Abstract This article studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 266,000 monthly prices foreign-currency government traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle Waterloo) 2016, covering up to 91 countries. Our main insight is that, equity markets, the returns on have been sufficiently high compensate for risk. Real ex post average more than 6% ann...

BACKGROUND The preoperative prediction of therapeutic breast reduction weights, to achieve both relief of breast weight symptoms and yet achieve excellent breast shape, remains a challenge. OBJECTIVES To design a simple clinical method to preoperatively predict and quantify therapeutic breast reduction weights. METHODS In 31 women who underwent therapeutic bilateral reduction mammaplasty, t...

Diarrhea due to Salmonella infections has been recognised since the late 19th century. Typhoid diseases were, in the early part of the 20th century, the commonest known waterborne diseases in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America (Hunter, 1997; Pui et al., 2011). In addition non-typhoid salmonellae have been recognised as a leading cause of bacterial enteritis in the UK and w...

The analysis of grain damage in the form dark spots Russian rice varieties grown Krasnodar region 2011-2020 has been carried out. Rice was damaged during filling period, mainly full ripeness. high degree reason for deterioration quality. varied over years. 2011 and 2012 were characterized by a content grains (up to 3-20%). different agar-landscape zones region: Krasnoarmeysky district it higher...

Abstract Mortality rates have been falling or ‘improving’ in many demographically developed countries since the 1950s. However, there has a slowdown 2010 speed of improvement and this phenomenon particularly marked at ages over 50. To understand better mortality slowdown, we analysed long-run trends group using data up to 2017 from Human Database. Specifically, used statistical models parametri...

The 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2011, took place at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, on 27th to 30th June 2011. As a special feature, instead of the traditional (since 2005) special track on “healthgrids”, i.e. grid computing for biomedicine and healthcare, latterly encompassing cloud computing also, the conference HealthGrid 2011 colo...