We examine the effects of unconventional monetary policy surprises on the value of the dollar using high-frequency intraday data and contrast them with the effects of conventional policy tools. Identifying monetary policy surprises from changes in interest rate future prices in narrow windows around policy announcements, we find that monetary policy surprises since the Federal Reserve lowered i...

It is unclear how unconventional secretion interplays with conventional secretion for the normal maintenance and renewal of membrane structures. The photoreceptor sensory cilium is recognized for fast membrane renewal, for which rhodopsin and peripherin/rds (P/rds) play critical roles. Here, we provide evidence that P/rds is targeted to the cilia by an unconventional secretion pathway. When exp...

Modern programming languages allow the definition and the use of arbitrary nested data structures but this is not generally considered in unconventional programming models. In this paper, we present arbitrary nested topological collections in MGS, a spatial computing language. By considering different classes of neighborhood relationships, MGS can emulate several unconventional computing models...

This paper argues that the Bank of Japan shrank from doing the right thing because it required the adoption of unconventional policies that might lose the Bank its newly acquired independence. Taka Ito frankly recognises that this argument has a problem: the Bank of Japan adopted two and a half of the recommended unconventional policies: increasing excess reserves, buying government bonds and b...

Unconventional hydrocarbon reserves substantially surpass those of conventional resources and therefore are extremely economically attractive. However, exploration and production of unconventional reserves is challenging. This paper demonstrates that one can observe significant induced polarization effects in shale reservoir rocks, which can be used in exploration for unconventional reserves. T...

This paper studies the implications of exit strategies from unconventional monetary policy. Using a Markov switching DSGE model with financial frictions, agents in the model have rational expectations about the probability of financial crises, the probability of an unconventional response to crises, and the exit strategy used. Selling offassets quickly produces a double-dip recession; in contra...

Novel and complex structural solutions are often challenging to introduce in the building industry since they may provide unconventional less verified behavior combined with several novel unique failure modes. A desired safety level be difficult verify due lack of knowledge related modes their variation. This study introduces a method that first step toward addressing such challenges. Five labo...

Since the development bloom in unconventional reservoirs in North America, total organic carbon (TOC) has become a more essential parameter, as the indicator of the efficiency of these reservoirs. In this paper, by using conventional well logs and NMR log data, the TOC content of an unconventional reservoir in West Africa is estimated. Passy’s, Issler’s, and Schmoker’s methods were used as indi...

Its January—summertime! The sun is up high, the surf is good, the sky is blue and the sand is golden and hot. As these lines are written, the author has settled on the beautiful beaches of New Zealand’s Northland. Unconventional methods of computation seem all but a remote possibility. And yet, many of today’s speculations become tomorrow’s physics and key technologies of the future. The questi...