a brief overview pdf

... (1) A is better than B if and only if A is at least as good as B but B is not at least as good as A (A> B if and only if A B and not B A) (2) A is equally good as B if and only if A is at least as ... claim of Bayesianism is that actual decision-makers satisfy these criteria The normative claim of Bayesianism is that rational decision-makers satisfy them In normative Bayesian decision analysis, ... program A to program B, and a large majority (78 %) preferred program D to program C However, alternatives A and C have been constructed to be identical, and so have B and D A and B are framed...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 16:20

... final answers to the user query Another important application class is peer data management, which is a natural extension of data integration (Aberer 2003) A peer data management system does away ... use a Naive Bayes learning approach that exploits data instances to match elements In the past five years, there is also a growing realization that schema- and data-related evidence in two schemas ... PODS-02 Lerman, K.; Minton, S.; and Knoblock, C A 2003 Wrapper maintenance: a machine learning approach Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research To appear Levy, A Y.; Rajaraman, A. ; and Ordille,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... interim management professionals; corporate investigation specialists; banking and securities professionals; certified public accountants; chartered financial analysts; and corporate, financial and ... highest and the lowest The remaining rates are averaged, and this average is reported as the LIBOR rate for that maturity on that day The rate calculated using this method is sometimes called the ... bank costs and the statistical methods used to perform the analysis Any defence against an accusation of having manipulated the LIBOR fixing will therefore depend heavily on being able to analyse...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... certain, for it can happen that a thing may become scarcer every day and yet have no value at all because nobody wants it Horse-drawn carriages have become very scarce nowadays, and yet nobody wants ... translation, Paris, Sélif, 1957 Spanish editions in Buenos Aires and Guatemala and in preparation in Colombia Translations in preparation in Germany, Brazil, and Japan printed in the united states ... into what it is that we really want and hence to aim at ends that are mutually consistent and compatible It is therefore no exaggeration to qualify it as a technique of rational action and to assert...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... twelve years of age: and this I can assure you, that the Indians had ever a just cause of raising War against the Spaniards, and the Spaniards on the contrary never raised a just was against them, ... repressed, and those Nations in some measure delivered from that intolerable and more then Aegyptian Bondage, or at least the Spaniards ill usage and treatment of the Americans was alleviated and abated ... Granada and Popayan, and by Carthagena and the Urabae, they directed their course to Calisium, and several other Tyrants of Carthagena assault Quito, who joyn'd themselves in an intire Body and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B Grant Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists He has directed many international associations, such as the Canadian and American Association of Anatomists ... #676, and Mosnad Ahmad, #23706 Narrated in Mowatta’ Malek, #531 Narrated in Saheeh Al-Bukhari, #3034, and Saheeh Muslim, #1803, and Mosnad Ahmad, #18017 (6) Narrated in Mosnad Ahmad, #12117, and Al-Tirmizi, ... Narrated in Saheeh Muslim, #188, and Mosnad Ahmad, #10832 Narrated in Saheeh Al-Bukhari, #6568, and Mosnad Ahmad, #13368 Narrated in Saheeh Muslim, #2825, and Mosnad Ahmad, #8609 A Brief Illustrated...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... Etats-Unis_" merely as "Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States": for M Juglar himself states that a commercial panic is always a financial panic, as a falling away of the metallic reserve ... purchases of imported and manufactured goods and all outfit needed for the farmers' land and family can be made at low and owing to the competition that always arises to supply a steady and natural ... idleness among workmen, a decrease in salaries and in interest rates, when the public is wary and speculation dead, and expenditures are cut down as far as possible, may be taken to mean a rapid and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20

... pizza, and other snappy phrases came to mind Hey, let’s book another entry The manager had learned that a client had amassed a sizable bond position and sustained adverse interest rate changes ... simply emerged as a practical way to keep track of an organization’s resources Entering transactions twice provides a check to ensure computational accuracy and allows managers to track asset ownership ... ownership: A notable example was RJR Nabisco’s extravagant 1980s spending on a corporate aircraft fleet Investors and creditors fashioned contracts from financial accounting balances in attempts to align...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20

... States": for M Juglar himself states that a commercial panic is always a financial panic, as a falling away of the metallic reserve indicates its breaking out; and I have only translated that ... purchases of imported and manufactured goods and all outfit needed for the farmers' land and family can be made at low and owing to the competition that always arises to supply a steady and natural ... conditions and with a reorganization of the banks under the name of "National Banks." A change was due, but, as everything was made ready, it was speedy The first balance sheet of the National Banks dates...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:20

... occurrence of ACJ arthrosis and extra articular ossification detected at mid term follow up and and signs of a mismatch between the plate and the subacromial space such as impingement and subacromial osteolysis ... Nadarajah R, Mahaluxmivala J, Amin A, Goodier DW: Clavicular hook-plate: complications of retaining the implant Injury 2005, 36:681-683 28 Chandrasenan J, Badhe S, Cresswell T, Beer J: The Clavicular ... Hook plate fixation of acute displaced lateral clavicle fractures: mid-term results and a brief literature overview Davut Tiren1§, Alexander J.M van Bemmel2, Dingeman J Swank2, Frits M van der...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... reliability above 0.7, Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, and the majority are above 0.9 I have never come across a QOL scale that is incapable ... population – it is not a unique feature of a scale Neither the scale nor the treatment can be characterised as showing a particular effect size (i.e., having a particular sensitivity to change), ... a new one, but there are many currently available [1] References Garratt A, Schmidt L, Mackintosh A and Fitzpatrick R: Quality of life measurement: bibliographic study of patient assessed health...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... data show that the NYSE is by far the largest exchange The fact that the NYSE has a capitalization of about $12.7 trillion means that it is almost four times larger than the next largest exchange, ... fact, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) exchange has more companies listed than the NYSE How many exchanges are there around the world? Let us just say ... period of hardship, it remains a key market in Asia and the global financial system LONDON EXCHANGE London has been a world financial center for many years.3 Tracing its beginnings back to the late 1690s...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 15:20

... presciently argued that the battle for ideas was key, and that it would probably take at least a generation for that battle to be won, not only against Marxism but against socialism, state planning, and ... Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey ... economy, as well as over the state apparatus and, as Randy Martin points out, daily life.28 It also introduced an accelerating volatility into global exchange relations There was unquestionably a power...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... Third Axiom (“Action and Reaction ”) a) As a consequence of equating the inertial and gravitational masses in Newton’s equation F (r) = ms · G(r) it follows that all bodies fall equally fast ... oscillation”, and afterwards the seemingly rather special, but actually quite general “periodically driven oscillation”, and also the seemingly very special, but actually equally general so-called “ballistically ... mass); n and τ are the osculating normal and the tangential unit vectors, respectively A one-dimensional treatment follows Finally, as already alluded to above, the quanties τ (t), n(t), R(t), and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 17:20

... εγ ωγ , i.e., along one diagonal axis they are attracted, but along the other diagonal axis there is repulsion, and the orbit runs far away from the axis where it started The appearance of hyperbolic ... space R3 (ω), but in the dual space R3 (L) by the relation 2Trot = L2 α Θα α=1 Instead of the angular velocity ω, the angular momentum L is now central In fact, L and ω are not parallel to each ... branches again (for ϑ = 0: upwards and downwards) into dissipationless axle bearings, which support a third rotation axis, 3, related to the direction e3 (i.e., the figure axis), with rotation angle...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 17:20

... , whereas the gravitational force is always attractive, since “gravitational charges” always have the same sign, while the gravitational constant leads to attraction (see (17.4)) Certainly, however, ... Similar considerations apply to gravitational forces; in fact, “gravitational mass” could also be termed “gravitational charge”, although an essential difference from electric charges is that inter ... theorem: triangulating a 2d-surface in space As an example, the surface z = xy is triangulated (i.e., paved) by a grid of small squares If all the squares are oriented in the same way as the outermost...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 17:20

... alia because a potential energy V (x) in the vicinity of a local minimum can almost always be approximated by a parabola (which is the characteristic potential energy of the harmonic oscillator), ... should be rotationally invariant Next, the usual ansatz for stationary states is made: ψ(r, t) = u(r) · e−iEt/ Then, in spherical coordinates a product ansatz (separation of variables) follows: ... (schematically) A wave ∝ eik·x traveling from −∞ with a certain energy meets a rectangular barrier, where it is partially reflected and transmitted (indicated by the straight lines with arrows,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 17:20

... at the planar interface between a GaAs-semiconductor region (for z < 0) and an Al1−x Gax As-region (for z > 0) At the interface there is a deflexion of the energy bands, and as a consequence an ... state without any angular momentum We assume that the decay products are two particles, which travel diametrically away from each other in opposite directions, and which are always correlated despite ... r but also on parameters α (e.g., on an inhomogeneous magnetic field), such that these parameters change adiabatically slowly along a closed loop This formulation is consciously rather lax, since...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 17:20

... the larger the dissipative part, the larger the fluctuations Again this can be formulated quantitatively using the fluctuation-dissipation theorem [49] All expectation values and the 21 This quantity ... we have seen that thermal fluctuations are important in the neighborhood of the critical temperature of a second-order phase transition, i.e near the critical temperature of a liquid-gas transition ... response of the quantity A Now, the dynamic susceptibility A, B (ω) has two components: a reactive ˆ ˆ part A, B ˆ ˆ and a dissipative part A, B , ˆ ˆ i.e., A, B (ω) = A, B (ω) + i A, B (ω) , ˆ ˆ...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 17:20