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Expectations and the term premium as time varying leading indicators of US economic activity

2009

This paper investigates the growth predictive properties of the expectation-related and term premium components of the US term spread. Results suggest that although the predictive power of two components has greater predictive power compared to the simple spread, it has a time-varying nature. The expectations-related term is positive and statistically significant up to the end of the 80s becoming insignificant afterwards. The term-premium estimates are positive and significant for a brief period in the 70s, turn insignificant after the 80s, except in short intervals at the beginning of the 90s and the 2000s, when they turn negative.

Surface effects on spinodal decomposition in binary mixtures and the interplay with wetting phenomena.

1994

The phase separation of binary mixtures in a semi-infinite geometry is investigated both by a phenomenological theory and by numerical calculations using a discrete equivalent of the descriptive equations. In the framework of ``model B'' (which describes solid binary mixtures), attention is paid to a proper treatment of the boundary conditions at the free surfaces. We confine ourselves to short-range surface forces and consider parameter values that correspond to both nonwet and wet surfaces in thermal equilibrium. During the initial stages of spinodal decomposition, after a quench from considering an initial condition that corresponds to a completely random concentration distribution, one …

Metallatomsynthese, Eigenschaften und Struktur von μ 2 ‐(η 3 ,η 3 ‐Toluol)bis[(η 6 ‐toluol)eisen](Fe‐Fe)

1995

Metal Atom Synthesis, Properties, and Structure of μ2(η3,η3-Toluene)bis[(η6-toluene)iron](Fe-Fe) Metal atom cocondensation of iron atoms and toluene produces the mononuclear iron sandwich compound [(η6-toluene)(η4-toluene)Fe] 1. Complex 1 reacts with a palette of N-containing ligands such as primary, secondary, and tertiary amines as well as pyridine, pyrrolidine, and tmeda to form highly reactive instable intermediates. In the temperature range from -80 to -30°C, the proposed intermediates react with toluene to form the first homoleptic Fe/toluene complex μ2-(η3η3-toluene)-bis[(η6-toluene)iron](Fe-Fe) (3) regardless which N-containing ligand is used. Additionally, 3 is also formed when eth…

New complexes of nickel and nickel/cobalt with tetrahydrofuran-2,3,4,5-tetracarboxylic acid, THF(COOH)4. Crystal structures of Ni[THF(COOH)2(COOH)2](…

1993

Abstract The reaction of NiCl2·6H2O with tetrahydrofuran-2,3,4,5-tetracarboxylic acid, THF(COOH)4, partially deprotonated by Na2CO3 (1 : 1 metal/ligand molar ratio), yielded Ni[THF(COOH)2(COO)2](H2O)3 (1). The molecular structure of 1 was determined by X-ray diffraction on the monocrystal. The structure consists of a mononuclear neutral unit with the nickel atom coordinated by a [THF(COOH)2(COO)2]2− ligand, which acts as a tridentate ligand, and three water molecules. Direct interaction of NiCl2·6H2O and CoCl2·6H2O (1 : 1 molar ratio) with THF(COOH)4 previously deprotonated by Na2CO3 (1 : 1 metal/ligand molar ratio) gave, by slow evaporation of the solution obtained, green crystals of the n…

Unbounded Linear Operators in Hilbert Spaces

2002

In order to make this monograph self-contained, we summarize in this chapter some basic definitions and results for unbounded linear operators in a Hilbert space. In Section 1.1, we recall the definitions of C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras. In Section 1.2, we define and investigate the notion of closedness, the closure and the adjoint of an unbounded linear operator in a Hilbert space. Section 1.3 is devoted to the Cayley transform approach to the self-adjointness of a symmetric operator. Section 1.4 deals with the self-adjoint extendability of a symmetric operator with help of the deficiency spaces. In Section 1.5, we extend to unbounded self-adjoint operators the spectral theorem and…

Decomposition Rate of Old Nest Material in Tree Holes

2011

Abstract. We experimentally tested whether old nest material could decompose fast enough to clear tree holes between the consecutive seasons. To mimic the nest material we filled litter-bags with either 1 g of cellulose, or with 0.5 g of dog moulted hair. In August 2009 we placed pairs of these bags in 23 tree holes used by breeding birds in a deciduous forest in SW Poland. For reference, we placed the same sets of bags in the litter, at 23 random sites in the forest. The bags were removed in March 2010. After seven months of exposure almost all cellulose (median 92%) and most of hair (median 57%) disappeared from bags in the holes. These values were as high as (for cellulose) or even highe…

Modeling of low-noise microwave HEMTs for CAD-oriented applications

1993

The simultaneous determination of noise, gain and scattering parameters through a computer-driven noise figure measuring system allowed the rapid and accurate characterization of several samples of low noise HEMTs of the same family. From the measured parameters an equivalent circuit model representing the behavior of the typical device is extracted by means of a decomposition approach. Comparison between the model performance and the set of measured parameters of all devices are reported for the FHR 02FH (by Fujitsu). The modeling procedure is mainly oriented to the CAD of (M)MIC low noise wideband amplifiers. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

On the variations of the Betti numbers of regular levels of Morse flows

2011

Abstract We generalize results in Cruz and de Rezende (1999) [7] by completely describing how the Betti numbers of the boundary of an orientable manifold vary after attaching a handle, when the homology coefficients are in Z, Q, R or Z p Z with p prime. First we apply this result to the Conley index theory of Lyapunov graphs. Next we consider the Ogasa invariant associated with handle decompositions of manifolds. We make use of the above results in order to obtain upper bounds for the Ogasa invariant of product manifolds.

Evaluation and extraction of mismatch negativity through exploiting temporal, spectral, time-frequency, and spatial features

2010

A wavelet analysis of US fiscal sustainability

2015

Abstract In this paper, we reassess the relationship between primary deficit and lagged debt to GDP ratio (Bohn, 1998), to test for US debt sustainability over the period 1795–2012. Our analysis is rooted in the wavelet domain enabling the detection of interesting patterns and otherwise hidden information. We find evidence of long term fiscal sustainability but only up until 1995 and also we show that governments tend to respond more vigorously to budget deficits when the level of debt is high rather than low.