identify from high-frequency monetary surprises: news future macroeconomic conditions (Delphic shocks) and shocks (Odyssean shocks). These move yield curve in same direction but have opposite effects expectations. They also a different impact outco...