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Data Augmentation in the Bayesian Multivariate Probit Model [PDF]

, 2004
This paper is concerned with the Bayesian estimation of a Multivariate Probit model. In particular, this paper provides an algorithm that obtains draws with low correlation much faster than a pure Gibbs sampling algorithm.
León-González, R.
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The Bank of Canada's Management of Foreign Currency Reserves [PDF]

This article describes the Bank's management of the liquid foreign currency portion of the government's official reserves. It broadly outlines the operations of the Exchange Fund Account (EFA), the main account in which Canada's reserves are held.
Jacobo De León
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De leones, águilas y liebres (y caballos y perros): bestiarios y enciclopedias naturales en el Lucidario de Sancho IV

Ítaca
El Lucidario es un diálogo entre un maestro y su discípulo compuesto bajo el auspicio de Sancho IV de Castilla entre 1293 y 1295. Escrito siguiendo la tradición escolástica de la literatura de quaestiones, el tratado dedica cerca de un tercio de sus 100 ...
Mario Cossío Olavide
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International Remittances and Income Inequality: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to provide comprehensive empirical evidence on the relationship between international remittances and income inequality. In simple cross-country regressions we find a non-monotonic link between these two variables when using ...
Gianmarco León, Valerie Koechlin
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Nuclear engineering program marks 10th anniversary [PDF]

, 2017
Ten years ago, Virginians who wanted to study nuclear engineering at the graduate level had to leave the state to do so. But then VCU, with support from Dominion Resources, started a program whose hallmark has been its ability to balance theory and ...
Jones, Rebecca
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Efficient Portfolio Optimization in the Wealth Creation and Maximum Drawdown Space [PDF]

First developed by Markowitz (1952), the mean-variance framework is the most widespread theoretical approximation to the portfolio problem. Nevertheless, successful application in the investment community has been limited.
Alejandro Reveiz, Carlos León
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La imagen de las ciudades y regiones altomedievales de León y de Castilla en las Crónicas Generales (de Sampiro a la «Estoria de España»)

Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2011
El trabajo pretende caracterizar la imagen que la cronística general de los siglos XI al XIII ofreció del pasado histórico de León y Castilla correspondiente aproximadamente al siglo X, época de la monarquía leonesa y condado de Castilla. Específicamente
José M.ª MONSALVO ANTÓN
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Las mujeres nobles y el poder en los reinos de León y Castilla en el siglo XII: un estudio preliminar

Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2012
El presente artículo analiza hasta qué punto las mujeres pertenecientes a la aristocracia eran capaces de ostentar el poder y ejercer su influencia en el ámbito de los reinos de León y Castilla durante el siglo XII. Pese a ser cierto que el acceso de las
Simon BARTON
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The Mozarabs in the kingdom of León: 8th-11th Centuries

Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2011
The text is a summary of a research about Arabic onomastics which appears in the Leonese charters until 11th Century. The outcome of the analysis of the data is the existence of a Berber settlement in the Duero basin, although this explanation does not ...
Javier FERNÁNDEZ CONDE
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Aspectos maravillosos en el Cantar de Mio Cid

Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2012
. The Cantar de Mio Cid includes se- veral passages where extraordinary or even supernatural adventures happen. This article attempts to analyse these scenes, not only focusing on their features but on their importance within the plot of the Cantar ...
Alfonso Boix Jovaní
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