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Study Shows Bank Risk-Assessment Tool Not Responding Adequately to Market Fluctuations
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that regulators need to do more to ensure that banks are adequately computing their Value-at-Risk (VaR) to reflect fluctuations in financial markets. ...
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Self-organization of sandpile models
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Dutch mathematician Anne Fey has investigated probability calculations in mathematical sandpile models. Although the rules of the model are simple, the wide-ranging behaviour that emerges from these is fascinating. Fey's ...
Physicists Predict Stock Market Crashes
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Feb 24, 2006 |
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On Monday, October 19, 1987 – infamously known as “black Monday” – the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.9%, marking the largest crash in history. Using an analytical approach similar to the one applied to explore ...
Researcher discover fundamental processes behind nature's constant balancing act
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species.
Herding leads to wrong decisions in the stock market
Sep 21, 2009 |
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One reason for extreme fluctuations in the stock market is herding.
'Smart' fridges stay cool by talking to each other
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Smart' fridges that run on renewable electricity and are capable of negotiating the most energy efficient way to keep food cold have been developed by researchers from CSIRO’s Energy Transformed ...
Report: Worst may be over for US tech market
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As bad as the technology market fared in the first quarter of this year, the worst may be over, at least in the United States, Forrester Research said in a report Tuesday.
Why youth hostel showers are like the stock market
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Diversity keeps you warm. At least that is true while you're having a shower in youth hostels. If you like, this sums up the research project just published by scientists from the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn. Their ...
HP profit jumps on cost cuts, new market expansion
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.
Team makes breakthrough demonstration of pH-regulating protein
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified the protein mechanism that senses bicarbonate fluctuations and adjusts blood pH levels.
Rising above the din: Attention makes sensory signals stand out amidst the background noise in the brain
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies studying visual attention ...
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