Multivariate comorbidity research indicates mood and anxiety (internalizing) disorders share one or more common liabilities, but categorical, dimensional, and hybrid accounts of these liabilities have not been directly compared. We modeled seven internalizing disorders in a nationally representative sample of 43,093 individuals via confirmatory factor, latent class, exploratory factor mixture, ...

MSCI Barra Product Insights © 2007 MSCI Barra. All rights reserved. 1 of 10 Please refer to the disclaimer at the end of this document. This case study provides an introduction to modeling assets and liabilities for asset owners within BarraOne. We show how to use BarraOne to analyze both assets and liabilities in a shared framework for understanding risk and return. Our example uses zero coupo...

The human cardiac sodium channel (hNav1.5, encoded by the SCN5A gene) is critical for action potential generation and propagation in the heart. Drug-induced sodium channel inhibition decreases the rate of cardiomyocyte depolarization and consequently conduction velocity and can have serious implications for cardiac safety. Genetic mutations in hNav1.5 have also been linked to a number of cardia...

BACKGROUND The success in learning of emergency depends on many factors that can be summarized as: student, instructors and course. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of financial subsidy and venue of course in learning cardiovascular emergency. METHODS Data were analyzed regarding the courses of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) in the period from December 2005 to December 2006. In agr...

Electronic commerce (EC) transactions are subject to multiple information security threats. Proposes that consumer trust in EC transactions is influenced by perceived information security and distinguishes it from the objective assessment of security threats. Proposes mechanisms of encryption, protection, authentication, and verification as antecedents of perceived information security. These m...