This paper examines the effect of currency conversion programs from Swiss franc-denominated loans to other on risk for banks in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). franc mortgage proliferated CEE countries prior financial crisis contributed volume non-performing as strongly appreciated during post-crisis period. Empirical findings suggest that loan reduced mismatches francs but increased foreign ...

Introduction Micro-scale inductively coupled rf resonators enable wireless investigation of small sample volumes in a conventional NMR spectrometer. The inductively coupled approach has the advantage of focussing the sensitivity and rf power on the small sample volume, without the need for any connections to the spectrometer. Preceding research demonstrated that inductively coupled coils can in...

For bilateral cochlear implant (CI) patients, electrodes that receive the same frequency allocation often stimulate locations in the left and right ear that do not yield the same perceived pitch, resulting in a pitch mismatch. This pitch mismatch may be related to degraded binaural abilities. Pitch mismatches have been found for some bilateral CI users and the goal of this study was to determin...

We prepared synthetic 50-mer DNA duplexes, each containing four mismatched base-pairs in similar positions. We examined their cleavage by DNases I and II, micrococcal nuclease (MNase), methidiumpropyl-EDTA-Fe(II) [MPE-Fe(II)] and hydroxyl radicals. We find that single mismatches only produce subtle changes in the DNase I-cleavage pattern, the most common of which is attenuated cleavage at locat...

Thermodynamics of 27 oligonucleotides with internal A.C mismatches at two different pHs were determined from UV absorbance versus temperature melting profiles. The data were combined with four literature values and used to derive nearest-neighbor parameters for all 16 trimer sequences with internal A.C mismatches at pH 7.0 and 5. 0. The results indicate that the contribution of single A.C misma...

Homologous recombination plays a key role in generating genetic diversity, while maintaining protein functionality. The mechanisms by which RecA enables a single-stranded segment of DNA to recognize a homologous tract within a whole genome are poorly understood. The scale by which homology recognition takes place is of a few tens of base pairs, after which the quest for homology is over. To stu...