OBJECTIVES: To determine whether repetitive functional task practice (RFTP) after stroke improves limb-specific or global function or activities of daily living and whether treatment effects are dependent on the amount of practice, or the type or timing of the intervention. Also to provide...

This talk reviews some of the applications of mathematical programming in finance. Of course mathematical programming has long been recognised as a vital modelling approach to solve optimization problems in finance. Markowitz’s Nobel Prize winning work on portfolio optimization showed how...

Stress testing has become an important topic in retail lending since the introduction of the new Basel II guidelines. The present work uses a scenario-based forecasting approach developed explicitly for retail lending in order to provide a suitable stress testing approach. We first decompose the...

One of the aims of credit scoring models is to predict the probability of repayment of any applicant and yet such models are usually parameterised using a sample of accepted applicants only. This may lead to biased estimates of the parameters. In this paper we examine two issues. First, we...

Stress testing has become an important topic in retail lending sincethe introduction of the new Basel II guidelines. The present work uses ascenario-based forecasting approach developed explicitly for retail lendingin order to provide a suitable stress testing approach. We first decomposethe...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to undertake an examination of the impacts of socio-demographic and economic variables on the probability of purchasing financial products. There is relatively little empirical research that has been taken to understand how the underlying economy...