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420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
to level 5. (VOCATIONAL UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL AND APPRENTICESHIP CLASS “DEGREE”)
The specialties of the Apprenticeship Class of EPALs
- VEHICLE TECHNICIAN
- ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, INSTALLATIONS AND NETWORKS TECHNICIAN
- IT APPLICATIONS TECHNICIAN
- NURSE'S ASSISTANT
- ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMIC... | 21,200 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
AND DRINKS TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIAN
- EMPLOYEE OF TOURISM ENTERPRISES
- MODERN BUSINESS AGRICULTURE
- ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS
- ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, INSTALLATIONS AND NETWORKS TECHNICIAN
- HAIRDRESSING ART
- PHARMACY ASSISTANT
- CONSERVARTION OF ART - REHABILITATION WORKS
- MECHANICAL INSTALLAT... | 21,201 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
to the third year of Lyceum elections are held.
Elections in primary schools
They are held every October. All the students are obliged to elect 2 presidiums for each class who "rule" until January when the other one succeeds the first. The role of these presidiums is to primp the classrooms for th... | 21,202 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
Class Presidium has 5 members:
- The President
- The General Secretary
- The Treasurer
- The 1st Member
- The 2nd Member
In the second part students elect a School Council which has 15 members and represents the students. Its role is extremely important in every school because the School Counc... | 21,203 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
In addition, colleges collaborating with foreign universities can offer undergraduate and postgraduate UK foreign programmes of study in Greece, under the proper registration with the Greek Ministry of Education. Usually, these programmes are provided following franchise or validation agreements wit... | 21,204 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
"dimotika" (primary education), "gymnasia" (middle school; secondary education), "lykeia" (high school; secondary education). Some of them are for foreigners, usually children of British or American families. For example, see American Community Schools.
- Public and private IEK
- According to the ... | 21,205 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
of London International Programmes and UCLan, I.S.T. College/University of Hertfordshire, New York College (European and American Education), BCA Business College of Athens, ALBA Graduate Business School, University of Wales, Bangor, Deree College, Athens Information Technology Center of Excellence ... | 21,206 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
exercises centralised control over public schools, by prescribing the curriculum, appointing staff, and controlling funding. The ministry exercises a supervisory mandate over private schools. At a regional level, the supervisory role of the Ministry is exercised through Regional Directorates of Prim... | 21,207 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
universities and colleges offering degree programmes that are validated and overseen by American, British and other European universities. The Greek government is pressured to recognise these overseas programmes.
All levels of education are catered for by both private and public schools. State-run ... | 21,208 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
the state education and providing supplementary tuition. These parallel schools, called Frontistirio (Greek: φροντιστήριο) provide foreign-language tuition, supplementary lessons for weak students, as well as exam preparation for the competitive Panhellenic national examinations. Most of the student... | 21,209 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
("Epaggelmatiko Lykeio" - Vocational Upper Secondary Schools, EPAL)
- Επαγγελματική Σχολή, ΕΠΑΣ ("Epaggelmatiki Sxoli" - Vocational Training School, EPAS)
- Private EES schools often offer seminars and 1-year vocational programmes, usually for Computing or Business studies. Young Greeks can seek p... | 21,210 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
Σχολή, ΤΕΣ ("Techniki Epagelmatiki Scholi" - Technical Professional/Vocational School, TES)
- Ενιαίο Πολυκλαδικό Λύκειο, ΕΠΛ ("Eniaio Polykladiko Lykeio" - Unified Multidisciplinary Lyceum, EPL)
- Επαγγελματικό Λύκειο, ΕΠΑΛ ("Epaggelmatiko Lykeio" - Vocational Upper Secondary Schools, EPAL)
# Cur... | 21,211 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
such as the University of Indianapolis - Athens Campus, are operating legally as EES schools (translatable as "Laboratories of Free Study").
Moreover, with few exceptions, the Greek government refuses to recognize three-year university degrees. Students who completed a bachelor's degree in a foreig... | 21,212 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
of degrees to bring it in line with the framework defined in the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System/ECTS. (It is usually the goal to accomplish a bachelor's degree within 3 years and a master's degree within 2 years.)
# See also.
- Latin honors
- Educational stage
- Education in an... | 21,213 |
420676 | Education in Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece
ιθμούς", Αθήνα, 2003. () (accessed June 1, 2006)
- "Greek Educational System: The Implementation of the ICT in the Greek Curriculum in Compulsory Education", IACM/FORTH, November 2003
- National report of Greece 2009 - Bologna Process: http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronderwijs/bologna/links/Gre... | 21,214 |
1803866 | Surveillance abuse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surveillance%20abuse | Surveillance abuse
Surveillance abuse
Surveillance abuse is the use of surveillance methods or technology to monitor the activity of an individual or group of individuals in a way which violates the social norms or laws of a society.
During the FBI's COINTELPRO operations, there was widespread surveillance abuse whic... | 21,215 |
1803866 | Surveillance abuse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surveillance%20abuse | Surveillance abuse
installed inappropriately. “For instance, according to the BBC, four council workers in Liverpool used a street CCTV pan-tilt-zoom camera to spy on a woman in her apartment.” (Cavallaro,2007). This is just one case where culprits have been caught; however, there are still many common acts such as thi... | 21,216 |
1803866 | Surveillance abuse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surveillance%20abuse | Surveillance abuse
more problems. With cameras only becoming more advanced and more common, it is difficult to determine whether these surveillance cameras are helping to ensure a safe society or leading to bigger issues altogether.
With the growing of Web 2.0, social networking sites, surveillance may be more easily ... | 21,217 |
1803866 | Surveillance abuse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surveillance%20abuse | Surveillance abuse
with others. The CSE search through approximately 10-15 million downloads daily. An example of where surveillance may have been abused is where Facebook and Apple have admitted to allowing government officials to access personal information of their account users.
A device which may be used to abuse... | 21,218 |
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Police misconduct
- Police state
- Political repression
- Qihoo 360 IP-Camera shutdown
- Religious Police
- Stalking
# References.
- Davis, James Kirkpatrick. (1997). "Assault on the Left: The FBI and the Sixties Antiwar Movement." Westport, CT: Praeger.
- Donner, Frank J. (1980). "The Age of... | 21,219 |
1803866 | Surveillance abuse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surveillance%20abuse | Surveillance abuse
Marx, Gary T. (1988)."Under Cover: Police Surveillance in America". Berkeley: Twentieth Century Fund/University of California Press.
- Ney York Civil Liberties Union. (2006). "Who's Watching"
- O'Reilly, Kenneth. (1988). ""Racial Matters:" The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960—1972". New Yor... | 21,220 |
1803866 | Surveillance abuse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surveillance%20abuse | Surveillance abuse
3). Big Brother is watching you more closely than ever: CCTV cameras, the spies in our midst. Daily Mail. Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212536/CCTV-cameras-The-spies-midst.html#ixzz2OPdQPUjk. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
- Schools are gathering CCTV evidence illegally as every on... | 21,221 |
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trieved May 3, 2013.
- Alexander, Julia. "How the Canadian Government Can Spy on Your Online Activities." "Toronto Sun". N.p., 8 July 2013. Web. 28 Oct. 2015.
- Braga, Matthew. "The Covert Cellphone Tracking Tech the RCMP and CSIS Won't Talk about." "The Globe and Mail". N.p., 15 Sept. 2014. Web. 2... | 21,222 |
1803858 | Gaussian random field | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaussian%20random%20field | Gaussian random field
Gaussian random field
A Gaussian random field (GRF) is a random field involving Gaussian probability density functions of the variables. A one-dimensional GRF is also called a Gaussian process. An important special case of a GRF is the Gaussian free field.
With regard to applications of GRFs, th... | 21,223 |
1803858 | Gaussian random field | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaussian%20random%20field | Gaussian random field
dictates that at any point, the sum of these individual plane-wave contributions will exhibit a Gaussian distribution. This type of GRF is completely described by its power spectral density, and hence, through the Wiener-Khinchin theorem, by its two-point autocorrelation function, which is related... | 21,224 |
1803858 | Gaussian random field | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaussian%20random%20field | Gaussian random field
Gaussian distribution. This type of GRF is completely described by its power spectral density, and hence, through the Wiener-Khinchin theorem, by its two-point autocorrelation function, which is related to the power spectral density through a Fourier transformation.
Suppose "f"("x") is the value ... | 21,225 |
1803904 | Maria Isabel Rodriguez | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria%20Isabel%20Rodriguez | Maria Isabel Rodriguez
Maria Isabel Rodriguez
María Isabel Rodríguez may refer to:
- , Minister of Health (2009–2014), former head of the University of El Salvador (1999–2008)
- María Isabel López Rodríguez, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004
- María Isabel Rodríguez Lineros, known as Lucía (born 196... | 21,226 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
Keri Russell
Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress and dancer. She came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the WB drama series "Felicity" (1998–2002), for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Russell also starred as KGB agent Elizabeth Jennings on the FX sp... | 21,227 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
Early life.
Keri Lynn Russell was born on March 23, 1976, in Fountain Valley, California, the daughter of Stephanie (née Stephens), a homemaker, and David Russell, a Nissan Motors executive. She has an older brother, Todd, and a younger sister, Julie. The family lived in Coppell, Texas; Mesa, Arizona; and... | 21,228 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
and future pop stars Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, and Tony Lucca.
In 1992, Russell appeared in "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" alongside Rick Moranis and in 1993, she had a role on the sitcom "Boy Meets World" as Mr. Feeny's niece. Russell appeared on "Married... with Child... | 21,229 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
Gugino, and Jason Wiles. In 1997, she appeared in two episodes of "Roar" alongside Heath Ledger.
From 1998 to 2002, Russell starred as the title character on the successful WB Network series "Felicity". In 1999, she won a Golden Globe for the role. Russell's long curly hair was one of her character's defi... | 21,230 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
playing the wife of a United States serviceman during the Vietnam War. The film was released two months before the end of "Felicity"'s run.
## 2003–2012.
When "Felicity" ended, Russell moved to New York City and made her off-Broadway stage debut in 2004, appearing opposite Jeremy Piven, Andrew McCarthy, ... | 21,231 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
to join the cast and she accepted. She was screen tested for the role of Lois Lane in "Superman Returns" but lost the role to Kate Bosworth.
In the summer of 2006, Russell was chosen to be a celebrity spokeswoman for CoverGirl Cosmetics. In the summer of 2007, Russell appeared in "The Keri Kronicles", a r... | 21,232 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
the film's director Adrienne Shelley—was positively received by critics, with Michael Sragow of "The Baltimore Sun" writing that Russell's performance had "aesthetic character" and "wields tenderness and fierceness with quiet heat". In 2007, Russell also completed roles in "Grimm Love" (titled "Rohtenburg"... | 21,233 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
November 11, 2007. Russell later appeared in "Bedtime Stories". In an appearance on "The View" on December 15, 2008, Russell said she got the part because Adam Sandler's wife Jackie had seen her in "Waitress" and suggested her for the movie. Russell voiced Wonder Woman in a direct-to-video animated feature... | 21,234 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
while her husband, John (Fraser), and an unconventional scientist (Ford) race against time to find a cure.
Russell starred in the Fox series "Running Wilde", from 2010 to 2011.
## 2013–present.
From 2013 to 2018, she starred in the FX drama series "The Americans", playing Elizabeth Jennings, a deep-unde... | 21,235 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
starred in the science fiction action film "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," a sequel to the 2011 film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", alongside actors Andy Serkis and Gary Oldman. She later starred as Serena Knight in the 2016 historical war film "Free State of Jones".
In July 2018, it was announced Ru... | 21,236 |
420671 | Keri Russell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keri%20Russell | Keri Russell
orked with on "Felicity" and "Mission: Impossible III".
In August 2018, it was announced that Russell would star as Anna in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's play "Burn This". She starred opposite Adam Driver. Performances began in March 2019 at the Hudson Theatre.
# Personal life.
In 2006,... | 21,237 |
1803917 | Fib | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fib | Fib
Fib
Fib may refer to:
# Places.
- Kingdom of Fib, now Fife, Scotland
# Arts, entertainment, and media.
- Fib (poetry), a form of poetry
- Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, a Spanish music festival
- "Folket i Bild", a Swedish news magazine
# Enterprises.
- First International Bank (Liberia)
- First In... | 21,238 |
1803917 | Fib | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fib | Fib
bula
# Science and technology.
- FiB index, or Fisheries in Balance index
- Fibonacci number
- Flying inflatable boat
- Focused ion beam
- Forwarding information base
- Fluoride-ion Battery
# Sport.
- Federation of International Bandy
- Fédération Internationale de Boules, the highest international author... | 21,239 |
1803916 | GeoTools | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GeoTools | GeoTools
GeoTools
GeoTools is a free software (LGPL) GIS toolkit for developing standards compliant solutions.
It provides an implementation of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed. GeoTools is a contributor to the GeoAPI project - a vendor-neutral set of Java interfaces derived from ... | 21,240 |
1803916 | GeoTools | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GeoTools | GeoTools
and Temporal filters matching the OGC Filter specification;
- Decoding technology (with bindings for manyGML, Filter, KML, SLD, and SE and other OGC standards).
The GeoTools library forms a stack for the core modules; with additional plugins available to support additional formats, extensions and integration... | 21,241 |
1803916 | GeoTools | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GeoTools | GeoTools
in a rather "ad hoc" manner, with new features being added as needed. GeoTools 1 was not built with any standards in mind.
GeoTools 2 began in 2002. It was a rewrite from scratch with contributions by an international group of developers. The code base has been fundamentally redesigned to take advantage of th... | 21,242 |
1803916 | GeoTools | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GeoTools | GeoTools
Tools" version 8.
# Disambiguation.
Geotools and GeotoolsMT are also the names of software written specifically for processing and displaying of magnetotelluric data (MT data). The original version of this software dates back to the late 1980s, and was sold by its parent company AOA Geophysics to Fugro Geoco... | 21,243 |
1803894 | Coagulative necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coagulative%20necrosis | Coagulative necrosis
Coagulative necrosis
Coagulative necrosis is a type of accidental cell death typically caused by ischemia or infarction. In coagulative necrosis the architecture of dead tissue is preserved for at least a couple of days. It is believed that the injury denatures structural proteins as well as lysos... | 21,244 |
1803894 | Coagulative necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coagulative%20necrosis | Coagulative necrosis
focused ultrasound applied to cancerous cells.
# Causes.
Coagulative necrosis is most commonly caused by conditions that do not involve severe trauma, toxins or an acute or chronic immune response. The lack of oxygen (hypoxia) causes cell death in a localised area which is perfused by blood vesse... | 21,245 |
1803894 | Coagulative necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coagulative%20necrosis | Coagulative necrosis
is a pale segment of tissue contrasting against surrounding well vascularised tissue and is dry on cut surface. The tissue may later turn red due to inflammatory response. The surrounding surviving cells can aid in regeneration of the affected tissue unless they are stable or permanent.
## Microsc... | 21,246 |
1803894 | Coagulative necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coagulative%20necrosis | Coagulative necrosis
.
# Regeneration.
As the majority of the structural remnants of the necrotic tissue remains, labile cells adjacent to the affected tissue will replicate and replace the cells which have been killed during the event. Labile cells are constantly undergoing mitosis and can therefore help reform the ... | 21,247 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
Financial contagion
Financial contagion refers to "the spread of market disturbances mostly on the downside from one country to the other, a process observed through co-movements in exchange rates, stock prices, sovereign spreads, and capital flows". Financial contagion can be a potential risk for ... | 21,248 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
when it defaults on interbank liabilities and sells assets in a fire sale, thereby undermining confidence in similar banks.
An example of this phenomenon is the subsequent turmoil in the United States financial markets. International financial contagion, which happens in both advanced economies and... | 21,249 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
usually is beyond the explanation of real economy, such as the bilateral trade volume.
The term financial contagion has created controversy throughout the past years. Some argue that strong linkages between countries are not necessarily financial contagion, and that financial contagion should be de... | 21,250 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
metaphor to describe the "catchiness" of social phenomena, as well as debate about the application of context-specific models and concepts from biomedicine and epidemiology to explain the diffusion of perturbations within financial systems.
# Causes and consequences.
Financial contagion can create... | 21,251 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
investors, and borrowers.
The first branch, spill-over effects, can be seen as the negative externalities. Spillover effects are also known as fundamental-based contagion. These effects can happen either globally, heavily affecting many countries in the world, or regionally, affecting only neighbor... | 21,252 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
shocks that have repercussions on an international scale and local shocks transmitted through trade links, competitive devaluations, and financial links." It can lead to some co-movements in capital flows and asset prices.Common shocks can be similar to the effects of financial links. "A financial c... | 21,253 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
among financial intermediaries. The former provide a general equilibrium model to explain a small liquidity preference shock in one region can spread by contagion throughout the economy and the possibility of contagion depends strongly on the completeness of the structure of interregional claims. Th... | 21,254 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
are more focused on its integration causing local impacts. "Any major trading partner of a country in which a financial crisis has induced a sharp current depreciation could experience declining asset prices and large capital outflows or could become the target of a speculative attack as investors a... | 21,255 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
also associated with financial contagion. Competitive devaluation, which is also known as a currency war, is when multiple countries compete against one another to gain a competitive advantage by having low exchange rates for their currency. "Devaluation in a country hit by a crisis reduces the expo... | 21,256 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
of securities of other countries, curtail their lending, or refuse to roll over short-term loans to borrowers in those countries."
Another branch of contagion is a financial crisis, which is also referred to irrational phenomena. A financial crisis as a branch of contagion is formed when "a co-move... | 21,257 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
for the values of assets in other markets, causing their prices to change as well (King and Wadhwani (1990)). Also, Calvo (2004) argues for correlated liquidity shock channel meaning that when some market participants need to liquidate and withdraw some of their assets to obtain cash, perhaps after ... | 21,258 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
or collectively.
The first type of behavior is when "investors take action that is ex-ante individually rational but lead to excessive co-movements excessive in the sense that they cannot be explained by real fundamentals." It breaks down into two sub-categories, liquidity and incentive problems an... | 21,259 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
commercial banks.Incentive problems can also have the same effects as liquidity problems. For instance, the first signs of a crisis may cause investors to sell their holdings in some countries, resulting in equity and different asset markets in economies to decline in value. This causes the value of... | 21,260 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
cause a financial crisis.
The second type of investor behavior concentrates on multiple equilibriums. It focuses on the investor's behavioral changes when the financial market can have multiple equilibrium changes. Thus, "contagion occurs when a crisis in one financial market causes another financi... | 21,261 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
can lead to spillover effect, causing contagion.
In addition, there are some less-developed explanations for financial contagion. Some explanations for financial contagion, especially after the Russian default in 1998, are based on changes in investor "psychology", "attitude", and "behavior". This ... | 21,262 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
piles of food, ants switch periodically from one pile to the other. Kirman supposes that there are N ants and that each switch randomly between piles with probability ε (this prevents the system getting stuck with all at one pile or the other), and imitates a randomly chosen other ant with probabili... | 21,263 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
factors driving the contagion. De Gregorio and Valdes (2001) examine how the 1982 debt crisis, the 1994 Mexican crisis, and the 1997 Asian crisis spread to a sample of twenty other countries. They find that a neighborhood effect is the strongest determinant of which countries suffer from contagion. ... | 21,264 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
instruments shifted and caused the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a large U.S. hedge fund. The financial crisis beginning from Thailand with the collapse of the Thai baht spread to Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, South Korea and Hong Kong in less than 2 months. This caused ec... | 21,265 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
early 1820s led to a massive inflow of capital from Britain to finance the exploitation of gold and silver mines and of sovereign loans to the newly independent republics." Between new industries beginning to grow, an increase in foreign influence, and a liberal monetary expansion after the Napoleon... | 21,266 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
and led to sovereign debt defaults across the region."
One of the biggest worldwide crises was the stock market crash on Wall Street in October 1929. The failure from 1929–33 was foreshadowed by collapses in commodity prices in multiple emerging nations. The stock market boom in New York by 1928 ch... | 21,267 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
at relieving multiple banking panics. The resultant collapse in prices and output worldwide forced sovereign borrowers to cut back on servicing their debts and then to default, precipitating a collapse of foreign lending in 1931.
One of the contributors to the 1997 Asian financial crisis was excess... | 21,268 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
fell substantially". The first currency that faced problems was the Thai baht. With the Thai baht having issues, it doubled the debt of Thai organizations, which started the spread of the crisis to other countries. As this was happening, investors started reevaluating their investments in this regio... | 21,269 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
This came about as a result of the mandate by the U.S. Congress for the Federal National Mortgage to increase access to low-income housing. As a result of the high default rates, many financial institutions across the U.S. were affected. Although the U.S. government had attempted to salvage the situ... | 21,270 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
U.S. and European banks were pulling back their international loans. This move caused major financial problems across the world, especially for those countries that rely heavily on international borrowing. Financial contagion was felt severely, especially in countries whose financial systems were vu... | 21,271 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
was a drop in exports and a lowering of commodity prices.
# Policy implications.
Financial contagion is one of the main causes of financial regulation. A top priority for both domestic financial regulators and international organizations is to prevent financial contagion using financial regulation... | 21,272 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
intermediaries, such as hedge funds and banks, into a global financial network. The development of sophisticated financial products, such as credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations, has complicated the financial regulation. As has been shown by the U.S. financial recession, the trig... | 21,273 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
with a short maturity of outstanding debt as well as contingent public liabilities. Therefore, a better domestic financial regulation structure can improve an economy's liquidity and limit its exposure to contagion. A better understanding of financial contagion between financial intermediaries, incl... | 21,274 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
of returns between markets during periods of crisis. Forbes and Rigobon (2002) begin by discussing the current imprecision and disagreement surrounding the term contagion. It proposes a concrete definition, a significant increase in cross-market linkages after a shock, and suggests using the term "i... | 21,275 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
t is the time period for all variables; x is the stock market return in the crisis country; x is the stock market return in another market j; X is a transposed vector of returns in the same two stock markets; Θ(L) and θ(L) are vectors of lags; i, i, and i are short-term interest rates for the crisis... | 21,276 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
to calculate the cross-market correlation coefficients (and their asymptotic distributions) for each set of markets and periods.
As Pesaran and Pick (2007) observe, however, financial contagion is a difficult system to estimate econometrically. To disentangle contagion from interaction effects, cou... | 21,277 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
financial and economic literature presents ample evidence that in time of crisis co-movements between the returns of assets increase. This increase in correlation between the returns of the loans' collateral causes an increase in the volatility of bank assets and, therefore an increase in the value ... | 21,278 |
1803851 | Financial contagion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20contagion | Financial contagion
orbearance policy of regulators. Since regulators have greater forbearance during systemic crises, the increase in correlation creates incentives for banks to herd and become interconnected so that when they fail, they fail together, increasing their chances of being bailed-out. Peleg and Raviv (201... | 21,279 |
1803918 | Ion (dialogue) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ion%20(dialogue) | Ion (dialogue)
Ion (dialogue)
In Plato's Ion (; ) Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession. It is one of t... | 21,280 |
1803918 | Ion (dialogue) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ion%20(dialogue) | Ion (dialogue)
as to him it seems that Homer treats many of the same subjects as other poets like Hesiod, subjects such as war or divination, and that if someone is knowledgeable in any one of those he should be able to understand what "both" of these poets say. Furthermore, this man is probably not the poet, like Ion,... | 21,281 |
1803918 | Ion (dialogue) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ion%20(dialogue) | Ion (dialogue)
would know how to speak on all. And for this reason God takes away the mind of these men and uses them as his ministers, just as he does soothsayers and godly seers, in order that we who hear them may know that it is not they who utter these words of great price, when they are out of their wits, but that... | 21,282 |
1803918 | Ion (dialogue) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ion%20(dialogue) | Ion (dialogue)
acts, because he can weep even though he has lost nothing, and recoil in fear when in front of an admiring audience. Ion says that the explanation for this is very simple: it is the promise of payment that inspires his deliberate disconnection from reality. Ion says that when he looks at the audience and... | 21,283 |
1803918 | Ion (dialogue) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ion%20(dialogue) | Ion (dialogue)
and making war. He asks Ion if these skills are distinct from his art of recitation. Ion admits that while Homer discusses many different skills in his poetry, he never refers specifically to the rhapsode's craft, which is acting. Socrates presses him about the exact nature of his skill. Ion maintains th... | 21,284 |
1803918 | Ion (dialogue) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ion%20(dialogue) | Ion (dialogue)
is: a man who is convincingly capable of being different people on stage.
Through his character Socrates, Plato argues that “Ion’s talent as an interpreter cannot be an art, a definable body of knowledge or an ordered system of skills,” but instead must come from the divine inspiration of the Muses.
# ... | 21,285 |
1803918 | Ion (dialogue) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ion%20(dialogue) | Ion (dialogue)
continue to be stageworthy;” it is a paradox that “Plato the supreme enemy of art is also the supreme artist.” Plato develops a more elaborate critique of poetry in other dialogues such as in "Phaedrus" 245a, "Symposium" 209a, "Republic" 398a, "Laws" 817 b–d. However, some researchers perceive it as a cr... | 21,286 |
1803918 | Ion (dialogue) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ion%20(dialogue) | Ion (dialogue)
209a, "Republic" 398a, "Laws" 817 b–d. However, some researchers perceive it as a critique of unjustified belief rather than a critique of poetry in general.
# See also.
- Poetics
- Poetics (Aristotle)
- Theia mania
- Crazy wisdom
# Texts, translations, external links.
- Greek text at Perseus
- "... | 21,287 |
1803947 | President of South Ossetia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=President%20of%20South%20Ossetia | President of South Ossetia
President of South Ossetia
The President of the Republic of South Ossetia is the "de facto" head of state of the partially recognized Republic of South Ossetia that is "de jure" part of Georgia. This is a list of the "de facto" presidents of the Republic of South Ossetia and the holders of t... | 21,288 |
1803951 | Mochtar Riady | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mochtar%20Riady | Mochtar Riady
Mochtar Riady
Mochtar Riady (; born 12 May 1929) also known as Lie Mo Tie is an Indonesian financial magnate and the founder and Chairman of Lippo Group. He was born in Malang to a Chinese Indonesian family. At five months old, his parents took him to his father's ancestral village in Fujian where he liv... | 21,289 |
1803934 | Arana College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arana%20College | Arana College
Arana College
Arana College is a residential college of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, founded in 1943 by the Rev. William Turner and the Stuart Residence Halls Council. The name "Arana" is a Māori transliteration of "Allen", chosen to honour Sir James Allen, a former Vice Chancellor (1... | 21,290 |
1803934 | Arana College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arana%20College | Arana College
known as Piripi Hill (a corruption of "Botanic Hill", after the nearby first site of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens). It overlooks the Otago Campus only 200 metres from the Registry Clock Tower, a notable feature of the University campus. The University of Otago College of Education, Otago Polytechnic and th... | 21,291 |
1803934 | Arana College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arana%20College | Arana College
funding, as part of the Colombo Plan were used to build permanent buildings, the Colombo (opened in 1964 housing 56 residents) and Bates (opened in 1968 housing 48 residents) wings. The international students brought to Arana as part of the Colombo Plan have added a distinctive international flavour. Thro... | 21,292 |
1803934 | Arana College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arana%20College | Arana College
houses to self-contained accommodation. Luckily, by the late 1980s the University of Otago was again in a growth phase, and Arana College truly began to develop into a residential village.
In 1994 Turner Wing was opened, housing 27 residents. In 2005-2006 Arana College undertook a major upgrade of the ce... | 21,293 |
1803934 | Arana College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arana%20College | Arana College
s in total between its main buildings and surrounding houses.
# Coat of arms.
Arana and Carrington, the two colleges at Otago that were created and originally administered by the Stuart Residence Halls Council, are now fully administered by the University of Otago. The arms of Arana come from the arms o... | 21,294 |
1803939 | Agustín Gamarra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agustín%20Gamarra | Agustín Gamarra
Agustín Gamarra
Agustín Gamarra Messia (August 27, 1785 – November 18, 1841) was a Peruvian soldier and politician, who served as the 10th and 14th President of Peru.
Gamarra was a Mestizo, being of mixed Spanish and Quechua descent. He had a military life since childhood, battling against the royalis... | 21,295 |
1803939 | Agustín Gamarra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agustín%20Gamarra | Agustín Gamarra
esteemed military officer.
After the defeat of José de la Mar in Gran Colombia, Gamarra urged his overthrow and assumed the presidency for a brief period after Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente. The peace treaty with Gran Colombia was also signed during Gamarra's government.
# Presidency of Peru.
## Fir... | 21,296 |
1803939 | Agustín Gamarra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agustín%20Gamarra | Agustín Gamarra
which allowed him to leave Lima to thwart rebellions in various parts of the country. During such expeditions he would leave the presidency to Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente, who manifested his authoritarian character and started to receive the enmity of other government officials based in Lima.
### o... | 21,297 |
1803939 | Agustín Gamarra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agustín%20Gamarra | Agustín Gamarra
territory under a single Peruvian nation.
## Second Presidency and invasion of Bolivia.
In 1835, when Orbegoso and Andrés Santa Cruz signed the treaty to establish the Peru-Bolivian Confederacy, Gamarra deeply opposed it and participated in a campaign to defeat it with the help of Chile. This led to t... | 21,298 |
1803929 | Peter Nixon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Nixon | Peter Nixon
Peter Nixon
Peter James Nixon AO (born 22 March 1928) is a former Australian politician representing the National Party (and also under its former name, the Country Party).
Born in Orbost, Victoria, Nixon was a grazier and company director. Prior to the 1961 election he gained Country Party pre-selection ... | 21,299 |
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