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... prices at which liquid assets can sell in a free market for at any future date can vary dramatically and R I S K A N D U N C E RTA I N T Y 25 almost instantaneously A worst-case scenario is that ... bankers on Wall Street in recent years to evaluate and manage the risks of 18 PAU L DAV I D S O N dealings with financial assets are based on statistical probability analysis of historical data ... relevance of several classical axioms for understanding the real world The classical ergodic axiom that assumes that the future is known and can be calculated as the statistical shadow of the past...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 17:00

... Page 55 CHAPTER s DATA MODELS, DATASETS, AND THE ADO.NET INTERFACE Figure 3-4 Database node after attaching RealWorld sample database Gathering Data into a Dataset As I explained to you in the ... with RS Attaching the RealWorld Database There are two common ways a database is distributed, as a backup or as physical files In the case of a backup, you need to restore it If a database is ... several different business cases? For example, in the RealWorld database, you have an Itinerary table that holds travel-related data and another table that holds product pricing information for...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 08:48

... event-construals (and conceptual metaphors): evaluation (Tony Blair is evaluated positively) and what I would call dramatisation (the event is construed as a 15 BATTLE) Both may be used to attract particular ... pursued above all (similar observations have been made for the STATE IS A PERSON metaphor by Lakoff 1992) A second metaphor that comes into play is PERSON INDUSTRY IS A WEAK (ILL, ALMOST DEAD, HANDICAPPED) ... Those that are unsignalled, are ambivalent (Fairclough 1988: 131) and not allow readers to distinguish clearly between averalls and attributions On examining the transcript (http://image.guardian.co.uk/sysfiles/Politics/documents/2003/09/02/September1AM.pdf)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... analysis, data are arranged in a two-way structure; a table or a matrix A typical example is a table in which each row corresponds to a sample and each column to the absorbance at a particular ... original variable, but rather a set of variables In certain software programs and in certain algorithms, data are rearranged to a matrix for computational reasons This should be seen more as a practical ... are also applicable in many other areas, as evidenced by many papers of applications in other areas which are emerging in the literature 1.2 MULTI-WAY ANALYSIS In standard multivariate data analysis,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... a focus on parallel computation using Chapters and 6-9 or a year course using Chapters 1-9 This text is not meant to replace traditional texts on numerical analysis, matrix algebra and partial ... United States of America Printed on acid-free paper © 2004 by Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Mathematics: Models, Methods and Analysis with MATLAB and MPI R E White Department of Mathematics North ... COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS Models, Methods, and Analysis with MATLAB and MPI ROBERT E WHITE CHAPMAN & HALL/CRC A CRC Press Company Boca Raton London New York Washington, D.C © 2004 by Chapman & Hall/CRC...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 10:01

... historical reasons—deformable contours and deformable images have been around for quite a while and are actively used in many applications Also, these algorithms present a natural entrance to ... binary variables, given a particular deformation rather than the gray-level values The material in chapter draws primarily from the work in Petrocelli, Elion, and Manbeck (1992) and from Geman and ... the classification stage, and appears impractical with large numbers of shape classes A deformable-template-based approach to face recognition is presented in Wiskott and colleagues (1997), although...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 23:23

... Approach to Platform Optimization using HMM 291 Rahul Khanna, Huaping Liu and Mariette Awad 225 Preface Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), although known for decades, have made a big career nowadays ... in a natural way the individual component states of a dynamic system This fact make them useful in biomedical signal analysis and in medical diagnosis (Al-ani et al., 2004; 2008; Al-ani & Trad, ... Generalised Architecture of an operating Hidden Markov Model Each shape represents a random variable that can adopt any of a number of values The random variable s(t) is the hidden state at time...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 13:20

... Additional file 1) or other readily available software packages Non-linear function parameters that have biological meaning are more advantageous for statistical parameterization of such equations ... Weibull and Richards models He showed that the beta function shares several characteristics with the four classic models, but was more suitable for accurate estimation of final biomass and duration ... equation, which is a two parameter asymmetric equation, attains its maximum growth rate at an earlier time than the logistic In the Weibull equation, β and γ are constants defining the shape...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:22

... Medaka as a vertebrate model 1.4.1 General introduction Medaka is a small, egg-laying freshwater fish native to Asia that is found primarily in Japan, Korea and eastern China In Japanese medaka ... GAATAG), tcf3 (TAATGG), esrrb (TAATGA), gata6 (TAATCA), rex1 (GAAT), cdx2 (TAAT) (Jauch et al., 2008; Loh et al., 2006; Shi et al., 2006; Singh et al., 2007; Wang et al., 200 8a) Among these binding ... direct targets by luciferase (LUC) reporter assay and/or Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) These target genes include pou5f1 (TAATGG, GAATGT), sox2 (GAATGG, GAATGC), nanog (GAATGT, GAATAG),...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:45

... Translator II.1.2.2.1 What is a translator? It is not the truth that a person knowing at least a foreign language could be a translator That a language learner may be proficient at that language ... not a boring task of reading, analyzing and comparing but actually a great pleasure III.2 Translation of dead metaphors in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Deathly ... third and also the last reason is that the Vietnamese translator, Lý Lan, professional, have gained certain success, reputation and prestige among Vietnamese translators Apart from being a translator,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2012, 09:53

... Measures Dimension data - Query drivers Summary data - Pre-calculated data Fact Data and Tables   Many fact tables in the warehouse The bulk of the warehouse data  Measures (units sold, sales ... Differentiate between an enterprise-wide data warehouse and localized data marts Recognize the difference between independent and dependent data marts Identify the data that is stored in a data warehouse ... Analyze business users’ needs Interview users  Examine data needed  Ascertain data availability  Determine data frequency  Decide the refresh cycle Types of Warehouse Data    Fact data...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 20:33

... moss was incubated for days, and then the photograph of the moss was taken again All incubations were performed under aseptic condition The area covered by the moss was measured by an image analysis ... saturated portion of the photograph was extracted and the brightness was adjusted using a commercial image analysis software (SimpleVmpViewer) The transformed image was binarized, and the area ... between KCu and EC50 for D magna (■) (De Schamphelaere and Janssen, 2002), barley (○) (Shoji, 2006), wheat (▼) (Luo et al., 2008), L paucicostata (×) (Hatano and Shoji, 2008) and F hygrometrica (▲)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... evolving characteristics of data streams, and facilitates fast OLAP on stream data Stream cube architecture facilitates online analytical processing of stream data It also forms a preliminary structure ... CLUSTERING MASSIVE DATA STREAMS: A SUMMARIZATION PARADIGM Cham C Aggarwal IBM Z J Watson Research Center Hawthorne, W 1053.2 Jiawei Han University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL hanj@cs.uiuc.edu ... this watermark Chapter AN INTRODUCTION TO DATA STREAMS Cham C Aggarwal IBM Z J Watson Research Center Hawthorne, NY 10532 Abstract In recent years, advances in hardware technology have facilitatednew...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... screens of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) for example is a real challenge and an open research problem Given a scenario for a businessman on a move and the data are being streamed and analyzed ... 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield East, Melbourne VIC3145,Australia Abstract With the advance in both hardware and software technologies, automated data generation and storagehas become faster than ever ... data is referred to as data streams Streaming data is ubiquitous today and it is often a challenging task to store, analyze and visualize such rapid large volumes of data Most conventional data...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... resource-aware data analysis approach that can cope with fluctuating data rates according to the available memory and the processing speed The AOG performs the local data analysis on resource constrained ... Note that different approaches have different advantages and disadvantages For instance, for the false positive approach, if a second pass is allowed, we can easily eliminate false positives For ... in the data stream reduces by a decay factor,d, as a new transaction arrives For example, the initial weight of a newly arrived transaction has weight 1, and after another transaction arrives,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... plan as long-range A strategic course of action (plan) spanning several years has long-range objectives Objectives are qualitative as well as quantitative Goals are quantitative, ultimate and ... characterized as being of championship caliber as a team operation before preparing for and executing Lean maintenance practices Adopting a proactive Total Productive Maintenance style of operation ... largest automobile manufacturer in Japan in 1936 That same year, Sakichi Toyoda, owner and founder of Japan’s largest loom manufacturing operation, started up a Japanese automobile manufacturing...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2013, 14:10

... Implications to Cross-cultural Communication According to Kövecses, people, living in a certain kind of habitat, are familiar with things and phenomena that are characteristic of that habitat; and ... the head, a place conventionally concerned with rational thoughts rather than emotions, as a place where sadness can settle Similar to anger metaphors, the body part lòng appears in most metaphorical ... Similarities and Differences in Metaphors of SADNESS in English and Vietnamese In general, most sadness metaphors that exist in English are also applicable in Vietnamese Data analyzed show that...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:17

... Spatial Databases Proceedings [23] Silverman B W (1986) Density Estimationfor Statistics and Data Analysis Chapman and Hall [24] Thomas S., Bodagala S., Alsabti K., Ranka S (1997) An Efficient Algorithm ... on-line partial aggregation of multi-dimensional stream data, captures the essential dynamic and evolving characteristics of data streams, and facilitates fast OLAP on stream data Three importanttechniques ... transactional data streams In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on k r y Large Data Bases (VLDB), Toronto, Canada, Aug 2004 [35] M.J Zaki, S Parthasarathy, M Ogihara, and W.Li Parallel...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... interesting and observation layers, and adopts a popular path approach for efficient computation and storage of stream cube to facilitate OLAP analysis of stream data Our performance study shows that ... multi-dimensional knowledge in stream data References [I] S Agarwal, R Agrawal, P M Deshpande ,A Gupta, J F Naughton, R Ramakrishnan, and S Sarawagi On the computation of multidimensional aggregates In ... the general statistics, trends and outliers as well as other data characteristics of online stream data and will play an essential role in stream data analysis This study sets a framework and outlines...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15