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Future directions in international financial integration research - A crowdsourced perspective
2018
This paper is the result of a crowdsourced effort to surface perspectives on the present and future direction of international finance. The authors are researchers in financial economics who attended the INFINITI 2017 conference in the University of Valencia in June 2017 and who participated in the crowdsourcing via the Overleaf platform. This paper highlights the actual state of scientific knowledge in a multitude of fields in finance and proposes different directions for future research.
The impact of the financial crisis on financial integration, growth and investment
2012
Financial crises, and in particular those of the past few years, have severe consequences for the affected economies. In this paper we analyse the impact of financial development and European financial integration on growth and we find no reversal of the growth benefits of financial development and integration in recent years. This highlights the economic cost of regulatory changes that would reverse European financial integration. We also find that, following a financial crisis, investment declines more in countries with a greater degree of uncertainty aversion, which can be informative for evaluating post-crisis economic performance.
Minori stranieri non accompagnanti: abilità, risorse e competenze
2019
L’apprendimento dell’italiano per i minori stranieri non accompagnati procede a passi relativamente rapidi anche se i ragazzi intervistati hanno una scarsa scolarità. L’età relativamente giovane, insieme a una esperienza di vita del tutto particolare, che li ha fatti crescere forzosamente, deve avere reso questi ragazzi particolarmente ricettivi nei confronti dell’apprendimento della lingua. D’altra parte, essa si presenta, ai loro occhi, come la porta principale di accesso a una condizione di vita che non può che essere migliore di quella che hanno lasciato e che, in ogni caso, offre loro la convinzione di avere più prospettive di vita e di riuscita di quelle che hanno lasciato nel paese d…
Redox potentials and acidity constants from density functional theory based molecular dynamics.
2014
CONSPECTUS: All-atom methods treat solute and solvent at the same level of electronic structure theory and statistical mechanics. All-atom computation of acidity constants (pKa) and redox potentials is still a challenge. In this Account, we review such a method combining density functional theory based molecular dynamics (DFTMD) and free energy perturbation (FEP) methods. The key computational tool is a FEP based method for reversible insertion of a proton or electron in a periodic DFTMD model system. The free energy of insertion (work function) is computed by thermodynamic integration of vertical energy gaps obtained from total energy differences. The problem of the loss of a physical refe…
Developing a Curriculum for Mentally Retarded Adults ‐‐ a cooperative project between the university and the practitioners
1996
Abstract As recently as six years ago, after their compulsory education was over, it was very difficult for severely and profoundly mentally retarded people in Finland to receive further education. The regional units within the social‐services sector financed a four‐year project which was carried out at the University of Jyvdskyld, during this project an adult‐education plan was produced, its implementation was monitored and the content of adult education and the training of staff was developed. During the experiment the mentally retarded people involved became more actively involved in the different activities, and a considerable improvement was observed in their independent daily living s…
Promoter-Targeted Histone Acetylation of Chromatinized Parvoviral Genome Is Essential for the Progress of Infection
2015
ABSTRACT The association of host histones with parvoviral DNA is poorly understood. We analyzed the chromatinization and histone acetylation of canine parvovirus DNA during infection by confocal imaging and in situ proximity ligation assay combined with chromatin immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing. We found that during late infection, parvovirus replication bodies were rich in histones bearing modifications characteristic of transcriptionally active chromatin, i.e., histone H3 lysine 27 acetylation (H3K27ac). H3K27ac, in particular, was located in close proximity to the viral DNA-binding protein NS1. Importantly, our results show for the first time that in the chromatinized …
On the Use of GPU for Accelerating Communication-Aware Mapping Techniques
2015
Different communication-aware mapping techniques were proposed in recent years for improving the performance of distributed systems based on both, off-chip and on-chip networks. Some of these proposals were based on heuristic search for finding pseudo-optimal assignments of tasks and processing elements. However, the technology integration improvements have allowed a significant increase in the number of network nodes, requiring the acceleration of the heuristic search. In this paper, we propose a comparative study of the local search method used in a communication-aware mapping technique, when implemented on different parallel architectures. We compare the performance provided by a version…
Generality of Henstock-Kurzweil type integral on a compact zero-dimensional metric space
2011
ABSTRACT A Henstock-Kurzweil type integral on a compact zero-dimensional metric space is investigated. It is compared with two Perron type integrals. It is also proved that it covers the Lebesgue integral.
Coupled Discrete Fractional-Order Logistic Maps
2021
This paper studies a system of coupled discrete fractional-order logistic maps, modeled by Caputo’s delta fractional difference, regarding its numerical integration and chaotic dynamics. Some interesting new dynamical properties and unusual phenomena from this coupled chaotic-map system are revealed. Moreover, the coexistence of attractors, a necessary ingredient of the existence of hidden attractors, is proved and analyzed.
Hacia una escuela multicultural: la presencia creciente de inmigrantes en el sistema educativo español
2002
El inusitado crecimiento de la inmigración en los últimos años ha transformado en buena medida la escuela española, incrementando su carácter multicultural, acentuando algunas diferencias entre la red pública y la privada o concertada, obligando a transformaciones notables para adaptar la escuela a la nueva realidad y sus necesidades. El artículo aborda los ritmos de llegada, la distribución territorial del nuevo alumnado y su tendencia a la concentración en la escuela pública, pero también analiza cuestiones de gran influencia en el ámbito educativo como el insuficiente conocimiento de nuestra(s) lengua(s), las diferencias religiosas, la concentración excesiva en algunos centros concretos …