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Article about synthesis of theory the self-organizing and the institutional economic theory. The author proves the thesis about exogenous an origin of institutional processes in economy and cyclic institutional development.

Окреслено можливості теоріїї конституційних циклів при аналізу кризи в рамках політичної системи та її циклічного рзвитку. Доведено, що теоріяч конституційних циклів може бути використана як інструментальна в аналізі політичної кризи ; Определены возможности теориии конституционных циклов при анализа кризиса в рамках политической системы и ее циклического рзвитку. Доказано, что теорияч конституционных циклов может быть использована как инструментальная в анализе политического кризиса ; The purpose of this article is delineating opportunities of the theory of the constitutional cycles at the analysis of crisis within the framework of political system and its cyclic development. In article it os shown that the theory of the constitutional cycles can be used as tool in the analysis of political crisis

The article investigates the conceptual provisions of the theory of industrial crises of M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky, which marked the shift of emphasis from the analysis of exogenous factors to the in-depth study of on-farm phenomena of economic instability. Mechanisms and levels of pricing are revealed. The role of monetary instruments of market regulation and the influence of state monetary policy at the moment of transition from the "fake" recovery to the crisis are revealed. The "monetary version" of the phenomenon of the "price revolution" by M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky as a function of the transformation of the economic system is shown. The article traces the development of the views of Russian economists (at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries) on the problems of crises. The "conjunctural" theory of money of M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky is considered in the article as a logical conclusion of his theory of cyclic development of economy. The author concludes that the theory of industrial crises and the conjunctural theory of money of M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky characterize the national economy as a multi-level integrated economic system that combines micro-and macroeconomic processes.

Front Cover; Forecasting Economic Time Series; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF TIME SERIES; 1.1 Introducing Time Series; 1.2 Covariances and Stationarity; 1.3 Some Mathematical Tools; 1.4 The Linear Cyclic Model; 1.5 The Autoregressive Model; 1.6 The Moving Average Model; 1.7 The Mixed Autoregressive-Moving Average Model; 1.8 Interpreting the Mixed Model; 1.9 Filters; 1.10 Deterministic Components; 1.11 Wold's Decomposition; 1.12 Nonstationary Processes

Explanations of why migrants return to their countries of origin tend to focus on factors at micro and macro levels: from seeing it as individual choice (e. g. neoclassical economics) or household strategy (e. g. neweconomics of labor migration), to seeing it as determined by structural conditions of receiving or sending countries (e. g. economic cycles, wage differentials, etc.). Yet we know very little about how states of origin combine their policies towards emigrants to establish economic links with them, from remittances to return. With an original dataset for Latin American and Caribbean countries, we can provide an initial descriptive panorama that highlights the choices that countries make in this regard. We compare the return policies to other economic policies geared to emigrants. This helps us in detecting return policies, which is often a neglected dimension in comparative diaspora policy studies, as one among several that states oforigin develop to achieve their economic strategies. Also, this first attempt at descriptive analysis provides further paths to explore the causal links behind diaspora policy development in the realm of economic policy. ; Las explicaciones sobre por qué los migrantes retornan a sus países de origen tienden a centrarse en factores de nivel micro o macro: desde considerar la decisión como una elección individual (la perspectiva de la economía neoclásica) ó como una estrategia familiar (el punto de vista de la nueva economía de la migración laboral) hasta asumir que está determinada por condiciones estructurales de los países receptores o de origen (es decir, por los ciclos económicos, las diferencias salariales, etc.). Muy poco sabemos, sin embargo, sobre cómo los Estados de origen combinan distintas opciones de políticas hacia los emigrantes para establecer vínculos económicos con ellos, desde las remesas hasta el retorno. Empleando un conjunto de datos originales, correspondientes a países de América Latina y el Caribe, brindamos un panorama descriptivo inicial que ...

9 ; S ; [EN] Copper is an essential element in plants. When scarce, copper is acquired from extracellular environment or remobilized from intracellular sites, through members of the high affinity copper transporters family COPT located at the plasma membrane and internal membrane, respectively. Here, we show that COPT3 is an intracellular copper transporter, located at a compartment of the secretory pathway, that is mainly expressed in pollen grains and vascular bundles. Contrary to the COPT1 plasma membrane member, the expression of the internal COPT3 membrane transporter was higher at 12 h than at 0 h of a neutral photoperiod day under copper deficiency. The screening of a library of conditionally overexpressed transcription factors implicated members of the TCP family in the COPT3 differential temporal expression pattern. Particularly, in vitro, TCP16 was found to bind to the COPT3 promoter and down-regulated its expression. Accordingly, TCP16 was mainly expressed at 0 h under copper deficiency and induced at 12 h by copper excess. Moreover, TCP16 overexpression resulted in increased sensitivity to copper deficiency, whereas the tcp16 mutant was sensitive to copper excess. Both copper content and the expression of particular copper status markers were altered in plants with modified levels of TCP16. Consistent with TCP16 affecting pollen development, the lack of COPT3 function led to altered pollen morphology. Furthermore, analysis of copt3 and COPT3 overexpressing plants revealed that COPT3 function exerted a negative effect on TCP16 expression. Taken together, these results suggest a differential daily regulation of copper uptake depending on the external and internal copper pools, in which TCP16 inhibits copper remobilization at dawn through repression of intracellular transporters. This work has been supported by grants BIO2017-87828-C2-1-P (LP) and the TRANSPLANTA Consortium (CSD2007-00057) from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and by FEDER funds from the European Union. NA-C and AC-S ...

Abstract: Economic theory suggests that dollarization increases the degree of interdependence between the dollarized economy and the anchor country. We test this theory for the case of the U.S. and Ecuador. We perform cointegration and common cycles tests for data at the aggregate and industry levels. The results show that the economies of the U.S. and Ecuador were interrelated prior to dollarization. The interrelation increased after Ecuador adopted the U.S. dollar. This finding holds true for various Ecuadorian industries. Synchronization for the case of the financial industry is particularly revealing, as it shows how dollarization leads to the integration of financial markets.

AbstractWorking with SEM and cross-sectional data, and depending on the studied phenomenon, assuming an acyclic model may mean that we obtain only a partial view of the mechanisms that explain causal relationships between a set of theoretical constructs, given that variables are treated as antecedents and consequences. Our two-step approach allows researchers to identify and measure cyclic effects when working with cross-sectional data and a PLS modelling algorithm. Using the resources and appropriation theory and the sequential model of internet appropriation, we demonstrate the importance of considering cyclic effects. Our results show that opportunities for physical access followed by digital skills acquisition enhance internet usage (acyclic effects), but also that internet usage intensity, in reverse, reinforces both digital skills and physical access (cyclic effects), supporting Norris (Digital divide: civic engagement, information poverty, and the internet worldwide. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001) social stratification hypothesis regarding future evolution of the digital divide.

We present a short overview of noncommutative geometry. Starting with C* algebras and noncommutative differential forms we pass to K-theory, K-homology and cyclic (co)homology, and we finish with the notion of spectral triples and the spectral action.

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This article examines the cinema of Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris in the light of Julia Kristeva's concept of 'Women's Time' and of more recent attempts to conceptualise a temporality that is lived 'in the feminine' but is not, as Kristeva's is, either outside historical time – as cyclic and/or monumental – or aligned to the repetitive drudgery of domestic labour. Drawing on Lisa Baraitser's concept of 'unbecoming time', a time that 'will not unfold' but is lived as endurance, as 'staying beside others', and as care, it argues that Gorris's films seek to depict such a temporality. The article first explores the shifting engagements of feminist theory with concepts of time and the relationship of these to ideas of subjectivity and narrative, in particular cinematic narrative. It then examines the cinema of Marleen Gorris in the light of these concepts, focusing on three of her films that span a twenty-five-year period: her second film, Broken Mirrors (1984) ; Antonia's Line (1995) , her fourth film and winner of the 1996 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film; and her most recent and possibly last film, Within the Whirlwind (2009). It gives most attention to Within the Whirlwind. In many ways, Gorris's most ambitious film, it is also her least discussed, and of her films, the one that focuses most directly on historical time.

Since digital communication signals are widely used in radio and underwater acoustic systems, the modulation classification of these signals has become increasingly significant in various military and civilian applications. However, due to the adverse channel transmission characteristics and low signal to noise ratio (SNR), the modulation classification of communication signals is extremely challenging. In this paper, a novel method for automatic modulation classification of digital communication signals using a support vector machine (SVM) based on hybrid features, cyclostationary, and information entropy is proposed. In this proposed method, by combining the theory of the cyclostationary and entropy, based on the existing signal features, we propose three other new features to assist the classification of digital communication signals, which are the maximum value of the normalized cyclic spectrum when the cyclic frequency is not zero, the Shannon entropy of the cyclic spectrum, and Renyi entropy of the cyclic spectrum respectively. Because these new features do not require any prior information and have a strong anti-noise ability, they are very suitable for the identification of communication signals. Finally, a one against one SVM is designed as a classifier. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in terms of classification performance and noise tolerance.

Since digital communication signals are widely used in radio and underwater acoustic systems, the modulation classification of these signals has become increasingly significant in various military and civilian applications. However, due to the adverse channel transmission characteristics and low signal to noise ratio (SNR), the modulation classification of communication signals is extremely challenging. In this paper, a novel method for automatic modulation classification of digital communication signals using a support vector machine (SVM) based on hybrid features, cyclostationary, and information entropy is proposed. In this proposed method, by combining the theory of the cyclostationary and entropy, based on the existing signal features, we propose three other new features to assist the classification of digital communication signals, which are the maximum value of the normalized cyclic spectrum when the cyclic frequency is not zero, the Shannon entropy of the cyclic spectrum, and Renyi entropy of the cyclic spectrum respectively. Because these new features do not require any prior information and have a strong anti-noise ability, they are very suitable for the identification of communication signals. Finally, a one against one SVM is designed as a classifier. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in terms of classification performance and noise tolerance.

In this article, methods of formation maintenance for a group of autonomous agents under ageneral topology scheme are discussed. Unlike rendezvous or geometric formation, general topology pursuit allows the group of agents to autonomously form trochoid patterns, which are useful in civilian and military applications. However, this type of topology is established by designing a marginally stable system that may be sensitive to parameter variations. To account for this drawback of stability, linear fixed-gains are turned into a dynamical version in this paper. By implementing a disturbance observer controller, systems are shown to maintain their formation despite the disturbances or uncertainties. Comparison in the effectiveness of the presented method with model reference adaptive control and integral sliding mode control under the uncertainties of the gains is also conducted. The capabilities of controllers are demonstrated and supported through simulations.