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Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality
Published 2023“…The study considers the emergence of drill music, county lines and the lowering of the threshold of when weapons are used to explore the isolated social environments so many young people find themselves in. The book tracks how authorities have transitioned from an enforcement led to a public health approachh to tacking violence. …”
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The research in Scotland event in Edinburgh: reflections and key issues
Published 2025“…Several important points were raised: the requirement for better awareness and better support for those living with Parkinson’s (including specialist care) and the need to invest in research and work together including the importance of Patient and Public Involvement to find better treatments and, hopefully, a cure.…”
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal
Published 2012“…We estimate a Vector Error Correction (VEC) model including the saving rate, asset prices, equity withdrawal and interest rates and find that indeed mortgage equity withdrawal is a key determinant of the observed saving pattern.…”
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Competitiveness of credit associations and credit cooperatives in Japan
Published 2009“…The results correspond to research findings by Tsutsui and Kamesaka (2005), and Uchida and Tsutsui (2005). …”
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Fiscal shocks and real exchange rate dynamics: some evidence for Latin America
Published 2008“…Using quarterly data over the period 1980-2006, we find that in a majority of cases fiscal shocks are the main driving force of real exchange rate fluctuations.…”
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Ageing and personal retirement savings plan participation with heterogeneity in preferences : the Portuguese case
Published 2007“…A mixed logit model is used to analyse the determinants of retirement saving behaviour, allowing for heterogeneity in the responses. We find considerable heterogeneity among individuals (in terms of socio-economic variables such as age, gender and income), which must be taken into account by any policy aimed at changing retirement saving behaviour.…”
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Identification of segments of European banks with a latent class frontier model
Published 2007“…A latent class frontier model is used which allows the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically significant segments in the sample. …”
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Opinion on the compatibility of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Published 2011“…It follows a request to find out “if the final Version of ACTA and its foreseen legislative procedure is in line with the Treaties of the European Union and which legal possibilities there are for the European Parliament to challenge this in front of the European Court of Justice.” …”
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In-situ melting assessment of AZ91D magnesium alloy investment casting
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Biofilm formation on metal surfaces
Published 1990“…SEM studies reveal very different patterns of bacterial biofilms on mild and stainless steel and show varied degrees of corrosion occurring on these surfaces. Thin and patchy Pseudomonas biofilms are accompanied by little corrosion whilst thick. more continuous, Desulfovibrio biofilms are associated with higher levels of corrosion. …”
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Some aspects of fitting multinomial models in a GLM framework
Published 2010“…The method given here also allows us to find the ‘hat - matrix’ as is needed in the calculation of leverages and Cook’s distances. …”
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Are rating agencies' assignment opaque? Evidence from international banks
Published 2010“…Although support vector machines can identify significant determinants we argue that ordered choice models are more reliable for this. Our findings suggest that ratings reflect a bank’s financial position, the timing of rating assignment and a bank’s country of origin. …”
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Finite sample sensitivity of the critical value of an F-test for cointegration in a single equation ADL model
Published 2010“…Using simulation methods we find that these critical values are sensitive to the degree of autocorrelation and lag length in the DGP in finite samples. …”
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Banking efficiency and Economic growth in the MENA region
Published 2011“…We apply a causality analysis between cost efficiency and financial deepening using the Generalized Methods of Moments and our findings show a significant and positive causality and reverse relationship between financial deepening and banking productivity. …”
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Integration in European retail banking: evidence from savings and lending rates to the household sector
Published 2011“…This method analyses the degree as well as the speed of convergence, identifies the presence of club formation, and measures the behaviour of each country’s transition path relative to the panel average. We find evidence supporting integration in the deposit and short-term mortgage markets but not in the consumer credit market and longer term mortgages. …”
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