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... strategy on firm performance, it is important to point out that stock Relatedness: An Application to Firm Portfolio Management 6 price movements should not have anything to do with an increase or decrease ... develop their own goals and to exploit their own preferences rather than those of the firm”. Relatedness: An Application to Firm Portfolio Management 10 (Fan and Lang, 2000, p. 630). Furthermore, ... it set out to do. Every organization has actual and potential strengths and weaknesses; it is important to try to determine what they are and to distinguish one from the other” (Andrews, 1971,

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... possible, and a classification of reversible watermarking techniques, while trying to focus on their main features in a manner to provide to the readers basic information to understand if a certain ... embeds a watermark into LL4 sub-band of the integer wavelet domain, can restore the original image and can also locate the tamper region To embed data, the proposed scheme uses histogram shifting ... image and LL1 sub-band is considered; in particular, the four coefficients belonging to the diagonal are grouped into two couples and used for watermarking according to their expansibility Expansibility

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... of the distortions (target) computed with respect to the mean luminance of the background-image patch (mask) Let I and I denote an original and distorted image patch, respectively, and, let E ... Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (ICSMC ’03), vol 1, pp 72–77, Washington, DC, USA, October 2003 D Wang, I Sato, T Okabe, and Y Sato, “Radiometric compensation in a projector-camera system ... UltraScan P991 19-inch monitor at a display resolution of 28 pixels/cm The display yielded minimum and maximum luminances of, respectively, 1.2 and 99.2 cd/m2 , and an overall gamma of 2.3 Luminance

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... M Bohner and A Peterson, Dynamic Equations on Time Scales: An Introduction with Application, Birkh¨ user, Boston,... O’Regan, V Lakshmikantham, and S Leela, An upper and lower ... Distributions of Singular BVPs on Time Scales and an Application to Emden-Fowler Equations Ravi P. Agarwal, 1 Victoria Otero-Espinar, 2 Kanishka Perera, 1 and Dolores R. Vivero 2 1 Department of Mathematical ... restriction to every closed subinterval J of a, b T belong to the Sobolev space H 1 Δ J. We refer the reader to 9–11 for an introduction to several properties of Sobolev spaces and absolutely

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... and Lehn 1985, Gorton and Rosen 1995, Mehran 1995, Ang, Cole, and Lin 2000), 2) stock market returns and their volatility (e.g., Saunders, Strock, and Travlos 1990, Cole and Mehran 1998), and ... assumed to remain constant for each bank over time, and the random errors lnε are assumed to tend to average out over time To reduce the impact of substantial random outliers,... Plans, ... in Banking, ” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 27: 432-456 Berger, A. N., and R DeYoung, 1997 “Problem Loans and Cost Efficiency in Commercial Banks,” Journal of Banking and

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... identifying, analyzing and evaluating management strategies, is that of policy analysis 22 Chapter1 Policy analysis and rapid assessment models According to Miser and Quade (1985), systems analysis ... climate change (Dowlatabadi, 1995; Hulme and Raper, 1995; Janssen and de Vries, 1998) and natural resources and environmental management (Stephens and Hess, 1999; Turner,... It is necessary to ... WITH AN APPLICATION TO COASTAL-ZONE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH-WEST SULAWESI " A METHODOLOGY FOR VALIDATION OF INTEGRATED SYSTEMS MODELS WITH AN APPLICATION TO COASTAL-ZONE MANAGEMENT

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... collection and provided critical insights BDV carried out the analysis BDV and GJMR wrote the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript 19 Acknowledgements BDV, MAS, RBT and RAT ... Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de... at 0 and covariance matrix G 0 ⊗ A , IW (G 0 | υG , G • ) is an Inverse Wishart density with υG degrees of 0 freedom and ... The conditional covariance matrix of y given u can be obtained by fitting a standard multiple trait animal model (MTAM, [17]) and obtaining the estimated residual covariance matrix, here represented

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... [15] and used by Rodrigues-Motta and collaborators [27] in an analysis of the number of mastitis cases in dairy cattle 382 H Naya et al From previous exploratory analysis [16,24], the age of animals ... Poisson and ZIP models for spots in sheep 385 pffiffiffiffiffi as discrepancy statistic, where kk in the numerator is the mean, and kk in the denominator is the standard deviation; for the ZIP model, the mean ... should be done to address this underlying phenomenon ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the Associate Editor and two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions, and Gonzalo

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... and presented formally by Geman and Geman (1984) in an image restoration context Applications to Bayesian inference were described by Gelfand and Smith (1990) and Gelfand et al (1990) Since then, ... vector of variance components other than the residual; and be the sets of all prior variances and degrees of belief, respectively As shown, for example, by Macedo and Gianola (1987) and Gianola ... not taken into account when predicting breeding values Gianola and Fernando (1986), Gianola et al (1986) and Gianola et al (1990a, b, 1992) advocate the use of Bayesian methods in animal breeding

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... type varies from... Elsen and Mocquot (1974, 1976) and Ducrocq and Quaas (1988): dividing each population of candidates into homogeneous cohorts of animals of same age, sex and reproductive role, ... general result of Jain and Amble (1962) we have: Since Q(c 1 , cn) is to be equal to a constant P, the maximization of Ep (u) is tanta- mount to the maximization of ... and (24) is obtained by equating to 0 the derivatives of f (w) with respect to w’ = (c l , c,, X, /.1, v) where: and X, p, v are Lagrange multipliers. The first and

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... and p values on the one hand, and the same prior expectations and variances (formulae 13a and b) on the other hand Probability values for methods II and III are shown in Tables II and ... variations (An) in n are proportional to variations (A£) in ETA within the range of values considered For instance, for 7... to 325, 330 to 671, 904 to 1663 and 4041 to 7062 ... regressed towards the mean incidence 7r = 0.04 than in method I. On the other hand, this is a good example of a change of ranking according to criteria used. B and C

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... components of variance in a mixed linear Gaussian model with an application to beef cattle breeding M San Cristobal JL Foulley E Manfredi 1 INRA, Station de Genetique Quantitative ... (Canberra... (linear) mixed model for herd log-variances and take the population factor ( eg region) as fixed and herd as random within that factor An illustration of the flexibility and ... variances An interesting feature of this procedure is to assess, through a kind of analysis of variance, the effects of factors marginally or jointly For instance, one can test

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... for analysis. Additional thanks to my friends, Dr.Yi Jiangtao, Mr. Wang Shanquan, Ms. Zhang Nan and Mr. Wang Li, for all the great time we spent together. Last but not the least, I would like to ... Singapore Strait (Shankar et al., 1997; Zhang and Gin, 2000; Pang and Tkalich, 2003;... different predictors 6    Chapter 1 Introduction (b) To enhance the application of LM and explore the potential ... 2005; Chan et al., 2006) and the Malacca Strait up to the Andaman Sea (AS) region (Hii et al., 2006; Ibrahim and Yanagi, 2006) But the lack of detailed bathymetry data hampered the tidal analysis

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... Camanho and Dyson (2002) Fare et al. (2002) Hofmarcher et al. (2002) Lau and Lam (2002) Li and Yan (2002) Lozano et al. (2002) Manandhar and Tang (2002) Weber (2002) Yan et al. (2002) Birman ... Shao and Shu (2004) Sowlati and Paradi (2004) Tuzkaya and Ertay (2004) Vaninsky (2004) Wu and Xuan (2004) Barth and Staat (2005) Bhat (2005) Camanho and Dyson (2005) Coelli and Rao (2005) Costantino ... related to the supply chain members, and to integrate and coordinate the performance of those... in many organizations render many existing tools inoperable and unsuitable to be used

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... in the tool shank to act as a right hand tool. Tool2 acted as left hand tool which was a high speed steel form tool grounded to make a sharp cutting edge. Both the tools were fixed to the tool ... features and sub-micrometer tolerances An advantage of this process is the ability to use any machinable material, quick process planning and... character to metals than to ceramics (Trent and ... to Manufacturing Manufacturing is derived from the Latin manu factus, meaning made by hand The word manufacture first appeared in 1567, and the word manufacturing... of tungsten, tantalum, and

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... Urban Planning and the Place Marketing Model: An Application to Cities and Provinces in Viet Nam By Thi Thanh Van Hoang (Van T Hoang) Thesis submitted in fulfilment ... marketing to the country To these ends it seeks to clarify the key concepts involved, to build an implementation model of place marketing and to analyse empirically, by statistical analysis and case ... thesis entitled Urban Planning and the Place Marketing Model: An Application to Cities and Provinces in Viet Nam, is no more than 100,000 words in length including quotes and exclusive of tables,

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... unit can be a customer account, an individual transaction, or a line item In auditing accounts receivable, the auditor can define the sampling unit to be a customer’s account balance or an individual ... Nine Audit Sampling: An Application to Substantive Tests of Account Balances McGraw-Hill/Irwin © The McGraw-Hill Companies 2010 Substantive Tests of Details of Account Balances The statistical ... receivable, receivable, loans loans receivable, receivable, investment investment securities securities and and inventory inventory McGraw-Hill/Irwin © The McGraw-Hill Companies 2010 Monetary-Unit

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... application and expansion of PMT can contribute to new or enhanced mitigation and preparedness measures which can be integrated into current arrangements to promote human safety and support community ... community as an animal-owning group, widely recognised as resourceful and self-reliant, and highly experienced in animal husbandry and land management, could contribute significantly to assist other ... benefit from such an approach: owners to build and fortify their response- and self-efficacy, and to help translate knowledge into safer behaviour, and responders to gain a better understanding of a

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... Interbank loans li Interbank borrowing bi Reserves yi Figure 2: Financial structure of a bank Assume interbank borrowing bi comes from j other banks and interbank loans li goes to k other banks ... represents bank i’s total loans to other banks and 𝑏𝑗 = ∑𝑖 𝑥𝑖𝑗 is bank j’s total liabilities to other banks The construction of matrix X is straightforward if the data on interbank loans are available ... represents a bank and arrows show the direction and magnitude of interbank loans Figure presents the structure of assets and liabilities of each bank Extreme Value Theory with an Application to Bank Failures

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... Ojima, Kyoto, Japan D Sornette, Nice, France, and Los Angeles, CA, USA S Theisen, Golm, Germany W Weise, Garching, Germany J Wess, Măunchen, Germany J Zittartz, Kăoln, Germany The Editorial Policy ... und ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmechanik der Atomspektrum, Fredrick Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig, Germany, 1931, pp 251-254, Group Theory and Its Application to the Quantum Theory of Atomic Spectra, ... bounded operators bounded selfadjoint operators bounded positive operators trace class operators unitary operators antiunitary operators state operators effect operators projection operators 2, 90

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