National Bureau of Economic Research

National Bureau of Economic Research

National Bureau of Economic Research

National Bureau of Economic Research

International Monetary Fund,

International Monetary Fund,

Credit risk funds, which invest at least 65 per cent of their portfolio in corporate bonds rated AA or below, offer a shot at high accrual returns

Prudent became the second non-banking mutual fund distributor to achieve this milestone last Friday

ICICI Prudential Flexicap’s performance over the past three years places it in the top-quartile of its category

Broad portfolio of holdings in equity and debt to limit portfolio downside during corrections from the peaks

A lump sum investment of ₹10 lakh at the time of inception in October 31, 2002 will be worth about ₹7.26 crore given compounded annual growth rate of 22 per cent

The government stuck to the theme as it raised the capex outlay for the coming financial year to Rs.11.11 lakh crore, an increase of 11%

His efforts to weaken pollution controls expected to endure

His efforts to weaken pollution controls expected to endure

TMB had been exploring options for its bancassurance partnerships after its planned merger with Thanachart.

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Im Dezember bricht in Wuhan eine rätselhafte Lungenkrankheit aus. Es dauert 21 Tage, bis die chinesischen Behörden den Kampf gegen die Seuche einleiten. Hätte die Corona-Pandemie verhindert werden können? Lesen Sie hier die SPIEGEL-Titelstory.

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The former member for Eden-Monaro is now working for the CIA-linked security technology firm, after resigning from the seat in late April.

This report responds to a request from the G20 that the IMF and OECD assess whether further work is needed on their respective approaches to measures which are both macro-prudential and capital flow measures, taking into account their individual mandates. The report was transmitted to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at their meeting on 16-17 April 2015 in Washington D.C.

This update report by the IMF and the OECD was delivered to G20 in February 2016.

For a thousand years, Cyprus was divided into at least 10 autonomous states. The inhabitants spoke three languages: Greek, Phoenician, and Eteocypriot, the original language […]

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Amid the covid 19 crisis, the Global Inhouse Centre of Canadian financial services company, Sun Life Financial Asia Service Centre India, is baselining projects that can be accelerated, re-scoped and deferred.

Careful planting and pruning is needed to ensure that air pollution in tree-lined streets is minimised, new research suggests. While planting trees in urban areas can have many benefits, such as enhancing biodiversity, trees can trap particulate matter pollution, say the study’s authors.

An ancient, two-sided amulet uncovered in Cyprus contains a 59-letter inscription that reads the same backward as it does forward.

Learn how to use potassium to eliminate constipation. By using a natural fruit and potassium, you can strenghten your colon and get constipation relief.

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KetonX Discontinued and Pruvit's Exclusive Patent Rights Confirmed

Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill) B.S.P) is the dominant forest cover type in interior Alaska and is prone to frequent, stand-replacing wildfires.

At the end of October, 2019, my photo library contained approximately 60,000 images, mostly taken over the past 20 years. (Of those, nearly 40% are from the past five years.) Comparing the size of my library with those of friends of mine, I’m about average, but still, 60,000 is a big number, and managing that […]

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This study's objective was to document and describe the current seedling bank of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) stands in southeast Alaska that were partially cut between 1900 and 1984.

Recent works imply that the channel pruning can be regarded as searching optimal sub-structure from unpruned networks.

However, existing works based on this observation require training and evaluating a large number of structures, which limits their application.

In this paper, we propose a novel differentiable method for channel pruning, named Differentiable Markov Channel Pruning (DMCP), to efficiently search the optimal sub-structure.

Our method is differentiable and can be directly optimized by gradient descent with respect to standard task loss and budget regularization (e.g. FLOPs constraint).

In DMCP, we model the channel pruning as a Markov process, in which each state represents for retaining the corresponding channel during pruning, and transitions between states denote the pruning process.

In the end, our method is able to implicitly select the proper number of channels in each layer by the Markov process with optimized transitions. To validate the effectiveness of our method, we perform extensive experiments on Imagenet with ResNet and MobilenetV2.

Results show our method can achieve consistent improvement than state-of-the-art pruning methods in various FLOPs settings. The code is available at https://github.com/zx55/dmcp

Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows the proper way to prune a branch without damaging the tree

Ihr Liebhaber zeigt ein angeschlagenes Selbstwertgefühl oder Angst vor Nähe? Überlegen Sie sich gut, ob er der richtige ist – denn er könnte irgendwann auch Sie betrügen.

Vergeben – das fällt vielen Menschen schwer: Es braucht Kraft und vor allem auch Zeit, um aus tiefer Überzeugung heraus wirklich verzeihen zu können. Doch der Weg lohnt sich, sagen Therapeuten.

We're almost in the third month of the year, and it's likely that your garden is looking a little on the tired side. Never fear, help is here!

Courts of law exist for good reason, but the judicial process can also retraumatize, rather than heal, victims and witnesses who are exposed to it. Therapeutic jurisprudence offers a different approach