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‘Too interconnected to fail’ financial network of US CDS market: Topological fragility and systemic risk

2012

A small segment of credit default swaps (CDS) on residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) stand implicated in the 2007 financial crisis. The dominance of a few big players in the chains of insurance and reinsurance for CDS credit risk mitigation for banks' assets has led to the idea of too interconnected to fail (TITF) resulting, as in the case of AIG, of a tax payer bailout. We provide an empirical reconstruction of the US CDS network based on the FDIC Call Reports for off balance sheet bank data for the 4th quarter in 2007 and 2008. The propagation of financial contagion in networks with dense clustering which reflects high concentration or localization of exposures between few parti…

Future directions in international financial integration research - A crowdsourced perspective

2018

This paper is the result of a crowdsourced effort to surface perspectives on the present and future direction of international finance. The authors are researchers in financial economics who attended the INFINITI 2017 conference in the University of Valencia in June 2017 and who participated in the crowdsourcing via the Overleaf platform. This paper highlights the actual state of scientific knowledge in a multitude of fields in finance and proposes different directions for future research.

Microcredit as a tool for combating financial exclusion in Italy: the differences on a regional and local level

2016

This paper proposes a mapping of microcredit (social and productive) in the period from 2005 to 2013 in three main Italian regions. Later we offer a description of the micro-credit initiatives promoted by cooperative credit banks trying to take advantage of any differences in the initiatives promoted by other types of operators in terms of default rates of loans. The differences will be commented on the basis of the distinctive features of this category of these relationship banks in order to identify a possible way of development of microcredit in Italy

Nowy i pewny sposób ochronienia słomianych dachów i budowli drewnianych od poźarów

1822

In vitro cytokine profile revealed differences from dorsal and ventral skin susceptibility to pathogen-probiotic interaction in gilthead seabream

2016

Skin is the first barrier of defense on fish, which is crucial to protection against different stressors, including pathogens. Skin samples obtained from dorsal and ventral part of Sparus aurata specimens were incubated with Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida (a pathogen for this fish species), with Shewanella putrefaciens Pdp11 (a probiotic bacteria isolated from healthy gilthead seabream skin) or with both bacteria. The gene expression profile of nine cytokines (il1b, tnfa, il6, il7, il8, il15, il18, il10 and tgfb) was studied by qPCR in all the skin samples. The present findings revealed different patterns of cytokine profile in dorsal and ventral skin of gilthead seabream, which c…

Abordajes Terapéuticos No Farmacológicos para el Tratamiento de la Cefalea Tensional. Revisión bibliográfica.

2013

Introducción: La cefalea tensional (CT) es la más prevalente dentro de las cefaleas primarias. Representa un impacto económico alto y una repercusión importante en la vida de los pacientes que las sufren y en el sistema público de salud. Objetivos: Conocer el número y fechas de publicación de los estudios realizados en el tratamiento de la CT. Material y Métodos: Se procedió a una búsqueda bibliográfica en PubMed recurriendo al uso de las palabras clave contenidas en dichas publicaciones referidas específicamente a CT y se realizó una búsqueda incluyendo los términos tension-type headache y manual therapy, manipulation therapy, physical therapy, vertebral manipulation, cervical manipulation…

Eficacia De La Técnica De Thrust En Rotación Del Atlas Con Contacto Indexial En Pacientes Con Cefalea Tensional: Estudio Piloto

2013

Introducción: La cefalea tensional (CT) es uno de los dolores de cabeza más comunes en la población. Su prevalencia es alta y puede influir en la calidad de vida, el entorno laboral y social, induciendo a la ingesta de fármacos y favoreciedo la cefalea crónica. Objetivos: Evaluar la eficacia de la técnica de thrust en rotación del atlas, con contacto indexial, (TTRA) en pacientes con CT. Material y Métodos: Se realizó un estudio piloto aleatorizado. La muestra estuvo formada por veintinueve pacientes (n=29), los cuales fueron aleatoriamente distribuidos en dos grupos; experimental (GE, n=12) y control (GC, n=17). Ambos grupos fueron evaluados con mediciones goniométricas antes y después de …

Attēlu fona modelēšanas algoritmi

2019

Datorredzes izpētes laukā ir sastopami dažādi izacinājumi, kas atstāj iespaidu uz fona modelēšanas algoritmu darbību. Piemēram, apgaismojuma maiņas, dinamisks fons un ēnas. Pie fona modelēšanas izaicinājumiem var pieskaītīt arī ar video filmēšanas tehniskajām grūtībām radītios izaicinājumus, pie kuriem pieder arī kompresijas artefakti. Taču, ir jāatzīmē, ka kompresijas artefaktu atstātāis efekts uz fona modelēšanas algoritmiem ir maz pētīts. Šī darba ietvaros tika pētīta kompresijas artefaktu atstātā ietekme uz dažiem fona modelēšanas algoritmiem. Izpētei tika izvēlēti divi algoritmi Mixture of Gaussians (MOG) un K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN), kas tika darbināti uz CDNET video datu kopas ar un…

Life-course perspectives of milk consumption among young Norwegian women and their knowledge of milk as a source of iodine: a qualitative study.

2021

Mild to moderate iodine deficiency has been found among young Norwegian women of reproductive age. In Norway, cow’s milk is the main source of iodine; however, milk consumption is decreasing, particularly among young women. This study aimed to investigate milk consumption practices in young Norwegian women and their attitudes toward milk consumption from childhood to young adulthood in a life-course perspective and their knowledge of milk as a source of iodine. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 30 bachelor students (women, 18–25 years old) from five different study programs. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to interpret milk consumption practices from a life-co…

Reproducibility and relative validity of a newly developed web-based food-frequency questionnaire for assessment of preconception diet

2019

Abstract Background The importance of diet and nutrition during preconception age is a window of opportunity to promote future parental and transgenerational health. As a sub-study to a large Norwegian study, ‘Diet today – health of tomorrow’, a food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was developed to assess diet during the preconception phase in young adults aged 20 – 30 years and in this paper we report the reproducibility and relative validity of this questionnaire. Methods The FFQ was developed from an existing FFQ validated in adolescents. Participants were recruited on social media and at a university. Reproducibility was assessed by comparing the test and retest of the FFQ. Relative valid…