... history questionnaire and provided informed consent prior to participation An uninvolved individual randomly divided subjects into two groups, 12 and 11 subjects per group The subjects received either ... guarana, p-synephrine from C aurantium and a green tea polyphenolic extract on heart rateand blood pressure in mildly overweight human subjects Methods Twenty-three subjects volunteered to participate ... example, Haller et al [11, 13] used 10 subjects in each study, while Sale et al.[20] used 20 subjects, Bui et al [15] used 15 subjectsand Min et al [14] used 18 subjects Furthermore, as noted in...
... function, and a differentiation between infarcted and non-infarcted segments Further research for the definition of cut-off values and technical standards will be needed to fully integrate this ... Strain and strain rate imaging: a new clinical approach to quantifying regional myocardial function J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2004; 17(7): 788-802 Voigt JU, Flachskampf FA Strain and strain rate New and ... significant difference of strain, SRe and tissue velocities between infarcted and non-infarcted segments demonstrated by an comparison between 2D Speckle Tracking (2DST) and late enhancement MRI (LE-MRI)...
... default rates and real interest rate, and a strong positive correlation between default rateand lagged 2-year real interest rate We find negative correlation between changes in interest rates and ... between default rateand real interest rates Longstaff and Schwartz (1995) develop a simple approach to valuing risky corporate debt that incorporates both default and interest rate risk, and test its ... spread and interest rates using Moody’s bond indexes from 1960–1997 They find that corporate rates are cointegrated with government rates and the relation between credit spreads and Treasury rates...
... in the companies In Finland, Honko and Virtanen (1975), Virtanen (1984), and most recently Keloharju and Puttonen (1995) have surveyed the investment evaluation criteria and planning horizon of ... characteristics such as industry and size We received 46 responses in time for this study They represent approximately 32 percent of the total sample, and the responserate can be considered to be ... list included public and non-public companies Out of their 104 responses, however, only 23 were from publicly listed companies Graham and Harvey (2001) had a much lower responserate of nine percent...
... Bates (1996a,b), and Bakshi, Cao and Chen (1997), and examples in discrete-time include Taylor (1986), Amin and Ng (1993), Harvey, Ruiz and Shephard (1994), and Kim, Shephard and Chib (1998) Review ... filter-based techniques of Fridman and Harris (1997) and Sandmann and Koopman (1997), Bayesian MCMC methods of Jacquier, Polson and Rossi (1994) and Kim, Shephard and Chib (1998), Simulated Maximum ... through random noises st and rt via their correlation λ1 ; Finally, parameters λ2 and λ3 are to measure the asymmetry of conditional volatility for stock returns and interest rates When st and ηst...
... expectations and interest rate expectations Attitudes to interest rates 215 between August 2006 and April 2007 was passed through to variable -rate products But the average overall effective mortgage rate ... of interest rates and inflation Interest rate perceptions, expectations and movements in retail rates Question of the Bank/GfK NOP survey asks respondents ‘how would you say interest rates on things ... and expectations of future inflation The MPC has also discussed how expectations may have been influenced by strong observed growth rates of nominal demand, money and asset prices Research and...
... household time and sight deposit effective stock rates by the outstanding balances (c) Weights together the household secured and unsecured borrowing effective stock rates by the outstanding balances ... equivalent annual inflation rates Research and analysis Public attitudes to inflation and interest rates Chart Explaining Bank/GfK NOP perceptions with three-monthly inflation rates Per cent 153 Table ... have a reasonably good understanding of how interest rates have changed over the past year 20 Chart 12 Interest rate perceptions and movements in household interest rates 10 200 Net percentage...
... situations, see Alvarez, Lucas, and Weber 2001 References Alvarez, Fernando; Atkeson, Andrew; and Kehoe, Patrick J Forthcoming Money, interest rates, and exchange rates with endogenously segmented ... the Relationship Between Money and Interest Rates Correlation Coefficients and Regression Slope Coefficients for Money Growth Rates† and Interest Rates in Developed and Developing Countries in Various ... is made and the time it is repaid is the expected rate of inflation Since loan contracts take account of the expected inflation rate, adding that rate to the real interest rate converts rates of...
... short rate, the ten-year Treasury-bond rate for the long rate, and the S&P 500 index for the stock market For the euro area, we use the three-month interbank rate – the FIBOR rate before 1999 and ... Bonds and Exchange Rates”, Journal of International Money and Finance, 22, 307-341 Faust, J., Rogers, J., Wang, S., Wright, J (2003), “The High Frequency Response of Exchange Rates and Interest Rates ... real and financial linkages of the underlying economies Heston and Rouwenhorst (1994), Griffin and Karolyi (1998) and Brooks and del Negro (2002) argue that mainly country-specific shocks, and...
... ratio and C&I loan Examples of this literature also include Hall (1993), Berger and Udell (1994), Haubrich and Wachtel (1993), Hancock and Wilcox (1994), Brinkman and Horvitz (1995), and Peek and ... interest -rate futures Finally, less than percent of the sample banks report having open positions in interest -rate swaps, interest -rate options, interest -rate forwards, and interest -rate futures ... SWO, and OFSW are eleven possible interactions between each type of derivative instruments Among these interaction terms, O stands for option, F stands for futures, S stands for swaps, and W stands...
... Japan (Aoki and Patrick, 1994), Germany (Harhoff and Körting, 1998) and Italy (Angelini et al.,1998) and in more market oriented ones such as the U.S (Petersen and Rajan, 1994; Berger and Udell, ... the time deposit rateand the repo rate on corresponding maturities applied to bank j between June 2008 and March 2010 (∆INT _RATE j,) The latter is regressed on a constant (α) and a vector of ... with robust standard errors in brackets The symbols *, **, and *** represent significance levels of 10%, 5%, and 1% respectively 32 Fig Interest rates on overdrafts and interbank rate in Italy...
... interest rates together with the Taylor-implied rates 3.3 Interest Rate Deviations From Taylor-Implied Rates According to the Taylor-rule, of the 14 countries, five (Finland, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland ... Switzerland and the US, rates were generally too low in the late 1980s and early 1990s and again from the late 1990s However, compared to IE and ES, the deviations from the Taylor implied interest rates ... moderate Pairwise correlations of interest rate deviations are, on average, positive and significant while correlations between observed rates and Taylor-implied rates range between 0.55 (NL) and...
... between borrowers and lenders Here, reference rate a¤ects both two factors In section 3, 4, and 5, we propose three channels through which reference rate a¤ects credit spreads and macroeconomic ... ; and an increase of borrowers’riskiness,10 caught by a higher standard deviation of idiosyncratic productivity ; in the borrowing sector ; for = c; x ;and F; respectively Figure and demonstrate ... to meet the aggregate demand F (st ) : The aggregate demand is not known to the operator and it infers the aggregate 12 See Christiano, Motto, and Rostagno (2003, 2008, and 2010) for quantitative...
... TUE-MCE events, strengthen system and clinical responses, and reduce morbidity and mortality; identify leadership strategies that improve preparedness for andresponse to TUE-MCE events; promote ... and concepts of the U.S Department of Homeland Security’s National Planning Scenario #1 (explosives attack) and National Response Framework and DHHS’ “Medical Surge Capacity and Capability Handbook.” ... receive, evaluate, and treat large numbers of injured patients, rapidly identify and stabilize the most critically injured, evaluate response efforts, and conduct exercises and strategic planning...
... immediacy and is the preference of building surveyors as well as ‘city planners and architects looking for design ideas’ (Brand, 1994) Building surveys, condition surveysand dilapidation surveys ... Building Surveysand Reports 1.3 1.3.1 Other housing quality initiatives Fitness standard The current fitness standard for England and Wales was introduced through the Local Government and Housing ... floors, beams and columns and roofs – and other structural problems such as subsidence See Appendix VIII for the definition of ‘building survey’ and other related terms Building Surveysand Reports,...
... protein, PAI-1(M149K), and to a lesser extent PAI-1(G155K, D(156–157), A158E), had a decreased rate of latency transition; PAI-1(N152D) had a similar rate; and a slightly increased rate for PAI1(G155P, ... assay and expressed as percentage of the theoretical maximum The activity was monitored over time and the rate of latency transition expressed as the functional half-life, t½ The averages and standard ... assay and expressed as percentage of the theoretical maximum The activity was monitored over time and the rate of latency transition expressed as the functional half-life, t½ The averages and standard...
... boxes” that produce and consume intrusion-related information” Where CIDF and IDAR respectively stand for “Common Intrusion Detection Framework” and “Intrusion Detection Analysis andResponse Considering ... for the normal and the other one is for the abnormal behaviors) In a graph presented in this paper, the false alarm rateand the detection rate of the system were input parameters and three curves ... investigated and HP and honey nets are described Data control and capture for the HP are illustrated Authors categorize the HPs into four categories: Prevention, Detection, Reaction and Research...