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... jobs would help in determining better negotiation strategies, as well as assist in maintaining a harmonious Copyright © 2005, Idea Group Inc Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms ... translate into HRM input and assist in more informed decision making The contribution of this chapter lies in opening up a whole new way of looking at HRM decision making Traditionally, the informational ... Ghoshal, 1998) An individual occupying a more central position in the network is likely to produce more innovations Copyright © 2005, Idea Group Inc Copying or distributing in print or electronic...

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... model and the pure linear model 2.6 Nonlinear Principal Components: Intrinsic Dimensionality 41 2.6 Nonlinear Principal Components: Intrinsic Dimensionality Besides forecasting specific target ... network link the input variables x to the encoding neurons C11 and C12, and to the nonlinear principal components The parameters also link the nonlinear principal components to the decoding neurons ... arise, as Campbell, Lo, and MacKinlay (1997) point out, from investors’ demand to hedge uncertainty about further investment opportunities In practical terms, as Campbell, Lo, and MacKinlay also...

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... bootstrapping the initial training set As we discuss in Section 4.2.8, bootstrapping involves resampling the original training set with replacement, and then taking repeated forecasts Bagging is ... point for quite some time during the training period Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet for avoiding the problems of local minima in nonlinear estimation There are only strategies involving ... getting stuck in a local rather than a global minimum for a vector w, or in a saddlepoint Furthermore, if using a Newton algorithm, the Hessian matrix may fail to invert, or become “near-singular,”...

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... new samples from the original sample, with replacement, and using the new samples as estimation sets, with the remaining data from the original sample not appearing in the new estimation sets, as ... evaluate the out-of-sample performance of a model, we begin by dividing the data into an in- sample estimation or training set for obtaining the coefficients, and an out-of-sample or test set With ... point of any out-of-sample test is to estimate the in- sample bias of the estimates, with a sufficiently ample set of data By in- sample bias we mean the extent to which a model overfits the in- sample...

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... linear and network out-of-sample errors appear in Figure 5.10 We see, not surprisingly, that both the linear and network models deliver about the same accuracy in out-of-sample forecasting Since ... variables emanating from a linear data-generating process 136 Estimating and Forecasting with Artificial Data TABLE 5.11 In- Sample Diagnostics: Model (Structure: Lags, Neurons) Diagnostic Linear Model ... marginal significance levels 30 20 10 −10 Linear Network −20 −30 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 FIGURE 5.15 Actual and in- sample predictions: DLM model 5.6.1 In- Sample Performance The in- sample...

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... since it is well known that when the forecasting interval h exceeds the sampling 176 In ation and Deflation: Hong Kong and Japan interval (in this case we are forecasting for one year but we sample ... (7.20) The in ation model in the NNRS model has a core linear component, including autoregressive terms, a moving average component, and a nonlinear component incorporating switching regime effects, ... bound of interest rates They were lowering interest rates, but not enough during the period of deflation, so that real interest rates were in fact increasing We see this in Figure 7.18 192 In ation...

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... reflect uncertainty in the world economy in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan The continuing volatility in 2003 may also be explained by the ... Forecasting 0.9 Linear Principal Component 0.8 0.7 Nonlinear Principal Component 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 FIGURE 9.2 Hong Kong linear and nonlinear principal ... Forecasting 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 Linear Principal Component 0.4 0.3 Nonlinear Principal Component 0.2 0.1 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 FIGURE 9.5 U.S linear and nonlinear principal...

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... is becoming increasingly important as it plays a growing role in electrical engineering for example in communication networks and coding theory, and also in the design, analysis and testing of ... a PD (path dominating)-cycle introduced by Bondy (Bondy, 1981) Finally, if C dominates all cycles in G of length at least  then C is a CD (cycle dominating)-cycle, introduced in (Zh.G Nikoghosyan, ... structures in graphs: Hamilton, longest and dominating cycles and some generalized cycles including Hamilton and dominating cycles as special cases Graph invariants provide a powerful and maybe the single...

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... explain wider underlying processes behind financial exclusion Following a study supported by the Financial Services Authority in Britain in 2000, the following categories of causes/forms of financial ... reasons why growing sectors of the population are interested in having accessing financial services and why increasing attention is being given to the problem of financial exclusion These include: 12 ... involved in getting access to financial services Such indicators are, however, useful in assessing the extent of the problem, in suggesting answers and in monitoring progress They can also provide information...

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... coherence at increasing frequencies by increasingly randomizing rake directions for decreasing time intervals near the initiation of slip at each point on a fault, for increasingly complex initial ... an increasing in damping factor Fig 4.1 Hyperbolic model of the stress-strain space for a soil under cyclic loading Initial loading curve has a hyperbolic form, and the loading and unloading ... range in the vicinity of the New Madrid seismic zone in the central United States 16 Earthquake Research and Analysis – New Frontiers in Seismology Factor Geometric spreading, Influence Amplitudes...

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... coherence at increasing frequencies by increasingly randomizing rake directions for decreasing time intervals near the initiation of slip at each point on a fault, for increasingly complex initial ... an increasing in damping factor Fig 4.1 Hyperbolic model of the stress-strain space for a soil under cyclic loading Initial loading curve has a hyperbolic form, and the loading and unloading ... range in the vicinity of the New Madrid seismic zone in the central United States 16 Earthquake Research and Analysis – New Frontiers in Seismology Factor Geometric spreading, Influence Amplitudes...

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... major Integrated Earth Research initiatives such as the International Continental Drilling Programme (ICDP), succeeding the rst big science research project in continental geosciences in Germany ... Geological-Paleontological Institute University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 32, 4056 Basel, Switzerland, paziegler@magnet.ch New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences Group picture ILP meeting Frontiers in Integrated ... multidisciplinary investigations of continental collisions, mountain building, mantle enrichment in H2 O, and rare earth and lithophile elements, including 40 K, which has strong inuence on the...

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... CRUST2.0 in the Atlantic basins, like the Porcupine Basin (10 km) or the Vứring Basin (810 km), in the Central European Basin System (46 km), in the Po plain (10 km), in the Focáani Basin (10 km) ... Achievements and Challenges in Sedimentary Basins Dynamics, in Cloetingh S and Negendank J (Eds), New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences, Springer Rubinstein J.L., Shelly D.R and Ellsworth ... processes, in Cloetingh S and Negendank J (Eds), New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences, Springer, New York Burov E and Cloetingh S., 2009, Controls of mantle plumes and lithospheric folding...

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... produces in point U an increase close to 80% in both the integrated lithospheric and crustal strength and about 50% in Te In addition, the stronger lower crust in point U determines coupling of ... growing intercontinental belts and plateaux: an example showing a schematic map of India–Eurasia collision with its main features such as the Himalayan mountain belt, Tibetan plateau, Tarim basin, ... for mountains associated with subduction zones or with hotspots (Vogt, 1991), but seems inappropriate to explain most intra-continental mountains In case of, for example, Tien Shan mountain belt,...

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... et al., 1998), in 1997 in the Palermo Mountains of Sicily (Cloetingh et al., 1999), and in 1998 in Oliana in the southeastern Pyrenees (Spain; Cloetingh et al., 2002a) The resulting sequence of ... climatic zonation in Asia has exerted some control on the spatial distribution of the intracontinental strain induced by the IndiaAsia collision The interpretation of intracontinental deformation ... horizontal shortening (in particular in the Tarim basin, and to some extent in some Tibetan basins such as the Tsaùdam (Mộtivier and Gaudemer, 1997)) Present kinematics of active deformation in Central...

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... throughout the basin history, causing strain localization Prominent examples of intracratonic basins that were intensively studied during the last decade are the Central European Basin System (Ziegler, ... basins In the course of the Cenozoic, geotherms rose apparently resulting in a transition from stress-induced endMesozoic basin inversion to Plio-Pleistocene lithospheric folding-induced basin ... (2000), mainly invoking corner flow above deep reaching subducted slabs dipping beneath continental lithosphere The Central European Basin System (CEBS) is a complex system of intracratonic basins that...

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... sedimentary basins Of particular importance are the dynamics of rifting culminating in splitting of continents and the opening of oceanic basins, as well as of subduction of oceanic basins, the development ... (mountain building) and continentcontinent collision, including their effects on continental platforms For the quantication of Solid-Earth processes the coupling of internal and external forcing ... strain softening J Geophys Res., Huismans, R.S and Beaumont, C., 2008 Roles of llithospheric strain, softening and heterogeneity in determining the geometry of rifts and continental margins In...

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... the planet Accordingly, drilling into and instrumenting an active interplate seismogenic zone is a very high priority in the Initial Science Plan of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) ... methods for determining crustal structure, locating earthquakes and determining focal mechanisms These include 3-D mapping of active faults and fault systems, routine moment tensor determination of ... Non-destructive testing methods using advanced analysis of acoustic emissions (AE) are being used more routinely to investigate processes of brittle fracturing and frictional sliding in situ in the laboratory...

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... from the Ashikule Basin (AKB) in northwestern Tibet, in order to gain insight into the origin of the magmas produced in this continental collision setting The basin contains several silicic domes ... outstanding issues that are topics of ongoing research Understanding Why Tremor Occurs in Certain Places By now, we are beginning to constrain where tremor does and does not occur By examining the ... greatest principal stress (σ1 ) is horizontal in compressional settings, the resulting hydraulic fractures are horizontal (Hubbert S Cloetingh, J Negendank (eds.), New Frontiers in Integrated...

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... minerals of the interest In addition, the scar of the FIB cutting remains visible on the sample surface, thereby facilitating repeated FIB milling and additional examinations 376 L.F Dobrzhinetskaya ... constraints on the gravity eld Combining geodetic observations with seismological investigations, studies of the postglacial faults and continuum mechanical modelling of GIA, DynaQlim offers new insights ... of fundamental importance in geodesy, since Earth rotation, polar motion and crustal S Cloetingh, J Negendank (eds.), New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences, International Year of Planet...

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