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Discover Public HealthPurpose/hypothesis Due to sedentary lifestyles and poor nutrition, Louisiana has higher national death rates in obesity related diseases. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess whether a community placed program, Eat Right and Move (ERM), can ...
Marie Vazquez Morgan +2 more
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Quantifying mark-to-market risk in Jamaica’s banking sector
Economic Journal of Emerging MarketsPurpose — This study evaluates how well parametric Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) models measure market risk from Jamaican banks’ sovereign bond exposures.
Kishan Clarke, Robert Stennett
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Early Impact of Childhood Opportunity on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neurocognitive impairment is a well‐recognized complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) that begins early in childhood and persists across development. While cerebrovascular injury contributes substantially to risk, neurocognitive deficits are also observed in children without overt or silent cerebral infarctions, suggesting ...
Julia E. LaMotte +5 more
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Validating the backtests of risk measures [PDF]
, 2007 Paper presented at INFINITI Conference on International Finance 11-12 June 2007, Trinity College Dublin. Also presented at Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida , 18-20 October 2007Financial risk model evaluation or ...
Cotter, John, Zhong, Yan Ping
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Pediatric bone sarcoma patients and survivors may experience psychosocial challenges related to childhood cancer after their intensive, body‐altering treatment. This cross‐sectional study aimed to evaluate generic and survivor‐specific psychosocial outcomes in a national cohort of pediatric bone sarcoma patients and survivors, and ...
Hinke van der Hoek +14 more
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Statistical methods for investment risk management. [PDF]
, 2023 The thesis presents two statistical approaches to risk management when investing in stocks: Modern Portfolio Theory and Conditional Value at Risk optimization, which is selected as an alternative for Value at Risk optimization. The thesis consists of two
Lebedevaitė, Vaida,
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Return Based Risk Measures for Non-Normally Distributed Returns: An Alternative Modelling Approach [PDF]
, 2021 Developments in the world of finance have led the authors to assess the adequacy of using the normal distribution assumptions alone in measuring risk. Cushioning against risk has always created a plethora of complexities and challenges; hence, this paper
Samunderu, Eyden +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with haematological malignancies face significant emotional and relational challenges, often accompanied by difficulties in communicating their needs within the healthcare context. To address these issues, a narrative‐based psycho‐educational intervention based on the creation and prescription of Ironic Medications was ...
Marta Stoppa +7 more
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Bounds for Concave Distortion Risk Measures for Sums of Risks [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we consider the problem of studying the gap between bounds of risk measures of sums of non-independent random variables. Owing to the choice of the context where to set the problem, namely that of distortion risk measures, we first deduce ...
FERRETTI, Paola, CAMPANA A, FERRETTI P.
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An [Imperfect] Case for Dyadic Research in Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Stephanie M. Nanos +2 more
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