... of relativity and the hypothesis of the quantum of radiation were introduced It has taken most of that time to synthesize the two into the modern quantum theory of fields and the standard model ... will-o’ -the- wisp and don’t lose your nerve xii Black Holes, Information, and the String Theory Revolution Contents Preface vii Part 1: Black Holes and Quantu...
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... NO 187 Screening Tests, Information, and the Health-Education Gradient Ciro Avitabile , Tullio Jappelli , Mario Padula Abstract The association between health outcomes and education – the health-education ... for standard screening tests (mammography and colonoscopy) In order to study the role of information on the decision to screen, we test whether the healt...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20
Research " SEQUENTIAL REVEALING OF INFORMATION AND THE RETURNS TO EDUCATIONAL SIGNALS " doc
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:23
the revival of a classical tongue eliezer ben yehuda and the modern hebrew language
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equitability, mutual information, and the maximal information coefficient
... of mutual information, but rather resulted from the use of a nonoptimal value for the parameter k in the KNN algorithm of Kraskov et al (18) Finally we investigate the power of MIC, the KNN mutual ... three children, and let the variables X, Y, and Z represent the words spoken by the first, the second, and the third child, respectively The criterion in Eq is...
Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 08:12
An introduction to black holes, information and the string theory revolution
... of relativity and the hypothesis of the quantum of radiation were introduced It has taken most of that time to synthesize the two into the modern quantum theory of fields and the standard model ... will-o’ -the- wisp and don’t lose your nerve xii Black Holes, Information, and the String Theory Revolution Contents Preface vii Part 1: Black Holes and Quant...
Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2015, 11:41
Institutional investors, intangible information and the book to market effect
... between institutional trading (herding) and the book- to- market effect This thesis contributes to the asset pricing literature by offering another explanation of the book- to- market effect The growing ... brief review of the literature on the book- to- market effect and institutional trading Since both the literature on the book- to- market e...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:39
The Modern Human colonisation and the Neanderthal extinction
... Moderns caused the extinction of the Neanderthals The only basis for the argument is that of an apparent association between the arrival of the Moderns into Europe and the extinction of the Neanderthals ... These results are in keeping with the view (see next section) that there was a hiatus in southern Iberia between the extinction of the Neanderthals and the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life
... account for the diversity of life in the biosphere, it is generally recognized that the origin of life is one of the great unsolved mysteries in science (Radetsky1992; Wade 2000) At the heart of this ... Second Law of Thermodynamics For them, the origin of life is nothing more or less than the emergence of sufficient biological information to enable a syst...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
Trial and Error: J. Marion Sims and the Birth of Modern Gynecology in the American South docx
... fame were a result of his surgical discoveries, including the invention the Sims Speculum and the Sims Position, and the use of silver sutures to prevent internal infections These innovations eventually ... profession the bold and intrepid pioneer in the art of gynecology … that genius, skill, and perseverance which developed it into a science, in the per...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20
Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital doc
... shows that the cost of capital of the firm depends on four factors: the risk free rate, the aggregate risk tolerance of the market, the expected cash flow of the firm, and the covariance of the firm’s ... increases the variance and covariances, which increases the cost of capital The equilibrium is then the net of these two effects In our ex...
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