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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"WTI"”.
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An analysis of the OPEC Reference Basket with regards to African Pricing and Spread to the WTI and Brent
… within the OPEC Reference Basket relative to the WTI and Brent benchmarks which are considered as global pricing benchmarks for the period starting from 1997-2008. The Nigerian Bonny Light and Algerian Saharan blend were the two benchmarks used for this study. A time series analysis was applied to …
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A Content Validity Study of the Water Training Institute Curriculum
… the present study, the Water Training Institute (WTI) curriculum was evaluated using a content validation approach. The purpose of the study was to identify topics that were being under-emphasized, over-emphasized, or receiving the correct amount of emphasis in the curriculum. A Job Knowledge …
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The Expression and Function of Wilms' Tumor 1 in Malignant Glioma
… lines and 80% of all glioma tissue expressed WTI mRNA, all of which expressed WTl(+KTS) isoforms. Further screening of the glioblastoma specimens for p53 mutation followed by logistic regression analysis demonstrated a positive correlation between WTl expression and wild-type p53 (p = 0.04). …
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Olaj és nyersanyagpiacok makrogazdasági összefüggései = Oil and commodity markets’ relationship with the macroeconomy
… időben és frekvenciatérben egyaránt. Végül a WTI olajtípus spot árának rövid távú (1-3 napos), valós idejű előrejelezhetőségét tesztelem a modellek egy meglehetősen széles körén, idősorelemzési és gépi tanulásos módszerek felhasználásával.
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On Explosive Time Series
… vector autoregression to model whether the WTI crude oil price run-up of 2007-2008 can be attributed to the existence of a bubble as well as whether the WTI crude oil collapse of 2014-2015 exhibits characteristics of bubble implosion. In the fifth and final chapter, concluding remarks are …
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Involvement of the WT1 and p16 genes in Wilms' tumour and human malignant mesothelioma
… of the urogenital system and the mesothelium (WTI) and to control of the cell cycle (pi6).
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An analysis of income from staking crypto assets paid to a non-resident in terms of the South African Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962, and a tax treaty established on the OECD Model Tax Convention
… of South Africa's withholding tax on interest (WTI). Section 24J of the Income Tax Act provides a non-exhaustive list of items considered as interest in relation to financial and lending arrangements, with the underlying principal in common law being that interest is compensation for the …
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An examination of commodity derivative markets: efficiency, volatility and diversification benefits
… stock portfolios by adding commodities such as WTI Crude Oil, Copper or Soya Bean futures. Adopting a commodity futures curves perspective, we found that commodities are still useful in portfolio diversification even after the recent increase in the correlation between returns of commodities and …
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Essays on commodity investing and volatility risk
… the impact of commodity index investment on WTI crude oil prices by focusing on mapping algorithms. Previous studies employ mapping algorithms to infer index positions in WTI crude oil from positions in agricultural commodities and find an economically large and statistically significant …
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THE EFFECT OF SILENCING THE WILMS' TUMOR 1 GENE ON THE RADIATION SENSITIVITY OF GLIOBLASTOMA CELLS
… treatments. High levels of the Wilms' Tumor 1 (WTI) gene have been identified in glioblastomas, suggesting an oncogenic function. Moreover, known WT1 target genes have been implicated in resistance to radiation. To determine the role of WT1 in radiation resistance, two glioblastoma cell lines …
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Estimación de la Nairu argentina, 2003-2017
… explicativas el precio del barril de petróleo WTI, el tipo de cambio real multilateral y el índice de inflación mayorista de Estados Unidos. Las estimaciones fueron realizadas a partir de un filtro de Hodrick Prescott y diferentes especificaciones de filtros de Kalman. Para las estimaciones se …
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The impact of diabetes on cardiac remodelling after myocardial infarction: potential role of thyroid hormone signalling
… concomitant increase in wall thickness and thus, WTI (the ratio of LVIDd/2*Posterior Wall thickness), an index of wall stress, was significantly elevated. The absence of wall thickening in DM+AMI hearts was associated with changes in stretch-induced kinase hypertrophic signalling p38 MAPK. In …
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Modelling energy markets and pricing energy derivatives
… Model) and forward curve based models to price WTI options. The results show that the Jump Diffusion Model is the best model as the option prices given are very accurate in comparison with the other models and closest to the market observed options prices.
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Three Essays in Macroeconometrics
… the price of oil, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price and the Re ners Acquisition Cost (RAC) of crude oil, and by testing for both nominal and real e¤ects. We nd signi cant evidence of non-lin- earities for both aggregate and disaggregate indices. Our research highlights the importance …
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Three essays on financial markets
… cross hedging instrument for jet fuel than WTI crude oil futures. The third essay seeks to investigate the impact of corporate hedging. First of all, this essay examines whether oil/jet fuel price increases impact Southwest stock/Dow Jones Transportation index returns and return volatilities …
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Essays On Interrelationships Among Economic Time Series
… trend-dominated, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price is neither trend-dominated nor cycle-dominated. We also find evidence for a positive relationship among the cyclical components of the WTI crude oil price and the two real exchange rates. As a robustness check, common trends and …
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OPEC PRODUCTION DECISIONS, MACROECONOMIC NEWS AND VOLATILITY IN THE CANADIAN AND ENERGY MARKETS
This study investigates the determinants of oil and Canadian dollar volatilities. We use the multivariate volatility model to examine the simultaneous impacts of OPEC press releases and production decisions, oil and gasoline inventory surprises, and U.S. and Canadian macroeconomic news …