Development of the BIRD: a metadata modelling approach for the purpose of harmonising supervisory reporting at the European Central Bank - Directorate of general statistics: master and metadata

Internship Report presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Statistics and Information Management, specialization in Information Analysis and ManagementThe work presented is a report documenting the work completed during an Internship at the European Central Bank (ECB), located in Frankfurt Germany from the 15th March 2019 – 15th March 2020. The internship took place in the Directorate of General Statistics (DG-S), specifically in the Master and Metadata section of the Analytical Credit and Master data division (MAM). It will be a continuation of the ECB Internal Banks’ Integrated Reporting Dictionary (BIRD) project as well as management of ECB’s centralised metadata repository, known as the Single Data Dictionary (SDD). The purpose of the dictionary and BIRD Project is to provide the banks with a harmonized data model that describes precisely the data that should be extracted from the banks' internal IT systems to derive reports demanded by supervisory authorities, like the ECB. In this report, I will provide a basis for understanding the work undertaken in the team, focussing of the technical aspect of relational database modelling and metadata repositories and their role in big data analytical processing systems, current reporting requirements and methods used by the central banking institutions, which coincide with the processes set out by the European Banking Authority (EBA). This report will also provide an in-depth look into the structure of the database, as well as the principles followed to create the data model. It will also document the process of how the SDD is maintained and updated to meet changing needs. The report also includes the process undertaken by the BIRD team and supporting members on the banking community to introduce new reporting frameworks into the data model. During this period, the framework for the Financial Reporting (FinRep) standards was included, through a collaborative effort between banking representatives and the master and metadata team

Polyenamines from aromatic diacetylenic diketones and diamines

The synthesis and characterization of several polyenamine ketones are discussed wherein conjugated diacetylenic diketones and aromatic diamines are used as a route to the formation of high molecular weight polyenamine ketones which exhibit good mechanical properties and can be cast into creasible films. Typical polymerization conditions involved the reaction of stoichiometric amounts of 1,4- or 1,3-PPPO and a diamine at 60 to 130 C in m-cresol at (w/w) solids content of 8 to 26% for a specified period of time under a nitrogen atmosphere. Novel polyenamine ketones were prepared with inherent viscosities as high as 1.99 dl/g and tough, clear amber films with tensile strengths of 12,400 psi and tensile moduli of 397,000 psi were cast from solutions of the polymers in chloroform. In most cases, the elemental analyses for the polyenamine ketones agree within + or - 0.3% of the theoretical values

MEDIUM-TERM ANALYSIS OF FISCAL POLICY IN IRELAND: A MACROECONOMETRIC STUDY OF THE PERIOD 1967-1980. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 122, July 1985

The decade of the 1970s was characterised by fluctuations in the world economy of a kind whicb had not been experienced in peacetime since the 1930s. Even with the wisest and most prudent fiscal and monetary policies it would have been impossible to protect the Irish economy fully from the world-wide recession. Our objective in this paper is to investigate what effect fiscal policies had on tile evolution of the Irish economy over the period 1967 to 1980 and, with the benefit of hindsight, to attempt to formulate a judgement as to the manner in which fiscal policy was planned and executed. The "hindsight" from which we benefit has two major components: first our access to data which are at once more detailed and accurate than those available to successive Ministers of Finance at the time when they planned their budget strategies and second our use of a formal model of how the various sectors and agents in the economy interact with each other and evolve over time. While the first component (more accurate data) is an unqualified benefit, the second component (the model) is much more controversial since there is no absolute consensus in the economics profession on broad areas of macroeconomic theory and modelling practice. We are fully conscious of this problem and hope that the reader will not interpret our formal and detailed quantitative analysis as implying either ignorance or arrogance on our part in respect of the current very active international research into the foundations of macroeconomic theory and practice. It remains, of course, for the reader to decide whether our judgement, in relation to the gross simplifications needed in order to construct an operation’,d model of the economy, has been good or bad

The Role of Teacher Education in Decolonizing Education in Canada's North : A Yukon Teacher Education Case Study

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Linking Health and Economic Prosperity: A Study of U.S. Metro Areas

Research shows that economic vitality improves health. But does good health improve economic vitality? That's what Wilder Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis set out to learn in a national study for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AcademyHealth. We examined the relationship between population health and economic activity in U.S. metropolitan areas through an analysis of data spanning 15 years. The results suggest that population health really does contribute meaningfully to a community's economic strength, and that good community health helps protects against economic shocks, like the Great Recession

A session-based architecture for Internet mobility

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189).The proliferation of mobile computing devices and wireless networking products over the past decade has led to an increasingly nomadic computing lifestyle. A computer is no longer an immobile, gargantuan machine that remains in one place for the lifetime of its operation. Today's personal computing devices are portable, and Internet access is becoming ubiquitous. A well-traveled laptop user might use half a dozen different networks throughout the course of a day: a cable modem from home, wide-area wireless on the commute, wired Ethernet at the office, a Bluetooth network in the car, and a wireless, local-area network at the airport or the neighborhood coffee shop. Mobile hosts are prone to frequent, unexpected disconnections that vary greatly in duration. Despite the prevalence of these multi-homed mobile devices, today's operating systems on both mobile hosts and fixed Internet servers lack fine-grained support for network applications on intermittently connected hosts. We argue that network communication is well-modeled by a session abstraction, and present Migrate, an architecture based on system support for a flexible session primitive. Migrate works with application-selected naming services to enable seamless, mobile "suspend/resume" operation of legacy applications and provide enhanced functionality for mobile-aware, session-based network applications, enabling adaptive operation of mobile clients and allowing Internet servers to support large numbers of intermittently connected sessions. We describe our UNIX-based implementation of Migrate and show that sessions are a flexible, robust, and efficient way to manage mobile end points, even for legacy applications.(cont.) In addition, we demonstrate two popular Internet servers that have been extended to leverage our novel notion of session continuations to enable support for large numbers of suspended clients with only minimal resource impact. Experimental results show that Migrate introduces only minor throughput degradation (less than 2% for moderate block sizes) when used over popular access link technologies, gracefully detects and suspends disconnected sessions, rapidly resumes from suspension, and integrates well with existing applications.by Mark Alexander Connell Snoeren.Ph.D

Iterative reconstruction can permit the use of lower x-ray tube current in CT coronary artery calcium scoring

OBJECTIVE: CT coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS) is additive to traditional risk factors for predicting future cardiac events but is associated with relatively high radiation doses. We assessed the feasibility of CACS radiation dose reduction using a lower tube current and iterative reconstruction (IR). METHODS: Artificial noise was added to the raw data from 27 CACS studies from patients who were symptomatic to simulate lower tube current scanning (75, 50 and 25% original current). All studies were performed on the same CT scanner at 120 kVp. Data were reconstructed using filtered back projection [Quantum Denoising Software (QDS+)] and IR [adaptive iterative dose reduction three dimensional mild, standard and strong]. Agatston scores were independently measured by two readers. CACS percentile risk scores were calculated. RESULTS: At 75, 50 and 25% tube currents, all adaptive iterative dose reduction (AIDR) reconstructions decreased image noise relative to QDS+ (p < 0.05). All AIDR reconstructions resulted in small reductions in Agatston score relative to QDS+ at the standard tube current (p < 0.05). Agatston scores increased with QDS+ at 75, 50 and 25% tube current (p < 0.05), whereas no significant change was observed with AIDR mild at any tested tube current. No difference in the percentile risk score with AIDR mild at any tube current occurred compared with QDS+ at standard tube current (p > 0.05). Interobserver agreement for AIDR mild remained excellent even at 25% tube current (intraclass correlation coefficient 0.997). CONCLUSION: Up to 75% reduction in CACS tube current is feasible using AIDR mild. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE: AIDR mild IR permits low tube current CACS whilst maintaining excellent intraobserver and interobserver variability and without altering risk classification

The Ursinus Weekly, October 28, 1971

Opera stage director to speak at Ursinus • Homecoming Day presents something for everyone • U.C. ProTheatre presents Ionesco\u27s The Lesson • Sorority pledging in full swing • Y Coffeehouse features Doo daa in basement • Editorial: Talking to teachers; On required forums • Focus: Sue Jensen • Letters to the editor • Spotlight: Chaplain M. Detterline • Critic\u27s choice: Movie, TV, and Halloween • Object d\u27art appears; Graces Library steps • Miss Snell throws a change-up • U.C. Bears triumph; Take two in row • Bears receive honorable mention in ECAC • Soccer team drops two; Bears have rough weekhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1110/thumbnail.jp