Predicting bank failures : a comparison of the Cox proportional hazards model and time-varying covariates model. by Cheng, Philip Yim Kwong.

“…As a contribution to bank regulation by improving the accuracy of predicting failed banks, I first illustrate the use of martingale and other residuals as diagnostic checks for Cox’s proportional hazards model. Second, I discuss and substantiate the claim that a time-varying covariates model is superior to the Cox model as a bank failure model.…”
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The interrelation of EU law with inter se international agreements of the EU member states by Georgaki, K, Eleftheriadis, P

“…Against this background, Chapter Two examines and discards the premise that EU law constitutes a ‘new legal order’, highlighting the nature of EU law as international law. …”

Intimate capitalism unveiled by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

“…This introductory chapter unveils the concept of ‘intimate capitalism’ within the context of the rising cultural economy and creative industries. …”

The mechanisms of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia disorder by Maurer, LF

“…This work concludes by introducing a new testable model of the SRT mechanisms-of-action followed by practice points and a research agenda (chapter two).</p> <p>Chapter three describes the first randomised-controlled trial to systematically test the mechanisms of SRT. …”

Nuptial journeys: A cultural history of wedding travel in selected Habsburg unions ca 1450–1550 by Pastrnak, P

“…Chapter Four looks into the marital transition and dissects the acts of separation and incorporation. …”

New methods in 18F-fluorination and fluoroalkylation by Ford, J

“…<p><strong>Chapter 1</strong> (<em>Introduction</em>) summarises the key concepts surrounding Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, including the underlying physical principles and its applications and the use of fluorine-18 as a PET radioisotope. …”

Visitation returns and nineteenth-century Anglicanism in Oxford and its surrounding parishes by Lancaster, S

“…A core aim of the thesis is to establish if doing so yields significant insight. Chapter two considers the visitation itself, and how it was reformed over the century to ensure its usefulness. …”

Islam in Late Antiquity: state-making, the Bedouin, and the end of empires by Wakeley, JM

“…After grappling with the menagerie of historiographical problems attendant on the period in Chapter One, Chapter Two focuses on Muḥammad’s foundation of a community at Medina. …”

Populism and foreign policy: characteristics, sources, and implications by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…International Relations (IR) and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) literature is increasingly preoccupied with the effect of populism on international politics. This chapter offers an overview of key debates in this literature, with an emphasis on how the ideational approach to populism is being used by IR and FPA scholars, the insights it generates but also the challenges it poses. …”
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Currency and conflict in colonial Nigeria by Pratten, D

“…This chapter examines a central theme in Jane Guyer’s analysis of monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa – the implications of money valuation in relation to social order and disorder in Nigeria. …”

Essays on commodities and international macroeconomic interactions by Kim, M

“…<p>This thesis introduces commodities into otherwise standard closed economy or open economy macro models. Chapter 1 sheds light on the fact that as trading in commodity derivatives tied to commodity prices has increased massively since the 2000s, they have begun to act as an asset class in recent years. …”

Solidarity as a transformative practice by Cipollitti, PE

“…In Chapter 4, I turn to the process of personal transformation undergone by solidary agents. …”

Aspects of structure and idiom in the music of eighteenth century England, with special reference to the Scarlatti arrangements of Charles Avison by Eckersley, C

“…The positions occupied by Scarlatti and Geminiani in the sphere of, critical musical opinion in England are introduced in the first chapter, and subsequently discussed in their various aspects. …”

Emotion language in context: investigating emotion words in children’s written language and word learning by Dong, Y

“…</p> <p>To complement the corpus approach, this thesis also includes two word-learning experiments, one with adults (Chapter 4) and one with children (Chapter 5). Participants read novel adjectives in short narratives that had either neutral, negative, or positive valence. …”

Indo-European youth priesthoods and the Männerbund theory: a study of the Vedic Vrātyas and their ancient Indo-European analogues by Elby, T

“…Chapter Two analyses the origin of the concept of the Männerbund. …”

Cardiac-sympathetic dysfunction in hypertension by Bardsley, E

“…</p> <p><b>Chapter Two</b> detailed the methodology utilised in each chapter of this thesis. …”

Rethinking migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia: an introduction by Fernández-Götz, M, Nimura, C, Stockhammer, P, Cartwright, R

“…Mobility has always been a defining feature of the human journey, from prehistory to the present. This chapter serves as an introduction to our volume on population movements in late prehistoric Eurasia, outlining the background, scope, and aims of the book. …”

Perennial semantic data terms of use for decentralized web by Zhao, R, Zhao, J

“…This constitutes a “perennial” DToU language, where the policy authoring only occurs once, and we can conduct ongoing automated checks across users, applications and activity cycles. …”

“Yes: I translated it!”: Visibility and the performance of translatorship in the digital paratextual space by Freeth, Peter J.

“…This chapter is taken from the edited volume "Beyond the Translator's Invisibility: Critical Reflection and New Perspectives" (Freeth and Treviño [eds] 2024, 147–172). …”
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Beyond rural rewilding: why rewilding is right for cities too by Moxon, Sian

“…In this chapter, Siân Moxon argues that rewilding shouldn’t be something for the countryside alone, and that the principles of rewilding are especially valid in urban environments.…”
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