Little is known about the possible impact of an influenza pandemic on a nation's economy. We applied the UK macroeconomic model 'COMPACT' to epidemiological data on previous UK influenza pandemics, and extrapolated a sensitivity analysis to cover more extreme disease scenarios. Analysis suggests that the economic impact of a repeat of the 1957 or 1968 pandemics, allowing for school closures, wo...

The classical Lévy-Cramér continuity theorem asserts that the convergence of the characteristic functions implies the weak convergence of the corresponding probability measures. We extend this result to the setting of non-commutative probability theory and discuss some applications. ∗CNRS, Université de Provence, Université de la Méditerranée, Université du Sud Toulon-Var. 2 V. Jakšić, Y. Pautr...

The No-Arbitrage model by Schonbucher [30] is combined with the Extended Vasicek Term Structure Model and applied to the pricing of DM-Eurobonds issued by sovereigns from emerging economies. Practical hedging according to the model is investigated. A portfolio of DM-Eurobonds is analyzed using the risk measures "Shortfall" and "Value at Risk".

“...HOW does it come about that alongside of the idea of ponderable matter, which is derived by abstraction from everyday life, the physicists set the idea of the existence of another kind of matter, the ether? The explanation is probably to be sought in those phenomena which have given rise to the theory of action at a distance, and in the properties of light which have led to the undulatory t...

C. neoformans is a basidiomycetous, yeast-like fungus that, following inhalation from an environmental source, causes respiratory and neurological infection in humans and animals. This fungus has 5 serotypes (A, B, C, D, and AD), and recently was subdivided into 3 varieties known as C. neoformans var. grubii (serotype A), C. neoformans var. neoformans (serotype D), and C. neoformans var. gattii...

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wigExplorer is a BioJS component whose main purpose is to provide a platform for visualisation of wig-formatted data. Wig files are extensively used by genome browsers such as the UCSC Genome Browser. wigExplorer follows the BioJS standard specification, requiring a simple configuration and installation. wigExplorer provides an easy way to navigate the visible region of the canvas and allows in...

Özet. Maliyet ve bütçe tahminleri, süreç kıyaslama ve proje kontrolü gibi yazılım proje yönetimi aktivitelerinin pek çoğu yazılım işlevsel büyüklük ölçümlerine bağlı olduğu için bu değerin ölçümü ve güvenilirliği çok önemlidir. Bu sebeple, İşlevsel büyüklük ölçümlerin güvenilirliğini artırmak için, ölçüm sürecinin sonunda büyüklük dokümanları kontrol edilmeli ve gözden geçirilmelidir. Ancak, öl...

The highly diffuse nature of light propagation in biological tissue is a major challenge for obtaining high-fidelity fluorescence tomographic images. In this work we investigated the use of time-gated detection of early-arriving photons for reducing the effects of light scatter in mice relative to quasi-cw photons. When analyzing sinographic representations of the measured data, it was determin...

The aim of this article is to determine the trends in absenteeism from 2000 to 2012 in Croatia and to examine if the observed trends could be related to the regulations implemented to keep the absenteeism on low level. In Croatia only family doctors keep the responsibility for sick leave and were always been targeted by many regulations to keep absenteeism on appropriate level. A study was obse...