E/V Nautilus EM302 Multibeam Echosounder System Review

Introduction The E/V Nautilus undertook leg NA040 to perform a review of the vessel’s Kongsberg EM302 multibeam echosounder in the vicinity of the continental shelf break offshore of St. Petersburg, Florida, from May 4-9, 2014 (Fig. 1). Paul Johnson and Kevin Jerram provided logistical and technical support for data collection and analysis. This report: • Describes the data collected. • Provides an overview of the processing methods used on the data • Presents the EM302 system performance for accuracy and coverage over the expected operational depth range. • Documents changes made to the system configuration prior to the 2014 field season. • Plots the EM302 transducer impedance data to document transducer health

Household Credit and Probability Forecasts of Financial Distress in the United Kingdom

The growth of unsecured household credit relative to income has been marked in recent years and many observers have questioned whether it is sustainable. This paper develops a theory-based empirical model of equilibrium household consumption and credit. The equilibrium relationships are embedded within a vector-autoregressive model that can accommodate complex dynamics with a coherent long-run structure. We define the events associated with financial distress and describe probability forecasting methods that can be applied to the model to predict the likely occurence of distress events. The analysis is illustrated using unsecured credit market data for the UK.Financial Distress, Probability Forecasts, Household Spending and Credit.

Cyclic Cosmology from the Little Rip

We revisit a cyclic cosmology scenario proposed in 2007 to examine whether its hypotheses can be sustained if the underlying big rip evolution, which was assumed there, is replaced by the recently proposed little rip. We show that the separation into causal patches at turnaround is generally valid for a little rip, and therefore conclude that the little rip is equally as suitable a basis for cyclicity as is the big rip.Comment: 5 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/061021

Monastic hospitality : explorations

In a theoretical model, religious retreats are placed by Lynch (2005a) within the category of traditional commercial homes, noting that the essence of a commercial home is the use of the home as a vehicle for generating income. Lynch (2005b:539) describes the 'commercial home host' as "the principal contact whom the guest encounters when staying in the commercial home," and further states that "the host is central to the product experience in commercial homes. Successful stays from a guest perspective are dependent upon the quality of host-guest interactions" (Lynch 2005c:541). This chapter explores the provision of hospitality within Benedictine Monastries in order to contribute to insights on the commercial home, and starts by locating them within the context of literature on religious tourism and the umbrella term 'religious retreat house'

TESTING MARKET EQUILIBRIUM: IS COINTEGRATION INFORMATIVE?

Cointegration methods are increasingly used to test for market efficiency and integration. The economic rationale for these tests, however, is generally unclear. Using a simple spatial equilibrium model to simulate equilibrium price behavior, it is shown that prices in a well-integrated, efficient market need not be cointegrated. Furthermore, the number of cointegrating relationships among prices is not a good indicator of the degree to which a market is integrated.Demand and Price Analysis,