In adjustable interest loans the borrower assumes the risk of interest rate rising, which leads to the growth of loan annuities. Given the importance of this risk in both corporate and personal finance, it is a recurrent topic in economic and financial press. In this paper, we show that the duration of a loan with constant annuity and interest rate can be used to assess the sensitivity of payme...

43 rd Annual meeting of the Society for Neurosciences (SfN), San Diego " Neurosciences-2013 " 43 rd Annual meeting of the Society for Neurosciences (SfN) was organized in the convention center at San Diego, USA between 9-13 th No-vember, 2013, to foster creativity and collaboration among emerging neurosci-entists. According to the president of SfN the meeting was attended by more than 30,000 at...

Faustmann showed us the basic economic formulation of the forestry problem 163 years ago. However, since then foresters and economists have learned of a number of situations in which Faustmann’s marvelous contribution is incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate. Our more recent experience addresses some of those situations—but we do not have fully accepted answers for all of them. This paper id...

The 11th Annual Meeting of Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) welcomed more than 700 scientists around the world to Mainz, Germany and continued to be the largest immunotherapy meeting in Europe. Renowned speakers from various fields of cancer immunotherapy gave lectures under CIMT2013's tag: "Advancing targeted therapies" the highlights of which are summarized in this meeting report.

This research analyzed the clinical notes of epilepsy patients using techniques from corpus linguistics and machine learning and predicted which patients are candidates for neurosurgery, i.e. have intractable epilepsy, and which are not. Information-theoretic and machine learning techniques are used to determine whether and how sets of clinic notes from patients with intractable and nonintracta...