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"Historical experience shows that disruptions in credit markets can have a material impact on activity and inflation. However, it is hard to measure such effects owing to the difficulty in isolating credit supply shocks. This paper employs survey data to identify the impact of credit supply shocks in Australia over the past three decades, using a structural vector autoregression approach."--Abstract.

The goal of this work is to appeal to both the scientific and engineering communities through the purposeful integration of sensors, models, and controls technology to develop a comprehensive thermoset nanocomposite materials processing system with in situ dielectric characterization and electric-field directed morphology capabilities. This may, in turn, provide a systematic path towards a better scientific understanding of nanocomposite dielectric materials, as well as novel methods relevant to feedback process control strategies for next generation nanocomposite materials. A nanocomposite material process control system incorporating online impedance spectroscopy, automated environmental control (temperature and pressure), and electric-field actuation into a modular and extensible control platform is designed and used to investigate thermoset nanocomposite dielectric materials. Specifically, this work emphasizes the development of online sensing based on impedance spectroscopy (1Hz to 1MHz) to detect in situ material properties and features related to charge transport, morphology, and molecular dynamics (across a wide range of length-scales) that evolve during nanocomposite processing. This system also features the unique ability to actuate nanocomposite materials using applied AC electric fields. This control affects the statistical alignment of nano-particles through electrophoretic forces induced on the particle interfacial surfaces, thereby directing material morphology (i.e., rotational alignment of nanofiller along the applied electric-field direction) which can subsequently be "locked in" upon thermoset crosslinking. Although the techniques developed here are applicable to a wide range of nanocomposite and dielectric materials, the subclass of organically-modified layered-silicate thermosets is used as the model system for development. Demonstration of the thermoset process control system is established through key experiments performed to investigate effects of nanoclay loading, impact of excess nanoclay surface modifier (i.e., excess surfactant); ionic conductivity cure monitoring; and thermoset morphologies. Directed morphology using electric-field actuation is exercised and a simple dielectric analysis is provided. This effort may have significant impact on existing impedance-related sensing techniques, such as dielectric cure monitoring, by enabling access to material states and properties that were previously unobservable. Equally important is the foundation this technology may provide for the development and discovery of more sophisticated nanocomposite material process control methods. Novel control architectures based on morphology sensing may facilitate the ability to harness the processing techniques required for future advancement of materials and devices with all of the performance-enhancing properties afforded by nanocomposites.

For centuries, the inlet called the Golden Horn and the city on the hills overlooking it were situated in the middle of the known world. To the south, through the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, lay the Mediterranean, around which the Greek, Roman, Persian, and Arab worlds revolved. To the north, through the Bosporus, lay the Black Sea, with its Russian and eastern European coastline. And across the narrow Bosporus was Asia Minor, bridge to the Orient. Because of its strategic location, the city on the Golden Horn was coveted by a succession of different peoples. But even though it frequently was under siege, even though control of it often changed hands, and even though, indeed, it was conquered and leveled more than once, the city proved to be virtually immortal.Founded nearly twenty-seven centuries ago as the Greek colony of Byzantium, the city was harassed by the barbaric Thracians, attacked by the Persians, vied for by the Athenians and Spartans. Weakened and dispirited, its citizens finally were forced to seek the protection of Rome, and the city became little more than a Roman outpost. Then, in the fourth century, the Roman Emperor Constantine I decided to build his capital on the site. It was in the new city of Constantinople that ancient Greco-Roman culture was married to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and that Western civilization became Christian civilization. As the center of the vast Byzantine Empire, the city was one of the richest and most important on earth. But because of its wealth, it was sacked by the Crusaders in 1204. And because of its strategic location, it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.Since then, as the city of Istanbul, it has remained an international metropolis, a city of East and West, a city whose great paintings, mosaics, statuary, and architecture reflect the many cultures that have been centered there and the many ages the city has survived. Here is its story.

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