Background: Continuous-flow ventricular assist devices (VADs) have been widely adopted in clinical practice for the treatment of heart failure, but the effect of their non-pulsatile blood flow on ...

Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its ...

In the eurozone, remarkably, the curve is sitting at normal levels, practically at equilibrium. The question for 2026 is the extent to which it might get whipped around by events. While the front end ...

Our reversion to normal for 2026 is akin to a desperate 'I'm okay!' It's a normal that's far from boring, as it treks a narrow path along which the ECB holds at normal, the Fed gets to normal, and ...

and samples_std10), generate and plot the CDFs. Instructions -Use your ecdf() function to generate x and y values for CDFs: x_std1, y_std1, x_std3, y_std3 and x_std10, y_std10, respectively. -Plot all ...

As explained in Prof. Robert Jarrow's book cited below, forward rates contain a risk premium above and beyond the market's expectations for the 3-month forward rate. We document the size of that risk ...

The so-called yield curve has been sending an ominous message about the economy for more than two years, but now it is looking healthier.

Imagine you're at a fair, and you see a booth with a giant dartboard. The booth owner challenges you to hit the bullseye. You take your shot, and the dart lands somewhere on the board. Now imagine ...