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John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: Legal Remedies Against the Council\u27s Failure to Act
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
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.
While the traditional 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 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 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 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
Reports Of Conferences, Institutes, And Seminars
This quarter\u27s column offers coverage of multiple sessions from the 2016 Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference, held April 3â6, 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
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
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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