Abstract Background and Aims Hypertension is a common clinical finding in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). In fact, hypertension accelerates the progression of renal disease damages other target organs leading to worsening failure increased incidence cardiovascular morbidity mortality. Method We conducted retrospective, cross-sectional study at Department Nephrology Mongi Slim Hospit...

Off-Balance Sheet (OBS) activities of large u.S. commercial banks have been growing rapidly in recent years. These activities represented 58% of total bank assets in 1984 and grew to 176% of total bank assets in 1988. Bank regulators are concerned that OBS activities increase bank risk, and proposed that some OBS activities be included in the calculation of a risk-based capital requirement. Thi...

This paper proposes an approach for Automatic Personality Perception, the task of predicting the personality traits attributed by human listeners to speakers they listen to for the first time and they are not acquainted with. The experiments are performed over a corpus of speech clips (330 individuals in total) assessed in personality terms by 11 human judges. The results show that it is possib...

Estimated dynamic models of business cycles in emerging markets deliver counterfactual predictions for the country risk premium. In particular, the country interest rate predicted by these models is acyclical or procyclical, whereas it is countercyclical in the data. This paper proposes and estimates a small open economy model of the emerging-market business cycle in which a time-varying countr...

Humans are modifying both the identities and numbers of species in ecosystems, but the impacts of such changes on ecosystem processes are controversial. Plant species diversity, functional diversity, and functional composition were experimentally varied in grassland plots. Each factor by itself had significant effects on many ecosystem processes, but functional composition and functional divers...

This study aims to analyze the causality relationship between total energy sector investments and employment for years 1997-2021 in framework of Russia using Least Squares method. For this reason, panel analysis was used. First all, necessary assumption tests were made establishment model. When findings are evaluated, a significant has been determined Russia. In other words, there is type field...