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ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida +6 more
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Financial liberalisation and interest rate risk management in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
The appropriateness of financial liberalisation in Africa - at least over the short-term - is in doubt. It has been suggested that the credit risks faced by financial institutions will be detrimental to the supply of credit.
Willem Naudé
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ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola +4 more
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Scenario Based Principal Component Value-at-Risk: an Application to Italian Banks' Interest Rate Risk Exposure [PDF]
The paper develops a Value-at-Risk methodology to assess Italian banksÂ’ interest rate risk exposure. By using 5 years of daily data, the exposure is evaluated through a Principal Component VaR based on Monte Carlo simulation according to two different ...
Simonetta Iannotti, Roberta Fiori
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Liquidity Risk, Credit Risk and the Overnight Interest Rate Spread: A Stochastic Volatility Modelling Approach [PDF]
In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy rate (the policy spread) for the euro area and the UK during the two main phases of the financial crisis that began in late 2007.
John Beirne +2 more
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Interest Rate Risk and Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Kenya
The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of interest rate risk on the financial performance of commercial banks in Kenya. The study adopted a positivist research philosophy. An explanatory research design was applied.
Lynette Chelangat Musani +2 more
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ABSTRACT Background Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients frequently suffer from frailty, characterized by reduced physical function and poor prognosis. Myokines, such as myonectin, secreted by muscle, are emerging regulators of systemic health. This study investigated the relationship between serum myonectin, adipokines (adiponectin, omentin), and ...
Kenichi Kono +7 more
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Interest rate swaps and economic exposure [PDF]
The interest rate swap market has grown rapidly. Since the inception of the swap market in 1981, the outstanding notional principal of interest rate swaps has reached a level of $12.81 trillion in 1995.
Gautam Goswami, Milind Shrikhande
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ABSTRACT Background Chronic micro‐inflammation in patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a significant driver of cardiovascular complications and diminished quality of life. While standard hemodialysis (SHD) effectively manages small‐molecule clearance, its ability to remove medium‐to‐large uremic toxins—the primary catalysts of systemic ...
Hongwei Zuo +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Covered Interest Parity, Uncovered Interest Parity, and Exchange Rate Dynamics [PDF]
A number of macroeconomic models of open economies under flexible exchange rate assume a strong version of perfect capital mobility which implies that currency speculation commands no risk premium.
Jonathan Eaton, Stephen J. Turnovsky
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