A Short History of the Washington Consensus (2009)
The term “Washington Consensus ” was coined in 1989. The first written usage was in my background paper for a conference that the Institute for International Economics convened in order to...
Whether a country should choose a fixed or flexible exchange rate, or some intermediate regime, is one of the oldest policy questions in economics. It is also one of the most important. Many...
Andrew Crossan, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster, Rod Murray-smith, Human Factors
[ac, jhw, stephen, rod] @ dcs.gla.ac.uk In this paper, we investigate wrist rotation as a hands-free method of interaction with a mobile device. To evaluate this technique, a Fitts ‟ Law targeting...
Andrew Crossan, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster, Rod Murray-smith, Human Factors
[ac, jhw, stephen, rod] @ dcs.gla.ac.uk In this paper, we investigate wrist rotation as a hands-free method of interaction with a mobile device. To evaluate this technique, a Fitts ‟ Law targeting...
Roderick Murray-smith, Steven Strachan, John Williamson, Stephen Hughes, Torben Quaade, Backtohq Aps
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Flutter: Directed Random Browsing of Photo Collections with a Tangible Interface ABSTRACT (2008)
Large collections of photographs are commonplace, and many interfaces for viewing, sorting and organizing them have been proposed. This work describes the design and implementation of a “living...
Parisa Eslambolchilar, John Williamson, Rod Murray-smith
Speed Dependent Automatic Zooming proposed by Igarashi and Hinckley is a powerful tool for document navigation on mobile devices. We show that browsing and targeting can be facilitated by using a...
ACM Classification Keywords (2008)
Shoogle is a novel, intuitive interface for sensing data within a mobile device, such as presence and properties of text messages or remaining resources. It is based around active exploration:...
Designing for uncertain, asymmetric control: Interaction design for brain-computer interfaces (2008)
Williamson, John, Murray-Smith, Roderick, Blankertz, Benjamin, Krauledat, Matthias, Müller, Klaus-Robert
Designing user interfaces which can cope with unconventional control properties is challenging, and conventional interface design techniques are of little help. This paper examines how interactions...
Letter: The Spence Commission and the Washington Consensus (2008)
John Williamson, the originator of the term "Washington consensus," takes issue with Dani Rodrik's contrast of the Spence report with that consensus.
Letter: The Spence Commission and the Washington Consensus (2008)
John Williamson, the originator of the term "Washington consensus," takes issue with Dani Rodrik's contrast of the Spence report with that consensus.
Letter: The Spence Commission and the Washington Consensus (2008)
John Williamson, the originator of the term "Washington consensus," takes issue with Dani Rodrik's contrast of the Spence report with that consensus.
Letter: The Spence Commission and the Washington Consensus (2008)
John Williamson, the originator of the term "Washington consensus," takes issue with Dani Rodrik's contrast of the Spence report with that consensus.
Interactive Sonification Sonification of Probabilistic Feedback (2008)
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith
We describe a method to improve user feedback, specifically the display of timevarying probabilistic information, through asynchronous granular synthesis. We have applied these techniques to...
Flutter: Directed Random Browsing of Photo Collections with a Tangible Interface (2008)
Large collections of photographs are commonplace, and many interfaces for viewing, sorting and organizing them have been proposed. This work describes the design and implementation of a “living...
Shake2Talk: Multimodal Messaging for Interpersonal Communication (2008)
Lorna M. Brown, John Williamson
Abstract. This paper explores the possibilities of using audio and haptics for interpersonal communication via mobile devices. Drawing on the literature on current messaging practises, a new concept...
Forthcoming in revised form: The Journal of Economic Perspectives) (2008)
Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, T. N. Srinivasan, Katherine Mann, Lori Kletzer, John Williamson
Note: Readers who are not theoretically inclined may skip Section III without loss of continuity. Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to...
Stane: Synthesized Surfaces for Tactile Input (2008)
Murray-Smith, Roderick, Williamson, John, Hughes, Stephen, Quaade, Torben
Stane is a hand-held interaction device controlled by tactile input: scratching or rubbing textured surfaces and tapping. The system has a range of sensors, including contact microphones, capacitive...
Largest Mergers and Acquisitions by Corporations in 2007 (2008)
[Excerpt] Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity has continued to increase, and has grown in each of the past four years. This reports provides a listing of the largest M&A transactions worldwide...
Creating Online Lessons: A Faculty Development Seminar Series (2008)
Deborah Sleight, Christopher Reznich, Stephen Yelon, Professor Emeritus, John Williamson
Abstract: The World Wide Web is being used increasingly to deliver instruction in medical education. Consequently, there is a need to train faculty in developing and implementing online instruction....
ABSTRACT Pointing Without a Pointer (2008)
We present a method for performing selection tasks based on continuous control of multiple, competing agents who try to determine the user’s intentions from their control behaviour without...
Roderick Murray-smith, John Williamson, James Borl, Phil Gray
www.dcs.gla.ac.uk
Interactive Sonification Sonification of Probabilistic Feedback (2008)
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith
We describe a method to improve user feedback, specifically the display of timevarying probabilistic information, through asynchronous granular synthesis. We have applied these techniques to...
A General Purpose Control-Based Trajectory Playback for Force-Feedback Systems ABSTRACT (2008)
Andrew Crossan, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster
This paper describes a trajectory playback algorithm for active force-feedback devices, which extends the bead pathway metaphor to include a PID controller, to minimise error, even when the device...
Hex: Dynamics and Probabilistic Text Entry (2008)
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith
Abstract. We present a gestural interface for entering text on a mobile device via continuous movements, with control based on feedback from a probabilistic language model. Text is represented by...
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith
A general framework for producing formative audio feedback for gesture recognition is presented, including the dynamic and semantic aspects of gestures. The beliefs states are probability density...
Supporting Early Intervention Programmes for special- (2007)
Roderick Murray-smith, John Williamson, James Borl, Phil Gray
We describe flexible logging software designed for use in behavioural therapy programmes for sl)ecial needs ' children. This software runs on a handheld computer or Personal Digital Assistant...
Jel Codes E, Jorge Araujo, Gerald Barney, Nicholas Carter, Hamid Davoodi, Cevdet Denizer, ...
foreign aid
Surjit S. Bhalla, Suman Bery, Angus Deaton, Farrukh Iqbal, Ravinder Kaur, Rajiv Lall, ...
One of the most important development goals is the reduction in absolute poverty to 15 percent by 2015. This and related development goals have been agreed upon by governments and the UN system, and...
Robin Mearns, Will C, Klaus Deininger, Jean Drèze, John English, Diana Hunt, ...
to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry...
I am grateful to Magdalena Polan for her efficient research assistance, to (2007)
Paul De Grauwe, Margarida Abreu, Joseph Bisignano, Philip Davies, John Williamson
The financial crises of the 1990s have given a new impetus to proposals aimed at controlling international capital movements. Well-known economists came out in favour of such controls, giving (some...
Largest Mergers and Acquisitions by Corporations, 2006 (2007)
[Excerpt] Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity has continued to increase, especially in each of the past three years. This report provides a listing of the largest M&A transactions worldwide...
Global Imbalances: Time for Action. Bruegel policy brief 2007/02, March 2007 (2007)
Ahearne, Alan, Cline, William R., Lee, Kyung Tae, Park, Yung Chul, Pisani-Ferry, Jean, Williamson, John.
Summary. Policymakers in the US, Asia and Europe should not wait until financial markets force adjustment in the large imbalances in global current account positions. Although multilateral...
ACM Classification Keywords (2007)
Shoogle is a novel, intuitive interface for sensing data within a mobile device, such as presence and properties of text messages or remaining resources. It is based around active exploration:...
Multimodal excitatory interfaces with automatic content classification (2007)
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith
We describe an excitation interface for displaying data on mobile devices, based around active exploration: devices are shaken, revealing the contents rattling around inside. This combines...
Shoogle: Excitatory multimodal interaction on mobile devices (2007)
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith, Stephen Hughes
Shoogle is a novel, intuitive interface for sensing data within a mobile device, such as presence and properties of text messages or remaining resources. It is based around active exploration:...
A note on brain actuated spelling with the Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (2007)
B. Blankertz, M. Krauledat, G. Dornhege, John Williamson
Abstract. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are systems capable of decoding neural activity in real time, thereby allowing a computer application to be directly controlled by the brain. Since the...
A note on brain actuated spelling with the Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (2007)
B. Blankertz, M. Krauledat, G. Dornhege, John Williamson
Abstract. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are systems capable of decoding neural activity in real time, thereby allowing a computer application to be directly controlled by the brain. Since the...
William R. Cline, John Williamson
The answer to the first of the two questions addressed to us is clearly “No. ” The 18 studies summarized in Table 1 reveal widely differing answers being offered in the literature, even sticking...
It’s a long way to Monte Carlo: probabilistic display in GPS navigation (2006)
We present a mobile, GPS-based multimodal navigation system, equipped with inertial control that allows users to explore and navigate through an augmented physical space, incorporating and displaying...
A WORLDWIDE SYSTEM OF REFERENCE RATES (2006)
John Williamson, Marc Flandreau, John Williamson
www.bankofgreece.gr
The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface presents the novel mental typewriter Hex-o-Spell (2006)
Benjamin Blankertz, Guido Dornhege, Matthias Krauledat, Michael Schröder, John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith, ...
SUMMARY: We present a novel typewriter application ‘Hex-o-Spell ’ that is specifically tailored to the characteristics of direct brain-to-computer interaction. The high bandwidth at which a user...
The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface presents the novel mental typewriter Hex-o-Spell (2006)
Benjamin Blankertz, Guido Dornhege, Matthias Krauledat, Michael Schröder, John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith, ...
SUMMARY: We present a novel typewriter application ‘Hex-o-Spell ’ that is specifically tailored to the characteristics of direct brain-to-computer interaction. The high bandwidth at which a user...
Meade’s Analysis and Today’s Global Imbalances (2006)
John Williamson, Senior Fellow Peterson
I am greatly honored to have been invited to contribute this lecture to commemorate the life of one of the outstanding group of economists to whom I have argued (Worswick and Trevithick 1983, p. 91)...
Development Banks organized by the IDB, BDMG, and ALIDE (2006)
Kirkegaard for research assistance. A common view of Latin America is roughly as follows: The Washington consensus held sway in the early 1990s and only modestly revived growth even after the debt...
Largest Mergers and Acquisitions by Corporations in 2005 (2005)
[Excerpt] Mergers and acquisitions activity increased in 2004 over 2003 and 2005 looks to be an even bigger year for m&a. This report provides a listing of the largest mergers (announced value of at...
Tools and Activities…………………………….………………………….. 10 (2005)
Edwin M. Truman, Senior Fellow, Jack Boorman, James Boughton, Scott Brown, Agustin Carstens, ...
version of this paper. None of these individuals or the institutions with whom they are associated are responsible for
Revamping the International Monetary System 1 (2005)
When the second amendment to the Fund’s Articles (which is still the principal text that guides the IMF) was first unveiled in 1976, several of us spontaneously pronounced its role as that of...
Pointing without a pointer (2004)
We present a method for performing selection tasks based on continuous control of multiple, competing agents who try to determine the user’s intentions from their control behaviour without...
Pointing without a pointer (2004)
We present a method for performing selection tasks based on continuous control of multiple, competing agents who try to determine the user’s intentions from their control behaviour without...
Haptic granular synthesis: Targeting, visualisation and texturing (2004)
Andrew Crossan, John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith
This paper introduces the idea of haptic rendering using granular synthesis – an established technique for synthesising audio. It describes the technique along with potential application areas, and...
Economics for comments on a previous draft.
Haptic granular synthesis: Targeting, visualisation and texturing (2004)
Andrew Crossan, John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith
This paper introduces the idea of haptic rendering using granular synthesis – an established technique for synthesising audio. It describes the technique along with potential application areas, and...
Haptic granular synthesis: Targeting, visualisation and texturing (2004)
Andrew Crossan, John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith
This paper introduces the idea of haptic rendering using granular synthesis – an established technique for synthesising audio. It describes the technique along with potential application areas, and...
Granular synthesis for display of time-varying probability densities (2004)
G Qq, G Qq, John Williamson, John Williamson, Roderick Murray-smith, Roderick Murray-smith
Abstract — We present a method for displaying time-varying probabilistic information to users using asynchronous granular synthesis. We extend the basic synthesis technique to include distribution...
Williamson, John, Williams, Matthew
Most public old-age pension schemes around the world are based at least in part on the pay-as-you-go defined benefit (PAYGO DB) model. As these schemes have matured and the limitations of this...
Dynamics and probabilistic text entry (2003)
We present a gestural interface for entering text on a mobile device via continuous movements, with control based on feedback from a probabilistic language model. Text is represented by continuous...
Thorpe, Lorna E., Ouellet, Lawrence J., Hershow, Ronald, Bailey, Susan L., Williams, Ian T., Williamson, John, ...
Trouw Aquaculture, In Salmon, Trouw Aquaculture, John Roberts, Lisa Buckley, John Williamson
www.trouwuk.com www.nutreco.com
Dynamics and Probabilistic Text Entry (2002)
We present a gestural interface for entering text on a mobile device via continuous movements, with control based on feedback from a probabilistic language model. Text is represented by continuous...
Thorpe, Lorna E, Ouellet, Lawrence J, Hershow, Ronald, Bailey, Susan L, Williams, Ian T, Williamson, John, ...
Designing studies to examine hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission via the shared use of drug injection paraphernalia other than syringes is difficult because of saturation levels of HCV infection in...
Regimes for Emerging Markets: Reviving the (2002)
John Williamson, John Williamson, From William Cline, Edwin Truman
adviser to the International Monetary Fund (1972-74); and economic consultant to the UK Treasury (1968-70). He is author, coauthor, or editor of numerous studies on international monetary and...
A pedagogical analysis of A Level syllabi (2001)
Jill Clark, Peter Fisher, Elaine Hall, Cheryl Mackay, David Stancliffe, Sally Taverner, ...
This research has been conducted by a team of subject specialists supported by research associates in the Department of Education University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Five subjects were selected by...
Enhancing Textfield Interaction With the Use of Sound (2001)
Joanna Lumsden, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster, Joanna Lumsden, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster
Enhancing Textfield Interaction With the Use of Sound (2001)
Joanna Lumsden, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster, Joanna Lumsden, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster
Despite our multi-sensory capabilities, the human-computer interfaces with which we commonly interact are principally designed to target the visual modality. Wasting other sensory channels that could...
What Should the World Bank Think about the Washington Consensus? (2000)
The phrase “Washington Consensus” has become a familiar term in development policy circles in recent years, but it is now used in several different senses, causing a great deal of confusion. In...
Morris Goldstein, Dennis Weatherstone, Senior Fellow, C. Fred Bergsten, Stanley Fischer, Mohsin Khan, ...
It’s not easy to get senior economic officials worked up about the functioning of the international monetary system. Usually, they are preoccupied with the more immediate issues surrounding the...
Mahler - Sinopoli : The Complete Recordings Philharmonia Orchestra (1997)
Williamson, John (texto Del Folleto)
Nacido en Kaliste -hoy República Checa- en 1860 y muerto en Viena en 1911, Gustav Mahler es indudablemente por formación -en el Conservatorio de Viena- y por cultura, uno de los grandes...
Mitochondrial protein p26 BCL2 reduces growth factor requirements of NIH3T3 fibroblasts (1991)
Reed, John C., Talwar, Harvinder S., Cuddy, Michael, Baffy, Gyorgy, Williamson, John, Rapp, Ulf R., ...
The BCL2 (B cell lymphoma/leukemia-2) proto-oncogene encodes a 26-kDa protein that has been localized to the inner mitochondrial membrane and that has been shown to enhance the survival of some types...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Leicester, 1987.
Sjogren's Syndrome: I. SICCA COMPONENTS (1973)
WHALEY, KEITH, WILLIAMSON, JOHN, CHISHOLM, DERRICK M., WEBB, JOHN, MASON, DAVID K., BUCHANAN, W. WATSON
A detailed and comprehensive study of the sicca components of 171 patients with Sjøgren's syndrome is described. Seventy-one patients had Sjøgren's syndrome unassociated with rheumatoid arthritis...
A Statistical Aid to the Diagnosis of Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca (1972)
ANDERSON, JOHN A., WHALEY, KEITH, WILLIAMSON, JOHN, BUCHANAN, W. WATSON
A computer-assisted statistical method of logistic discrimination is described for the diagnosis of keratoconjunctivitis sicca. Ten symptoms and seven signs of keratoconjunetivitis sicca in 40...
An experiment in teaching individual reading in the sixth grade / (1960)
Williamson, John., Reusser, John L. Ths
Thesis committee: John L. Reusser (chair), William I. DeWees.
Pakistan and the World Economy
This paper aims to explore Pakistan's geo-economic options in the difficult situation that confronts following the easing of sanctions, which added acute balance of payments pressures to its existing...
THE CASE FOR AN INTERMEDIATE EXCHANGE RATE REGIME
The argument that any exchange rate regimes other than firmly fixed and freely floating rates were infeasible â the so-called bipolarity thesis â acquired great popularity in the wake of the Asian...
Acerca de la liberalización de la cuenta de capitales
Existe un acuerdo generalizado de que los beneficios de la integración en la economía mundial se acumulan sólo después de la apertura de la cuenta de capitales. Sin embargo, muchos países son...
Prospects for avoiding crises with liberalized capital flows
The history of Latin America’s relations with the international capital market has not been a happy one. Debt crises have recurred with monotonous regularity ever since the 1820’s, about three...
Somnath Datta, Glen Satten, John Williamson
Cox model, current status data, interval censoring, left truncation, survival analysis,
Pension Funds, Capital Controls and Macroeconomic Stability
Helmut Reisen, John Williamson
The paper discusses the pros and cons of liberalising foreign investment of pension assets in developing countries, with particular reference to Chile. The positive part of the paper examines the...
The paper summarizes the current theory of how a floating exchange rate is determined, dividing the subject into what determines the steady state and what determines the transition to steady state....
A Decision Support Technology Clearinghouse
Anderson, Curtis L., Lundsgaarde, Henry, Williamson, John, Abaunza, Marie, Warner, Homer
The Decision Support Technology (DST) Clearinghouse is an on-line database of current information concerning medical decision-making technologies. It makes DST knowledge easily accessible to users...
The Effects of Iliad on Medical Student Problem Solving
Turner, Charles W., Williamson, John, Lincoln, Michael J., Haug, Peter J., Buchanan, James, Anderson, Curtis, ...
The present study examined the effects of the Iliad expert system on diagnostic problem solving of third-year (n = 97) medical students. Students used Iliad to work-up simulated cases to supplement...
Proposals for Curbing the Boom-Bust Cycle in the Supply of Capital to Emerging Markets
Capital flows, Boom-bust cycle, UDROP, Collective action clauses
Exchange rates, Behavioral model, Dutch disease, F31, F43, O24,
Letter: The Spence Commission and the Washington Consensus
John Williamson, the originator of the term "Washington consensus," takes issue with Dani Rodrik's contrast of the Spence report with that consensus.
Letter: The Spence Commission and the Washington Consensus
John Williamson, the originator of the term "Washington consensus," takes issue with Dani Rodrik's contrast of the Spence report with that consensus.