... short -term risk This "myopic demand'' for long- term bonds can be large when risk aversion is small, because long- term bonds have attractive Sharpe ratios Second, long- term investors may hold long- term ... conventional wisdom We show that investors may hold long- term bonds for two reasons First, if long- term bonds offer a term premium then investors may hold them for speculative purposes, to increase their ... bonds for hedging purposes Long- term bonds can finance a stable longrun consumption stream even in the face of time-varying short -term interest rates, and this is attractive to risk-averse long- term...
... [27–90 years] All patients suffered from pain, 27(19%) had been for some weeks, 93(66%) for some months, 20(14%) for some years (no data for one patient) In 137/140 (98%) patients an impairment of ... first led to a tissue acidosis and later to a longer-lasting alkalosis, this finding was regarded to be one of the mechanisms for pain relief for a long time More recent experiments showed that ... [11-28] Side effects were never reported there Unfortunately, it was not possible to perform an detailed statistical analysis of absolute pain scores before vs after radiotherapy As stated earlier,...
... for each person on the list of unit staff: 'Discussion made me feel: positive, neither positive nor negative, negative.' We will score this scale +2 for 'positive', +1 for 'neither', and -1 for ... Implications for group performance and leader reputation Organ Sci 2006, 17(1):64-79 105 Cummings JN, Cross R: Structural properties of work groups and their consequences for performance Soc ... making decisions, and lower status staff responsible for carrying these decisions out in terms of daily care The implications of this study for teamwork among and across disciplines are quite...
... specicity of the obstructivesleepapnea detector is evident The TFR-based parameter estimation is a remarkable factor for an adequate dynamic feature generation Therefore, for OSA detection, ... short apneas, as they have a lower functional residual capacity and a faster respiratory rate than adults Therefore, obstructive apneas of any length are scored when interpreting pediatric sleep ... and C K Karmakar, Support vector machines for automated recognition of obstructivesleepapnea syndrome from ECG recordings, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol 13,...
... model of obstructivesleepapnea Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997, 156: 886-894 Kryger MH: Management of obstructivesleep apnea- hypopnea syndrome: overview In: Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, ... during sleep and daytime symptoms in obstructivesleepapneaSleep 1999, 22:61-67 29 Berry RB, Yamaura EM, Gill K, Reist C: Acute effects of paroxetine on genioglossus activity in obstructivesleep ... electromyogram in sleepapnea patients versus normal controls (a neuromuscular compensatory mechanism) J Clin Invest 1992, 89:1571-1579 Sanders MH: Medical therapy forobstructivesleep apneahypopnea...
... following, the term long- term refers to considering long sections of speech, including several to many short -term frames of about 20 ms Hence, it has a different meaning than in the long- term (pitch) ... “Perceptual long- term variable-rate sinusoidal modeling of speech, ” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol 15, no 2, pp 851–861, 2007 [24] L Girin, Long- term quantization of speech ... make a forced choice (i.e., perform an A-B test), based on the perceived best quality The overall preference score across sentences and subjects is 52.5% for the long- term coding versus 47.5% for...
... study on longterm electrophysiological outcome and its impact on the QoL in a large patient group Study cohort: The number of patients lost in longterm follow up is consistent with long- term surveys ... concerning the development of QoL in the long- term The published literature mainly deals with the electrophysiological longterm results of RF ablation So far, QoL before and after ablation has not been ... sinus) Before ablation, the underlying clinical tachycardia had to be able to be repeatedly induced before detailed mapping and the ablation maneuvers were performed The ablation itself was performed...
... rate for obtaining removal efficiency of 80% for T-N and about 99% for NH4+-N, at the recycle ratio of 600% and C/N ratio of about was about m3/day, which means that about 2.3 days is proper for ... constant at about 2,200 mg/L for T-N and 2,000 mg/L for NH4+-N Effluent T-N under steady state condition was about 400 mg/L for the recycle ratio 400% and 330 mg/L for 600 % and declined to about ... Effects of Recycle Ratio 3.1 Nitrogen This test was performed for the effects of recycle ratio after about 50 days of stabilization period for sufficient adaptation of methanol to be inserted as...
... access to long- term care for those who need it through a system of targeted subsidies available to those who cannot afford to pay for it themselves The level of subsidies for public longterm care ... of value for money, the provinces should aim to free up hospital beds used by those waiting for home- or facility-based long- term care and thus eliminate the waiting lists for long- term care ... the use of long- term- care resources and the provision of acute- and primary-care services, and by making a greater effort to meet the demand for long- term care The provinces could, for example,...
... 4A), Lyve-1-positive Implications fortube formation-based assays and transfection assays of tsA58T Ag-expressing ECs We also examined whether the cells formed tube- like structures on collagen ... cultured in EBM-2 basal medium with 0.5% serum for 24 h Cells were incubated with growth factors at 33 °C for 10 and harvested for analysis Tube formation of tsA58T-expressing endothelial cells ... University of Tokyo, Japan) for providing pCAG-Cre; Dr Ikuo Yana (Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan) for help in performing endothelial tube formation experiments This work...
... fixed capital formation (percentages year-on-year) THE MEDIUMAND LONG- TERM GROWTH OUTLOOK FOR RUSSIA (as a percentage of GDP) 2003 2004 2005 trend growth based on Hodrick-Prescott filter for 1980-2005 ... medium to longer term In particular, the paper presents new evidence on how Russia’s oil price dependency has evolved over recent years It also discusses the country’s medium to longer term growth ... than a blessing in the longer -term – point to a more challenging growth outlook In addition, ECB Occasional Paper No 58 March 2007 INTRODUCTION Interest in Russia’s longer term economic prospects...
... explores how long- term energy forecasts are created and why they are useful By long- term, we mean forecasts with a time horizon of more than two decades Measuring the success of such forecasts is ... Sources for the individual curves may be found in Reference 30 Sep 2002 19:4 AR AR171-EG27-04.tex AR171-EG27-04.sgm LaTeX2e(2002/01/18) LONG- TERM ENERGY FORECASTS P1: IBD 87 Long- term forecasts ... could inform, for instance, a government’s long- term plans Another example is the U.S DOE’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook forecast (16) This widely used forecast,...
... WHO NEEDS AND USES LONG- TERM CARE? The long- term care population is diverse in terms of age and level of disability Of the estimated 12.8 million Americans reporting long- term care needs in 1995, ... who should pay for long- term care services through what mechanisms; how to design and deliver these services; and how to recruit, train, and retain a workforce to deliver long- term care services ... delivery, and workforce—and identifies some of the major demographic and policy trends that will affect the demand for, and supply of, long- term care in the future First I define long- term care, including...
... the tube into the correct spot Gastrostomy – a procedure where a tube is put into the stomach through a small hole in the abdomen * Another type of long- term feeding -tube called a jejunostomy tube ... have a longterm feeding tube known as a gastrostomy tube (PEG) or a jejunostomy tube (j -tube) 16 What Are My Treatment Choices? you are the substitute decision maker for an older person who is ... Decide for Your Family Member: Steps 28 Examples of How To Decide 31 References 37 Personal Worksheet for Feeding Tube Placement 42 you need to decide whether the person should have a long term...
... larger share of for the performance of potential micropension products the population in developing countries joins the formal sector Therefore, to make significant short and medium LONGTERM SAVINGS ... 1999, SEWA Bank broadened its already wide array of savings facilities by launching one insurance package and three long- term savings plans to gauge demand for long- term pension-style products At ... industry • To help clients provide for their needs during retirement pension funds For example, in Peru, microenterprises • To obtain a longterm source of funds for institutional use are only 0.2%...
... Guidance Note 2: Selecting storage media for long- term preservation Contents INTRODUCTION .4 SELECTION ISSUES .4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Longevity Capacity ... records It is intended for use by anyone involved in the creation of electronic records that may need to be preserved over the long term, as well as by those responsible for preservation This ... This guidance note provides information for the creators and managers of electronic records about the selection of physical storage media in the context of long- term preservation The scope of...
... disease -free at least years after radical prostatectomy, 2) to identify the primary determinants of long- term QoL, and 3) to evaluate the impact of nerve-sparing surgery without hormone therapy on long- term ... followup duration Patients selected for NS-RP who did not require subsequent HT were essentially cancer -free; age at follow-up was the foremost determinant for sexual func- RP in locally advanced ... approach forlongterm cancer control in clinically localized PCa [2], has a remarkable impact on patient's quality of life (QoL) Although the primary goal of any innovative treatment for prostate...
... collection, and processed into buffy coats the same day as receipt forlongterm storage at -80degC Our concern was the effect of longterm storage on total yield and fragmentation of DNA resulting ... can be used as a longterm clinical trial or biobank specimen for DNA, in lieu of immediately isolating the DNA at collection We have shown that it can be stored for stored for up to nine years ... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/91 in longterm frozen storage for up to years The buffy coat specimens were collected under the ACCORD trial protocol, from a single participant ACD tube of blood that was drawn,...
... conditions For each PCR, forty cycles of amplification were performed with the following temperature profiles: 94°C for min, 55°C for min, and 72°C forfor the outer primer set and 94°C for min, 60°C for ... isolation and longterm replication were carried out in several phases: short term cultures (positive for HCV up to 10 weeks), medium term cultures (positive for 10–23 weeks), or extended term cultures ... individual patients for further analysis http://www.virologyj.com/content/2/1/37 Determination of optimum day for harvesting HCV for RNA extraction In order to determine the optimum day for harvesting...