Chapter 1 overcomes these challenges combining a semi-nonparametric estimator in the framework of the Efficient Method of Moments, and a reduced-form model for pricing sovereign bonds and credit default swaps. The application for Brazil sovereign assets explores the performance of the model under ...
aAt the same time, improved economic conditions in ruralregions and diversification of employment away from agriculture have reduced the traditional dependency on the ‘big family’. Traditional models of the ‘coalition family’ and the ‘stem family’, with diverse family members forming a ...
Both positions also reference the "ethics of the physician" to elaborate a framework for Islamic medical ethics. In these debates, medicine and biomedicine are conflated and bioethics is reduced to principlism. This is problematic because biomedicine is but one medical system and princi- plism is...
As a part of this work, new analytic models have been designed for observational studies and, more generally, for nonexperimental approaches that may be used when treatment assignment is ignorable. The growing consensus among statisticians and econometricians is that OLS regression or simple covariance...
Absorbed doses to the nucleus per decay (S values) were calculated for 3 cellular morphologies: spheres (MIRDcell), truncated cone-shaped constructive solid geometry (CSG within MCNP6.1), and realistic PM models, using Geant4-10.03. The geometrical set-up of the clonogenic survival assays was ...
” However, DNA damage and other genotoxic effects have been observed in numerous studies of low intensity RFR in animal models and in humans. For example, the NTP study found statistically significant increases in DNA damage in brain cells of exposed rats and mice compared to sham controls [...
For instance, while the levee paradox had already been identified by White (Citation1945) and been widely discussed in the literature, systematic datasets about its magnitude in real-world case studies are still missing. Conceptual models, i.e. hypotheses of how socio-hydrological systems work (e...
Our ability to trust that a random number is truly random is essential for fields as diverse as cryptography and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics. Existing solutions both come with drawbacks—device-independent quantum random number generators (QRN
To validate assumptions about the length of the distribution–replacement cycle for long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in Rwanda, the Malaria and other Parasitic Diseases Division, Rwanda Ministry of Health, used World Health Organization methods to independently confirm the three-year LLIN service...
Colored regions denote the FRE flux assumptions made by the models. Active fire area is computed for flaming and saturated pixels only, assuming that these fire phases primarily contribute to plume injection14. FRP is computed for all categories, as this is what satellites observe. Plots showing ...