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2016-04-12ZeitschriftenartikelThe Politics of Related Lending We analyze the profitability of government-owned banks’ lending to their owners, using a unique data set of relatively homogeneous government-owned banks; the banks are all owned by similarly structured local governments ...
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2012-10-26ZeitschriftenartikelFutures Cross-Hedging with a Stationary Basis When managing risk, frequently only imperfect hedging instruments are at hand. We show how to optimally cross-hedge risk when the spread between the hedging instrument and the risk is stationary. For linear risk positions ...
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2009-04-06ZeitschriftenartikelBayesian Learning in Financial Markets: Testing for the Relevance of Information Precision in Price Discovery Bayesian learning claims that the strength of the price impact of unanticipated information depends on the relative precision of traders' prior and posterior beliefs. In this paper, we test for this implication of Bayesian ...
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2014-11-27ZeitschriftenartikelThe Location of the UK Cotton Textiles Industry in 1838: A Quantitative Analysis We examine the geography of cotton textiles in Britain in 1838 to test claims about why the industry came to be so heavily concentrated in Lancashire. Our analysis considers both first and second nature aspects of geography ...
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2012-08-22ZeitschriftenartikelAgricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective This article explores the pattern of land rents and agricultural productivity across nineteenth-century Prussia to gain new insights on the causes of the “Little Divergence” between European regions. We argue that agriculture ...
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2011-11-14ZeitschriftenartikelOn the Economic Consequences of the Peace: Trade and Borders After Versailles The First World War radically altered the political landscape of Central Europe. The new borders after 1918 are typically viewed as detrimental to the region's economic integration and development. We argue that this view ...
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2016-06-10Zeitschriftenartikel“More than a Contract”: The Emergence of a State-Supported Marriage Welfare Service and the Politics of Emotional Life in Post-1945 Britain This article examines the seminal contributions of Britain's marriage counseling and therapy services toward cultivating a new emotional purpose for marriage in the decades following World War II. It presents two related ...
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2014-09-09ZeitschriftenartikelTreatment comparisons in agricultural field trials accounting for spatial correlation The classical analysis model for agricultural field trials is based on the principles of experimental design – randomization, replication and blocking – and it assumes independent residual effects. Accounting for any ...
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2010-07-27ZeitschriftenartikelA participatory approach to the evaluation of the efficiency of animal recording practices based on institutional analysis and development framework Animal recording is an interactive process that involves several practices. The efficiency of the process is essential to ensure the utility of outcomes necessary for sustainable participation. Most evaluation approaches ...
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2003-08-05ZeitschriftenartikelThe impact of controlled breeding on milk production in pastoral goats in northern Kenya: an application of polynomial growth curve fitting The paper investigates the effect of controlled seasonal breeding on milk production in a herd of Small East African (SEA) goats. Polynomial growth curve models were fitted to both daily and cumulative milk yield data ...
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2015-01-30ZeitschriftenartikelDistant shores: A historiographic view on trans-Saharan space This article addresses how scholarship has formulated human connections and ruptures over the Sahara. However, these formulations were, and still are, based in both physical and discursive realities that have been developed ...
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2014-04-01ZeitschriftenartikelUnruly agents: Police reform, bureaucratization, and policemen's agency in interwar Togo In the last few years, our understanding of police forces in Africa has increased significantly. Whilst in previous literature the police tended to be presented as a mere instrument in the hands of state elites, recent ...
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2011ZeitschriftenartikelHuman Dignity and the Principle of Culpability The paper describes the origins and implications of the principle of culpability in Germany and Israel. The comparison shows that the principle of culpability is more closely related to human dignity in German law and that ...
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2011ZeitschriftenartikelHuman Dignity as a Protected Interest in Criminal Law Human dignity can be a protected interest in criminal law. This paper starts with some reflections about the meaning of human dignity and then examines offense descriptions in the German Penal Code and the Israeli Penal ...
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2011-03-25ZeitschriftenartikelCommunication systems operating in the 60 GHz ISM band: Overview This paper gives an overview of frequency regulation, standardization, and applications of 60 GHz communication systems. Based on forecasted developments of mobile IP traffic, the motivation for investigating circuits, and ...
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2020-03-05ZeitschriftenartikelManaging depressive symptoms in people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia with a multicomponent psychotherapy intervention: a randomized controlled trial Objective:To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of the CORDIAL program, a psychosocial intervention consisting of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), cognitive rehabilitation, and reminiscence to manage depressive ...
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2015-11-10ZeitschriftenartikelManual-based cognitive behavioral and cognitive rehabilitation therapy for young-onset dementia: a case report There is a growing attention worldwide to young-onset dementia (YOD) and this group's special challenges and needs. The literature on psychosocial interventions for this population is scarce, and little is known about the ...
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2017-10-16ZeitschriftenartikelBioefficacy of enhanced diatomaceous earth and botanical powders on the mortality and progeny production of Acanthoscelides obtectus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Sitophilus granarius (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae) and Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in stored grain cereals Food losses caused by insects during postharvest storage are of paramount economic importance worldwide, especially in Africa. Laboratory bioassays were conducted in stored grains to determine the toxicity of powders of ...
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2016-07-22ZeitschriftenartikelCulture all around? Contextualising anthropological expertise in European courtroom settings This paper contributes to the debate on the role of anthropological expertise in the legal sphere by broadening the analytical field of vision. Rather than focusing on the anthropologist, his or her positionality, the ...
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2015-02-17ZeitschriftenartikelHumidity interaction of lichens under astrobiological aspects: the impact of UVC exposure on their water retention properties We quantitatively studied the hydration and dehydration behaviour of the three astrobiological model lichens Xanthoria elegans, Buellia frigida and Circinaria gyrosa by thermoanalysis and gravimetric isotherm measurements ...
