We present a system for tracking the hands of a user in a frontal camera view for gesture
recognition purposes. The system uses multiple cues, incorporates tracing and prediction …

This paper sheds new light on higher-order price risks in crude oil markets. A model-free
analysis reveals that crude oil variance risk behaves fundamentally different from variance risk …

We show that ex ante lower bound beliefs embedded in interest rate option prices both in the
US and the Eurozone are inconsistent with a zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. In …

In the last couple of years, market participants have been increasingly trading energy
derivative contracts. This shows up in a strong growth in trading volumes of major energy …

Demand and supply in the market for natural gas are both affected by specific features that
other commodities do not share. Demand has a strong seasonal component and mean-…

The Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS), is a household panel survey of
the German residential population oversampling households receiving welfare benefits. 1 …

PHEBUS FPT-1 serves for investigations concerning core degradation and fission product
release. It simulates a severe accident caused by a leak in the circuit's cold leg of the primary …

Gene expression time-course experiments allow to study the dynamics of transcriptomic
changes in cells exposed to different stimuli. However, most approaches for the reconstruction …

Purpose The paper aims at investigating the processes underlying the relationship between
transformational leadership and employee creativity. We hypothesized that promotion focus …

"FDZ-Datenreporte (FDZ data reports) describe FDZ data in detail. As a result, this series of
reports has a dual function: on the one hand, those using the reports can ascertain whether …