This chapter conducts an event study of 30 quantitative easing (QE) announcements made
by 21 central banks on daily government bond yields and bilateral US dollar exchange rates …

We report results from a new survey of local residential land use regulatory regimes for
nearly 2,500 primarily suburban communities across the United States. Key stylized facts are …

Reactive ion etching was used to fabricate black‐Si over the entire surface area of 4‐inch Si
wafers. After 20 min of the plasma treatment, surface reflection well below 2% was achieved …

… Jennifer S Hartley1 Centre for Micro-Photonics and Industrial Research Institute Swinburne,
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De-dollarization refers to the reduction of the reliance of foreign countries on the US dollar.
This phenomenon generates concern about the US dollar as a global currency. We construct …

The change in reflectivity of black-Si (b-Si) upon optical excitation was measured by the
pump-probe technique using picosecond laser pulses at 532 (pump) and 1064 nm (probe) …

Since January 2014, the US Treasury has been issuing floating rate notes (FRNs). These
notes pay quarterly interest based on an average of the constant maturity rates of newly issued …

A range of optical fibers with surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) functionalized
tips have been evaluated for use as micro-scale sensing devices. In order to optimize the …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) shows promise for identifying single bacteria,
but the short range nature of the effect makes it most sensitive to the cell membrane, which …

… for the smaller perihelion distance of Hartley 2 (1.059 versus 1.506 AU). This puts Hartley 2
in a … We conclude that this aspect of the chemical heterogeneity of the nucleus of Hartley 2 is …