an application to the personal computer market

capital structure and firm performance a new approach to testing agency theory and an application to the banking industry

capital structure and firm performance a new approach to testing agency theory and an application to the banking industry

... output faced by the bank is the weighted average of the prices of the other banks in the market excluding the bank’s own price, where the weights are each other bank’s share of the total of that ... all the other banks in the market A bank’s price is then the weighted average of the prices it faces in each of its markets, where the weight is the share of the bank’s deposits in its branches ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 21:13

38 562 0
Tài liệu Effect modification of air pollution on Urinary 8-Hydroxy-2’-Deoxyguanosine by genotypes: an application of the multiple testing procedure to identify significant SNP interactions ppt

Tài liệu Effect modification of air pollution on Urinary 8-Hydroxy-2’-Deoxyguanosine by genotypes: an application of the multiple testing procedure to identify significant SNP interactions ppt

... model to identify the significance of 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 ... genes, is related to the vitamin D metabolism [61] Vitamin D is activated to form 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D in the liver and kidney and then transported in serum to different tissues by the vitamin ... modification assessment We used the log-transformation of 8-OHdG to minimize Page of residuals and to stabilize the variance We identified a priori the following variables as important potential confounders...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

9 773 0
Tài liệu THE VALUE OF IMPROVED PUBLIC SERVICES: AN APPLICATION OF THE CHOICE EXPERIMENT METHOD TO ESTIMATE THE VALUE OF IMPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT INFRASTRUCTURE IN INDIA docx

Tài liệu THE VALUE OF IMPROVED PUBLIC SERVICES: AN APPLICATION OF THE CHOICE EXPERIMENT METHOD TO ESTIMATE THE VALUE OF IMPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT INFRASTRUCTURE IN INDIA docx

... the amount of untreated raw sewage deposited in the Ganga The most noteworthy of these is the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) Initiated in 1984 by the Indian Government, and supported by the Netherlands, ... interview, the enumerators explained the attributes, levels they take and the status quo in detail and clearly both verbally and with the help of the simply written material in the local languages and ... the population it is drawn from, it would generate some indication of the public‟s preferences with respect to improvements to the STPs and hence to the quality of the water in the Ganga 11 The...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

40 473 1
The Marginal External Cost of Car - with an Application to Belgium - potx

The Marginal External Cost of Car - with an Application to Belgium - potx

... that in the commodity transportation sector the value of one hour is equal to 0.0000848 times the value of the goods transported The VOT is thus found to be proportional to the value of the goods ... consists of analyzing the consequences of the change in emissioils due to the additional car-km If the emissions of the transport sector arc larger than in the initial situation, emissions have to decrease ... for urban and other roads on the one l-land and highways on the other hand Due to a lack of data the values could not be differentiated according to level of congestion Case presents the results...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

34 522 0
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Multiple Positive Solutions in the Sense of Distributions of Singular BVPs on Time Scales and an Application to Emden-Fowler Equations" docx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Multiple Positive Solutions in the Sense of Distributions of Singular BVPs on Time Scales and an Application to Emden-Fowler Equations" docx

... Hloc,Δ D is the set of all functions such that their restriction to every closed subinterval J of a, b T belong to the Sobolev space HΔ J We refer the reader to 9–11 for an introduction to several ... |Dk b a uk and ϕ o ϕσ on Do \ Dk to uΔ s · ϕΔ s − F s, uσ s 1 · ϕσ s Δs 0, 2.17 and the proof is therefore complete Propositions 2.3 and 2.4 lead to the following sufficient condition for the existence ... (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 on D, then Pj has a weak solution...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 11:20

13 372 0
Báo cáo sinh học: "Probability statements about the transmitting ability of progeny-tested sires for an all-or-none trait with an application to twinning in cattle" pptx

Báo cáo sinh học: "Probability statements about the transmitting ability of progeny-tested sires for an all-or-none trait with an application to twinning in cattle" pptx

... where T is the value of the threshold, a the within sire standard deviation and 4)(.) the normal CDF evaluated at (r -1}i)/ae’ It is convenient to put the origin at the threshold and set u to unity, ... 0.025 and h = 0.25 and a = 0.9, 73 to 167, 157 to 325, 330 to 671, 904 to 1663 and 4041 to 7062 progeny are required to exceed a minimum TA value equal to ETA minus 1.25, 1.00, 0.75, 0.50 and 0.25 ... Œ; and u= (L - p as an (m Then the system to be solved A IL A u becomes = an (n x 1) x 1) vector respectively vector of sire deviations = interesting feature of normality An where is the mode...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

18 313 0
Toward an Interactive Method for DMEA-II and Application to the Spam-Email Detection System

Toward an Interactive Method for DMEA-II and Application to the Spam-Email Detection System

... of the PF of interest to the DM Based on the role of the DM in the solution process, In an interactive method, the intermediate search results are presented to the DM to investigate; then the ... A2 , being the solutions stored in the current archive By their construction, the hyperquadrant contains the estimated POF A niching operator is used to the main population From the second generation ... better and with more confidence The authors proposed in [7], a trade-off analysis tool that was used to offer the DM a way to analyze solution candidates The ideas proposed here are directed to users...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2015, 10:00

15 292 0
An effective trajectory based algorithm for ball detection and tracking with application to the analysis of broadcast sports video

An effective trajectory based algorithm for ball detection and tracking with application to the analysis of broadcast sports video

... position and the lengths of the major and minor axes, i.e the paper assumed that the ellipse is horizontal The particle filter uses the contour and the histogram of the objects to differentiate the ... video is to reconstruct the ball and to illustrate the ball motion In other words, the ball locations play an important role in the enhancement and enrichment of ball game video This thesis addresses ... method to generate the ball candidates for each frame Section 3.4 presents the method to generate the candidate trajectories Section 3.5 explains the measures and procedures to process the candidate...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 21:56

182 711 0
An examination of the long run market reaction to the announcement of dividend omissions and reductions

An examination of the long run market reaction to the announcement of dividend omissions and reductions

... securities constituting the index The reason to rebalance is to maintain the equal weight o f all securities in the index, which means stocks with higher return than the market in the previous month ... f big stocks Book -to- market factor is the return on a valueweighted portfolio o f high book -to- market stocks less the return on a value-weighted portfolio o f low book -to- market stocks The intercept ... 2) if the market does, how long does it take for the market to correct this underreaction, and 3) are there any factors that influence the long-run underperformance? We document significantly...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 15:34

121 237 0
Cambridge.University.Press.An.Introduction.to.the.Philosophy.of.Mind.Jan.2000.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.An.Introduction.to.the.Philosophy.of.Mind.Jan.2000.pdf

... and appearance Appearance and reality Sense-datum theories and the argument from illusion Other arguments for sense-data Objections to sense-datum theories The adverbial theory of sensation The ... what they say about this Secondly, if they mean to abandon reasoned argument altogether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction nothing more to say to them because they ... action and intention, and finally personal identity and self-knowledge The order in which these topics are covered has been deliberately chosen so as to enable the reader to build upon the understanding...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

333 1,2K 2
Consultative document Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework

Consultative document Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework

... integrated into the day -to- day risk management process of the bank Its output should accordingly be an integral part of the process of planning, monitoring and controlling the bank’s market risk ... are to evaluate the capacity of the bank’s capital to absorb potential large losses and to identify steps the bank can take to reduce its risk and conserve capital This assessment is integral to ... setting and evaluating the bank’s management strategy and the results of stress testing should be routinely communicated to senior management and, periodically, to the bank’s board of directors...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

31 680 2
A methodology for validation of integrated systems models 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 in south-west sulawesi

... 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 part The ... the order of importance of the factors/processes provided by the model and to compare them with the experts’ experiences Therefore, the total BOD load to the coastal sea and the living coral area ... Sensitivity analysis In a sensitivity analysis of an ISM, the selection of the quantities of interest depends on the aim of the analysis The purpose of the current analysis is to determine the order...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

139 492 0
an Introduction to the UK

an Introduction to the UK

... Anh biết đến xứ sở sương mù truyền thống củûa môn thể thao vua với tên tiếng : Michael Owen, DavidBeckam … Loài hoa biểu tượng Anh hoa Hồng Màu sắc đặc trưng dòch ... cộng màu đỏ ( Điện thoại công cộng xe buýt tầng ) Quốc huy Scôtlen Hoa ThistleHoa biểu tượng Trang phục nhạc cụ truyền thống nam giới Scôtlen đất nước lâu đài pháo đài cổ Hoa biểu trưng cho xứ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2013, 08:10

12 495 1
An Introduction to the Grid

An Introduction to the Grid

... software to conform to the relevant standards For the Grid community, the most important standards organizations are the Global Grid Forum (GGF) [10], which is the primary standards setting organization ... systems and applications to share, compute and storage resources transparently” [8] So, overall, we can say that the Grid is about resource sharing; this includes computers, storage, sensors and ... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GRID we usually visualize running such an application “on top” of a software layer called middleware that unifies the resources being used by the application into a...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 03:20

10 486 0
Introduction of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

Introduction of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

... what they say about this Secondly, if they mean to abandon reasoned argument altogether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction nothing more to say to them because they ... all To these sceptics I reply that the pursuit of metaphysics is inescapable for any rational being and that they themselves demonstrate this in the objections which they raise against it For to ... conception of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compatible the theories and observations of the various different sciences: and providing that conception is not the task of any one of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

7 533 0
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental content

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental content

... strange coincidence, the inhabitants of this planet speak a language which sounds just like English and that they use the word ‘snow’ for the stuff descending from their skies An inhabitant of the ... something that we can see, hear or touch than is the number We can touch snow and see its whiteness, because snow is a concrete, physical stuff Equally, we can see and touch a token of the English sentence-type ... reference to them has a non-redundant role to play in causal explanations of human behaviour But the problem remains as to how it could be the case that reference to propositions has a non-redundant...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

33 563 0
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental states

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental states

... states 47 tions to the computer s ‘inputs’, other software states of the computer, and the computer s ‘outputs’ By a ‘software’ state of a computer, I mean, for instance, its storing of a particular ... exist: and this seems to imply that he cannot rationally claim to believe in the truth of his own theory He cannot consistently claim to believe the theory if the theory itself maintains that there ... strings of meaningless marks or sounds If that is so, then to abandon the category of belief is implicitly to abandon also the very notions of truth and falsehood and therewith, it seems, the very...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

30 765 0
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Perception

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Perception

... colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes) And these other ... governing the inlet and outlet pipes to the two tanks, so that when the water-level in one tank goes up or down by a certain measured amount, information about this is passed to the other tank and the ... causal theory – the disjunctive theory – but concluded that it does not have any significant advantages over the causal theory and has, besides, certain disadvantages Then we went on to discuss the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

30 584 0
w