Culture of Upper Reka consisting of "sarma" or stuffed vine leaves with rice and "kikurama" made of cereals. On this day, girls also gathered, entertained and cooked a salted pastry called "fli". The Orthodox of Ničpur celebrated St. Athanasius on January 31 (Julian calendar). Toward the end of February, both Muslims and Christians would conduct a ceremony called "todore" (definite: "todorja") meaning Theodora on a Thursday. Activities conducted were the village young led in song to an elderly women's house, with old cloths and shuttles from a loom. A bonfire would be lit there and a "todore" or type of scarecrow built (also known
Vine copula Bayesian networks. In finance, vine copulas have been shown to effectively model tail risk in portfolio optimization applications. The first regular vine, avant la lettre, was introduced by Harry Joe. The motive was to extend parametric bivariate extreme value copula families to higher dimensions. To this end he introduced what would later be called the "D-vine". Joe was interested in a class of n-variate distributions with given one dimensional margins, and "n"("n" − 1) dependence parameters, whereby "n" − 1 parameters correspond to bivariate margins, and the others correspond to conditional bivariate margins. In the case of multivariate normal distributions,