What happens when investment grade bonds are downgraded to junk status? The received wisdom is that these fallen angels are sold by fixed income investors who, by regulation, are prohibited from investing substantial portions of their portfolios in speculative grade paper. We investigate insurance company sales of bonds that were downgraded to junk in order to document the extent of forced sell...

Contemporary angelology is primarily an apologetic response to the negation of existence angelic reality by liberal Protestantism. Bulgakov’s teaching about angels, on other hand, arose as indispensable part theological system. The orthodox author defines angels created ideas reality. As with Plato, every thing has its own idea, so Bulgakov it angel. are therefore closely related earthly world ...

For most people the world consists of a multitude of things, objects, or entities, such as rocks, animals, and humans. All of these are then ordered in terms of higher and lower: animals are higher than rocks, humans are higher than animals, and those who believe in angels would say that angels are higher than humans. This kind of thinking and perception of reality is hierarchical because in a ...

In this project, a multilevel inverter was designed and implemented to operate a stand-alone solar photovoltaic system. The proposed system uses selective harmonics elimination pulse-width modulation (PWM) in the multilevel inverter to convert DC voltage from battery storage to supply AC loads. In the PWM method, the effectiveness of eliminating low-order harmonics in the inverter output voltag...

In the first part of Summa theologiae St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes cognition in God, angels and human beings; he does that by comparing juxtaposing them. On one side, questions concerning divine cognition, such as identity substance, its nondiscursivity, scope or future contingents are considered articles dedicated to angels. other proper characteristics on soul, active intellect, lack inborn in...

In this paper we present a registration method for cerebral vascular structures in the 2D MRA images. The method is based on bifurcation structures. The usual registration methods, based on point matching, largely depend on the branching angels of each bifurcation point. This may cause multiple feature correspondence due to similar branching angels. Hence, bifurcation structures offer better re...

They say that ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.1 And so I was not surprised to see my book The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity described as ‘ideological’ by reviewers who strike me as black pots in glass houses casting the first stone. By the same token, it is not easy for an author to defend himself against such an accusation: ‘I am not ideologi...