Using a Dynamic Semiparametric Factor Model (DSFM) we investigate the term structure of interest rates. The proposed methodology is applied to monthly interest rates for four southern European countries: Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain from the introduction of the Euro to the recent European sovereign-debt crisis. Analyzing this extraordinary period, we compare our approach with the standard ...

The treatment of diluted solutions of the hydroxy diamides 6a and 6b in toluene with HCl gas at 100° gave the dimeric, 14-membered cyclodepsipeptide 10 in up to 72% yield (Scheme 3). The same product was formed from the linear dimer of 6b, the depsipeptide 11, under the same conditions (cf. Scheme 4). All attempts to prepare the cyclic seven-membered monomer 9, starting with different precursor...

Effectiveness of a simulated pack to manipulate wolf movements CHRistiNe m. aNHaLt,1 Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA [email protected] timotHy R. vaN deeLeN, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA RoNaLd N. sCHuLtz, Wisconsin Departmen...

W e present an evolved X-band antenna design and flight prototype currently o n schedule to be deployed on NASA’s Space Technology 5 spacecraft in 2004. The mission consists of three small satellites that wall take science measurements in Earth’s magnetosphere. The antenna was evolved t o meet a challenging set of mission requirements, m o s t notably the combination of wide beamwidth f o r a c...

the brain (Artola and Singer, 1993; Linden, 1994). In most cases, the opposite process, i.e. long-term potentiation (LTP) (Bliss and Collingridge, 1993), is present at the same synapses. Most theories on the functional role of LTD in such neurons assume that LTD acts by resetting synapses that have undergone LTP (Tsumoto, 1993; Linden, 1994). In the cerebellum, however, LTD of the parallel fibe...

at 0/00 Modeling and formal veri cation of a modular level-crossing controller design H.-M. Hanisch Adresse: Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Institut für Automatisierungstechnik, PF 4120 D-39019 Magdeburg T. Pannier Adresse: Siemens AG Verkehrstechnik Ackerstraÿe 22 D-38126 Braunschweig D. Peter Adresse: Siemens AG Verkehrstechnik Ackerstraÿe 22 D-38126 Braunschweig S. Roch Adresse: Hu...

In the category of left modules over a unital ring we show that a left exact reflector determines, for each n ≥ 1, a torsion theoretic setting in which universal extensions of length n exist. Combined with recent work of Rodelo-Van der Linden [9] this establishes the existence of universal central extensions of groups and Lie algebras. Interpreted in the homotopy category of topological spaces,...

This study develops a method for the discrimination and prediction of honey samples from various botanical origins. The method was based on the nontargeted volatile profiles obtained by solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SPME-GC/MS) combined with chemometrics. The blind analysis of nontargeted volatile profiles was carried out by SPME-GC/MS for 87 authentic ho...