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... Daniella, Steven,…and their partners; Roos, Rolnan, Cornelie, Judith and Wendy from the Construction and Transport groups; Our secretaries: Anke, Joke and Ellen; Yan, Dong, Ping, Chang Wei and ... 1981) and (Checkland, 1981) The above framework indicates the importance of using models as tools to assist the policy analysis These models can be referred to as policy analysis models (Miser and ... district (Fig 1.6) Topology and Geology Topologically and geologically, the mainland of the study area can be separated into two regions: the lowlands in the Western part and highlands in the Eastern...

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... spans to As we parse incrementally, we are guaranteed to have found this edge, and can use it to construct the copied conjunct over spans to and therefore the whole co-ordinated NP from spans to ... (non-parallel) Hilda noticed a man and a strange woman when she entered the house DT JJ NN and DT NN (non-parallel) Hilda noticed a tall man and a woman when she entered the house DT NN and DT NN (parallel) ... Kuhn, Roland and Renate de Mori 1990 A cache-based natural language model for speech recognition IEEE Transanctions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 12(6):570–583 Roark, Brian and Mark...

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... of pedestrians and cyclists (N) and on a number of other factors (h) risk that an accident of type j happens to a truck d,: bj: risk that an accident of type j happens to a pedestrian or a cyclist ... formula allows us to compute the marginal change in the noise level due to an additional PCU The total effect on noise is not necessarily larger than the direct effect and can even become negative ... associated with hedonic pricing In order to get good results, one must take into account all explanatory variables of housing prices But the inclusion of too many explanatory variables will raise the difficult...

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... Shanahan 2006 Validating the coverage of lexical resources for affect analysis and automatically classifying new words along semantic axes In James G Shanahan, Yan Qu, and Janyce Wiebe, editors, ... Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), pages 417–422, Genova, IT Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani 2007a Randomwalk models of term semantics: An application to opinionrelated ... positivity and once for negativity The last question to be answered is: “why PageRank?” Are the characteristics of PageRank more suitable to the problem of ranking synsets than other random-walk...

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... more non-transliteration pairs than transliteration pairs We don’t want to maximize the likelihood of the non-transliteration pairs Instead we want to optimize the transliteration performance for ... Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the ACL, Morristown, NJ, USA Philipp Koehn, Franz J Och, and Daniel Marcu 2003 Statistical phrase-based translation In Proceedings of the Human Language ... for transliteration will learn to “transliterate” (or actually translate) “change” to “badlao” From other examples, it will learn that a final “s” can be dropped As a consequence, the Moses transliterator...

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... and reversals Sov Phys Dokl., 10:707–710 R Lowrance and R A Wagner 1975 An extension to the string -to- string correction problem J ACM, 22(2):177–183 M Mohri 2002 Edit-distance of weighted automata ... Holliman, and J McDaniel 1992 SWITCHBOARD: Telephone speech corpus for research and development In ICASSP, volume 1, pages 517–520 J Wei 2004 Markov edit distance Trans on Pattern Analysis and ... DBN and GM interchangeably For an example in which Markov Random Fields are used to compute a context-sensitive edit distance see (Wei, 2004).3 There is a large body of literature on DBNs and...

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... structure operations witout compilation Natural Language Engineering, 6(1):1–18 [Manousopoulou et al.1997] A.G Manousopoulou, G Manis, P Tsanakas, and G Papakonstantinou 1997 Automatic generation ... [Nijholt1994] Anton Nijholt 1994 Parallel approaches to context-free language parsing In Adriaens and Hahn (1994) [Ninomiya et al.2001] Takashi Ninomiya, Kentaro Torisawa, and Jun’ichi Tsujii 2001 An agentbased ... natural language parsers In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI ’97), pages 174–177 IEEE Computer Society Press [Markatos and LeBlanc1992] E P Markatos and...

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... research (Anand and Khanna, 2000) it is common to use a period of – and + days Relatedness: An Application to Firm Portfolio Management 42 Wernerfelt and Montgomery, Hariharan and Silverman, 1991, ... methodology, to assess transaction related firm performance are: Merchant and Schendel (2000), Koh and Venkatraman (1991) and Anand and Khanna (2000) For future research it might be valuable to estimate ... strategy on firm performance, it is important to point out that stock Relatedness: An Application to Firm Portfolio Management price movements should not have anything to with an increase or decrease...

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... A8 Ranked Total Annual Return 1997 and Mean-Variance Characteristics 248 Appendix Table A9 Ranked 3-Year Annualized Total Return and MeanVariance Characteristics 250 Appendix Table A10 Ranked ... A8: Ranked Total Annual Return 1997 and Mean-Variance Characteristics 248 Appendix Table A9: Ranked 3-Year Annualized Total Return and MeanVariance Characteristics 250 Appendix Table A10: Ranked ... significant economic and financial impact in the United States and, because of high investor participation rates, it is important to the financial status of many individual Americans and their...

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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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... 1975 R P Agarwal, D O’Regan, V Lakshmikantham, and S Leela, An upper and lower solution theory for singular Emden-Fowler equations,” Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, vol 3, no 2, ... subintervals of an arbitrary time scale, and to 12 for a broad introduction to dynamic equations on time scales Definition 1.1 u is said to be a solution in the sense of distributions to P if u ∈ ... D × 0, ∞ → R satisfy (C and (P M , f satisfies (Cc , and g satisfies (Cg Then, if for some j ≥ there exist uj and uj as a lower and an upper weak solution, respectively, to Pj such that uj ≤ uj...

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... kernels, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 68 (1950), no 3, 337–404 [2] J Buescu, Positive integral operators in unbounded domains, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications ... Garcia, I Lourtie, and A C Paix˜o, Positive-definiteness, integral equations and a Fourier transforms, Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 16 (2004), no 1, 33–52 [4] J Buescu and A C Paix˜o, ... Society, Pennsylvania, 1935 , General Analysis Pt II, Memoirs of Amer Philos Soc., American Philosophical Society, [6] Pennsylvania, 1939 [7] F Riesz and B Nagy, Functional Analysis, Ungar, New...

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... Demsetz 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 ... 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 Finance 21: 849-870 Berger, A.N., and T.H Hannan, ... financial equity capital); and an environmental variable STNPL (the ratio of total nonperforming loans to total loans in the bank’s state) to control for the business conditions facing each bank.20...

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... symmetric and positive definite is a «nested» Gauss-Seidel one needs to return to (47) and to the back solution, and work with (48) The cycle finishes when the solutions y stabilize (VAN NORTON, 1960) ... Cambridge IANOLA G D., 1980 A method of sire evaluation for dichotomies J Anim Sci., 51, 1266-1271 IANOLA G D., 1982 Theory and analysis of threshold characters J Anim Sci., 56, 1079-1096 IANOLA G ... developed, and we consider some approximations for posterior inference and fit of the model A method is proposed to estimate jointly the components of variance and covariance involving the quantitative...

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... Daniella, Steven,…and their partners; Roos, Rolnan, Cornelie, Judith and Wendy from the Construction and Transport groups; Our secretaries: Anke, Joke and Ellen; Yan, Dong, Ping, Chang Wei and ... 1981) and (Checkland, 1981) The above framework indicates the importance of using models as tools to assist the policy analysis These models can be referred to as policy analysis models (Miser and ... district (Fig 1.6) Topology and Geology Topologically and geologically, the mainland of the study area can be separated into two regions: the lowlands in the Western part and highlands in the Eastern...

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... decisions Bayesian inference and fully recursive model The models studied were fitted via Bayesian analysis and consisted of SEM with recursive causal structures and a diagonal residual covariance matrix, ... egg weight from 77 to 110 days, and NE = number of eggs produced from 77 to 110 days 24 Table - Mean and standard deviation (SD) for each trait a Trait BW W35 AFE AEW NE a Mean 10.06 262.30 53.32 ... 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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