Multivariate Discriminant Analysis (MDA) has long been used to classify failing and non-failing firms with high accuracy rates, although a number of methodological flaws are well known. The alternative approach based on Conditional Probability Analysis (CPA) models have been applied to forecast mergers and acquisitions and extended to the prediction of corporate failure. This is used her to dis...

Existing no trade results are based on the common prior assumption (CPA). This paper identifies a strictly weaker condition than the CPA under which speculative trade is impossible in a rational expectations equilibrium (REE). As our main finding, we demonstrate the impossibility of speculative asset trade in an REE whenever an insider is involved who knows the asset’s true value. To model insi...

OBJECTIVE Coronary calcium score (CCS), carotid plaque area (CPA), intima-media thickness (IMT), and C-reactive protein (CRP) are independent predictors of cardiovascular prognosis. Although each test may enhance risk stratification, their comparative abilities to screen for underlying coronary stenoses in individual patients is less established. METHODS AND RESULTS Forty-two patients who had...

OBJECTIVE This experiment attempted to identify the features of air traffic geometry that would influence the difficulty and biases of pilots' conflict detection using a cockpit display of traffic information (CDTI). BACKGROUND There was previously no systematic study on effects of such features on conflict detection using the CDTI. METHOD Twenty-four pilots viewed dynamic encounters betwee...

Thirty-four isolates of Aspergillus flavus obtained from the main Argentinian corn production area were tested for their ability to produce both cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) on corn and on liquid media and aflatoxins on corno Aflatoxins and CPA were quantified by comparison with standards. The last one was confirmed by mass spectrometry. AII but one of the isolates produced CPA on liquid medium in ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical and MR findings of metastatic lesions involving the cerebellopontine angle (CPA), which may be useful in differentiating them from the more commonly occurring benign CPA lesions. METHODS Clinical and MR findings of 14 patients with clinical/radiologic (seven) or pathologic (seven) diagnoses of CPA metastasis were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS Useful clin...

Our objective was to assess whether the total area under the curve (AUC) of high-dose cyclophosphamide (CPA), combined with cisplatin and 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea, could be predicted from its AUC on the first day of treatment. We reviewed the AUC of CPA in 470 patients who underwent pharmacokinetic monitoring of the drug. All patients received the same high-dose regimen of CPA, cisp...

Neurons in the caudal pressor area (CPA) are a source of tonic sympathoexcitation that is dependent on activation of cardiovascular sympathetic premotor neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM). In the present study, we sought to clarify the mechanism through which CPA neurons elicit increases in RVLM neuronal discharge, vasoconstrictor sympathetic tone, and arterial pressure. In ure...

Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited and incurable neurodegenerative disorder characterized by marked striatal atrophy. Adenosine receptors may represent a possible therapeutic target for HD. The localization of A2A receptors (A2ARs) in medium-sized spiny neurons, which are selectively lost in HD suggested that these receptors could play an important pathogenetic role. Unfortunately, confl...