Narratives that portray macroeconomic policies in Japan as unlike ones pursued in other large economies persist.I revisit how several factors, including monetary, fiscal, and demographic factors impact Japan, the US, and the euro area.Panel VARs driven by factors or observed macroeconomic determinants are used.Many, but not all, of the shocks exami
In this paper we propose an emotion assimilation function of sleep and dreaming.We offer explanations both for the mechanisms by which waking-life memories are initially selected for processing during sleep, and for the mechanisms by which those memories are subsequently transformed during sleep, as reflected by dreams.We propose that emotions act
The Harappan Civilization occupies a unique place pentair hose among the early civilizations of the world with its well planned urban settlements, advanced handicraft and technology, religious and trade activities.Using a Geographical Information Systems (GIS), this study presents spatial analyses that locate urban settlements on a digital elevatio
Daylight represents one of the crucial factors that affect directly on the building performance and its occupants.This study assesses the daylight performance in the multi-storey residential buildings (apartments) in Erbil city.It aims to find out the impact of building typology on daylighting quality and quantity.The endeavour of this research is
At the heart of both lossy compression and clustering is a trade-off between the fidelity and size of the learned representation.Our goal is to map out and study the Pareto frontier that quantifies this trade-off.We focus on the optimization of the Deterministic Information Bottleneck (DIB) objective over the space of hard clusterings.To this end,