Standing to Hold Responsible

Could we hold people responsible for their own adverse health?

Working Papers in Responsible Banking & Finance Why Do Banks Hold Excess Cash ?

In light of the recent regulatory changes and the increase in cash reserves after the financial crisis of 2007-08, we examine the determinants of cash levels and the effects of excess cash on bank’s business policies, for both listed and unlisted banks. As for the determinants, we find that larger, more profitable, more capitalized, and more diversified banks hold less cash. As for bank’s polic...

To Hold ( Enteral Feeding ) or Not to Hold : That IS the Question ; A Commentary and Tutorial

the new feeding regimen by the patient may become an issue. From the pharmacotherapeutic perspective, there are concerns that the absorption pattern and bioavailability of drug are altered by EN, thus affecting the safety and efficacy profiles of medications. The aim of this article is to discuss when these concerns are clinically significant and what actions could be taken to optimize patient ...

Standing up to fear.

feel unwelcome and unsafe. When the first attempted travel ban was announced, for example, a conversation with one of my former students—whom I had always had a good relationship with—turned to politics. I said that this country promises religious freedom for everyone. “Not for you, only for U.S. citizens,” he responded, adding that he supported the travel ban because he does not think that peo...

Where Best to Hold a Drum Fast

Abstract. If we are allowed to fasten, say, one half of a drum’s boundary, which half produces the lowest or highest bass note? The answer is a natural limit of solutions to a family of extremal Robin problems for the least eigenvalue of the Laplacian. We produce explicit extremizers when the drum is a disk while for general shapes we establish existence and necessary conditions, and we build a...