On the Relationship between Pass-Through and Sticky Nominal Prices

Author(s):  
Charles M. Engel
Author(s):  
Robert M. Glaeser

It is well known that a large flux of electrons must pass through a specimen in order to obtain a high resolution image while a smaller particle flux is satisfactory for a low resolution image. The minimum particle flux that is required depends upon the contrast in the image and the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio at which the data are considered acceptable. For a given S/N associated with statistical fluxtuations, the relationship between contrast and “counting statistics” is s131_eqn1, where C = contrast; r2 is the area of a picture element corresponding to the resolution, r; N is the number of electrons incident per unit area of the specimen; f is the fraction of electrons that contribute to formation of the image, relative to the total number of electrons incident upon the object.


2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 562-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Giner-Sorolla

The current crisis in psychological research involves issues of fraud, replication, publication bias, and false positive results. I argue that this crisis follows the failure of widely adopted solutions to psychology’s similar crisis of the 1970s. The untouched root cause is an information-economic one: Too many studies divided by too few publication outlets equals a bottleneck. Articles cannot pass through just by showing theoretical meaning and methodological rigor; their results must appear to support the hypothesis perfectly. Consequently, psychologists must master the art of presenting perfect-looking results just to survive in the profession. This favors aesthetic criteria of presentation in a way that harms science’s search for truth. Shallow standards of statistical perfection distort analyses and undermine the accuracy of cumulative data; narrative expectations encourage dishonesty about the relationship between results and hypotheses; criteria of novelty suppress replication attempts. Concerns about truth in research are emerging in other sciences and may eventually descend on our heads in the form of difficult and insensitive regulations. I suggest a more palatable solution: to open the bottleneck, putting structures in place to reward broader forms of information sharing beyond the exquisite art of present-day journal publication.


Author(s):  
Natalie Chen ◽  
Wanyu Chung ◽  
Dennis Novy

Abstract Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive, with more than half of the transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter’s currency. We then study the relationship between invoicing currencies and the response of import unit values to exchange rate changes. We find that for transactions invoiced in a vehicle currency, import unit values are much more sensitive to changes in the vehicle currency than in the bilateral exchange rate. Pass-through therefore substantially increases once we account for vehicle currencies. This result helps to explain why UK inflation turned out higher than expected when sterling depreciated during the Great Recession and after the Brexit referendum. Finally, within a conceptual framework we show why bilateral exchange rates are not suitable for capturing exchange rate pass-through under vehicle currency pricing. Overall, our results help to clarify why the literature often finds a disconnect between exchange rates and prices when vehicle currencies are not accounted for.


2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (49) ◽  
pp. 31494-31499
Author(s):  
Sridhar Ravi ◽  
Tim Siesenop ◽  
Olivier Bertrand ◽  
Liang Li ◽  
Charlotte Doussot ◽  
...  

Animals that move through complex habitats must frequently contend with obstacles in their path. Humans and other highly cognitive vertebrates avoid collisions by perceiving the relationship between the layout of their surroundings and the properties of their own body profile and action capacity. It is unknown whether insects, which have much smaller brains, possess such abilities. We used bumblebees, which vary widely in body size and regularly forage in dense vegetation, to investigate whether flying insects consider their own size when interacting with their surroundings. Bumblebees trained to fly in a tunnel were sporadically presented with an obstructing wall containing a gap that varied in width. Bees successfully flew through narrow gaps, even those that were much smaller than their wingspans, by first performing lateral scanning (side-to-side flights) to visually assess the aperture. Bees then reoriented their in-flight posture (i.e., yaw or heading angle) while passing through, minimizing their projected frontal width and mitigating collisions; in extreme cases, bees flew entirely sideways through the gap. Both the time that bees spent scanning during their approach and the extent to which they reoriented themselves to pass through the gap were determined not by the absolute size of the gap, but by the size of the gap relative to each bee’s own wingspan. Our findings suggest that, similar to humans and other vertebrates, flying bumblebees perceive the affordance of their surroundings relative their body size and form to navigate safely through complex environments.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongfang Ma ◽  
Dianhai Wang ◽  
Yiming Bie ◽  
Feng Sun ◽  
Sheng Jin

A method estimating the queue length in city street networks was proposed using the data of roll time occupancy. The key idea of this paper is that when the queue length in front of the queue detector becomes longer, the speeds of the following vehicles to pass through the detector will become smaller, resulting in higher occupancy with constant traffic intensity. Considering the relationship between queue lengths and roll time occupancy affected by many factors, such as link length, lane width, lane number, and bus ratio, twelve different conditions were designed, and the traffic data under different conditions was obtained using VISSIM simulation. Based on the analysis of simulation data, an S-type logistic model was decided to develop for the relationship between queue lengths and roll time occupancy, and the fitting equations were obtained under the twelve simulation situations. The average model for the relationship between queue lengths and roll time occupancy was presented by successive multiple linear regression with the fitting equation parameters and simulation parameters, and the estimation model for queue length was presented through analyzing the equation of the average relation model.


SERIEs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-583
Author(s):  
Ligia Topan ◽  
César Castro ◽  
Miguel Jerez ◽  
Andrés Barge-Gil

AbstractOil price showed sharp fluctuations in recent years which revived the interest in its effect on inflation. In this paper, we discuss the relationship between oil price and inflation in Spain, at national and regional levels, and making the distinction between energy and non-energy inflation. To this end, we fit econometric models to measure the effect of oil price shocks on inflation and to predict them under different scenarios. Our results show that almost half of the volatility of changes in total inflation is explained by changes in oil price. As could be expected, the energy component of inflation drives this effect. We also find that, under the most likely scenarios, 1-year ahead total inflation will be moderate, with relevant differences across regions.


Author(s):  
Samual T Williams ◽  
Wendy Collinson ◽  
Claire Patterson-Abrolat ◽  
David G Marneweck ◽  
Lourens H Swanepoel

As the global road network expands, roads pose an emerging threat to wildlife populations. One way in which roads can affect wildlife is wildlife-vehicle collisions, which can be a significant cause of mortality through roadkill. In order to successfully mitigate these problems, it is vital to understand the factors that can explain the distribution of roadkill. Collecting the data required to enable this can be expensive and time consuming, but there is significant potential in partnering with organisations that conduct existing road patrols to obtain the necessary data. We assessed the feasibility of using roadkill data collected daily between 2014 and 2017 by road patrol staff from a private road agency on a 410 km length of the N3 road in South Africa. We modelled the relationship between a set of environmental and anthropogenic variables on the number of roadkill carcasses, using serval (Leptailurus serval) as a model species. We recorded 5.24 serval roadkill carcasses/100 km/year. The number of carcasses was related to season, the amount of wetland, and the number of owls killed on the roads, but was not related to any of the anthropogenic variables we included. This suggests that roadkill patterns may differ greatly depending on the ecology of species of interest, but targeting mitigation measures where roads pass through wetlands may help to reduce serval roadkill. Partnering with road agencies for data collection offers powerful opportunities to identify factors related to roadkill distribution and reduce the threats posed by roads to wildlife.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samual T Williams ◽  
Wendy Collinson ◽  
Claire Patterson-Abrolat ◽  
David G Marneweck ◽  
Lourens H Swanepoel

As the global road network expands, roads pose an emerging threat to wildlife populations. One way in which roads can affect wildlife is wildlife-vehicle collisions, which can be a significant cause of mortality through roadkill. In order to successfully mitigate these problems, it is vital to understand the factors that can explain the distribution of roadkill. Collecting the data required to enable this can be expensive and time consuming, but there is significant potential in partnering with organisations that conduct existing road patrols to obtain the necessary data. We assessed the feasibility of using roadkill data collected daily between 2014 and 2017 by road patrol staff from a private road agency on a 410 km length of the N3 road in South Africa. We modelled the relationship between a set of environmental and anthropogenic variables on the number of roadkill carcasses, using serval (Leptailurus serval) as a model species. We recorded 5.24 serval roadkill carcasses/100 km/year. The number of carcasses was related to season, the amount of wetland, and the number of owls killed on the roads, but was not related to any of the anthropogenic variables we included. This suggests that roadkill patterns may differ greatly depending on the ecology of species of interest, but targeting mitigation measures where roads pass through wetlands may help to reduce serval roadkill. Partnering with road agencies for data collection offers powerful opportunities to identify factors related to roadkill distribution and reduce the threats posed by roads to wildlife.


Author(s):  
A. Vucenovic ◽  

The phenomenon of light and shadow is discussed by many sciences, including art criticism. And what does the shadow really represent? What is the relationship between light and shadow? When and why do we use shadows as a technique in theatrical performances? This work explores the shadow as a consequence of the action of light on an object that does not allow it to pass through - the "gray shadow" in theatrical performances. There Are numerous theatrical performances in which diverse projections and shadows are used as expressive means. We use shadow in the theater when we want to know, to see the unlit, hidden side of someone or something. This physical phenomenon has always attracted the attention of people of different cultures and eras and naturally found application in theatrical performances. They involve in either multi-colored or gray shadows. When an object does not transmit light completely appears - a "gray shadow", denoting only the contours of a certain object, the silhouette of the object used in the theatrical performance. Folk art in the form of riddles, games and other things created phrases that are an important guide in understanding and determining the laws of their existence in theatrical works. Shadows turned out to be interesting and useful in training actors and directors of the puppet theater.


2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Li ◽  
Qiushuo Chen ◽  
Feihong Yue ◽  
Qunjing Wang

The spherical shell rotor is contained in the multi-degree-of-freedom permanent magnet synchronous motor. When the rated speed of motor is close to the critical speed, the motor will generate multiple resonances, which will affect the normal operation of the motor. The motor rotor must pass through the first-order critical speed and work at the safety range between 1-order and 2-order critical speed. According to the dynamic characteristics of rotor system, a mathematical model of rotor under free state is established, and the result between finite element and analytical methods is comparison. The influence of rotor gyroscope effect on critical speed is analyzed, and the finite element analysis of whether the rigidity of rotor material affects the critical speed is also carried out. The relationship between bending modal and deformation displacement is tested under different rigidity conditions and the stator deformation caused by rotor rotation is analyzed when the stator is filled with different liquids. The relationship between the rotational speed and the amplitude of the spherical rotor is verified by experiments, and the corresponding rules are summarized. The results of the simulation and analysis are referenced by the optimal design of motor.


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