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
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Hedging Effectiveness around USDA Crop Reports [PDF]
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?
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]
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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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
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Risk-Cost Frontier and Collateral Valuation in Securities Settlement Systems for Extreme Market Events [PDF]
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]
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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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
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Measures to prevent acute airway obstruction after anterior cervical spine surgery: a retrospective cohort study from Japan and a review of the literature [PDF]
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
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Measuring Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions: An Extreme Value Theory Approach [PDF]
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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