This paper documents a negative cross-transmission of bank-idiosyncratic credit risk events to the equity value peers comprising other banks, insurance and real estate firms inter alia. Large jumps in idiosyncratic component bank CDS spreads significantly reduce peers, particularly on event day. The externality does not hinge “information connectedness” between two entities as proxied by charac...

In this article, I argue, inter alia, that Kelsen’s mature view—as expressed in, and around the time of, second edition of Reine Rechtslehre—was a metaethical relativist, commitment to relativism was reason why Kelsen defended democracy as well tolerance in shape constitutionally guaranteed freedom thought. also consider possibility his post-1960 phase abandoned for moral fictionalism, but argu...

This qualitative study explores the factors affecting mental health services delivery during COVID-19 pandemic at Ingutsheni Central Hospital. A descriptive phenomenological design was used. Data were collected from 16 participants using interview guides and analysed through interpretative analysis. Participants underlined several management these were, inter alia, congestion of wards lack reso...

The aim of this doctoral dissertation was to confirm three rehabilitation robotics theses. The first thesis was linked with the optimization of an upper limb rehabilitation robot design. Two remaining theses were associated with the use of bioelectric signals to control robots. Especially the EMG signals were talking into considerations. Research led to the creation of two upper limb rehabilita...

Both locally and globally, we are witnessing a rising interest in innovative entrepreneurial activity as an engine for economic growth. The economic performance of firms (or organizations) can be measured by, inter alia, innovation indicators, market shares, birth/death rates, investment rates and the like, while there is also a great variety of underlying key factors fo...

Learner autonomy (henceforth LA) has become a buzz word in education in general and language education, in particular, for more than a decade now. Focusing on investigating Iranian EFL teachers’ conceptions of LA, the current study, taking a mixed method approach, attempted to illustrate how Iranian EFL teachers’ conceptions of leaner autonomy mapped out. To that end, 7 teachers, purposefully c...

While the report period was dominated by review process of property clause, aimed at enabling expropriation land for reform purposes nil compensation, various other important developments occurred in 2021, dealing with land. Included herewith publication bills, inter alia, Land Court and housing-related matters; long-awaited Upgrading Rights Amendment Act, as well handing down critical judgment...

We check whether General Relativity's field self-interaction alleviates the need for dark matter to explain universe's large structure formation. found that accelerates sufficiently growth of structures so they can reach their presently observed density. No free parameters, components or modifications known laws nature were required. This result adds other natural explanations provided by same ...

Neural networks are flexible and powerful data analysis tools for handling complex data patterns. The flexibility is related to their nonlinear nature which, however, can lead to problems of optimization and model adequacy. Results of neural network estimation and prediction are therefore subject to some variability due to the sensitivity to initial conditions, to convergence to local minima an...