Purchasing Power Parity in the 34 OECD Countries: Evidence from Quantile-Based Unit Root Tests with both Smooth and Sharp Breaks

Conventional unit root tests have mostly failed to validate the PPP. Quantile-based unit root test by previous research have provided some support for the PPP. In this paper we take an additional step and incorporate sharp shifts and smooth breaks into the quantile-based unit root test and re-examine the PPP in each of the 34 OECD countries over the period 1994M01 to 2016M03. We find support for the PPP in 18 countries of Austria, Chile, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom

Are house prices in South Africa really nonstationary? Evidence from SPSM-based panel KSS test with a Fourier function

This study applies the sequential panel selection method (SPSM) to investigate the time-series properties of provincial house prices for entire, large, medium and small middle-segments of South Africa. Quarterly time-series data were collected from nine provinces in South Africa for different house-size categories over the period of 1978.Q1 to 2012.Q4. Whereas other panel-based unit-root tests are joint tests of a unit root for all members of a panel and are incapable of determining the mix of integrated of order zero (I(0)) series and integrated of order one (I(1)) series in a panel setting, the SPSM proposed by Chortareas and Kapetanios (2009) can clearly identify how many and which series in the panel are stationary processes by classifying a whole panel into a group of stationary and nonstationary series. The empirical results from several panel-based, as well as standard pure time-series, unit-root tests, indicate that house prices for the nine provinces studied here are either stationary or nonstationary. However, results from the SPSM using the panel version of the Kapetanios et al. (KSS, 2003) test with a Fourier function unequivocally indicate that house prices are stationary for the nine provinces under study. Our test resultshttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raec202016-06-30hb201

On the Efficiency of Integrating Self-supervised Learning and Meta-learning for User-defined Few-shot Keyword Spotting

User-defined keyword spotting is a task to detect new spoken terms defined by users. This can be viewed as a few-shot learning problem since it is unreasonable for users to define their desired keywords by providing many examples. To solve this problem, previous works try to incorporate self-supervised learning models or apply meta-learning algorithms. But it is unclear whether self-supervised learning and meta-learning are complementary and which combination of the two types of approaches is most effective for few-shot keyword discovery. In this work, we systematically study these questions by utilizing various self-supervised learning models and combining them with a wide variety of meta-learning algorithms. Our result shows that HuBERT combined with Matching network achieves the best result and is robust to the changes of few-shot examples.Comment: Submitted to Interspeech 202

Вихретоковый анизотропный термоэлектрический первичный преобразователь лучистого потока

Представлена оригинальная конструкция первичного преобразователя лучистого потока, который может служить основой для создания приемника неселективного излучения с повышенной чувствительностью

Women with endometriosis have higher comorbidities: Analysis of domestic data in Taiwan

AbstractEndometriosis, defined by the presence of viable extrauterine endometrial glands and stroma, can grow or bleed cyclically, and possesses characteristics including a destructive, invasive, and metastatic nature. Since endometriosis may result in pelvic inflammation, adhesion, chronic pain, and infertility, and can progress to biologically malignant tumors, it is a long-term major health issue in women of reproductive age. In this review, we analyze the Taiwan domestic research addressing associations between endometriosis and other diseases. Concerning malignant tumors, we identified four studies on the links between endometriosis and ovarian cancer, one on breast cancer, two on endometrial cancer, one on colorectal cancer, and one on other malignancies, as well as one on associations between endometriosis and irritable bowel syndrome, one on links with migraine headache, three on links with pelvic inflammatory diseases, four on links with infertility, four on links with obesity, four on links with chronic liver disease, four on links with rheumatoid arthritis, four on links with chronic renal disease, five on links with diabetes mellitus, and five on links with cardiovascular diseases (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc.). The data available to date support that women with endometriosis might be at risk of some chronic illnesses and certain malignancies, although we consider the evidence for some comorbidities to be of low quality, for example, the association between colon cancer and adenomyosis/endometriosis. We still believe that the risk of comorbidity might be higher in women with endometriosis than that we supposed before. More research is needed to determine whether women with endometriosis are really at risk of these comorbidities

Acoustoelastic Responses of an Elastoplastically Deformed Body

The acoustoelastic response of an elastically deformed body can be characterized successfully by the theory of acoustoelasticity [1]. In the case of a body with plastic deformation, however, many investigators [2–5] have shown that the hyperelastic theory of acoustoelasticity is inadequate, and several modified theories of acoustoelasticity [6–10] were then proposed to incorporate the plastic strain effect.</p

A Study of Computer Registering for Land Revision Field Work with Digitialized Graphic Maps

摘要 傳統土地複丈外業是以圖解套圖作業方式完成的，也就是應用平板儀測量現況點於土地複丈圖上，並將之謄繪於透明紙上據以套圖。因此具有法律效力之地籍圖，有時會因地籍圖的伸縮、折縐破損而產生圖、地不符現象，使得一般情況下之複丈成果出現較差精度之成果。 基於此項作業缺失，本研究開出發一套土地複丈外業電腦套圖的程式，並分別針對地籍圖的伸縮、折縐破損狀況，選定甲、乙及丙三個實驗區，以分別代表整幅圖之伸縮、折縐破損及都會地區各街廓間地籍圖之伸縮不一致等三種類型，進而依據TWD97坐標系統控制點測量現況，應用數化成果暨採用電腦套圖軟體辦理土地複丈外業之套圖。藉由本研究研發之電腦圖形介面，除可立即目睹現況點與地籍圖間之相對關係及幾何運算外，同時亦兼具圖解法與數值法複丈之優點，以使土地複丈外業測量技術向前邁進，同時兼顧精度與速度，提昇政府為民服務的效力。Abstract The land revision fieldworks have been completely by using tracing method traditionally. The tracing paper method for land revision usually uses alidade to measure ground points of real situation on the tracing paper. The real situation points registers to the cadastral map, but the location in the shrink and fracture part of the paper make precision getting worse. The cadastral map is authorized by government. In order to make the real situation to fit the cadastral map is the main topic of this study which is to develop a computer program solving the problem of real situation registering to the cadastral map. The method proposed by the author is named as “Computer Registering”.目 錄 誌謝-----------------------------------------------------Ⅰ 中文摘要-------------------------------------------------Ⅱ 英文摘要-------------------------------------------------Ⅲ 目錄-----------------------------------------------------Ⅳ 表目錄---------------------------------------------------Ⅷ 圖目錄---------------------------------------------------Ⅹ 第一章 緒論--------------------------------------------------1 1-1前言-----------------------------------------------1 1-2文獻回顧-------------------------------------------3 1-3研究動機-------------------------------------------4 1-4研究方法與步驟-------------------------------------5 1-4-1研究方法---------------------------------------5 1-4-2研究步驟---------------------------------------8 第二章 圖解土地複丈之套圖作為---------------------------10 2-1圖解法土地複丈之人工套圖---------------------------11 2-1-1圖解法土地複丈資料來源-------------------------11 2-1-2土地複丈圖之調製與人工套圖---------------------11 2-2圖解數化土地複丈之電腦套圖-------------------------16 2-2-1圖解地籍圖數值化之作業-------------------------16 2-2-2圖解地籍圖數值化之之管理應用-------------------20 2-2-3電腦套圖作業-----------------------------------21 2-2-4電腦套圖之優點---------------------------------22 2-2-5電腦套圖所需要的檔案資料-----------------------24 第三章 電腦套圖相關之理論基礎---------------------------26 3-1圖層套疊-------------------------------------------26 3-1-1圖層-------------------------------------------26 3-1-2圖層糾正---------------------------------------26 3-1-3圖層疊合---------------------------------------27 3-2理論基礎模式---------------------------------------28 3-3坐標轉換-------------------------------------------29 3-4限制條件及附加參數---------------------------------30 3-5精度估計及檢核-------------------------------------38 3-5-1廣義最小二乘平差法精度估計及檢核---------------38 3-5-2廣義最小二乘平差法加限制條件精度估計及檢核-----39 3-5-3廣義最小二乘平差法加限制條件及附加參數精度估計及檢核------------------------------------------39 3-5-4統計測試---------------------------------------41 3-6圖紙伸縮之影響-------------------------------------42 第四章 實驗成果及分析-----------------------------------48 4-1整幅地籍圖之伸縮（甲實驗區）套圖結果及分析-----------49 4-1-1套圖前共同點坐標轉換及統計測試結果-------------49 4-1-2圖紙伸縮---------------------------------------55 4-1-3電腦套圖---------------------------------------58 4-1-4面積較差及分析---------------------------- ----60 4-2折縐破損（乙實驗區）套圖結果及分析-------------------62 4-2-1套圖前共同點坐標轉換及統計測試結果-------------68 4-2-2電腦套圖---------------------------------------69 4-2-3乙實驗區之縱合比較分析-------------------------80 4-3都會地區各街廓間地籍圖之伸縮不一致（丙實驗區）套圖結 果及分析-----------------------------------------83 4-3-1套圖前共同點坐標轉換及統計測試結果-------------84 4-3-2電腦套圖---------------------------------------86 4-3-3乙實驗區之縱合比較分析------------------------102 第五張 結論與建議--------------------------------------106 5-1結論----------------------------------------------106 5-2建議----------------------------------------------109 參考文獻------------------------------------------------11

Purchasing Power Parity in Transition Countries: Panel Stationary Test with Smooth and Sharp Breaks

This study examines whether the long-run purchasing power parity (PPP) holds in transition economies (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Russia) using monthly data over the 1995–2011 period. We apply a recently introduced panel stationary test, which accounts for sharp breaks and smooth shifts. The results indicate that the PPP holds only in two countries (i.e., Lithuania and Poland)

Nexus Between Tourism and House Prices: Quantile-on-Quantile Approaches

This work aims to examine the relationship between tourism activities and house prices (HP) in first-tier cities (i.e., Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou) of China using a quantile-on-quantile approach. This approach provides an ideal framework with which to capture the overall dependence structure between tourism activities and HP. The empirical results show that there is a positive and negative relationship between tourism and HP for the first-tier cities considered, with substantial variations across cities and across quantiles within each city. Important city-specific policy implications may be drawn from these findings