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HIV-related knowledge and perceptions by academic major: Implications for university interventions

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2014
Most universities offer human sexuality courses, although they are not required for graduation. While students in health-related majors may receive sexuality education in formal settings, majority of college students never receive formal sexual health ...
Matthew Lee Smith   +4 more
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Update on (2+1+1)-flavor QCD equation of state [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of The 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2021), 2021
Johannes Heinrich Weber,a,∗ Alexei Bazavov and Peter Petreczky Institut für Physik & IRIS Adlershof; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zum Großen Windkanal 6, D-12489 Berlin, Germany Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering ...
J. Weber, A. Bazavov, P. Petreczky
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Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm in Modeling Systemic Risk in the European Insurance Sector

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
We are looking for tools to identify, model, and measure systemic risk in the insurance sector. To this aim, we investigated the possibilities of using the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm in two ways.
Anna Denkowska, Stanisław Wanat
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A Locally Both Leptokurtic and Fat-Tailed Distribution with Application in a Bayesian Stochastic Volatility Model

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
In the paper, we begin with introducing a novel scale mixture of normal distribution such that its leptokurticity and fat-tailedness are only local, with this “locality” being separately controlled by two censoring parameters.
Łukasz Lenart   +2 more
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Can Producers’ Price War End Up in an Optimal Allocation?

open access: yesMathematics, 2022
The paper presents a theoretical framework for the phenomenon of the price war in the context of general equilibrium, with special attention to the production system.
Marta Kornafel
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New Estimators of the Bayes Factor for Models with High-Dimensional Parameter and/or Latent Variable Spaces

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
Formal Bayesian comparison of two competing models, based on the posterior odds ratio, amounts to estimation of the Bayes factor, which is equal to the ratio of respective two marginal data density values.
Anna Pajor
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Prediction of Mathematical Anxiety Based on Meta-Cognitive Beliefs and Mathematical Self-Efficacy in Female High School Students

open access: yesAvicenna Journal of Neuro Psycho Physiology, 2022
Background and Objective: This study aimed to predict math anxiety based on task self-efficacy, knowledge, and cognitive regulation in female students. Materials and Methods: The statistical population in this descriptive-correlational study included all

semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Tail Dependence-Based MST and Their Topological Indicators in Modeling Systemic Risk in the European Insurance Sector

open access: yesRisks, 2020
In the present work, we analyze the dynamics of indirect connections between insurance companies that result from market price channels. In our analysis, we assume that the stock quotations of insurance companies reflect market sentiments, which ...
Anna Denkowska, Stanisław Wanat
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Optimal consumption problem in the Vasicek model [PDF]

open access: yesOpuscula Mathematica, 2015
We consider the problem of an optimal consumption strategy on the infinite time horizon based on the hyperbolic absolute risk aversion utility when the interest rate is an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
Jakub Trybuła
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