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Interest Rates and the Market for New Light Vehicles

ADAM COPELAND, GEORGE HALL, LOUIS J. MACCINI

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking > 51 > 5 > 1137 - 1168

We study the impact of interest rate changes on the demand and supply of new light vehicles in an environment where consumers and manufacturers face their own interest rates. Interest rate changes impact the auto market through both households and manufacturers. For the impact of rate changes on price and output growth, the household channel is quantitatively more important. A 100 basis‐point increase...

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Factors controlling landslide frequency–area distributions

Hakan Tanyaş, Cees J. Westen, Kate E. Allstadt, Randall W. Jibson

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms > 44 > 4 > 900 - 917

A power‐law relation for the frequency–area distribution (FAD) of medium and large landslides (e.g. tens to millions of square meters) has been observed by numerous authors. But the FAD of small landslides diverges from the power‐law distribution, with a rollover point below which frequencies decrease for smaller landslides. Some studies conclude that this divergence is an artifact of unmapped small...

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Creating a “family tree” on fertilizer inventory use in life cycle assessment of oil palm: visualization of earlier studies and its implications

Kiyotada Hayashi

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment > 2019 > 24 > 10 > 1805-1815

Purpose This review develops and applies a visualization method for understanding how chemical fertilizer inventory data, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emission factors and fossil fuel energy requirements, have been used in previous life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of oil palm and discusses how inconsistencies detected in previous studies can be decreased. Methods As a visualization method for...

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Helminths Associated with Three Physalaemus Species (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Caatinga Biome, Brazil

Cicero Ricardo Oliveira, Robson Waldemar Ávila, Drausio Honorio Morais

Acta Parasitologica > 2019 > 64 > 1 > 205-212

Objectives and Design Knowledge of which and how many species are part of an ecosystem is fundamental to understanding the diversity of organisms, including parasitic organisms that vary widely among host populations. This study describes the composition, infection patterns, and similarity in composition of helminths associated with P. albifrons, P. cicada, and P. cuvieri. Materials and Methods...

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Estimating aboveground carbon density across forest landscapes of Hawaii: Combining FIA plot-derived estimates and airborne LiDAR

R. Flint Hughes, Gregory P. Asner, James A. Baldwin, Joseph Mascaro, more

Forest Ecology and Management > 2018 > 424 > C > 323-337

Remote sensing data have increasingly been employed in combination with field plot data to estimate aboveground carbon (C) stocks across heterogeneous forested landscapes around the world. The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the US Forest Service offers a gridded network of field plots which potentially can be linked to airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data to estimate forest...

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The distribution and status of alien plants in a small South African town

P. McLean, J.R.U. Wilson, M. Gaertner, S. Kritzinger-Klopper, more

South African Journal of Botany > 2018 > 117 > C > 71-78

1.The invasion of alien plants into natural ecosystems in South Africa is a substantial conservation concern. The primary reason for the introduction of alien plants has been ornamental horticulture, and urban centres are the main sources of invasions. Small towns have high edge: area ratios which favour the launching of invasions into surrounding areas. There is, however, a shortage of information...

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Occurrences and distribution characteristics of organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers in the sediments of the Bohai and Yellow Seas, China

Mingyu Zhong, Huifeng Wu, Wenying Mi, Fei Li, more

Science of The Total Environment > 2018 > 615 > C > 1305-1311

Concentrations and distribution characteristics of organophosphate esters (OPEs) in surface sediment samples were analyzed and discussed for the first time in the open Bohai Sea (BS) and Yellow Sea (YS). Three halogenated OPEs [tris-(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), tris-(1-chloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TCPP), and tris-(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP)] and five non-halogenated OPEs [tri-isobutyl...

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Informacje o organach w inwentarzach diecezji przemyskiej sporządzonych na podstawie instrukcji z 1933 roku

Andrzej Widak

Roczniki Teologiczne > 2018 > 65 > 13: Muzykologia > 165-182

Ważnym źródłem informacji o organach są inwentarze parafialne. Były one spisywane podczas wizytacji biskupich lub dziekańskich, jak też na wyraźne polecenie rządcy diecezji. W diecezji przemyskiej w latach 1927, 1928, 1933 zostały wydane „przemyskie 3 instrukcje”. Instrukcja z 1933 r. dotyczyła sporządzania inwentarzy. W Archidiecezjalnym Archiwum w Przemyślu znajduje się 58 inwentarzy napisanych...

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Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: Comparing two inventories with Ecuadorian teachers

Gavin T.L. Brown, Ana Remesal

Studies in Educational Evaluation > 2017 > 55 > C > 68-74

Teacher beliefs about the purpose of assessment matter to how assessment is implemented in classroom settings. Two different teacher conceptions of assessment inventories have originated separately in Spain and New Zealand. This study examined (a) the extent to which the models for each inventory could be recovered and (b) the relationship between inventories. Responses were obtained from 566 Ecuadorian...

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Crude inventory accounting and speculation in the physical oil market

Ivan Diaz-Rainey, Helen Roberts, David H. Lont

Energy Economics > 2017 > 66 > C > 508-522

This paper uses inventory data from financial accounts to explore whether companies involved in the physical oil market were speculating in the run-up to 2008. Using quarterly inventory data over the period 1990Q4 to 2012Q1 and a sample of 15 of the largest listed oil companies in the world, we derive an Index of Scaled Physical Inventories (ISPI). We find declining ISPI up to the early 2000s is consistent...

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Convenience yield of accessible inventories and imports: A case study of the Chinese copper market

Soohyeon Kim, Jihyo Kim, Eunnyeong Heo

Resources Policy > 2017 > 52 > C > 277-283

Inventories have traditionally been regarded as key measures to respond to market risks. Although benchmark exchanges are increasingly important, their inventories actually utilized are those in the local markets. The perspective that we benefit from the inventories that are available and in proximity is conceptualized as the accessibility of inventories. To explore the accessibility issue, this study...

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A hybrid MTS-MTO production model with a dynamic decoupling point for flexible flow shops

Yanchao Jia, Wei Weng, Shigeru Fujimura

2017 IEEE/ACIS 16th International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS) > 803 - 807

2017 IEEE/ACIS 16th International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS)

Competition and resultant complexity of today's production industry require that enterprises realise the importance of reducing total costs in production. Uncertainties of customer orders also make it difficult to determine the schedule for minimizing inventories, earliness and tardiness. In this paper, we propose a new production model for flexible flow shops, which aims to reduce the total inventories,...

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Validation of landslide hazard models using a semantic engine on online news

Alessandro Battistini, Ascanio Rosi, Samuele Segoni, Daniela Lagomarsino, more

Applied Geography > 2017 > 82 > C > 59-65

The objective of this work is twofold: (i) automatically setting up a landslide inventory using a state-of-the art semantic engine based on data mining on online news and (ii) evaluating if the automatically generated inventory can be used to validate a regional scale landslide warning system based on rainfall-thresholds.The semantic engine scanned internet news in real time in a 50 months test period...

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Intertemporal Non-separability and Dynamic Oligopoly

Curtis Eberwein, Ted To

Dynamic Games and Applications > 2018 > 8 > 2 > 232-253

We construct a framework for modeling dynamic Cournot oligopoly. We consider models where utility maximizing consumers give rise to demand functions that depend on current and prior period prices. Future demand depends on the current price and consumers, and firms must take this into account when making their decisions. Focusing on problems that yield dynamic demand functions that are linear in current...

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Richness of ectoparasitic flies (Diptera: Streblidae) of bats (Chiroptera)—a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies in Brazil

Elizabete Captivo Lourenço, Juliana Cardoso Almeida, Kátia Maria Famadas

Parasitology Research > 2016 > 115 > 11 > 4379-4388

The family Streblidae consists of obligate hematophagous ectoparasites of bats. The richness of Streblidae may be affected by environmental and host-related variables, collection methods, and sampling effort. The purposes of this study were to list the Streblidae species recorded in Brazil, verify their distribution in the Brazilian biomes and states, and pinpoint the parameters that favored the greatest...

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Inventory Shocks and the Great Moderation

JAMES MORLEY, AARTI SINGH

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking > 48 > 4 > 699 - 728

Why did the volatility of U.S. real GDP decline by more than the volatility of final sales with the Great Moderation in the mid‐1980s? One explanation is that firms shifted their inventory behavior toward a greater emphasis on production smoothing. We investigate the role of inventories in the Great Moderation by estimating an unobserved components model that identifies inventory and sales shocks...

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What do inventories tell us about news-driven business cycles?

Nicolas Crouzet, Hyunseung Oh

Journal of Monetary Economics > 2016 > 79 > C > 49-66

There is widespread disagreement over the quantitative contribution of news shocks to business-cycle fluctuations. This paper provides a simple identifying restriction, based on inventory dynamics, that tightly pins down this contribution. Structural models predict that finished-good inventories should fall when there is an increase in consumption and investment induced by news shocks. A structural...

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Integrated Approach for the Inventory and Management of Geomorphological Heritage at the Regional Scale

E. Reynard, A. Perret, J. Bussard, L. Grangier, more

Geoheritage > 2016 > 8 > 1 > 43-60

Due to the renewed interest for sites of geological interest, both in nature conservation and tourist sectors, numerous regional and national geosite inventories have been carried out in several countries during the last two decades. Several research groups discussed methodological issues, in particular concerning the assessment, and proposed various assessment methods. The University of Lausanne...

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Highlighting Uncertainty and Recommendations for Improvement of Black Carbon Biomass Fuel-Based Emission Inventories in the Indo-Gangetic Plain Region

Sutyajeet I. Soneja, James M. Tielsch, Subarna K. Khatry, Frank C. Curriero, more

Current Environmental Health Reports > 2016 > 3 > 1 > 73-80

Black carbon (BC) is a major contributor to hydrological cycle change and glacial retreat within the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and surrounding region. However, significant variability exists for estimates of BC regional concentration. Existing inventories within the IGP suffer from limited representation of rural sources, reliance on idealized point source estimates (e.g., utilization of emission...

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Nitrous oxide emissions from grazing cattle urine patches: Bridging the gap between measurement and stakeholder requirements

F.J. Cook, F.M. Kelliher

Environmental Modelling and Software > 2016 > 75 > Complete > 133-152

Nitrous oxide (N₂O) is a potent greenhouse gas and a precursor to compounds which deplete stratospheric ozone. Agricultural soils are the principal anthropogenic N₂O source, which includes urine patches of cattle fed by grazing pasture. While such N₂O emissions can be measured, involved time and space scales are usually only minutes and metres, respectively. Nevertheless, climate change stakeholders...

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Interest Rates and the Market for New Light Vehicles

Factors controlling landslide frequency–area distributions

Creating a “family tree” on fertilizer inventory use in life cycle assessment of oil palm: visualization of earlier studies and its implications

Helminths Associated with Three Physalaemus Species (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Caatinga Biome, Brazil

Estimating aboveground carbon density across forest landscapes of Hawaii: Combining FIA plot-derived estimates and airborne LiDAR

The distribution and status of alien plants in a small South African town

Occurrences and distribution characteristics of organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers in the sediments of the Bohai and Yellow Seas, China

Informacje o organach w inwentarzach diecezji przemyskiej sporządzonych na podstawie instrukcji z 1933 roku

Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: Comparing two inventories with Ecuadorian teachers

Crude inventory accounting and speculation in the physical oil market

Convenience yield of accessible inventories and imports: A case study of the Chinese copper market

A hybrid MTS-MTO production model with a dynamic decoupling point for flexible flow shops

Validation of landslide hazard models using a semantic engine on online news

Intertemporal Non-separability and Dynamic Oligopoly

Richness of ectoparasitic flies (Diptera: Streblidae) of bats (Chiroptera)—a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies in Brazil

Inventory Shocks and the Great Moderation

What do inventories tell us about news-driven business cycles?

Integrated Approach for the Inventory and Management of Geomorphological Heritage at the Regional Scale

Highlighting Uncertainty and Recommendations for Improvement of Black Carbon Biomass Fuel-Based Emission Inventories in the Indo-Gangetic Plain Region

Nitrous oxide emissions from grazing cattle urine patches: Bridging the gap between measurement and stakeholder requirements

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