H ousing is a commodity with unique features and its market, especially in urban areas, is characterized by unique business cycles that differentiate it from other commodities. On one hand, housing market can be deeply influenced by economic shocks, and on the other hand, the sheer size of housing investments makes the economy particularly vulnerable to any shock in this market. Henc...

This paper describes a method for calculating daily real-time estimates of the current state of the U.S. economy. The estimates are computed from data on scheduled U.S. macroeconomic announcements using an econometric model that allows for variable reporting lags, temporal aggregation, and other complications in the data. The model can be applied to …nd real-time estimates of GDP, in‡ation, une...

Globally, one in ten babies are born preterm, and the preterm birth rate has been increasing.1Chawanpaiboon S Vogel JP Moller A-B et al.Global, regional, national estimates of levels 2014: a systematic review modelling analysis.Lancet Glob Health. 2019; 7: e37-e46Summary Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (811) Google Scholar The second highest number births reported China, with more than 1 million ev...

This paper discusses pooling versus model selection for nowand forecasting in the presence of model uncertainty with large, unbalanced datasets. Empirically, unbalanced data is pervasive in economics and typically due to di¤erent sampling frequencies and publication delays. Two model classes suited in this context are factor models based on large datasets and mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) regress...

The effect of selected plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on the growth, chlorophyll content, nutrient element content, and yield of strawberry plants under natural field salinity conditions stress was investigated. Field experiments were conducted using a randomized complete block design with five PGPRs (Bacillus subtilis EY2, Bacillus atrophaeus EY6, Bacillus spharicus GC subgroup B ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of eight herpes virus that can cause disease in humans affecting the 30-100% of the population. In the oral cavity, CMV infection appears as a common ulcerated lesion, without clinical pathognomonic signs. The locations of oral lesions are hard palate, soft palate, tongue and floor of the mouth. This case report describes the case of a 59-year-old woman with a painf...