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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study shows that lizard osteoderm capping tissue is a hyper‐mineralized hydroxyapatite layer consistently covering the superficial osteoderm surface in those species studied here, yet it varies greatly in morphology, nanostructure, and mechanical performance across species.
Adrian Rodriguez‐Palomo +10 more
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Modelling the U.S. sovereign credit rating [PDF]
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2014 This paper proposes a new methodology for generating sovereign credit ratings. These are determined by mapping the probability that the debt-GDP ratio might exceed a maximum debt limit at some point in the future into a credit rating. The debt limit can be either ad hoc or based on the financial ability of a government to change fiscal policy in the ...
Polito, Vito, Wickens, Michael R.
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DETERMINANTS OF SOVEREIGN CREDIT RATINGS: AN APPLICATION OF THE NAÏVE BAYES CLASSIFIER
Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020 This is an analysis of South Africa’s (SA) sovereign credit rating (SCR) using Naïve Bayes, a Machine learning (ML) technique. Quarterly data from 1999 to 2018 of macroeconomic variables and categorical SCRs were analyzed and classified to predict and ...
Oliver Takawira, J. M. Mwamba
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Metal‐free carbon catalysts enable the sustainable synthesis of hydrogen peroxide via two‐electron oxygen reduction; however, active site complexity continues to hinder reliable interpretation. This review critiques correlation‐based approaches and highlights the importance of orthogonal experimental designs, standardized catalyst passports ...
Dayu Zhu +3 more
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Determinants of sovereign credit ratings: Evidence from CEE countries
Ekonomski Vjesnik, 2018 The goal of this paper is investigating determinants of the sovereign credit ratings in Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Sovereign credit ratings are important to determine a country’s financial ability to meet its obligations.
Hrvoje Jošić, Danijel Mlinarić
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Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska Sectio H, Oeconomia, 2023 Theoretical background: The sovereign creditworthiness and solvency in the context of the pandemic and war crises is one of the biggest challenges that the modern world and the financial market face.
Błażej Lepczyński, Piotr Pisarewicz
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Crystal Engineering of Reticular Materials for Gas‐ and Liquid‐Phase Hydrocarbon Separation
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Crystal engineering enables systematic study of structure/function relationships as exemplified by pore engineering of reticular sorbents, including porous coordination networks and covalent organic frameworks. This review assesses such studies applied across the full scope of industrially relevant hydrocarbon separations to provide insight into how ...
Xia Li +2 more
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Sovereign credit ratings [PDF]
Sovereign ratings are gaining importance as more governments with greater default risk borrow in international bond markets. But while the ratings have proved useful to governments seeking market access, the difficulty of assessing sovereign risk has led
Frank Packer, Richard Cantor
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A Continuous-Time Inequality Measure Applied to Financial Risk: The Case of the European Union
International Journal of Financial Studies, 2018 In this paper, we apply information theory measures and Markov processes in order to analyse the inequality in the distribution of the financial risk in a pool of countries.
Guglielmo D’Amico +3 more
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A HEALTHY DOSE OF PESSIMISM? INFLUENCE OF THE UKRAINIAN ECONOMY ON ITS BANKING SECTOR CREDIT RATINGS [PDF]
Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2017 The purpose of the research is to identify the influence of Ukraine’s economic development on the international agencies' credit rating of its banking system. The instability and ambiguous geopolitical position of Ukraine are complicating any predictions
Svitlana Pokrason
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