a comparison of models and future prospects

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... time-varying parameters can lead to gains in forecasting In particular, models that incorporate a gradual change in parameters and also include a large set of explanatory variables particularly ... Central Banking Studies Bank of England Email: haroon.mumtaz@bankofengland.co.uk (3) Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division Bank of England Email: konstantinos.theodoridis@bankofengland.co.uk ... Time-varying parameters, stochastic volatility, VAR, FAVAR, forecasting, Bayesian estimation JEL classification: C32, E37, E47 (1) External MPC Unit Bank of England Email: alina.barnett@bankofengland.co.uk...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... Jayaraman Krishnasamy, Mark J Jakiela, and Daniel E Whitney Mechanics of vibration-assisted entrapment with application to design In International Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE, April ... equivalence classes of stable states, and it then automatically categorizes the state (and hence, the equivalence class) of each part as the part exits the gate Experimental Results All of the ... systematic comparison of quasi-static algorithmic and Monte Carlo simulated approaches to physical experiments [13] Krishnasamy, Jakiela, and Whitney analyzed vibration-assisted entrapment of both...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:15

... operators of conventional dairies that go through what can be a challenging and costly transition process Many changes in such areas as animal husbandry, land and crop management, sourcing new and ... farms adopting the organic approach because of access to high quality pastures and the ability to manage pasture as a dairy feed source These areas also have a long history of small dairy operations ... standard normal density function and Φ is the standard normal cumulative distribution function evaluated using the first stage estimates Characteristics and Practices of Conventional and Organic...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... paragraph as important, and the other sentences as not important We included this approach merely as a simple baseline 2.2 Word-based approaches Word-based approaches to summarization are based ... Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press Daniel Marcu 2000 The theory and practice of discourse parsing and summarization Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, & Chris Buckley 1997 Automatic ... statistical tests, we collapsed the data for each text for the WithParagraph and the NoParagraph condition, and treated them as one experiment Figure shows that when the data from Experiments and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... (particularly the Malawi data) and drafting of the article JS participated in data collection, data analysis (particularly the Zambia data) and drafting of the article PD participated in data analysis ... and drafting of the article VM participated in study design, data analysis (particularly the Malawi data) and drafting of the article) AW Page 12 of 13 participated in data collection, data analysis ... Economic and Social Research, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia 4College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi Department of Global Health Development, Faculty of Public Health and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... means and standard deviations (median and range for categorical variables) for the study variables for respondents at T1 only (sample 1) and respondents at both T1 and T2 (sample 2) Sample was significantly ... Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011, 6:10 http://www.occup-med.com/content/6/1/10 Page of Table Means, standard deviations and comparison between the sample available at T1 only and ... of occupational stress in urban EMT-paramedics [see comment] Ann Emerg Med 1989, 18:1151-1156 Mahony KL: Management and the creation of occupational stressors in an Australian and a UK ambulance...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... by a grant from the Canadian Arthritis Network (a National Centre of Excellence) Dr Marra is supported by a Canadian Arthritis Network Scholar Award, and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health ... determine quality of life of an individual are captured and summarized as a global score In VAS and SG valuation methods, however, the individual evaluates his or her own health state based on a holistic ... directly "assesses" and "evaluates" a health state on a scale of 0.00 (death) to 1.00 (perfect health) The health states that are evaluated in the direct approach can be hypothetical or can be the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... tau b and Kappa statistics were used to examine the associations between conventional and retrospective values Spearman’s rank correlation and Kendall’s tau b are non-parametric measures of association ... symptoms lists (hernia repair and laparoscopic cholecystectomy) and for the global assessment items Statistical Analysis Magnitude and direction of change were calculated for each item of the checklist ... questions are answered more reliably [23] Dawson et al reported that radicular symptoms, frequency and location of pain and the way activities affect pain were recalled with greater accuracy than were...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... returns an error code and lists the set of features it does understand The client can then determine the problematic feature and fall back to simpler operation The feature names are based on a hierarchical ... hierarchical namespace, and new feature names can be registered with IANA This means that any developer can create new features in SIP, and then simply register a name for them Compatibility ... SIP servers and gateways will need to handle many calls For large, backbone IP telephony providers, the number of calls being handled by a large server can be significant In SIP, a transaction through...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 17:03

... 5-year growth intervals in Fagus sylvatica L (white dots) and Quercus robur L (black dots) (mean and standard deviation over five individuals) Figure Al/Ca and Ca/Mg concentration ratio (on a mass ... with ageing as shown by Momoshima et al in Japanese cedar [24] CBC has apparently never been assessed in oak and beech wood Increasing Al concentrations and Al/Ca ratio in the wood are often regarded ... covers 543 of a 400 m height plateau, between Semois and Vierre river valleys, in the southern part of the Belgian Ardennes Average annual rainfall amounts to 200 mm and mean annual temperature is...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... measure relapse, particularly hospitalization rates, but also duration of hospitalization and time to hospitalization [3,68] The most powerful predictor of relapse and hospitalization among patients ... values The SCAP database is similar to other administrative and pharmacy claims database, as it provides detailed information about patients' resource utilization over a predetermined period of ... psychiatric and medical comorbidities, substance abuse behaviors, use of concomitant medications of any type, level of suicidality, display of aggressive behaviors, pregnancy, and lactating status...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... N2-3/T4 group Arm A, blue; arm B, brown; arm C, yellow; arm D, green Discussion Concurrent chemoradiation is the established standard of care for locally advanced carcinoma of the anal canal Attempts ... expanded by a three-dimensional cm margin, the anal canal, and the draining lymphatic regions, including the perirectal, internal iliac, external iliac, obturator and inguinal lymphatics in all cases ... dose) and doses to OAR were minimized Statistical Analysis The mean percentage volume of bladder, genitalia/perineum, and small bowel receiving more than 30 and 40 Gy (V30 and V40) were calculated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... contained only 47% females and had an average age of 49.60 years (SD = 8.60) The overall sample was 74.2% Caucasian, 9.7% Hispanic, 3.2% African American, 3.2% Asian American, and 9.7% ‘Other.’ A ... mental health service system organizational levels and a broad range of mental health agencies and programs, including outpatient, day treatment, case management, and residential services Participants ... thought to facilitate implementation, such as having a staff ‘champion’ for EBP, having open and adaptable staff who have buy in and are committed to the implementation, and having support and supervision...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... injecting, and/ or snorting as a route of administration) Categorical and continuous demographic characteristics of rural and urban drug users were compared using chi-square tests and MannWhitney ... of the sample The median age of all participants was 37 years and ranged from 20 to 69 The majority of participants were men (54%) and 51% were non-Hispanic white The median number of years of ... Health Education, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA Authors’ contributions AY performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript All authors read and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... Critical Care Vol No Evans et al was activated and introduced clinically after a period of modification and reconfiguration CareVue® is supported by mirrored primary and secondary Hewlett Packard ... England and Wales: 1993 survey Leeds: NHS Management Executive 1993 Roland MO, Zander LI, Evans M, Morris R, Savage RA: Evaluation of a computer assisted repeat prescribing programme in a general ... 47%) and any allergies they may have, and every individual drug entry was authorised With intermittent and scheduled therapy the mandatory fields of drug, dose, route and frequency meant that these...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript GJD initiated the original idea of the study and helped to draft the manuscript MK, JF, and SARW helped analyse the data and draft the manuscript KYL was ... was mandatory in the APACHE data recording form If the patient was anaesthetised before ICU admission, the Glasgow coma score was assessed using the available clinical information prior to anaesthesia ... The calibration curve of the two The use of the admission APACHE II score to calculate the APACHE II predicted mortality (admission APACHE II model) has a few potential advantages and may represent...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... the meta-analysis Authors' contributions KMH had the original idea for the study, conducted data extraction and statistical analyses, and drafted the manuscript KW conducted data extraction and ... 325:1825-1830 Agarwal R, Aggarwal AN, Gupta D, Jindal SK: Non-invasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema Postgrad Med J 2005, 81:637-643 Chadda K, Annane D, Hart N, Gajdos P, Rapael JC, Lofaso ... intubate if they felt that the patient's condition was not improving satisfactorily 71 patients, mean APACHE II score not available, mean age 74 years, mean PaCO2 at presentation not available Variable...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... univariate and bivariate analyses (Tab III) In the univariate analyses, estimates of the QTL position (p1 and p2 ) had a lower standard deviation for the trait when the QTL had a large effect The bivariate ... relative to a univariate approach [15] The advantage of multivariate least squares is that it is easy to implement without using sophisticated software and the method is computationally fast ... bivariate analyses generated a single position estimate (p), which had a smaller standard deviation than that obtained from the univariate analyses, especially when the QTL correlation and the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... with alternative treatment or standard care These trials require acupuncture to be at least as good as standard care to establish its efficacy and have the advantage of treating all the patients ... and a VAS of more than or equal to and should not be having cervical myelopathy, malignancy and not taking any vasoactive drugs 31 2.2.2 Randomization With block randomization patients were allocated ... thermography and contact thermography and concluded that contact thermography was unable to accurately image many areas with curved surfaces and was unable to produce accurate recordings when several...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 19:06