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    John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: Legal Remedies Against the Council\u27s Failure to Act

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    Lecture by President Ole Due of the European Court of Justice (1988-1994), regarding judicial activism in Europe and the United States. Includes biography and speaker introduction.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/events_programs_sonnet_lectures/1004/thumbnail.jp

    ICROFS news 1/2010 - newsletter from ICROFS

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    Contents: - CORE Organic II kick-off meeting - Organic Agriculture: New journal calls for papers - PhD defense on meta-analysis of variety mixtures - Strip cropping system for sustainable food/energy production - OA systems benefit biodiversity and natural pest regulation - A pro-poor model for smallholder inclusion in developing countries - Brief news on congresses and publication

    Prediction of stocks: a new way to look at it.

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    While the traditional R2R^{2} value is useful to evaluate the quality of a fit, it does not work when it comes to evaluating the predictive power of estimated financial models in finite samples. In this paper we introduce a validated RV2R_{V}^{2} value that is Taylor made for prediction. Based on data from the Danish stock market, using this measure we find that the dividend-price ratio has good predictive power for time horizons between one year and five years. We explain how the RS2R_{S}^{2} s for different time horizons could be compared, respectively, how they must not be interpreted. For our data we can conclude that the quality of prediction is almost the same for the five different time horizons. This is in contradiction to earlier studies based on the traditional R2R^{2} value, where it has been argued that the predictive power increases with the time horizon up to a horizon of about five or six years. Furthermore, we find that while inflation and interest rate do not add to the predictive power of the dividend-price ratio then last years excess stock return does

    Report on Potentials for Improvement of Slovene University Education in Geodesy and Specifically in LIS/GIS

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    Reports Of Conferences, Institutes, And Seminars

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    This quarter\u27s column offers coverage of multiple sessions from the 2016 Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference, held April 3–6, 2016, in Austin, Texas. Topics in serials acquisitions dominate the column, including reports on altmetrics, cost per use, demand-driven acquisitions, and scholarly communications and the use of subscriptions agents; ERMS, access, and knowledgebases are also featured

    Polyglot: Distributed Word Representations for Multilingual NLP

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    Distributed word representations (word embeddings) have recently contributed to competitive performance in language modeling and several NLP tasks. In this work, we train word embeddings for more than 100 languages using their corresponding Wikipedias. We quantitatively demonstrate the utility of our word embeddings by using them as the sole features for training a part of speech tagger for a subset of these languages. We find their performance to be competitive with near state-of-art methods in English, Danish and Swedish. Moreover, we investigate the semantic features captured by these embeddings through the proximity of word groupings. We will release these embeddings publicly to help researchers in the development and enhancement of multilingual applications.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning CoNLL'201

    The Nordic welfare model in a European Perspective

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    Social assistance and minimum income benefits are important indicators for assessing the very basic objective of social policy, namely to mitigate financial hardship and alleviate poverty. The Nordic countries have succeeded well from a comparative point of view in terms of poverty alleviation. However, last-resort safety-nets are changing. Scattered evidence indicate that Nordic social assistance have become less generous. Perhaps are the Nordic countries becoming more similar to the welfare models of Continental Europe or the United Kingdom? This study analyses central dimensions of Nordic social assistance, such as the generosity, scope and effectiveness of benefits. Data for the empirical analyses are from SaMip and LIS. We show that Finland and Sweden, particularly, have suffered from welfare decline, including less generous and effective benefits.Nordic welfare; Europe; Social policy; Poverty alleviation; welfare decline; Sweden; Finland
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