The purpose of this research is to analyze the convergence of regional house prices and its complexity in China. In this purpose it used nonlinear time varying factor model. The obtained results have provided evidences for the existence of some degree of segmentation in China’s housing market. By further dynamic analysis of the convergence, we have found that important housing policies from Chi...

Change appears to be the only constant in the field of ICT and what was treated as advanced feature few years ago is today old-fashioned. If dealing with such rapid change in the field is increasingly difficult and complex, it is even more complicated when one tries to simplify the concepts and processes and define the learning system’s model and the features that would contribute to a more eff...

In this study we have examined the ability of senior house officers in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department to interpret electrocardiographs (ECGs) and tested the value of a single seminar and guidelines on interpretation. We prospectively audited ECG interpretation taken from notes over a two-month period and repeated this audit following a single seminar by a consultant cardiologist an...

Cattle manure is one of the primary larval developmental habitats of house flies, Musca domestica (L.). Cattle serve as asymptomatic reservoirs of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), and bacteria are released into the environment in cattle feces. The USDA-FSIS declared seven STEC serogroups (O157, O26, O45, O103, O145, O121, and O111) as adulterants in beef products. In addition, the...

Spread of the IT and Internet served as an important turning point for consolidating digital economy growth and for building national economy’s competitiveness worldwide. Among them, emergence of e-money grew into important issue of e-commerce, and it can be considered futuristic currency revolution that replaces traditional payment methods such as cash, check and others. Recently, e-money for ...

In each issue, Algorithmic Finance features a brief interview with one member of our advisory or editorial boards or another leading academic or practitioner. These brief conversations are intended to provide a glimpse of their current thinking. In this issue, we talk with Giovanni Barone-Adesi. – GIOVANNI BARONE-ADESI is professor of finance theory and director at the Swiss Finance Institute, ...

This article is dedicated to a little studied problem of the 19th century Old Believers’ prayer houses localization on cultural map St. Petersburg. The theoretical and methodological basis research Pierre Nora’s theory lieux de mémoire, which shows process memory revival in spite history oblivion. An overview most significant loci historical phenomenon Saint-Petersburg was undertaken. There wer...