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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Slate Office REIT Completes Acquisition of Commerce West in the Greater Toronto Area

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TORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – May 29, 2017) – Slate Office REIT (TSX: SOT.UN) (the “REIT”), a leading owner of office properties in Canada, is pleased to announce the closing of its previously announced acquisition of Commerce West, a suburban office complex, located at 401 – 405 The West Mall, in Etobicoke, Ontario for an aggregate purchase price of $95 million ($231 per square foot).

May 30, 2017 at 02:42AM

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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Alcentra Capital Corporation Announces Offering of Common Stock

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NEW YORK, May 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Alcentra Capital Corporation (Nasdaq GSM: ABDC) (the “Company”) announced today that it has commenced an underwritten primary offering of 808,161 shares of its common stock and a concurrent underwritten secondary offering of 1,691,839 shares of its…

May 17, 2017 at 02:40AM

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INVESTOR ALERT: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Announces an Investigation Involving Possible Securities Fraud Violations by Certain Officers and Directors of XBiotech Inc. — XBIT

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Protecting the Rights of Shareholders.NEW YORK, May 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Levi & Korsinsky, LLP announces it has commenced an investigation of XBiotech Inc. (“XBiotech”) (NASDAQ: XBIT) concerning possible violations of federal securities laws.
On April 20, 2017, XBiotech announced that the European Medicines…

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Sunday, May 14, 2017

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Intelligent computational model for classification of sub-Golgi protein using oversampling and fisher feature selection methods

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Publication date: Available online 10 May 2017
Source:Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Author(s): Jamal Ahmad, Faisal Javed, Maqsood Hayat
Golgi is one of the core proteins of a cell, constitutes in both plants and animals, which is involved in protein synthesis. Golgi is responsible for receiving and processing the macromolecules and trafficking of newly processed protein to its intended destination. Dysfunction in Golgi protein is expected to cause many neurodegenerative and inherited diseases that may be cured well if they are detected effectively and timely. Golgi protein is categorized into two parts cis-Golgi and trans-Golgi. The identification of Golgi protein via direct method is very hard due to limited available recognized structures. Therefore, the researchers divert their attention toward the sequences from structures. However, owing to technological advancement, exploration of huge amount of sequences was reported in the databases. So recognition of large amount of unprocessed data using conventional methods is very difficult. Therefore, the concept of intelligence was incorporated with computational model. Intelligence based computational model obtained reasonable results, but the gap of improvement is still under consideration. In this regard, an intelligent automatic recognition model is developed in order to enhance the true classification rate of sub-Golgi proteins. In this approach, discrete and evolutionary feature extraction methods are applied on the benchmark Golgi protein datasets to excerpt salient, propound and variant numerical descriptors. After that, an oversampling technique Syntactic Minority over Sampling Technique is employed to balance the data. Hybrid spaces are also generated with combination of these feature spaces. Further, Fisher feature selection method is utilized to reduce the extra noisy and redundant features from feature vector. Finally, k-nearest neighbor algorithm is used as learning hypothesis. Three distinct cross validation tests are used to examine the stability and efficiency of the proposed model. The predicted outcomes of proposed model are better than the existing models in the literature so far. Finally, it is anticipated that the proposed model will provide the foundation to pharmaceutical industry in drug design and research community to innovate new ideas in the area of computational biology and bioinformatics.

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Startup Uses Friendly Chat Bot Named Wazlo to Connect Workers with Employers

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Sunday, April 30, 2017

EUR/CHF: Slight short-term bullish momentum

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EUR/JPY is back around 120.00. Key resistance stands at 123.31 (27/01/0217 high). Major support is given at 114.90 (18/04/2017low). Expected to see short-term bearish pressures. In the longer term, the technical structure validates a medium-term succession …

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April 30, 2017 at 02:31AM

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Saturday, April 29, 2017

Royal Bank of Scotland could pay dividends next year

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The struggling lender, which received a £46bn Government bailout in 2008, made a £259m profit in the first quarter. This was up from a £968m loss a year earlier.

April 29, 2017 at 02:17AM

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BIG SHOT OF THE WEEK: Credit Suisse boss Tidjane Thiam

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Should there have been any doubts about Tidjane Thiam’s place among the global power elite, they were surely dispelled at the World Economic Forum.

April 29, 2017 at 02:17AM

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Fitch says Mozambique’s External Position Is Improving, in Line With a Recovery in Coal and Aluminium Prices

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FITCH SAYS MOZAMBIQUE’S EXTERNAL POSITION IS IMPROVING, IN LINE WITH A RECOVERY IN COAL AND ALUMINIUM PRICES
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April 29, 2017 at 02:26AM

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Fitch says Expects “process of Curing Mozambique’s Default to be protracted\”

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FITCH SAYS EXPECTS “PROCESS OF CURING MOZAMBIQUE’S DEFAULT TO BE PROTRACTED”
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Monday, April 24, 2017

Popsy Kanagaratnam retweeted: UK watchdog warns against scrapping US rules for failing lenders on.ft.com/2oBBSE8 via @FT #corpgov #banks #regulation

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UK watchdog warns against scrapping US rules for failing lenders on.ft.com/2oBBSE8 via @FT #corpgov #banks #regulation

April 24, 2017 at 02:31AM

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UK watchdog warns against scrapping US rules for failing lenders on.ft.com/2oBBSE8 via @FT #corpgov #banks #regulation

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UK watchdog warns against scrapping US rules for failing lenders on.ft.com/2oBBSE8 via @FT #corpgov #banks #regulation

April 24, 2017 at 02:31AM

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Carol Nolan Drake retweeted: #Canada considers whether 5% ownership threshold is too high for proxy access, propose 3% cfa.is/2pxpm9v @MattOrsagh #CorpGov

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Carol Nolan Drake retweeted:

#Canada considers whether 5% ownership threshold is too high for proxy access, propose 3% cfa.is/2pxpm9v @MattOrsagh #CorpGov

April 24, 2017 at 02:31AM

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WholeBoardDevelopmnt retweeted: Dutch voters did their part. Now France’s turn. Not just a social referendum, has huge ripple effects on big biz. #corpgov #bizhumanrights

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Dutch voters did their part. Now France’s turn. Not just a social referendum, has huge ripple effects on big biz. #corpgov #bizhumanrights

April 24, 2017 at 02:31AM

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Sunday, April 23, 2017

One Take on the Report of the Independent Directors of Wells Fargo: Vote the Bums Out

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Posted by Howell E. Jackson, Harvard Law School, on Saturday, April 22, 2017

Editor’s Note: Howell E. Jackson is James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Additional information on Professor Jackson’s outside interests and activities is available here. The views expressed in this blog posting are those of Professor Jackson and are not necessarily those of organizations, institutions or individuals with which he is associated.

Next Tuesday, the 25th of April, the shareholders of Wells Fargo will meet for the first time since the news of the massive Wells Fargo mis-selling scandal broke last September when the firm was hit with penalties of $185 million for opening 1.5 million bank accounts and issuing 565,000 credit cards for customers without their consent. [1] In recent weeks, the two leading proxy advisory firms have recommended negative votes many of the directors serving on the Wells Fargo Board at the time the fines were announced, with Glass Lewis advocating negative votes on six of twelve continuing directors and ISS recommending the ouster of all twelve.

Just two weeks before the meeting date, the independent directors of Wells Fargo released a 110 page “Sales Practice Investigation Report,” prepared with the assistance of the law firm Shearman & Sterling under the direction of four independent trustees: Duke, Hernandez, James, and Sanger, all four of whom have received negative vote recommendations from ISS and one of whom (Hernandez) has received a negative recommendation from Glass Lewis. [2] The Shearman & Sterling Report—and I call it that because the document has all the hallmarks of a carefully and cautiously drafted legal document—is illustrative of an increasingly common practice in the aftermath of financial scandal: the preparation and distribution of a nominally “independent” but “in-house” analysis of corporate practices that have resulted in widespread violations of law.

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April 23, 2017 at 02:33AM

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Monday, April 17, 2017

Malaysia’s MaGIC taps India to dial up global ecosystem for local startups

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Government-created MaGIC has just signed with the third largest entrepreneurship system in the world.

April 17, 2017 at 02:39AM

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Slowdown continues on cotton market – DAWN.com

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Slowdown continues on cotton market
DAWN.com
A large segment of the value-added textile sector is facing liquidity because of refunds held by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). Trading remained dull despite the fact that ginners have around 300,000 bales and the next cotton crop was late due to …

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