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... 11 The WACC calculations are made estimating the debt and equity participation in the total value of the firm for each period and calculating the contribution of each to the WACC after taxes As ... know the WACC, but to calculate WACC, the firm value and the financing profile are needed That we obtain full advantage of the tax savings in the same year as taxes are paid This means that earnings ... on book value (given that these values are adjusted either by inflation adjustments or asset revaluation, so the book value is a good proxy to the market value) An example: Assume a privately held...

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... insert an article, and of which article to insert Structure of the Translation Scheme Three dictionaries are envisaged: a stem dictionary, a prefix dictionary, and a suffix dictionary If one were ... respects: (1) As already exemplified, suffixes can cause modification of the word stem (2) In all but one case, only one suffix is used at a time The exceptional case is supplied by two particular suffixes ... passing that a disadvantage of Swahili is the absence of articles Some work must be done on this problem (paralleling [1]) to determine whether there are word patterns which are indicative of the need...

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... Omitting the trailing term leads to the approximation in Antoniak (1974) However, we can obtain an exact formula for the expectation by utilising the relationship between the Digamma function and the ... derivation Due to a misinterpretation of Antoniak (1974), GGJ06 use an approximation that leaves out all the P1 (w) terms from (4).1 Figure compares the approximation to the exact expectation when ... distribution over a finite vocabulary (values computed using the Digamma formulation (7) are the same) Dashed lines show the values given by the Antoniak approximation (4) (the line for α = 100 falls...

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... Mathematical Scientific Classification: 60F15 Keywords: domain of attraction of the normal law; self-normalized partial sums; almost sure central limit theorem Introduction Throughout this article, ... selfnormalized partial sums, where S n = n i=1 Xi , Vn = n i=1 Xi2 We say that the random variable X belongs to the domain of attraction of the normal law, if there exist constants an > 0, bn ... work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11061012), the project supported by program to Sponsor Teams for Innovation in the Construction of Talent Highlands in Guangxi...

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... China Authors’ contributions HH, DW and QW carried out the design of the study and performed the analysis QZ participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... random variable sequences and NA random variable sequences are the most important and special cases of pairwise NQD random variable sequences, then we have the following results as two corollaries ... Stat 43(3):1137–1153 (1966) Joag Dev, K, Proschan, F: Negative association of random variables with applications Ann Stat 11(1), 286–295 (1983) doi:10.1214/aos/1176346079 Matula, P: A note on the...

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... independent random variables have been extended to dependent random variables by many authors The concept of negatively associated random variables was introduced by Alam and Saxena [6] and carefully ... associated random variables Theorem 1.4 Let {Xni, ≤ i ≤ kn, n ≥ 1} be an array of rowwise negatively associated random variables and {an, n ≥ 1} a sequence of nonnegative constants Suppose that the ... for all  > n=1 i=1 When mean zero condition is imposed in Theorem 1.4, Chen et al [9] obtained a partially extended version of Theorem 1.3 for negatively associated random variables The partially...

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... in a non-tangential angle of opening a at ζ, then a short calculation shows that lim sup z→ζ δϕ(D)(z) απ ≤ tan δD (z) and the assertion follows □ Jones Journal of Inequalities and Applications ... Ω plays a complicated role in the behaviour of  We conclude this section by constructing a domain that displays very bad boundary properties This answers a question of Madigan and Matheson in ... Anderson, JM: Bloch Functions: The Basic Theory Operators and Function Theory D Reidel 1–17 (1985) Madigan, K, Matheson, A: Compact Composition Operators on the Bloch Space Trans Am Math Soc 347, 2679–2687...

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... P Agarwal USA , and anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments 18 Journal of Inequalities and Applications References R P Agarwal, Difference Equations and Inequalities: Theory, Methods and ... 1994 E Kurpınar, On inequalities in the theory of differential equations and their discrete analogues,” Pan-American Mathematical Journal, vol 9, no 4, pp 55–67, 1999 B G Pachpatte, On the discrete ... generalizations of Gronwall’s inequality,” Journal of Indian Mathematical Society, vol 37, pp 147–156, 1973 B G Pachpatte, Inequalities for Differential and Integral Equations, vol 197 of Mathematics...

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... χ a −1 a qa Ek,qd pN dx n qp a d χ a qpa −1 a En,qdp 0 a

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... q-calculus and the limit q → − 1,” Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics, vol 13, no 2, pp 131–141, 2006 [14] T Kim, On a q-analogue of the p-adic log gamma functions and related integrals,” ... integration,” Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol 9, no 3, pp 288–299, 2002 [6] T Kim, A note on p-adic invariant integral in the rings of p-adic integers,” Advanced Studies in Contemporary ... not seem to be natural ones; in particular, these numbers cannot be represented as a nice Witt’s type formula for the p-adic invariant integral on Z p and the generating function does not seems...

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... equations,” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol 359, no 2, pp 637–648, 2007 [2] S Junca and M Rascle, “Strong relaxation of the isothermal Euler system to the heat equation,” ... Boltzmann equation,” Hokkaido Mathematical Journal, vol 14, no 2, pp 249–275, 1985 Jiang Xu: Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China Email ... towards those of (1.6) for arbitrary large initial data in BV (R) space Marcati and Milani [3] showed the derivation of the porous media equation as the limit of the isentropic Euler equations...

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... essentially what we are looking at (The defining representation of Sn consists of the direct sum of the reflection representation and the trivial representation This trivial summand has no significant ... row-span of this table Since the dimension of the row-span of a matrix is equal to the dimension of its column-span, we can equally well study the dimension of the space spanned by the columns of the ... generating functions fλ (q) as rational functions over a common denominator; then the dimension of their span is bounded above by plus the degree of their numerators For example, one can see without...

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... help on numerical function maximization References [1] D Achlioptas and M Molloy, The analysis of a list-coloring algorithms on a random graph,” in Proc 38th Annual Symposium on Foundations of ... Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, Vol 1, 3rd Edition, 1968 [7] N Fountoulakis and C McDiarmid, personal communication [8] A Kamath, R Motwani, K Palem, and P Spirakis, ... main tool in establishing sharp estimates of the occupancy probabilities mentioned above, i.e the probabilities that no bin remains empty after the random placement of the balls Theorem (Kamath,...

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... gcd (A) , d (A) = d (A − A) , Λ (A) = maxA − minA, Λ (A) = Λ (A) /d (A) Furthermore, let κ (A) = Λ (A) − , |A| − θ (A) = max (A) , Λ (A) T (A) = ( |A| − 2)( κ (A) + − κ (A) ) + and hA = {a1 + · · · + ah : a1 ... , ah ∈ A} For a specified set A, we simply write d, d , Λ, etc Our approach is based on a remarkable result of Lev [7] Using an a ne transformation of variables his theorem can be stated as follows ... or Then κ≥ k + − (k − )θ Proof We may assume that By Lemma we have (3) > 2κ − 1, otherwise the assertion is obvious {0, d , , td } ⊆ A − A, where t ≥ ( + − 2κ)Λ Put m = A Then any of the assumptions...

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... aB + k b ∼ exp √ in (A. 1) and note that in the matching region n/(2k b) ∼ We recall that a = b(1 − n2−k /b) The integrand in (A. 1) has a saddle point at B = a and a standard application of the ... [17]) are very useful In these applications, the parameter b is quite large, and may depend on n There are other applications of b-tries in computer science, communications and biology Among these ... Among these are partial match retrieval of multidimensional data, searching and sorting, pattern matching, conflict resolution algorithms for broadcast communications, data compression, coding,...

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... 11], one has AM ⊂ ΣP ∩ ΠP , com2 pleting the claim in the introduction One naturally wonders at the relationship of Dist to more familiar classes such as NP and coNP In this direction, applying the ... uniform random variables on {0, 1}p We start by showing that the language of rigid graphs is in AM Let Rigid = {G : |Aut(G)| = 1} Theorem Rigid ∈ AM Proof The proof is an easy adaptation of the result ... of all languages L for which L ∈ ΣP Above, k k the notation ·, · refers to some canonical pairing function With these definitions, NP = ΣP , coNP = ΠP , and the classes ΣP and ΠP form a neat...

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... recursion does apply, with the same conclusion and proof as the above corollary In conclusion, we raise the question as to whether there is a q-analogue of formula (1), (q) i.e., for the (0,1)-inclusion ... Unfortunately, the condition (k − t) = in the hypothesis of our theorem precludes a new proof of Wilson’s theorem via our recursive formula In the special case when the characteristic p of F is larger than ... divide q Acknowledgement Support has been provided by a grant from NSERC References [1] A Frumkin and A Yakir, “Rank of inclusion matrices and modular representation theory”, Israel J Math 71 (1990),...

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... Background Consider a Markov chain (P, Ω, π) where P denotes the transition matrix, Ω denotes the state space, and π denotes the unique stationary distribution Recall that the variation distance between ... is nontrivial because of the way in which the distance function was defined for non-neighboring states The approach taken in the original version of this note [7] did handle this case In that version, ... It is clear that the distance function is symmetric, non-negative, zero only when the configurations are identical (since c < 1), and satisfies the triangle inequality Thus Φ is a metric as is required...

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... C4 contains v ∗ as a vertex, we must have that every w ∈ A appears in at least one of A or A+ (it may appear in both; in particular, v ∗ appears in both A and A+ as there are no antiparallel ... Hence, A ∪ A+ = A Thus, at least one of them has cardinality at least m/2 Assume, without loss of generality, that |A+ | ≥ m/2 (otherwise we can reverse the directions of all edges and the result ... be an Eulerian bipartite digraph We may assume that G does not contain antiparallel edges, since otherwise G has a directed cycle of length and we are done the electronic journal of combinatorics...

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