an application of information architecture

... Prof Uwe Schmock for all the help with the mathematical theory And last but not least, many thanks to all my friends and family for their help and support -2- Master Thesis: An Application of ... European indices, Nasdaq - the much more volatile than its European counter-parties American index And the stocks of a highly liquid financial institution, and the highly volatile stocks of ABB, ... table below Each of our options has a 4% probability of a payout of 100 CHF and a 96% probability of payout of zero, and the underlying variables of the two options are independent of each other...

Ngày tải lên: 27/04/2013, 11:17

... cost of capital: Survey and synthesis’ Financial Practice and Education, 8(1) 13– 28 Chan, K.C and Chen, N.F (1991), 'Structural and Return Characteristics of Small and Large Firms' Journal of ... more significant than the SMB in explaining the excess return The result is also reflecting that the performance discrepancy of high and low BE/ME is greater than those of small and big size ... variables of Fama French should be adopted while they insignificantly contributed to cost of equity evaluation According to Drew and Veeraraghavan (2003) and Artmann et al (2012), the efficiency of an...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2013, 23:57

... the use of the target language as a means of instruction and communication in the language classroom, and by the avoidance of the use of the first language and of 14 translation as a technique ... study of different views of language learning It is said that language theory does not draw any significant distinctions between human learning in general and in language learning in particular Language ... part of teachers and led to the development of new techniques of language, such as demonstrations of pictures and objects, the emphasis on questions and answer, spoken narratives, dictation and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard deviation – Round includes task-level data mean scores of candidates in bottom and top quartiles, and overall – Round includes percentage of ... C2 candidate would know the correct answer? Or • How many of 100 JQCs would know the correct answer? • Three rounds of judgments, with feedback and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard ... assistance • • • and prepared presentations Develops clear arguments with relevant examples on wide range of topics in field of interest Sustains conversation with degree of fluency and spontaneity...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 23:20

... Which Bank Is the “Central” Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System Morten L Bech, James T E Chapman, and Rod Garratt Federal Reserve Bank of New York ... of the LVTS and the Bank of Canada For the purposes of this study we exclude the Bank of Canada since it does not send any significant payments in Tranche 2.67 We discuss implications of this in ... obtain the sum of bilateral credit limits granted to bank i However, a bank’s initial payments cannot exceed this amount times the system wide Bank of Canada grants to other banks in Tranche As this...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 12:20

... Program/ Epidemiology Research and Information Center of the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, and is a component of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center It is ... interaction terms of individual SNP and pollutant The current version of MTP allows one to identify the significance of a group of candidate variables to reduce the false discovery rate meanwhile adjusting ... level of the test in advance This study reported adjusted p-values Then, we quantitatively estimated associations between the pollutants and 8-OHdG across those carrying variants of the significant...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... Kausik Chaudhuri and Bodhisattva Sengupta * Working Paper 49/2009 MNEs and Export Spillovers: An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing Industries Chiara Franco and Subash Sasidharan * Working Paper ... cost–benefit analysis and discounting”, Ecological Economics, 69, 839-847 Birol, E., N Hanley, P Koundouri and Y Kountouris (2009b), “The optimal management of wetlands: Quantifying trade-offs between ... D.K.Srivastava, K.R Shanmugam and C.Bhujanga Rao MSE Working Papers Recent Issues * Working Paper 41/2009 Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Tall and Not So Tall Women of India Brinda Viswanathan and Viney...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... dilemma, and negotiations can effectively be considered as a process of moving away from less-than optimal outcomes towards increased payoffs, and the distribution of those payoffs In an era of growing ... understanding of negotiation as a phenomenon, and understanding of related conscious or unconscious managerial practices is important For creating such understanding, the clarity of concepts and ... Negotiation analysis 2.2.1 Theoretical roots of negotiation analysis Negotiation analysis can be characterized as an approach, which builds on the theory of games, decision analysis and behavioral...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... description of text-leve] relations The use of FORTHand the Prolog formalism allowed f a i r ly easy development of the system even without the powerful structure manipulation capabilities of a language ... output of the procedure, i e , the instantiated slots The computer program which embodies this approach to natural language understanding is written in FORTH, Pro]og, and SrIOBOL4, and runs ... The major part of the system was b u i l t in the programming language FORTH, which is an interactive, incremental system with a low-level semantics which the user can easily and quickly extend...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... differences in the state of an object or phenomenon by observing it at different times (Singh, 1989) The change detection of land use and land cover of the study area was analyzed by cross-classification ... lack of an appropriate tool in terms of integrated spatial data on land use/land covers However, recently GIS and remote sensing has been using in several types of works in both government and ... this study applied GIS and remote sensing for analysis the land use pattern changes Statement of Problems • After 1999, the landscape in the study area has been changed cause of policy implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... point of view References [1] G Christian, A Monfort, Times Deries and Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, 1997 [2] Nguyen Van Huu, Nguyen Huu Du, Statistic Analysis and Forecast, Hanoi ... the behaviour of output response and is equal to the degree of the asymptote of output response q = if the asymptote of output response is horizontal asymptote q = if the asymptote of output response ... Select the degree of q and fix it from the output response's behaviour Exploratively select values of denominator's degree n, and values of nominator's degree m = n − simultaneously For each...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20

... point of view References [1] G Christian, A Monfort, Times Deries and Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, 1997 [2] Nguyen Van Huu, Nguyen Huu Du, Statistic Analysis and Forecast, Hanoi ... the behaviour of output response and is equal to the degree of the asymptote of output response q = if the asymptote of output response is horizontal asymptote q = if the asymptote of output response ... Select the degree of q and fix it from the output response's behaviour Exploratively select values of denominator's degree n, and values of nominator's degree m = n − simultaneously For each...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20

... Example of full fixation plates Example of a full but lesser range in size and shape of clavicle fixation plates Figure 15 Latest generation of clavicle plates Example of a newly developed range of ... models Source and target clavicle models mean landmarks and a set of eigenvectors which represent the linearly independent modes of variation (principal components) of the data set Landmark data ... clavicle and the fourth and fifth groups included six and nine female clavicles respectively The mean shape of each of these groups is illustrated below (Figure 11) Discussion and Conclusions The application...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... 1257–1264, 2009 Journal of Inequalities and Applications 15 L.-C Ceng, S Al-Homidan, Q H Ansari, and J.-C Yao, An iterative scheme for equilibrium problems and fixed point problems of strict pseudo-contraction ... “Construction of fixed points of nonlinear mappings in Hilbert space,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 20, pp 197–228, 1967 15 S.-S Chang, “Some problems and results in the study of ... Marino and H.-K Xu, “A general iterative method for nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 318, no 1, pp 43–52, 2006 X Qin, M Shang, and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... and (ii) of Theorem 3.1 can be handled in a straightforward manner, the treatment of case (iii), where the connection set is a subgroup of Z∗ , needs additional n knowledge of the structure of ... circulants, and all basic quantities satisfy Ti = −Ti Proof (i) is obvious (ii) follows easily from the definition of γ 6.4 Proofs Proof of Lemma 3.1 Since n | (dm+1 ± 1), dm+1 ±1 n is an integer ... exists, is an efficient step in the process of recognizing circulants, which can be applied to any graph G, provided its coherent configuration is an association scheme and contains an equivalence...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:22

... generated branches have particular initial dimensional and physiological properties and a particular branching angle The number of branches, angles and the initial properties are specified in an input ... Boardman N.K., Comparative photosynthesis of sun and shade plants, Ann Rev Plant Physiol 28 (1977) 355-377 [6] Breckling B., An individual based model for the study of pattern and process in plant ... are arranged in a hierarchical system The different objects are all in constant communication via the transfer of information and materials [1] ALMIS includes an “environment part” and a “plant...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... possible choices of α and This project was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (MM, 122405 and FL, 262067) ... SVM with a linear kernel achieves a concordance of 86.5% with the Trofile assay and a concordance of 79.7% with the TRT assay Recombinant assays (Trofile and TRT) are described in [20] Further improvements ... show the results of our classifiers on the HIV-1 coreceptor usage prediction task, a brief summary of existing methods and an analysis of the discriminant vector with the distant segments kernel...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... laws (in the US called “Anti-Trust Laws”) In those Acts, Section of the Sherman Act, Sections and of the Clayton Act, and the Robinson – Patman Act regulate abuses of a dominant position (in the ... Knowledge of the historic sources and statutes is a necessary foundation to the description and analysis of current provisions Analysing historic changes and their influences on the development of the ... rules of laws, concepts and forms of abusive pricing For every issue, I correlate and analyse information regarding the relevant EU and US laws Part II, located in Chapter 3, focuses on an introduction...

Ngày tải lên: 15/08/2014, 15:49

... preventing the dangers of this type of monopoly formation and of the way it can constrain free competition The investigation of the concept of “dominant position” is one of the central tasks of this ... of comity and the Act of State doctrine hold that when adjudication of an antitrust complaint would require an American court to pass judgment on or become entangled in the public policy of another ... understanding of the content, purpose and meaning of such a complicated and important law as the VLC Many more academic treatments of the subject are required in order to supply updated information...

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