Abstract We introduce new forecast encompassing tests for the risk measure Expected Shortfall (ES). The ES has received much attention since its introduction into Basel III Accords, which stipulate use as primary market international banking regulation. utilize joint loss functions pair and Value at Risk to set up three test variants. are built on an asymptotic theory that is robust misspecific...

Since the emergence of the field in the 1970s, several trends have begun to challenge the original assumptions, claims, and practices of what became known as the medical humanities. In this article, the authors make the case for the health humanities as a more encompassing label because it captures recent theoretical and pedagogical developments in higher education such as the shift from rigid ...

Infrared (IR) spectroscopic imaging coupled with microscopy has been used to investigate thin sections of cervix uteri encompassing normal tissue, precancerous structures, and squamous cell carcinoma. Methods for unsupervised distinction of tissue types based on IR spectroscopy were developed. One-hundred and twenty-two images of cervical tissue were recorded by an FTIR spectrometer with a 64x6...

The study of atmospheric rivers (ARs) and their impacts on extreme precipitation are currently great research interest in view clear socioeconomical implications. However, studies this type generally contain caveats. first these is a meteorological nature, concerned with the diversity different patterns that can be associated phenomenological definition, there no guarantee all so-called ARs fol...

For n disjoint line segments in the plane we construct in optimal O(n log n) time an encompassing tree of maximal degree three such that every vertex is pointed. Moreover, at every segment endpoint all incident edges lie in a halfplane defined by the incident input segment.