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Forecasting in dynamic factor models subject to structural instability
(Oxford University Press, 2009)This chapter assesses forecasts constructed using dynamic factor models for their reliability in the face of structural breaks. Dynamic factor models have had notable empirical forecasting successes, but there has been ... -
Forecasting the Effects of Obesity and Smoking on U.S. Life Expectancy
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)Background: While increases in obesity over the past 30 years have adversely affected population health, there have been concomitant improvements due to reductions in smoking. Better understanding of the joint effects of ... -
Foregrounds in Wide-field Redshifted 21 Cm Power Spectra
(American Astronomical Society, 2015)Detection of 21 cm emission of H I from the epoch of reionization, at redshifts z > 6, is limited primarily by foreground emission. We investigate the signatures of wide-field measurements and an all-sky foreground model ... -
Foreign Currency for Long-Term Investors
(Blackwell Publishing, 2003)Conventional wisdom holds that conservative investors should avoid exposure to foreign currency risk. Even if they hold foreign equities, they should hedge the currency exposure of these positions and hold only domestic ... -
Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)The apparent inevitability of Tokugawa Japan’s opening to the West in 1854 has naturalized the story of how a series of overtures from the late eighteenth century onward culminated in Commodore Matthew Perry’s successful ... -
Foreign Influence and Welfare
(National Bureau of Economic Research Inc., 2009)How do foreign interests influence the policy determination process? What are the welfare implications of such foreign influence? In this paper we develop a model of foreign influence and apply it to the study of optimal ... -
Foreign language originals and full quotations cited in Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age.
(2010)Footnote numbers and bibliographical references are keyed to the book Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. Spelling, punctuation and italics are original. In case of discrepancy, the ... -
Foreign Trade and Investment: Firm-level Perspectives
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)This Economica Coase Lecture reviews research that has revolutionized the field of international trade and foreign direct investment. It explains the motivation behind the development of new analytical frameworks, the ... -
Forelimb-Hindlimb Developmental Timing Changes across Tetrapod Phylogeny
(BioMed Central, 2007)Background: Tetrapods exhibit great diversity in limb structures among species and also between forelimbs and hindlimbs within species, diversity which frequently correlates with locomotor modes and life history. We aim ... -
Foreseeing the Endgame: Who Are the Students Who Take the Final Exam at the Beginning of a MOOC?
(Informa UK Limited, 2020-01-06)Massive open online courses (MOOCs) show highly irregular participation behaviour among users. In this study, using data from Computer Science 50x of HarvardX, we investigated one extreme, yet common strategy to foresee ... -
Forest ecosystem changes from annual methane source to sink depending on late summer water balance
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)Forests dominate the global carbon cycle, but their role in methane (CH4) biogeochemistry remains uncertain. We analyzed whole-ecosystem CH4 fluxes from 2 years, obtained over a lowland evergreen forest in Maine, USA. Gross ... -
Forest Response to Catastrophic Wind: Results from an Experimental Hurricane
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1999)Infrequent, intense wind disturbance is an important factor in northeastern U.S. forests, yet little is known about the early stages of vegetation reorganization, or the processes that facilitate biotic regulation of ... -
Forest Response to Chronic Hurricane Disturbance in Coastal New England
(Opulus Press, 2009)Question: Hurricanes and cyclones cause a wide range of damage to coastal forests worldwide. Most of these storms are not catastrophic in ecological terms, but forest responses to storms of moderate intensities are poorly ... -
Foreward
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Forget Me Not: Theatrical Photographs From the Nineteenth Century in the Harvard Theatre Collection
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Forgetting to Remember: An Approach to Proust's Recherche
(2020-11-19)Since Walter Benjamin’s observation that “remembrance is the woof, and forgetting the warp” in À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, critics have observed the importance of oubli, as a “réserve” of memories, for the return of ... -
Forging Steel: Schools, Success, and the Making of Persons in a Chinese County Seat
(2014-02-25)This dissertation addresses the question of how teenagers are educated for success in Chinese schools. Drawing upon 16 months of fieldwork in a county-level town located in northwest China (Shaanxi Province), this study ... -
Forgiver Triumphs in Alternating Prisoner's Dilemma
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Cooperative behavior, where one individual incurs a cost to help another, is a wide spread phenomenon. Here we study direct reciprocity in the context of the alternating Prisoner's Dilemma. We consider all strategies that ... -
Form and function of the human and chimpanzee forefoot: implications for early hominin bipedalism
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)During bipedal walking, modern humans dorsiflex their forefoot at the metatarsophalangeal joints (MTPJs) prior to push off, which tightens the plantar soft tissues to convert the foot into a stiff propulsive lever. Particular ...