... μPAN ) σb + μb , (1) σPAN where μPAN and μb are the mean of the PAN and MS image band b, respectively, and s PAN and s b are the standard deviation of the PAN and MS image band b, respectively This ... this paper, we examine the classical and state-ofthe-art pansharpening methods described in the literature giving a clear classification of the methodsanda description of their main characteristics ... Haydn et al.[30] to merge Landsat MSS with Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) data and Landsat MSS with Heat Capacity Mapping Mission data In 1988, Chavez et al.[31] used SPOT panchromatic data to “sharpen”...
... soldiers; and each with its outlying factories had a staff of perhaps a dozen factors, as many sub-factors, twice as many assistants, anda few bookkeepers and auditors, as well as a corps of white artisans ... and reasonable A ship captain after paying for a license and buying the king's private stock of slaves at somewhat above the market price would have the news of his arrival spread afar, and at ... artisans and an abundance of native interpreters, boatmen, carriers and domestic servants The Dutch and English stations alternated in a series east and west, often standing no further than a cannon-shot...
... summarises and acknowledges the variety ofapproaches to brand loyalty Second, it offers an explanation for the variety and the lack ofa single best approach to defining and measuring brand loyalty ... Journal of Product & Brand Management 23:4/5, 322-332 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Farzana Quoquab, Norjaya Mohd Yasin, Rozhan Abu Dardak 2014 A qualitative inquiry of multi-brand loyalty Asia Pacific ... Behavioural Attitudinal Attitudinal Behavioural Attitudinal Attitudinal Attitudinal Behavioural Behavioural Table I The measures involved, ``attitudinal'' or ``behavioural'', in brand loyalty...
... somewhat mitigated (Ogawa and Retherford 1997; da Vanza and Chan 1994) Economic growth is typically also accompanied by urbanization and the migration of young workers to urban areas In Japan this ... reliable, comparable and comprehensive measures of population health and comparative assessments of the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors; and to investigate the costs, efficacy and ... (Ainsworth and Dayton 2001; Barnett and Blaikie 1992; Vanlandingham et al 2000, WHO (World Health Organization) 2001) In a study of Tanzania, Ainsworth and Dayton (2001) found a short-term impact on...
... Predicting bank performance with financial forecasts: A case of Taiwan commercial banks Journal of Banking and Finance, 28, 2353—2368 Karels, G V — Prakash, A J (1987) Multivariate normality and forecasting ... stochastic DEA Kao and Liu (2004) formulate a DEA model of interval data for use in evaluating the performance of banks Their study makes advance predictions of the performance of 24 Taiwan banks ... the Logit model, along with factor analysis, to measure and describe banks’ financial and operating characteristics Data was taken from Call and Income Reports, as well as Examination Reports for...
... recent past, the understanding of central bank transparency and communication has changed dramatically As it became increasingly clear that managing expectations is a central part of monetary policy, ... communications In fact, the Fed is more ofa laggard than a leader in this regard The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of England were early and enthusiastic converts to greater transparency, ... De Haan, Jakob, Fabian Amtenbrink, and Sandra Waller 2004 “The Transparency and Credibility of the European Central Bank.” Journal of Common Market Studies, 42(4): 775-94 Demiralp, Selma, and...
... testing capacity in appendix The ratio of the maximum capacity to the average capacity available is about 2.5 Again, this indicates that the average capacity is a good indicator for the available testing ... large lab) The size of the small labs might be related to comparative advantage E.g the price advantages of the small labs might be due to advantages of specialization Small labs generally offer ... test packages based on 282 substances p .a EU capacity (excl an EU capacity and import share of 53%) Switzerland 77 98 11 14 1 Table 4: Estimation of the annual overall testing capacity according...
... of mountains in Afghanistan and the behavior of entrepreneurs in Africa.” Adrian Schofield, head of research for ForgeAhead, an information and communications consulting firm, anda leader with ... through example and generalization MEMS, agents and bots are the reality today In the near future, as computing and data storage become more advanced and nanotechnology and artificial intelligence ... permanent surveillance Alaa Seif al-Islam was arrested in May 2005 for protesting the beating of women at a pro-democracy rally in Cairo Seif al-Islam is still in jail, and at least six additional...
... FOOTNOTES An exception is Kaplan and Ruback (1995) This contrasts with Kaplan and Ruback (1995) and Abarbanell and Bernard (1995) where prices are compared to values calculated from forecasts of cash ... the accounting for anticipated investment and the recognition of non-cash value changes It also compares discounted residual earnings approachesand capitalized earnings approaches under a variety ... on average had negative residual income and capitalizing a negative amount in the terminal value calculation reduces the valuation This is of course a legitimate calculation as firms can have...
... knowledge about how a particular item satisfies a particular user need, and can therefore reason about the relationship between a need and possible recommendation [12] The user profile can be any knowledge ... Data Sparsity, Cold Start Problem, Fraud, Scalability, Gray sheep, Shilling attack and synonymy [6-7, 9, 15] Data Sparsity: In practice, many commercial recommender systems are used to evaluate ... dissim( x, y) and sim( x, y) measure the distance apart and closeness respectively The (dis)similarity values are then used to obtain a ranked list of recommended items These approaches are based on...
... knowledge about how a particular item satisfies a particular user need, and can therefore reason about the relationship between a need and possible recommendation [12] The user profile can be any knowledge ... Data Sparsity, Cold Start Problem, Fraud, Scalability, Gray sheep, Shilling attack and synonymy [6-7, 9, 15] Data Sparsity: In practice, many commercial recommender systems are used to evaluate ... dissim( x, y) and sim( x, y) measure the distance apart and closeness respectively The (dis)similarity values are then used to obtain a ranked list of recommended items These approaches are based on...
... delivery of health care, financial management, organizational management, and legal and ethical considerations [7] In asurveyof American medical directors, competencies related specifically to health ... design and delivery of appropriate and relevant programs aimed at enhancing management and leadership capacity in the health sector in South Africa Methods Data for this study come from asurveyof ... that variable This allows one to treat the data as interval data measuring a latent variable, to which parametric statistical tests can be applied Reliability of scales was estimated by assessing...
... Asurveyof American neurologists about brain death: understanding the conceptual basis and diagnostic tests for brain death Ari R Joffe*1,2, Natalie R Anton1, Jonathan P Duff1 and Allan deCaen1 ... ari.joffe@albertahealthservices.ca NRA: Natalie.anton@albertahealthservices.ca JPD: Jon.duff@albertahealthservices.ca AdC: allan.decaen@albertahealthservices.ca Abstract Background: Neurologists often ... is because it is a standard: an accepted medical standard (46, 24%; 18–30%), an accepted legal standard (24, 13%; 8–18%), and/ or “the diagnosis of brain death was taught to me during my training”...
... employs a state model for the dynamics of noise An enhancement of speech features can also be attained by incremental online adaptation of the feature space as in the feature space maximum likelihood ... and Music Processing or recognition of nonverbal vocalisations [64] where it partly outperformed HMM approaches An advantage of HCRF is the ability to handle features that are allowed to be arbitrary ... contains the standard deviations of the feature vector components, is carried out elementwise After MVN, all features have zero mean and unity variance 4.1.3 Histogram Equalisation Histogram Equalisation...
... treatability of childhood autism and sociodemographic variables of the healthcare workers Sociodemographic variables Level of association (p value) Age groups (years) Gender Marital status Area ... This was used to obtain sociodemographic information of the healthcare workers such as sex, age, marital status, and area of specialty, among others Personal opinion on etiology, treatability and ... communication and language development and contains one question Domain assesses areas of obsessive and compulsive patterns of behavior found in children with ASD and contains four questions Domain addresses...
... research is reliable andof high quality? Staff have critical appraisal skills for evaluating the quality of research (24%) (24%) Staff have critical appraisal skills for evaluating the reliability ... MGW, and JB each receive a salary from the Ontario HIV Treatment Network JNL receives salary support as Canadian Research Chair of Knowledge Transfer and Exchange We would also like to thank Tarik ... use of research by managers of healthcare organizations and by policy makers in government [14,15], there is still an important gap in the availability ofa specific strategy for CBOs [3] Many existing...
... corresponding author had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis Author details Center for Management of ... three methods Statistical analysis Foot ulcer indication in medical charts was used as the “gold standard” against which four methods were evaluated for diagnostic accuracy Sensitivity and specificity ... as a measure of agreement between administrative data Sohn et al Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2010, 3:27 http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/3/1/27 Page ofand medical charts [18,19] Sampling...
... for an examination based on a law from 1939 [3] "Heilpraktiker" thus can perform manipulation without having proof of any type of education American chiropractors have taken advantage of this lack ... Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, USA Respondents had been practicing an average of 10.5 years, and an average of eight years in Germany Most chiropractors practiced in cities rather than rural areas ... perceptions of practicing chiropractors in Germany regarding research, to look at their reading and research habits, and to gather basic demographic and practice characteristics data MethodsA self-report...
... complaints of chronic pain and depression [6] The majority of patients with physical disabilities appear to utilise CAM therapies that are manual rather than herbal in nature This may be related ... management of myofascial trigger points and myofascial pain syndrome: a systematic review of the literature J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2009, 32:14-24 McKay and Langworthy Chiropractic & Manual Therapies ... et al [17] concluded that people with disabilities were generally satisfied with conventional care and any dissatisfaction was largely related to quality of care in terms of physical access and...