The paper by Marcel Fratzscher investigates capital flows to emerging market economies (EMEs) prior to, during and after the global financial crisis (GFC). It considers the relative importance of ‘push’ versus ‘pull’ factors in driving capital flows, where ‘push’ factors are external variables such as US macroeconomic news and ‘pull’ factors are internal variables such as a country’s institutio...

The imaging hyper-spectrometer is highly susceptible to the presence of noise and its noise removal is regularly necessary before any derivative analysis. A wavelet-based(WT) method is developed to remove noise of hyperspectral imagery data, and commonly used denoising methods such as Savitzky-Golay method(SG), moving average method(MA), and median filter method(MF) are compared with it. Smooth...

how to cite this article:  inaloo s, katibeh p. guillain-barre syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve palsy. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter;8(1):69-71. objective this case study is about an 11-year-old girl with bilateral facial weakness, abnormal taste sensation, and deep tendon reflexes of both knees and ankles were absent. however, the muscle power of the lower and upper extremiti...

Large lexical resources, such as corpora and databases of Web ngrams, are a rich source of pre-fabricated phrases that can be reused in many different contexts. However, one must be careful in how these resources are used, and noted writers such as George Orwell have argued that the use of canned phrases encourages sloppy thinking and results in poor communication. Nonetheless, while Orwell pri...

F irst off, I wish all readers of IC a happy and healthy new year. We traditionally rotate our tracks at the start of the year: for 2008, K.J. Lin and Yan Wang are editing one on ecommerce (see p. 60 for an introductory piece), and M. Brian Blake and Mike Huhns will be covering Web-scale workflow (see p. 55). We also introduce new (and remove older) columns around this time: Stephen Farrell tes...

It is not yet clear whether there is any difference in using remote sensing data of different spatial resolutions and filtering methods to improve the above-ground biomass (AGB) estimation accuracy of alpine meadow grassland. In this study, field measurements of AGB and spectral data at Sangke Town, Gansu Province, China, in three years (2013–2015) are combined to construct AGB estimation model...

Gergely Hegyi, Anders Pape Møller, Marcel Eens, and László Zsolt Garamszegi Behavioral Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary, Laboratoire d’Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris Sud, Bâtiment 362, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France, Center for Advanced Study, Drammensveien 78, NO-0271 Oslo...

We present the idea of PayTree, a method to amortize the work of a single signature production and verification among numerous micropayments in the model where payments are made from a payer to a set of merchants (under various trust assumptions regarding these merchants). The PayTree scheme is simple yet flexible. Its main feature is that it can support arbitrary (dynamically determined) numbe...