This paper characterises the world real interest rate as a common trend in real interest rates in Germany, Japan, and the United States from 1964Q1 to 1996Q2. This single common trend has desirable properties as the world real interest rate and has been moving together with the world real return on the stock market, and the world real fiscal policy variable, suggesting financial integration and...

Most states in the USA have adopted P Indexing to guide P-based management of agricultural fields by identifying the relative risk of P loss at farm and watershed scales. To a large extent, this risk is based on hydrologic principles that frequently occurring storms can initiate surface runoff from fields. Once initiated, this hydrological pathway has a high potential to transport P to the stre...

results section: There were 45 participants in the pre-intervention period and 138 participants in the post-intervention period with low CD4 count results (46, 49, and 43 in the direct, PIN, and coded groups, respectively). Median time to clinic return was 33 days (IQR 11-49) in the pre-intervention period versus 6 days (IQR 316) in the intervention period (P<0.001); and median time to ART init...

background: investigation of tuberculosis (tb)-specific indices including prevalence of tb, mortality of tb cases excluding hiv, hiv/tb mortality, incidence of tb (all forms), hiv/tb incidence as well as case detection and related trends is a crucial step in evaluation of program performance and strategies success. besides, estimating the number and time of change points for tb incidence can he...

In previous work we have defined our trend template epistemology for clinically significant trends and we have illustrated and tested a program TrenDx that monitors time-ordered process data by matching the data to trend templates. Our initial application domain was pediatric growth monitoring. For this symposium we have explored monitoring hemodynamic and respiratory parameters of intensive ca...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between free cash flows and stock return considering managers&apos; myopia. two hypotheses have been designed and tested, selecting 96 firms from accepted companies in the tehran stock exchange for six-year period from 2005 to 2010 and using stock return for three years ahead (to 2012). the results show that free cash flows are negati...

there are different strategies for selecting stocks, and different investors use different strategies according to their risk tolerance or their expected rate of return. in this study, the profitability of a broad range of stock se-lection strategies in tehran stock exchange over the period 1370-1383, has been examined, and it has been investigated whether the successful strategies in other cou...