Eligibility of External Credit Assessment Institutions

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 1999 issued a draft New Basel Capital Accord (Basel 2). Its principles are to be incorporated into the European legislation and into the Czech banking regulations. The Standardised Approach to calculating the capital requirement for credit risk is newly based on external credit assessments (ratings). Banking regulators and supervisors have to be prepared for the process of determining eligible credit assessment institutions (ECAIs) and will have to elaborate a formal recognition procedure. This paper investigates the approaches a supervisor may apply to ECAI recognition and elaborates on the criteria of recognition. First, the paper reviews the available rating agencies on the market (including their rating penetration on the Czech market), their best practices and the experience with the use of their ratings for regulatory purposes. Second, drawing on international experience and the proposed Basel 2 rules, we outline the fundamental supervisory approaches to recognition, including the legal aspects thereof, and analyse their pros and cons and the frontiers of supervisory decision making. Third, we outline the rules for recognition, including requirements or expectations (e.g. soft limits), documentation and typical interview questions with the potential candidates. We find the CNB's approach to be in compliance with CEBS Consultative Paper CP07 (issued for public consultation in June 2005).Basel capital accord, Basel II, Credit rating, default, eligibility criteria, eligibility evaluation, external credit assessment institution (ECAI), export credit agency (ECA), mapping rating grades, market acceptance of ECAIs, rating agency, recognition process

Planting Trees in the Desert: Delexicalized Tagging and Parsing Combined

Various unsupervised and semi-supervised methods have been proposed to tag and parse an unseen language. We explore delexicalized parsing, proposed by (Zeman and Resnik, 2008), and delexicalized tagging, proposed by (Yu et al., 2016). For both approaches we provide a detailed evaluation on Universal Dependencies data (Nivre et al., 2016), a de-facto standard for multi-lingual morphosyntactic processing (while the previous work used other datasets). Our results confirm that in separation, each of the two delexicalized techniques has some limited potential when no annotation of the target language is available. However, if used in combination, their errors multiply beyond acceptable limits. We demonstrate that even the tiniest bit of expert annotation in the target language may contain significant potential and should be used if available

HamleDT 2.0: Thirty Dependency Treebanks Stanfordized

We present HamleDT 2.0 (HArmonized Multi-LanguagE Dependency Treebank). HamleDT 2.0 is a collection of 30 existing treebanks harmonized into a common annotation style, the Prague Dependencies, and further transformed into Stanford Dependencies, a treebank annotation style that became popular recently. We use the newest basic Universal Stanford Dependencies, without added language-specific subtypes. We describe both of the annotation styles, including adjustments that were necessary to make, and provide details about the conversion process. We also discuss the differences between the two styles, evaluating their advantages and disadvantages, and note the effects of the differences on the conversion. We regard the stanfordization as generally successful, although we admit several shortcomings, especially in the distinction between direct and indirect objects, that have to be addressed in future. We release part of HamleDT 2.0 freely; we are not allowed to redistribute the whole dataset, but we do provide the conversion pipeline

How to collect a sample from your deer or elk for CWD analysis

You can find out quickly if your deer or elk has chronic wasting disease (CWD). During the hunting season, the SDSU Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Lab (ADRDL) at SDSU will provide results of testing for CWD of deer and elk within 72 hours of receiving a fresh (unfrozen) retropharyngeal lymph node. The test is highly accurate. Collect the sample in the field yourself or take the animal to a veterinarian for dissection. Specimens from the public must be forwarded to the ADRDL by a licensed veterinarian. Specimens can also be delivered directly to the lab on the SDSU campus and veterinarian information will be collected at that time. Billing for the test ($20 plus an accession fee) will be to your veterinarian, who will pass the test fee on to you along with any other services provided. All positive specimens will be tested a second time by an alternative method at no additional charge before a final interpretation is given. The specimen to be collected is any one of the paired retropharyngeal lymph nodes. (see dissection instructions below). The lymph node should be collected into a sealed plastic bag, bagged again into a second sealed plastic bag, and then kept cold (refrigeration temperature or in a cooler with ice packs) until arrival at the laboratory. Do not place the lymph node in the freezer or directly on ice packs—the specimen should never be frozen. Write name of hunter on the outer bag with a waterproof permanent marker

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Experimental Hemarthrosis in Rhesus Monkeys: Light Microscopic, Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopic, Biochemical, Metabolic and Morphometric Analyses.

Hemarthrosis in rhesus monkeys was studied to: (1) provide information regarding the possible relationship between traumatic hemarthrosis and naturally occurring calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate-deposition disease (CPPD-DD) in rhesus monkeys, (2) fill a void in the literature regarding experimental hemarthrosis in primates, (3) and study the early changes that occur in blood-induced cartilage destruction by adding biochemical, metabolic and morphometric analyses to the traditional morphologic evaluations. Three ml of autologous blood were injected into the left knee of 16 anesthetized monkeys; the right knee was an untreated control. Monkeys were sacrificed at 7 days, 2, 3, and 6 months post injection (PI). Synovial membrane and articular cartilage were evaluated by light microscopy, and scanning and transmission electron microscopy (EM). Articular cartilage was further analyzed by biochemical, metabolic and morphometric procedures. There was a hyperplastic and inflammatory reaction in the synovium at 7-days PI, which had resolved by 2 months PI. Synoviocytes in the 7-day group contained numerous cytoplasmic vacuoles and prominent microplicae. Erythrophagocytosis by synoviocytes was observed by light microscopy and confirmed by transmission EM. Scanning EM revealed another possible route of blood removal from joints; red cells were frequently interposed between synoviocytes, suggesting movement through the synovial intima. Mild degenerative changes in superficial chondrocytes included increased numbers of myelin figures and cytoplasmic vacuolation. There was an overall significant decrease in cartilage proteoglycan content of principal joints as well as increased collagenous protein production. The cartilage of principal joints was hypercellular relative to controls. No difference was found between principal and control joints in regards to crystals within the pericellular and territorial matrix. In conclusion: (1) Rhesus monkeys reacted to hemarthrosis similar to dogs and rabbits, resulting in mild morphologic changes with resolution by 2-months PI. (2) Early changes in blood-induced cartilage destruction in rhesus monkeys is apparently related to noxious influences on chondrocytes and interference with their ability to maintain the cartilage matrix. (3) Experimental hemarthrosis failed to produce CPPD crystals. The joint insult produced by a single episode of hemarthrosis may not have been prolonged or severe enough for proposed crystallization mechanisms to act

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