This paper surveys the field of financial analysis using news data, and also our own considerable work regarding movie gross analysis to show the predictive power of news data. Since the 1990s, linguistic sources such as news have been continuously proved to carry extra and meaningful information beyond traditional quantitative finance data, and thus they can be used as predictive indicators in...

This paper proposes a DEA-based approach to credit scoring. Compared with conventional models such as multiple discriminant analysis, logistic regression analysis, and neural networks for business failure prediction, which require extra a priori information, this new approach solely requires ex-post information to calculate credit scores. For the empirical evidence, this methodology was applied...

BACKGROUND No information is available on the financial impact of nosocomial pneumonia in Argentina. To calculate the cost of nosocomial pneumonia in intensive care units, a 5-year, matched cohort study was undertaken at 3 hospitals in Argentina. SETTING Six adult intensive care units (ICU). METHODS Three hundred seven patients with nosocomial pneumonia (exposed) and 307 patients without no...

BACKGROUND Drug manufacturers have developed "evergreening" strategies to compete with generic medication after patent termination. These include marketing of slightly modified follow-on drugs. We aimed to estimate the financial impact of these drugs on overall healthcare costs and also to examine the impact of listing these drugs in hospital restrictive drug formularies (RDFs) on the healthcar...

This note is inspired to an article published some years ago on Fedeltà del Suono [1]. The motivation to write something about acoustic phase and its implications on listening was originated from the reading of an interesting “Application Note” from Brüel & Kjær [2]: a perfect example of how it is possible to treat in an exemplary, clear way, a not so very intuitive subject like this one. Many ...

Since its origins in the Fifties, Rai has always paid attention to pedagogical aspects of offer, consistent with Catholic inspiration, combining different genres and divulgation approaches. In first years history, Italian public television represented a “second school” for targets, producing iconic titles learning training. A particular branch educational approach content oft...

Monetary environment as the core of financial system has been functionally designed in light of the new set of extensive goals including financial stability, sustainable noninflationary growth, external sustainability, and price stability. A comprehensive monetary policy framework is proposed for Iran which systematically include the new goals, stance variables, instruments, transmission mechan...

background breast augmentation is the most frequent procedure performed according to the 2009 quick facts report of the american society of plastic surgeons. this study presents the periareolar extra-glandular breast augmentation. methods from 2004 to 2010 among 32 female patients, peri-areolar incision was performed for breast augmentation. dissection was performed in subcutaneous plane toward...

The security of electronic payment protocols is of interest to researchers in academia and industry. While the ultimate objective is the safest and most secure protocol, convenience and usability should not be ignored, or the protocol may not be suitable for large-scale deployment. Our aim in this paper is to design a practical electronic payment protocol which is both secure and convenient. AN...