Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data

Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation activity performed by heavy transport vehicles across the country and has highly desirable availability properties (insignificant revisions, short publication lags) as a result of the innovative technology underlying its data collection. It is coincident with production activity due to the prevalence of just-in-time delivery. The Toll Index is a good early indicator of production as measured for instance by the German Production Index, provided by the German Statistical Office, which is a well-known leading indicator of the Gross National Product. The proposed new index is an excellent example of technological, innovation-driven economic telemetry, which we suggest should be established more around the world.telemetry, nowcasting, transportation, business cycles, production forecasting, macroeconomic forecasting, new products, evaluating forecasts, data mining

Fast Detour Computation for Ride Sharing

Todays ride sharing services still mimic a better billboard. They list the offers and allow to search for the source and target city, sometimes enriched with radial search. So finding a connection between big cities is quite easy. These places are on a list of designated origin and distination points. But when you want to go from a small town to another small town, even when they are next to a freeway, you run into problems. You can't find offers that would or could pass by the town easily with little or no detour. We solve this interesting problem by presenting a fast algorithm that computes the offers with the smallest detours w.r.t. a request. Our experiments show that the problem is efficiently solvable in times suitable for a web service implementation. For realistic database size we achieve lookup times of about 5ms and a matching rate of 90% instead of just 70% for the simple matching algorithms used today.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure environment, 4 includegraphic

Future heavy duty trucking engine requirements

Developers of advanced heavy duty diesel engines are engaged in probing the opportunities presented by new materials and techniques. This process is technology driven, but there is neither assurance that the eventual users of the engines so developed will be comfortable with them nor, indeed, that those consumers will continue to exist in either the same form, or numbers as they do today. To ensure maximum payoff of research dollars, the equipment development process must consider user needs. This study defines motor carrier concerns, cost tolerances, and the engine parameters which match the future projected industry needs. The approach taken to do that is to be explained and the results presented. The material to be given comes basically from a survey of motor carrier fleets. It provides indications of the role of heavy duty vehicles in the 1998 period and their desired maintenance and engine performance parameters

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Athletic association supports UAJ growth in intercollegiate sports -- Library finally plays with full deck -- Editorials: Where have the farmlands gone? -- Guest editorial by Vern Metcalf: Pride expressed in UAJ's "phenomenal expansion." -- Channels -- Career counselor helps others plan lives -- Athletic association... -- Mini-course stretches minds and bodies -- SEAA to recognize SE HS athletes -- Alaska history classes begin -- Students call for tightening of loan program -- Fourth month entertainment -- Baleen cuisine -- Swimming once again availabl

Spartan Daily, February 9, 2001

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The market for insulation in Alaska and feasibility of the regional manufacture of insulating materials

This investigation was undertaken jointly by the Mineral Industry Research Laboratory and the Institute of Business, Economic and Government Research at the University of Alaska. It is one of a continuing series of studies concerning the market and utilization rate for selected structural materials within Alaska. The overall objective of these studies is to identify opportunities for the regional manufacture of selected building products. In this manner, this limited study of insulation markets complements more extensive previous studies concerning Alaskan cement and clay products, markets and manufacturing feasibility

International Veterinary Epilepsy Task Force consensus report on epilepsy definition, classification and terminology in companion animals

Dogs with epilepsy are among the commonest neurological patients in veterinary practice and therefore have historically attracted much attention with regard to definitions, clinical approach and management. A number of classification proposals for canine epilepsy have been published during the years reflecting always in parts the current proposals coming from the human epilepsy organisation the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). It has however not been possible to gain agreed consensus, “a common language”, for the classification and terminology used between veterinary and human neurologists and neuroscientists, practitioners, neuropharmacologists and neuropathologists. This has led to an unfortunate situation where different veterinary publications and textbook chapters on epilepsy merely reflect individual author preferences with respect to terminology, which can be confusing to the readers and influence the definition and diagnosis of epilepsy in first line practice and research studies. In this document the International Veterinary Epilepsy Task Force (IVETF) discusses current understanding of canine epilepsy and presents our 2015 proposal for terminology and classification of epilepsy and epileptic seizures. We propose a classification system which reflects new thoughts from the human ILAE but also roots in former well accepted terminology. We think that this classification system can be used by all stakeholders

Spartan Daily, October 5, 2017

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