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German Bank Lending During Emerging Market Crises: A Bank Level Analysis

2007

This paper studies German bank lending during the Asian and Russian crises, using a bank level data set, which has been compiled from credit data at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Our aim is to gain more insight into the pattern of German bank lending during financial crises in emerging markets. We find that German banks reacted to the Asian crisis mainly by reallocating their portfolios among emerging markets. This behaviour is consistent with active portfolio management and does not necessarily indicate a spontaneous reaction to the Asian crisis. By contrast, the banks' behaviour during the Russian crisis is characterised by a general withdrawal from emerging markets. The use of micro data allo…

Quantum computing with molecular spin systems

2009

Molecular spintronics promises to combine the flexibility offered by synthetic chemistry with the advantages of an electronics which is based on the electron spin rather than its charge degree of freedom. Here, we review recent work on the description of transport across molecular spin systems and on a proposal for an all-electrical scheme for the implementation of a fundamental two-qubit gate in a certain class of molecular systems.

DeCyMo: Decentralized Cyber-physical System for Monitoring and Controlling Industries and Homes

2018

The recent revolution of the Internet of Things has given the birth of a series of new technologies and cyber-physical systems to be used in industrial and home scenarios. Cyber- physical systems include physical and software components for providing smart monitoring and control with flexibility and adaptability to the operating context. The IoT paradigm enables the intertwined use of physical and software components through the interconnection of devices that exchange data with each other without direct human interaction in several fields, especially in industrial and home environments. We propose DeCyMo, a decentralized architecture that aims at solving common IoT issues and vulnerabiliti…

Efficient protocol for qubit initialization with a tunable environment

2017

We propose an efficient qubit initialization protocol based on a dissipative environment that can be dynamically adjusted. Here the qubit is coupled to a thermal bath through a tunable harmonic oscillator. On-demand initialization is achieved by sweeping the oscillator rapidly into resonance with the qubit. This resonant coupling with the engineered environment induces fast relaxation to the ground state of the system, and a consecutive rapid sweep back to off resonance guarantees weak excess dissipation during quantum computations. We solve the corresponding quantum dynamics using a Markovian master equation for the reduced density operator of the qubit-bath system. This allows us to optim…

Biomass Fractionation Using Emerging Technologies

2021

Emerging macroscopic pretreatment

2021

Macroscopic pretreatment of food waste aims at the preparation of the food matrix for subsequent processing and recovery steps. The preparatory steps involve the adjustment of the phase content and properties (water, solid, fats content), the moderation of enzyme activity as well as prevention and control of any microbial growth (Galanakis, 2012; Galanakis et al., 2010a). In recent times, several emerging technologies have been researched, developed, and/or adapted from other fields for drying, sterilization, enzyme inactivation, and enhancing mass transfer in food and biomaterials. This chapter focuses on these upcoming technologies with potential applications to food waste recovery and in…

Prediction of Distant Educational Goals by Goals in Other Domains and Perceived Contextual Opportunities

2015

<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Lifelong learning is linked to successful economic participation</span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">At the same time, individual activities are framed by contextual opportunities for education and occupation.</span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-fami…

Presence of Enniatins and Beauvericin in Romanian Wheat Samples: From Raw Material to Products for Direct Human Consumption

2017

In this study, a total of 244 wheat and wheat-based products collected from Romania were analyzed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in order to evaluate the presence of four enniatins (ENs; i.e., ENA, ENA1, ENB, and ENB1) and beauvericin (BEA). For the wheat samples, the influence of agricultural practices was assessed, whereas the results for the wheat-based products were used to calculate the estimated daily intake of emerging mycotoxins through wheat consumption for the Romanian population. ENB presented the highest incidence (41% in wheat and 32% in wheat-based products), with its maximum levels of 815 μg kg−1 and 170 μg kg−1 in wheat and wheat-based products,…

Learning Environments in the 21st Century: A Mapping of the Literature

2020

Education has been transformed by significant breakthroughs in AI, mobile internet, cloud computing and Big Data technologies. More personalized educational settings are developed by increasingly integrating contemporary learning environments with new technologies. However, few examples of executed AI enabled learning interventions have been identified. Therefore, a mapping of literature on AI enabled learning systems was done. 121 studies published in the last five years were analyzed. This paper presents a discussion regarding on what mainly AI enabled contemporary learning environments are designed to achieve. The major contribution of the study is bringing awareness to researchers and s…

Holes in the Dike: the global savings glut, U.S. house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation

2015

We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2010. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior to the large net capital inflows into the US from China and other emerging economies. Our results suggest a long shadow of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more sensitive to capital inflows. We provide evidence that global imbalances were a major positive funding sh…