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The risks in the use of the thoracic tape measure as a method of bovine weighing. Statistical analysis

open access: yesRevista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Perú, 2019
El objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar si los métodos de pesaje mediante balanza digital (gold standard) e indirecto por medición torácica son concordantes aplicando el Coeficiente de Concordancia Lin (CCC), el Gráfico de Bland-Altman y la Curva de Supervivencia de la diferencia de las medias en bovinos Nelore.
Martínez Jiménez, Vanessa   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Hedging Effectiveness around USDA Crop Reports [PDF]

open access: yes
It is well documented that “unanticipated” information contained in USDA crop reports induces large price reactions in corn and soybean markets. Thus, a natural question that arises from this literature is: To what extent are futures hedges able to ...
McKenzie, Andrew M., Singh, Navinderpal
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Does segmentation always improve model performance in credit scoring?

open access: yes, 2012
Credit scoring allows for the credit risk assessment of bank customers. A single scoring model (scorecard) can be developed for the entire customer population, e.g. using logistic regression. However, it is often expected that segmentation, i.e. dividing
Anderson   +27 more
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Age differences between sexual partners, behavioural and demographic correlates, and HIV infection on Likoma Island, Malawi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Patterns of age differences between sexual partners-"age-mixing"-may partially explain the magnitude of HIV epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, evidence of age-disparity as a risk factor for HIV remains mixed.
Beauclair, Roxanne   +3 more
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Predicting the Future Burden of Renal Replacement Therapy in Türkiye Using National Registry Data and Comparative Modeling Approaches

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic kidney disease is a growing public health problem worldwide, and the number of patients requiring renal replacement therapy is steadily increasing. Türkiye has experienced a similar rise in both the incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy over the past decades; however, national‐level projections of future ...
Arzu Akgül   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk-Cost Frontier and Collateral Valuation in Securities Settlement Systems for Extreme Market Events [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors examine how the use of extreme value theory yields collateral requirements that are robust to extreme fluctuations in the market price of the asset used as collateral.
Alejandro García, Ramazan Gençay
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Detecting selection along environmental gradients: analysis of eight methods and their effectiveness for outbreeding and selfing populations : [W633] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Thanks to genome-scale diversity data, present-day studies can provide a detailed view of how natural and cultivated species adapt to their environment and particularly to environmental gradients.
Ahmadi, Nourollah   +6 more
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Intraoperative Collection of Ascitic Fluid With Intra‐ or Postoperative Reinfusion in Ovarian Cancer: Safety and Feasibility of a Roller Pumping Method

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Patients with ovarian cancer often present with massive ascites, leading to significant protein loss during surgical procedures. Although cell‐free concentrated ascites reinfusion therapy (CART) is used in palliative settings to mitigate protein loss, its application in intraoperative settings remains unexplored.
Yutaka Yoneoka   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measures to prevent acute airway obstruction after anterior cervical spine surgery: a retrospective cohort study from Japan and a review of the literature [PDF]

open access: yesAsian Spine Journal
Study Design A retrospective cohort study and literature review. Purpose We analyzed the clinical characteristics of acute airway obstruction (AAO) after anterior cervical spine surgery (ACSS), evaluated the effectiveness of newly implemented preventive ...
Seiichi Odate   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions: An Extreme Value Theory Approach [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we define a financial institution’s contribution to financial systemic risk as the increase in financial systemic risk conditional on the crash of the financial institution.
Fuchun Li, Toni Gravelle
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