UK budget: A gentle push

A gentle introduction to

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99 / 09 Are Budget Deficits Excessive in the UK ?

In this paper we apply a thorough cointegration analysis to annual time-series data for the U.K. in the period, 1948-1997, to examine whether government revenue and expenditure have been congruent. The data do provide considerable evidence of a cointegrated long-run relation between government revenue and expenditure in the U.K. during this period implying that the two have been congruent in th...

Cryptographic Voting - A Gentle Introduction

These lecture notes survey some of the main ideas and techniques used in cryptographic voting systems. The write-up is geared towards readers with little knowledge of cryptography and it focuses on the broad principles that guide the design and analysis of cryptographic systems, especially the need for properly designed security models. We use a system proposed by Fujioka, Okamoto and Ohta as s...

A Gentle Introduction to Tensors

Blood-sucking bugs as a gentle method for blood-collection in water budget studies using doubly labelled water.

During doubly-labelled water (DLW) experiments, blood collection by venous puncture may traumatize animals and consequently affect the animals' behaviour and energy budget. Recent studies have shown that blood-sucking bugs (Triatominae; Heteroptera) can be used instead of conventional needles to obtain blood from animals. In this paper, we validate the bug method in captive nectar-feeding bats,...