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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Using Seasonal Models to Forecast Short-Run Inflation in Mexico. [PDF]

Since the adoption of inflation targeting, the seasonal appears to be the component that explains the major part of inflation's total variation in Mexico.
Carlos Capistrán, Christian Constandse, Manuel Ramos Francia   +2 more
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Forecasting monthly us consumer price indexes through a disaggregated I(2) analysis [PDF]

, 2002
In this paper we carry a disaggregated study of the monthly US Consumer Price Index (CPI). We consider a breakdown of US CPI in four subindexes, corresponding to four groups of markets: energy, food, rest of commodities and rest of services. This is seen
Espasa, Antoni, Poncela, Pilar, Senra, Eva   +2 more
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State‐and‐transition simulation models: How can we use them to assess ecosystem condition and support nature markets

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract The world is experiencing a biodiversity crisis. Steep declines in habitat quality and ecosystem services have resulted in interest in markets to help fund ecological restoration. One way that ecological restoration is assessed is through indicators of ecosystem condition, namely, a measurement of how different a landscape is from its ...
James M. Furlaud, Katrina Szetey, Kristen J. Williams, Louis Provencher, Suzanne M. Prober, Anna E. Richards   +5 more
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Modelling Underlying Energy Demand Trends and Stochastic Seasonality: An Econometric Analysis of Transport Oil Demand in the UK and Japan [PDF]

This paper demonstrates the importance of adequately modelling the Underlying Energy Demand Trend (UEDT) and seasonality when estimating transportation oil demand for the UK and Japan. The structural time series model is therefore employed to allow for a
Lester C Hunt, Yasushi Ninomiya
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Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Diversionary feeding—providing food caches to divert predators away from preying on livestock—is a strategy to reduce depredations by Mexican gray wolves but has not been evaluated for its effectiveness. We used data from the Mexican wolf recovery program from 2014‐2021 to evaluate whether diversionary feeding reduced livestock depredations by wolf ...
Matthew Hyde, John K. Oakleaf, Jim deVos, David L. Bergman, Kevin R. Crooks, Julie K. Young, Reza Goljani Amirkhiz, Jennifer K. Frey, Stewart W. Breck   +8 more
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Signal processing of stochastic forecast: seasonal electric power consumption in the scope of efficiency connected to renewable energy

TESEA, Transactions on Energy Systems and Engineering Applications
The electric power system's seasonality would mitigate the problem of the energy volatility crisis. Seasonal identification is important in energy usage analysis to make a better an organization's energy performance.
getut pramesti, Triyanto, Ario Wiraya, Laila Fitriana, Dhidhi Pambudi   +4 more
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Deterministic or stochastic seasonality in daily electricity prices?

, 2012
The paper presents analysis of the seasonality of Italian daily electricity prices. Since the correct detection of the nature, stochastic or probabilistic, of the seasonality is crucial in ARIMA modeling, a test that allows such detection is presented.
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Using Periodic Matrix Models to Simulate the Effectiveness of Alternative Reintroduction Strategies for Lizards on a Seasonal Tropical Island

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Guam's lizard fauna has been devastated by the invasive brown treesnake, but recent advances in brown treesnake control have opened the possibility of reintroducing native lizards. We simulated different strategies for reintroducing lizards to Guam, comparing the timing and age‐structure of releases.
Jonathan P. Rose, Brian J. Halstead, Melia G. Nafus   +2 more
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Testing for Constant Hedge Ratios in Commodity Markets: A Multivariate Garch Approach [PDF]

The authors develop a new multivariate GARCH parameterization that is suitable for testing the hypothesis that the optimal futures hedge ratio is constant over time, given that the joint distribution of cash and futures prices is characterized by ...
Moschini, GianCarlo, Myers, Robert J.
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