Sterilized intervention, nonsterilized intervention, and monetary policy

Sterilized intervention is generally ineffective. Countries that conduct monetary policy using an overnight, interbank rate as an intermediate target automatically sterilize their interventions. Nonsterilized interventions can influence nominal exchange rates, but they conflict with price stability unless the underlying shocks prompting them are domestic in origin and monetary in nature. Nonsterilized interventions, however, are unnecessary since standard open-market operations can achieve the same result.Foreign exchange ; Foreign exchange rates ; Monetary policy

Comment: Corporate Governance: Directors vs. Shareholders

TesisTrujilloEscuela de PosgradoGestión y Calidad EducativaEl presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo determinar el efecto de la estrategia IDEAR en la resolución de problemas de regularidad, equivalencia y cambio en los niños del V ciclo de la Institución Educativas N°64137, del Centro Poblado Santa Rosa de Masisea, distrito de Masisea, Departamento Ucayali, 2018 La investigación es de tipo explicativo el diseño es pre experimental con preprueba/ posprueba con un solo grupo, en una muestra de 19 estudiantes a la que se le aplicó la estrategia IDEAR. Para recoger los datos se utilizó una lista de cotejo. Los datos fueron procesados a través del programa SPSS V.24. Los resultados generales, el 100% de los niños se encontraban en el nivel preinicio, luego de la intervención solo el 36,8%, estaban en este nivel, el 26,3% subió al nivel inicio, el 21,1% califico en el nivel en proceso y el 15,8% calificó en el nivel previo, y el estadístico de prueba de rangos de signo de Wilcoxon arrojó un p-valor de 0,002 menor que el nivel de significancia; demostrando que la estrategia IDEAR, afecta significativamente en la resolución de problemas de regularidad, equivalencia y cambio

Book review: Embodying Brazil: an ethnography of diasporic capoeira

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Cross-Cultural Analysis of Stratification with Societal Taxonomies

Explanations about the common causes of stratification among societies often rely upon some form of classification of the societies being studied. Two prominent theories for classifying human societies used in social research are embodied by the works of Gerhard Lenski and Elman Service. Both explanations of differences and similarities between characteristics of societies are centered upon the organizing principles used to order societies. The organizing principle of Gerhard Lenski's ecological-evolutionary taxonomy of human societies is based upon the subsistence technology of a society and the nature of its physical environment. In contrast Elman Service's taxonomy of human societies is based upon a society’s social organization, including its population size and territorial scope. This paper evaluates the explanatory power of these two classificatory schemas in relation to dimensions of stratification systems of human societies using cross-cultural data from the Standard Cross Cultural Sample

Distinguishing Between Perceiver and Wearer Effects in Clothing Color-Associated Attributions

Recent studies have noted positive effects of red clothing on success in competitive sports, perhaps arising from an evolutionary predisposition to associate the color red with dominance status. Red may also enhance judgments of women's attractiveness by men, perhaps through a similar association with fertility. Here we extend these studies by investigating attractiveness judgments of both sexes and by contrasting attributions based on six different colors. Furthermore, by photographing targets repeatedly in different colors, we could investigate whether color effects are due to influences on raters or clothing wearers, by either withholding from raters information about clothing color or holding it constant via digital manipulation, while retaining color-associated variation in wearer's expression and posture. When color cues were available, we found color-attractiveness associations when males were judged by either sex, or when males judged females, but not when females judged female images. Both red and black were associated with higher attractiveness judgments and had approximately equivalent effects. Importantly, we also detected significant clothing color-attractiveness associations even when clothing color was obscured from raters and when color was held constant by digital manipulation. These results suggest that clothing color has a psychological influence on wearers at least as much as on raters, and that this ultimately influences attractiveness judgments by others. Our results lend support for the idea that evolutionarily-derived color associations can bias interpersonal judgments, although these are limited neither to effects on raters nor to the color red

Ouachita Brass Ensemble and Ouachita Wind Ensemble in a Fall Concert

This is the program for the Ouachita Brass Ensemble\u27s and Ouachita Wind Ensemble\u27s fall concert held on November 25, 1996, in Verser Theatre. Dr. Ed Owen conducted the brass ensemble; Dr. Craig V. Hamilton conducted the wind ensemble

International origins of walking school buses and child fatalities in Japan and Canada

The concept of a Walking School Bus (WSB) has existed in Japan for over half a century, but is a relatively new concept in Anglo-Saxon countries, tracing its origins to the early 1990s. In Anglo-Saxon countries the WSB is seen as a safe means of addressing the negative impacts of increased school trips by car. Recently in Japan, a discussion as to the value and appropriateness of the shuudantogeko (the Japanese WSB) has emerged as some suggest that it could reduce safety. This paper introduces and compares the two WSB systems, and then uses traffic fatality data from Canada and Japan to compare travel-to-school in an open choice system with a country where WSB is common practice