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Relating commodity prices to underlying inflation: the role of expectations [PDF]
Temporary supply factors may boost some commodity prices—a drought in the Midwest can jolt food costs, or a conflict in the Middle East might propel oil higher.
J. Scott Davis
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A codesign multiobjective optimization framework was developed to enhance the morphology and controller of a snake‐like robot driven by artificial muscles. It improved planar locomotion, agility, and power efficiency. The approach optimized link geometry and controller gains, revealing that shorter muscles near joints and longer linkages maximize ...
Ayla Valles, Mahdi Haghshenas‐Jaryani
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Economic Analysis of Urban Rail Transit Train Service Life Extension Based on Whole Life-cycle Cost
Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu[Objective] In evaluating the service life extension of urban rail transit trains, economic calculation serves as a key basis for decision-making and plays a critical role in determining whether to carry out life extension and associated upgrade ...
ZHOU Jiong +5 more
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Inflation expectations, real rates, and risk premia: evidence from inflation swaps [PDF]
This paper develops a model of the term structures of nominal and real interest rates driven by state variables representing the short-term real interest rate, expected inflation, inflation’s central tendency, and four volatility factors that follow ...
George Pennacchi +2 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Monetary Policy Objectives in Pakistan : An Empirical Investigation [PDF]
The Taylor rule (1993) focuses only on two objectives : output and inflation. In practice, the central banks loss function (especially in developing countries) contains objectives other than these two, like the interest rate smoothing, exchange rate ...
Wasim Shahid Malik
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Recent Developments in the Monetary Aggregates and Their Implications [PDF]
Narrow Money-Transactions Money The growth rate of the narrow monetary aggregates picked up in 1999, reflecting the expansion in economic activity and the stabilization of interest rates.
Joseph Atta-Mensah
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Reduced form models of bond portfolios [PDF]
, 2010 We derive simple return models for several classes of bond portfolios. With only one or two risk factors our models are able to explain most of the return variations in portfolios of fixed rate government bonds, inflation linked government bonds and ...
Koivu, Matti, Pennanen, Teemu
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Edible robotics is an emerging field that leverages edible materials to construct robotic systems. This study presents a method to create thin, lightweight, yet powerful edible soft actuators, namely edible pouch motors. The successful operation of these edible actuators and grippers renders their potential to advance future developments in edible ...
Keigo Takahashi +3 more
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This research explores the impact of macroeconomic factors on the volatility of tin commodity futures contract prices, with a focus on inflation, interest rates and forward prices. The volatility of tin futures prices is important to investment strategies and risk management.
Shendy Amalia +2 more
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