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The Role of Institutions:A Cross-country Analysis of Renminbi Trading in Foreign Exchange Markets

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China & World Economy 2022年第3期30卷 42-74页

作者： Marina Zucker-marques pedro Perfeito da Silva Division on Globalization and Development Strategies United Nations Conference on Trade and Development(UNCTAD)Switzerland Political Science Department Central European UniversityAustria

We explore how China's geographically targeted policies impact RMB overseas use individually or in *** policies include swap agreements,clearing banks,investment quotas,and direct trading between Chinese renminbi(RMB)and non-USD *** a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and using Bank of International Settlements cross-country data on foreign exchange markets,we find that institution building has lowered the barriers to international adoption of the ***,for countries economically close to China,high RMB trading is explained by either(i)having a clearing bank in the host market and direct quotations between the RMB and the local currency,or(ii)being a financial center and having access to the Chinese capital *** combination of policies is explained by the creation of(i)"trading posts"that provide RMB liquidity abroad,and(ii)channels that allow actors to " recycle" offshore RMB *** triangulate our results with interviews conducted with senior People’s Bank of China officials.

关键词： foreign exchange markets fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis institutional context international monetary system offshore RMB trading RMB internationalization

A Simulation of Market-based Non-frequency Ancillary Service Procurement Based on Demand Flexibility

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Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy 2023年第3期11卷 781-792页

作者： Ricardo Faia Fernando Lezama Tiago pinto pedro Faria Zita Vale José Manuel Terras Susete Albuquerque Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development(GECAD) R.Dr.António Bernardino de Almeida4314249-015PortoPortugal E-REDES Distribuição de Eletricidade S.A.R.Camilo Castelo Branco43LisboaPortugal

This paper proposes a novel approach for the provision of non-frequency ancillary service(AS)by consumers connected to low-voltage distribution *** proposed approach considers an asymmetric pool-based local market for AS negotiation,allowing consumers to set a flexibility quantity and desired price to trade.A case study with 98 consumers illustrates the proposed market-based non-frequency AS provision ***,three different strategies of consumers’participation are implemented and tested in a real low-voltage distribution network with radial *** is shown that consumers can make a profit from the sale of their flexibility while contributing to keeping the network power losses,voltage,and current within pre-defined ***,the results demonstrate the value of AS coming directly from end-users.

关键词： Demand flexibility local electricity market ancillary service low-volatge distribution network

A Novel Approach to Measuring Spatiotemporal Changes in Social Vulnerability at the Local Level in Portugal

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 2022年第6期13卷 842-861页

作者： pedro pinto Santos JoséLuís Zêzere Susana Pereira Jorge Rocha Alexandre Oliveira Tavares Centre for Geographical Studies Institute of Geography and Spatial PlanningTERRAUniversity of Lisbon(CEG-IGOT-ULisboa)1600-276 LisboaLAPortugal Centre for Social Studies Earth Science DepartmentScience and Technology FacultyUniversity of Coimbra(CES/DCT-FCT-UCoimbra)3000-995 CoimbraPortugal

Social vulnerability,as one of the risk components,partially explains the magnitude of the impacts observed after a *** this study,a spatiotemporally comparable assessment of social vulnerability and its drivers was conducted in Portugal,at the civil parish level,for three census *** first challenging step consisted of the selection of meaningful and consistent variables over *** were normalized using the Adjusted Mazziotta-Pareto Index(AMPI)to obtain comparable adimensional-normalized values.A joint principal component analysis(PCA)was applied,resulting in a robust set of variables,interpretable from the point of view of their self-grouping around vulnerability drivers.A separate PCA for each census was also conducted,which proved to be useful in analyzing changes in the composition and type of drivers,although only the joint PCA allows the monitoring of spatiotemporal changes in social vulnerability scores and drivers from 1991 to 2011.A general improvement in social vulnerability was observed for *** two main drivers are the economic condition(PC1),and aging and depopulation(PC2).The remaining drivers highlighted are uprooting and internal mobility,and daily *** data proved their value in the territorial,social,and demographic characterization of the country,to support medium-and long-term disaster risk reduction measures.

关键词： AMPI normalization Portugal Social vulnerability Spatiotemporal changes

Searching for ductile superconducting Heusler X_(2)YZ compounds

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npj Computational Materials 2023年第1期9卷 919-927页

作者： Noah Hoffmann Tiago F.T.Cerqueira pedro Borlido Antonio Sanna Jonathan Schmidt Miguel A.L.marques Institut für Physik Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-WittenbergD-06099 HalleGermany CFisUC Department of PhysicsUniversity of CoimbraRua Larga 3004-516 CoimbraPortugal Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik Weinberg 2D-06120 HalleGermany

Heusler compounds attract a great deal of attention from researchers thanks to a wealth of interesting properties,among which is *** we perform an extensive study of the superconducting and elastic properties of the cubic(full-)Heusler family using a mixture of ab initio methods,as well as interpretable and predictive machine-learning *** analyzing the statistical distributions of these properties and comparing them to anti-perovskites,we recognize universal behaviors that should be common to all conventional superconductors while others turn out to be specific to the material *** total,we discover a total of eight hypothetical materials with critical temperatures above 10 K to be compared with the current record of T_(c)=4.7 K in this ***,we expect most of these materials to be highly ductile,making them potential candidates for the manufacture of wires and tapes for superconducting magnets.

关键词： ductile compounds superconducting

Effect of Ce-base mischmetal addition on the microstructure and mechanical properties of hot-rolled ZK60 alloy

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Journal of Magnesium and Alloys 2021年第3期9卷 995-1006页

作者： E.P.Silva R.H.Buzolin F.marques F.Soldera U.Alfaro H.C.pinto Institute of Engineering Science and Technology(IECT)Federal University of Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri(UFVJM)JanaúbaMGBrazil São Carlos School of Engineering(EESC) University of São Paulo(USP)Department of Materials EngineeringCEP 13563-120 São Carlos-SPBrazil Christian Doppler Laboratory for Design of high-performance alloys by thermomechanical processing Kopernikusgasse 24/I8010 GrazAustria Technische Universität Graz(TU Graz) Institute of Materials ScienceJoining and FormingKopernikusgasse 24/I8010 GrazAustria Institute of Functional Materials Department of Materials Science and EngineeringSaarland UniversitySaarbrueckenGermany German Aerospace Center(DLR)Institute of Materials Research Linder Höhe51147 CologneGermany

Mg-Zn-Zr(ZK)alloys exhibit notably high mechanical strength amongst all magnesium alloy ***,due to the formation of low melting point Mg_3Zn_7-precipitates,these alloys are susceptible to hot cracking,thus compromising their metallurgical *** addition of rare earths to ZK alloys is an alternative to form higher melting point intermetallic compounds,speed up dynamic recrystallization,refine grain size,enhance corrosion resistance and extend the service temperature due to improved creep *** work deals with the effect of Ce-base mischmetal addition on the hot rolling behaviour of as-cast ZK60 *** microstructure investigation conducted using electron microscopy and X-Ray diffraction shows that precipitation of Mg_(7)Zn_(3) intermetallics occur during hot rolling,whereas no further precipitation is observed for the ZK60-Mm *** fragmentation of the intermetallic compounds occur during hot rolling and finer particles of Mg_(7)Zn_(3) are observed for the ZK60,whereas Mg_(7)Zn_(3) and Mg Zn_(2) Ce intermetallics are formed in the alloy modified with mischmetal addition.A higher fraction of dynamically recrystallized grains is observed for the ZK60-Mm in comparison to the *** recrystallization takes place in ZK60 with the formation of sub-grains near to the intermetallics and the addition of mischmetal promotes the occurrence of discontinuous recrystallization with the nucleation of new grains close to the *** mechanical strength and,in particular,the ductility of the hot-rolled alloys are notably improved when compared to the same alloys in the as-cast *** mechanical strength is,however,higher for the ZK60 *** solid solution strengthening,softer Mg Zn_(2) Ce intermetallics and more extensive recrystallization contribute to reduce the mechanical strength of *** in both alloys are initiated at coarse intermetallics and propagate through intermetallic-rich regions.

关键词： Magnesium alloys Hot rolling Mischmetal Recrystallization Microstructure Mechanical properties

Effect of climate and altitude on plant community composition and richness in Brazilian inselbergs

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Journal of Mountain Science 2020年第8期17卷 1931-1941页

作者： Herval Vieira pinto-JUNIOR pedro Manuel VILLA Luis Fernando Tavares de MENEZES Miriam Cristina Alvarez PEREIRA Universidade Federal de Vigosa Department of Plant BiologyLaboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plants36570-900Vicosa-MGBrazil Universidade Federal de Vigosa Department of Forest EngineeringLaboratory of Forest Restoration36570-900Vicosa-MGBrazil Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo Department of Agrarian and Biological SciencesLaboratory of Ecology of Restinga and Mata Atlantica29932-900Sao Mateus-ESBrazil Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo Department of Biology29500-000Alegre-ESBrazil

Plant communities are shaped by multiple factors along environmental gradients;however,studies are limited on how environmental filtering drives community composition and species richness on tropical *** evaluate the influence of altitude and climatic variables related to temperature and precipitation on plant community composition and species richness on Brazilian *** assume as a premise that both climate and altitude would induce changes on plant community composition and species richness at the local *** used plant inventory data from 370 sampling units across four inselberg sites in the Atlantic Forest of Espírito Santo State,south-eastern *** tested the univariate and multivariate effects of altitude and climate variables on community composition and species richness with multiple *** in species richness between inselbergs were evaluated using sample-based data to estimate rarefaction and extrapolation *** addition,differences in species composition and taxonomic beta diversity were examined via novel frequency-based metrics.A contrasting climate pattern was observed between the inselberg sites,with south sites being wet compared to the dry conditions found in northern *** richness by rarefaction showed a similar pattern within regional sites;however,there were marked differences between *** richness and beta diversity showed significant differences among sites,with higher values in southern sites than in northern *** a multi-model comparison between inselberg sites,altitude significantly influenced community composition and species richness and explained more variance than climate *** finding suggested that climate could act to some extent on these tropical inselbergs;however,altitude was a better predictor of plant community composition and species richness at the local level.

关键词： Atlantic Forest Biome Beta diversity Abiotic filtering Climate models Environmental filtering Latitudinal gradient

Exchange-correlation functionals for band gaps of solids:benchmark,reparametrization and machine learning

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npj Computational Materials 2020年第1期6卷 869-885页

作者： pedro Borlido Jonathan Schmidt Ahmad W.Huran Fabien Tran Miguel A.L.marques Silvana Botti Institut für Festkörpertheorie und-optik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and European Theoretical Spectroscopy FacilityMax-Wien-Platz 107743 JenaGermany Institut für Physik Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg06099 HalleGermany Institute of Materials Chemistry Vienna University of TechnologyGetreidemarkt 9/165-TC1060 ViennaAustria

We conducted a large-scale density-functional theory study on the influence of the exchange-correlation functional in the calculation of electronic band gaps of ***,we use the large materials data set that we have recently proposed to benchmark 21 different functionals,with a particular focus on approximations of the meta-generalized-gradient *** these data with the results for 12 functionals in our previous work,we can analyze in detail the characteristics of each approximation and identify its strong and/or weak *** confirming that mBJ,HLE16 and HSE06 are the most accurate functionals for band gap calculations,we reveal several other interesting functionals,chief among which are the local Slater potential approximation,the GGA AK13LDA,and the meta-GGAs HLE17 and *** also compare the computational efficiency of these different *** on these data,we investigate the potential for improvement of a promising subset of functionals by varying their internal *** identified optimal parameters yield a family of functionals fitted for the calculation of band ***,we demonstrate how to train machine learning models for accurate band gap prediction,using as input structural and composition data,as well as approximate band gaps obtained from density-functional theory.

关键词： theory functionals solids

Application of data science in the prediction of solar energy for the Amazon basin:a study case

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Clean Energy 2023年第6期7卷 1344-1355页

作者： AndréLuis Ferreira marques Márcio JoséTeixeira Felipe Valencia de Almeida pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Corrêa Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo Av.Prof.Luciano Gualberto380-ButantaSao Paulo-SP05508-010Brazil Institute of Physics of the University of Sao Paulo Brazil

The need for renewable energy sources has challenged most countries to comply with environmental protection actions and to handle climate *** energy figures as a natural option,despite its *** has a green energy matrix with significant expansion of solar form in recent *** preserve the Amazon basin,the use of solar energy can help communities and cities improve their living standards without new hydroelectric units or even to burn biomass,avoiding harsh environmental *** novelty of this work is using data science with machine-learning tools to predict the solar incidence(W.h/m^(2))in four cities in Amazonas state(north-west Brazil),using data from NASA satellites within the period of ***-tree-based models and vector autoregressive(time-series)models were used with three time aggregations:day,week and *** predictor model can aid in the economic assessment of solar energy in the Amazon basin and the use of satellite data was encouraged by the lack of data from ground *** mean absolute error was selected as the output indicator,with the lowest values obtained close to 0.20,from the adaptive boosting and light gradient boosting algorithms,in the same order of magnitude of similar references.

关键词： solar energy renewable energy Amazon basin machine learning time series data science decision-trees ensemble vector autoregression

Tracheobronchial Polyflex stents for the management of benign refractory hypopharyngeal strictures

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2012年第6期18卷 551-556页

作者： Rui Almeida Silva Nuno Mesquita pedro Pimentel Nunes Elisabete Cardoso Ricardo Marcos pinto Luís Moreira Dias Department of Gastroenterology Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco GentilR.Doutor António Bernardino de Almeida 4200-072PortoPortugal Department of Gastroenterology Centro Hospitalar do PortoLargo Prof.Abel Salazar 4099-001PortoPortugal

AIM:To describe a modified technique for placement of a tracheobronchial self-expanding plastic stent(SEPS) in patients with benign refractory hypopharyngeal strictures in order to improve dysphagia and allow stricture ***:A case series of four consecutive patients with complex hypopharyngeal strictures after combinedtherapy for laryngeal cancer,previously submitted to multiple sessions of dilation without lasting improvement,is *** patients underwent placement of a small diameter and unflared tracheobronchial *** outcome measurements were improvement of dysphagia and avoiding of repeated ***:The modified introducer system allowed an easy and technically successful deployment of the tracheobronchial Polyflex stent through the *** four patients developed complications related to stent *** patients had stent migration(one proximal and one distal),two patients developed phanryngocutaneous fistulas and all patients with stents in situ for more than 8 wk had hyperplastic tissue growth at the upper end of the *** recurrence was observed at 4 wk follow-up after stent removal in all patients CONCLUSION:Although technically feasible,placement of a tracheobronchial SEPS is associated with a high risk of *** diameter stents must be kept in place for longer than 3 mo to allow adequate time for stricture remodeling.

关键词： Larynx neoplasms Hypopharynx Strictures Dilation Stents