This paper examines the out-of-sample performance of various financial variables as predictors of U.S. recessions. Series such as interest rates and spreads, stock prices, and monetary aggregates are evaluated individually and in comparison with other financial and nonfinancial indicators. The analysis focuses on out-of-sample performance from one to eight quarters ahead. Results show that stoc...

In this paper, we investigate competition in banking systems in the EU27 as a whole for the period 2004– 2010, but also for old members’ banking systems compared with new members’ banking systems and for banking systems from countries member of euro zone compares with banking systems from countries non-member of euro zone. In order to investigate this issue, we estimate a non-structural indicat...

Understanding the neural basis of behaviour requires studying brain activity in behaving subjects using complementary techniques that measure neural responses at multiple spatial scales, and developing computational tools for understanding the mapping between these measurements. Here we report the first results of widefield imaging of genetically encoded calcium indicator (GCaMP6f) signals from...

It is widely recognized that citation counts for papers from different fields cannot be directly compared because different scientific fields adopt different citation practices. Citation counts are also strongly biased by paper age since older papers had more time to attract citations. Various procedures aim at suppressing these biases and give rise to new normalized indicators, such as the rel...

We present a modular approach for analyzing calcium imaging recordings of large neuronal ensembles. Our goal is to simultaneously identify the locations of the neurons, demix spatially overlapping components, and denoise and deconvolve the spiking activity from the slow dynamics of the calcium indicator. Our approach relies on a constrained nonnegative matrix factorization that expresses the sp...

We present teacher–researcher partnership (TRP) as a way of fostering teachers’ professional learning. Teachers’ participation research group members is an essential aspect the partnership. Teachers and researchers share same goal, which to improve their understanding enhance students’ engagement in science. Project-based learning (PBL) was selected means enhancing student engagement. The activ...

The attitude towards scientific research is an indicator of educational quality in university education, being fundamental to consolidate every profession as a science. objective this study was describe the attitudes Peruvian students professional career education. approach basic, quantitative, non-experimental design. sample consisted 494 students. A sociodemographic form and Research Attitude...

This study aimed to examine the skill of participants in understanding the functioning of a piece of Java code by reading it. Their skill at this task was measured via a code comprehension task. The aim was to ascertain any relationships between this skill and their personality as measured by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The study was carried out with 74 participants, all of whom wer...

Many stream-processing systems enforce an order on data streams during query evaluation to help unblock blocking operators and purge state from stateful operators. Such in-order processing (IOP) systems not only must enforce order on input streams, but also require that query operators preserve order. This orderpreserving requirement constrains the implementation of stream systems and incurs si...

The ecological impacts of anthropogenic activities on aquatic environments have led to the development of new methods of environmental monitoring (Cohen et al 1993, Kelly and Whitton 1995). Benthic algae represent a ubiquitous group of photosynthetic organisms that play a pivotal role in stream food webs but may also be used for observing long-term trends in community changes that can occur bec...