Distinguishing Family from Friends

Financing from Family and Friends∗

We present two models in which a family investor differs from a non-family investor only in that she has an altruistic relationship with the entrepreneur who seeks financing. We show that because of this single difference, family finance is a source of trust capital whereas formal finance is a source of risk capital. Both deepen the financial market. Family finance has two drawbacks: Risk remai...

To my family and friends

From family to friends: does witnessing interparental violence affect young adults' relationships with friends?

PURPOSE Childhood exposure to violence in one's family of origin has been closely linked to subsequent perpetration and victimization of intimate partner violence. There is, however, little research on the relationship between witnessing violence and subsequent peer violence. This study investigates the effects of witnessing interparental violence among Filipino young adults on their use and ex...

Family History: Distinguishing Genetic Disease From Secondary LV Hypertrophy

Left-ventricular hypertrophy is a common finding in clinical practice and the end result of a number of different disease processes. As such, distinguishing hypertrophy attributable to athletic training or chronic hypertension from more rare and potentially life-threatening genetic conditions, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), is of utmost clinical importance. This is true not only f...

Identifying Terms by their Family and Friends

Multi-word terms are traditionally identi ed using statistical techniques or, more recently, using hybrid techniques combining statistics with shallow linguistic information. Approaches to word sense disambiguation and machine translation have taken advantage of contextual information in a more meaningful way, but terminology has rarely followed suit. We present an approach to term recognition ...