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- Behrend, Dirk, et al.
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Recent Progress in the VLBI2010 Development
- 2008
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In: in Proceedings of the 2007 IAG General Assembly, Perugia, Italy, July 2-13, 2007, ed. M. Sideris, Springer. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. - 0939-9585. - 9783540854258 ; 133:Part 5, s. 833-840
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- From October 2003 to September 2005, the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) examined current and future requirements for geodetic VLBI, including all components from antennas to analysis. IVS Working Group 3 "VLBI 2010", which was tasked with this effort, concluded with recommendations for a new generation of VLBI systems. These recommendations were based on the goals of achieving 1mm measurement accuracy on global baselines, performing continuous measurements for time series of station positions and Earth orientation parameters, and reaching a turnaround time from measurement to initial geodetic results of less than 24 h. To realize these recommendations and goals, along with the need for low cost of construction and operation, requires a complete examination of all aspects of geodetic VLBI including equipment, processes, and observational strategies. Hence, in October 2005, the IVS VLBI2010 Committee (V2C) commenced work on defining the VLBI2010 system specifications. In this paper we give a summary of the recent progress of the VLBI2010 project. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.
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- Blöschl, Günter, et al.
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Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years
- 2020
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In: Nature. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 583:7817, s. 560-566
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There are concerns that recent climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of river floods in an unprecedented way(1). Historical studies have identified flood-rich periods in the past half millennium in various regions of Europe(2). However, because of the low temporal resolution of existing datasets and the relatively low number of series, it has remained unclear whether Europe is currently in a flood-rich period from a long-term perspective. Here we analyse how recent decades compare with the flood history of Europe, using a new database composed of more than 100 high-resolution (sub-annual) historical flood series based on documentary evidence covering all major regions of Europe. We show that the past three decades were among the most flood-rich periods in Europe in the past 500 years, and that this period differs from other flood-rich periods in terms of its extent, air temperatures and flood seasonality. We identified nine flood-rich periods and associated regions. Among the periods richest in floods are 1560-1580 (western and central Europe), 1760-1800 (most of Europe), 1840-1870 (western and southern Europe) and 1990-2016 (western and central Europe). In most parts of Europe, previous flood-rich periods occurred during cooler-than-usual phases, but the current flood-rich period has been much warmer. Flood seasonality is also more pronounced in the recent period. For example, during previous flood and interflood periods, 41 per cent and 42 per cent of central European floods occurred in summer, respectively, compared with 55 per cent of floods in the recent period. The exceptional nature of the present-day flood-rich period calls for process-based tools for flood-risk assessment that capture the physical mechanisms involved, and management strategies that can incorporate the recent changes in risk. Analysis of thousands of historical documents recording floods in Europe shows that flooding characteristics in recent decades are unlike those of previous centuries.
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- Böhm, Michael, J., et al.
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Replication package for "Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart": Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium - V1
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The package contains the code necessary to reproduce the Tables and Figures in Böhm, Metzger and Strömberg (2022) "'Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart': Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium" Review of Economic Studies.
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- Böhm, Michael, J., et al.
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Replication package for "Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart": Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium - V2
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The package contains the code necessary to reproduce the Tables and Figures in Böhm, Metzger and Strömberg (2022) "'Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart': Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium" Review of Economic Studies.
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- Böhm, Michael, J., et al.
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"Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart": Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium
- 2023
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In: Review of Economic Studies. - : Oxford Univ Press. - 1467-937X .- 0034-6527. ; 90:5, s. 2215-2260
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Financial sector wages have increased extraordinarily over the last decades. We address two potential explanations for this increase: (1) rising demand for talent and (2) firms sharing rents with their employees. Matching administrative data of Swedish workers, which include unique measures of individual talent, with financial information on their employers, we find no evidence that talent in finance improved, neither on average nor at the top. The increase in relative finance wages is present across talent and education levels, which together can explain at most 20% of it. In contrast, rising financial sector profits that are shared with employees account for up to half of the relative wage increase. The limited labour supply response may partly be explained by the importance of early-career entry and social connections in finance. Our findings alleviate concerns about "brain drain" into finance but suggest that finance workers have captured rising rents over time.
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- Böhm, Michael, et al.
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"Since you're so rich, you must be really smart": Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
- 2018
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Wages in the financial sector have experienced an extraordinary increase over the last few decades. A proposed explanation for this trend has been that the demand for skill has risen more in finance compared to other sectors. We use Swedish administrative data, which include detailed cognitive and non-cognitive test scores as well as educational performance, to examine the implications of this hypothesis for talent allocation and relative wages in the financial sector. We find no evidence that the selection of talent into finance has improved, neither on average nor at the top of the talent and wage distributions. A changing composition of talent or their returns cannot account for the surge in the finance wage premium. While these findings alleviate concerns about a "brain drain" into finance at the expense of other sectors, they also suggest that finance workers are capturing substantial rents that have increased over time.
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- Böhm, Michael, et al.
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Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart': Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
- 2016
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In: SSRN Electronic Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 1556-5068.
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- Relative pay in the financial sector has experienced an extraordinary increase over the last few decades. A proposed explanation for this pattern has been that the demand for skilled workers in finance has risen more than in other sectors. We use Swedish administrative data, which include detailed cognitive and non-cognitive test scores as well as performance in high-school and university, to examine the implications of this hypothesis for talent allocation and relative wages in the financial sector. We find no evidence that the selection of talent into finance increased or improved, neither on average nor at the top of the talent distribution. A changing composition of talent or their returns cannot account for the surge in the finance wage premium. These findings alleviate concerns about a “brain drain” into finance at the expense of other sectors, but they also suggest that rents in finance are high, increasing, and largely unexplained.
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- Chen, Zhishan, et al.
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Fine-mapping analysis including over 254 000 East Asian and European descendants identifies 136 putative colorectal cancer susceptibility genes
- 2024
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In: Nature Communications. - : Springer Nature. - 2041-1723. ; 15:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 200 common genetic variants independently associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, but the causal variants and target genes are mostly unknown. We sought to fine-map all known CRC risk loci using GWAS data from 100,204 cases and 154,587 controls of East Asian and European ancestry. Our stepwise conditional analyses revealed 238 independent association signals of CRC risk, each with a set of credible causal variants (CCVs), of which 28 signals had a single CCV. Our cis-eQTL/mQTL and colocalization analyses using colorectal tissue-specific transcriptome and methylome data separately from 1299 and 321 individuals, along with functional genomic investigation, uncovered 136 putative CRC susceptibility genes, including 56 genes not previously reported. Analyses of single-cell RNA-seq data from colorectal tissues revealed 17 putative CRC susceptibility genes with distinct expression patterns in specific cell types. Analyses of whole exome sequencing data provided additional support for several target genes identified in this study as CRC susceptibility genes. Enrichment analyses of the 136 genes uncover pathways not previously linked to CRC risk. Our study substantially expanded association signals for CRC and provided additional insight into the biological mechanisms underlying CRC development.
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- Cupak, C., et al.
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Absence of synergistic effects in quasi-simultaneous sputtering of tungsten by Ar and D ions
- 2023
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In: Nuclear Materials and Energy. - : Elsevier. - 2352-1791. ; 35
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A quartz crystal microbalance was used to experimentally study the erosion of tungsten during rapidly alternating bombardment with 2 keV argon and deuterium projectiles. A key goal was to investigate whether the mean sputtering yield of the alternating irradiation can be predicted from data for sputtering yields of single ion species. In addition, influences by residual gas pressure in the UHV experiment and variable ion fluxes have been studied. Our results show that the mean sputtering yield of irradiations with alternating ion species can be well predicted for a range of different fluence ratios as a simple superposition of individual sputtering yields, weighted by the respective relative fluences. This finding supports that no synergistic sputtering effects were relevant in the investigated low-flux regime.
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