Discussion Papers are a series of manuscripts in their draft form. They are not intended for circulation or distribution except as indicated by the author. For that reason Discussion Papers may not be reproduced or distributed without the written consent of the author. Abstract This paper explores how the Bank of Japan (BOJ) dealt with the trade-off between stability of the financial system and...

• For Gaussian data, the regression needs to calculate kernel with only two-dimensional information regardless of the original dimensionality, and it always obtains mean square error (MSE) close to zero with finite samples. • Previously a well-known extension of the NW estimator, locally linear regression (LLR), is known to alleviate the asymptotic bias. The proposed metric acts differently fro...

BACKGROUND Child undernutrition showed geographical inequalities due to variations in contextual determinants from area to area which indicates that location is an important factor in child undernutrition. However, there are limited studies on spatial epidemiology of child undernutrition in Ethiopia. This study was aimed to identify the SaTScan spatial clusters of child undernutrition in Ethiop...

BACKGROUND Venom immunotherapy (VIT) has its effect by modulating various mediators resulting in immune tolerance. The aim of this study was to measure changes in plasma osteopontin (OPN) and serum basal tryptase (sBT) levels over the course of 1 year of VIT in children with venom allergy. METHODS Children who suffered from a large local reaction (LLR) or a systemic reaction (SR) after insect...

The mismatch negativity (MMN) provides a correlate of automatic auditory discrimination in human auditory cortex that is elicited in response to violation of any acoustic regularity. Recently, deviance-related responses were found at much earlier cortical processing stages as reflected by the middle latency response (MLR) of the auditory evoked potential, and even at the level of the auditory b...

Oryza sativa, a model plant for Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, has both host and non-host roots. Large lateral (LLR) and fine lateral (FLR) roots display opposite responses: LLR support AM colonization, but FLR do not. Our research aimed to study the molecular, morphological and physiological aspects related to the non-host behavior of FLR. RNA-seq analysis revealed that LLR and FLR dis...

Stem reserves in grain crops are considered important filling under post-anthesis stress the absence/low availability of photosynthetic assimilates. Considerable variation is present among genotypes for stem reserve translocation wheat. Therefore, this study aimed to exploit phenotypic wheat control and chemically induced conditions. The six parents their corresponding direct cross combinations...

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) measures the distance between observatories on Earth and retro-reflectors Moon since 1970. In this paper, we study effect of non-tidal station loading (NTSL) in analysis LLR data. We add provided by three data centres: German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), International Mass Loading Service (IMLS) EOST service University Strasbourg France, as observation level ...