A risk-based capital requirement is a regulation that compels financial institutions to hold sufficient capital relative to their risk exposures to promote financial stability. Risk-based capital ...

Building more livable cities is an essential step toward achieving the World Bank mission of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. Today, more than half of the world’s ...

Structure-based drug design is the design and optimization of a chemical structure with the goal of identifying a compound suitable for clinical testing — a drug candidate. It is based on knowledge of ...

Collaborations between neuroscientists and traditional medical practitioners can strengthen the scientific foundations of traditional medicine and enrich neuroscience with culturally grounded insights ...

Standards make everyday life run smoothly. You rarely notice them: the credit card that works in any corner of the world, the Wi-Fi signal that connects a remote village to the cloud, or the vaccine ...

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