Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors — (RECIST) is a set of published rules that define when cancer patients improve ( respond ), stay the same ( stable ), or worsen ( progression ) during treatments. The criteria were published in February, 2000 by an international collaboration… … Wikipedia
Duration (Bergson) — Duration is the theory of time and consciousness, posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. TheoryInspired by the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, Bergson sought to improve upon its inadequacies, which he believed to be Spencer s lack of… … Wikipedia
Duration (philosophy) — Henri Bergson in 1927. Duration is a theory of time and consciousness posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson sought to improve upon inadequacies he perceived in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, due, he believed, to Spencer s… … Wikipedia
duration — A sophisticated measure of the average timing of cash flows from an asset or a liability or from an asset portfolio or a liability portfolio. Essentially, duration is a more accurate measure of maturity because it reflects the timing of cash… … Financial and business terms
duration tetany — a continuous tetanic contraction in response to a very strong continuous current; it occurs especially in degenerated muscles; abbreviated Dt … Medical dictionary
Bond duration — Financial markets Public market Exchange Securities Bond market Fixed income Corporate bond Government bond Municipal bond … Wikipedia
negative duration — (1) The name for a particular relationship between changes in the price of a debt security and changes in prevailing interest rates. When a security has negative duration, its price decreases in response to a decrease in prevailing market rates.… … Financial and business terms
positive duration — (1) The name for a particular relationship between changes in the price of a debt security and changes in prevailing interest rates. When a security has positive duration, its price increases in response to a decrease in prevailing market rates.… … Financial and business terms
Stock duration — is the duration of an equity stocks is the percentage change in stock prices in response to a 1% change in the long term return that stocks are priced to deliver.DurationThe duration is about 67 (February, 2004) (the precise figure depends on the … Wikipedia
Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team — A Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team or DMORT is a team of experts in the fields of victim identification and mortuary services. DMORTs are activated in response to large scale disasters in the United States to assist in the… … Wikipedia
Disaster Response Route — Current DRR Sign (2004) Disaster Response Route (DRR) is a network of pre identified municipal and provincial roads in the Province of British Columbia, Canada that can best move emergency services and supplies to where they are needed in the… … Wikipedia
