and finance oriented perspectives using break even point analysis

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20

... ζ l l l which is real and positive since R and Hermitian, and the vector Lk ξ l = zk = O l−1 (118) + βl ζ l ζ H −ζ l l , −ζ H l (119) using which the estimators in (38) and (42) along with the ... International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2008, pp 101–104 31 EB George, MJT Smith, Speech analysis/ synthesis and modification using an analysis- by-synthesis/overlap-add sinusoidal ... filterbank (top) and single filter (bottom) for white noise with ω1 = 1.2566 and L1 = estimate the fundamental frequency and the order, namely a subspace method, the MUSIC method of [9], and the NLS...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... conception and design, data analysis, and strongly contributed to the study definitions and graphical content MHK has made substantial contributions to study design, data acquisition and data analysis ... http://ccforum.com/content/14/5/R186 Statistical analysis To characterize the uncertainty of predicted results, we re-iterated all calculations while the input parameters were randomly and independently varied using their binomial, ... indicated on the y-axis (B) Data point from our study: 11,477 €, at 20% BC+ and 33.5% modification of empiric treatment Figure was calculated using equation (A) and equation (B) with substitution...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... month, week (e.g., working days and weekend days), and day (e.g., morning and evening rush hour) The adjustment for temporal patterns was performed for traffic and for household emissions Traffic ... Rotterdam, the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, and the Ministry ... was designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes of normal and abnormal growth, development, and health during fetal life, childhood and adulthood It has been described previously...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... we tested the speech act analysis model and the discourse analysis model Table and show the results for each analysis model The results shown in table are obtained by using the correct structural ... dialogue analysis model to determine both the speech acts of utterances and the discourse structure of a dialogue using maximum entropy model In the proposed model, the speech act analysis and the ... worse than the results of each analysis model For top-1 candidate, the performance of the speech act analysis fell off about 2.89% and that of the discourse structure analysis about 7.07% Nevertheless,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... randomly extracted from section 23 of the WSJ treebank and given gold-standard f-structure annotations according to our LFG scheme, and (ii) 500 sentences from the Brown corpus given gold standard ... randomly selected from section 23 of the WSJ treebank, using both LFG and DR measures Table 1: Disambiguation results for 700 randomly selected examples from section 23 of the WSJ treebank using ... points because of DR mapping difculties 4.3 Results In our evaluation, we report F-scores for both types of annotation, LFG and DR, and for three types of parse selection, (i) lower bound: random...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... t/, j=1 Air Pollution and Mortality 185 where the Bj and Hj are known basis functions and m1 and m2 are the degrees of freedom for f and g respectively The functions q and r also have natural ... additive dependencies and concurvities using smallest additive principal components Ann Statist., 22, 1635–1668 Eilers, P H C and Marx, B D (1996) Flexible smoothing using B-splines and penalized likelihood ... Peng and colleagues have explored this question, and the degree of bias that we might expect, using simulation analyses, and then applied these lessons to a large multicity database of PM10 and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... discrete events; (b) pdf of continuous events; (c) independent events; (d) dependent events and conditional probabilities; (e) alternative events; (f) a complete set of alternative events (H1 ... of time -point measurements, and at every time point, amplitudes and phases at multiple frequencies might be measured; even more pixels are usually contained in imaging sensory data Thus, even a ... CONJECTURES 11 Gödel Theorems, Mind, and Machine 383 11.1 PENROSE AND COMPUTABILITY OF MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING 383 11.2 LOGIC AND MIND 385 ¨ 11.3 GODEL, TURING, PENROSE, AND PUTNAM ¨ 11.4 GODEL THEOREM...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:09

... agents, and hence are not captured in our data Two of the landfills were in urban areas and closed (Alum Creek and Obetz), and the other two were in suburban areas and still open (Gahanna and Grove ... house prices Papers using MLS data include Anglin, Rutherford, and Springer (2003); Harding, Knight, and C F Sirmans (2003); Harding, Rosenthal, and Sirmans (2003); and Turnbull and Sirmans (1993) ... supply and demand for brokerage services, while Jud (1983) expands the model and provides the first empirical study on the impact of real estate agents on house prices and consumption He points...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:21

... Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol 27, no 3, pp 434–449, 2005 [12] C E Hann and M S Hickman, “Projective curvature and integral invariants,” Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, ... pp 139–159, 2007 [18] A Rosenfeld and A C Kak, Digital Picture Processing, Academic Press, Orlando, Fla, USA, 1982 [19] I M Anderson and J C Bezdek, “Curvature and tangential deflection of discrete ... associated with that point Hence, one can write the equation of a curve, in the neighborhood of α(s0 ), by using t(s0 ) and n(s0 ) as a coordinate frame In particular, t(s0 ) is the x-axis and n(s0 ) is...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... the image points on the end points of the critical boundary as critical points If the critical points are known, then the tangents drawn at those points intersect at the point where the point light ... structure and the blur parameter and restore the image The blur function is modeled as Gaussian and the surface gradients are modeled as separate Markov random fields (MRFs) with edge preservation and ... recover the surface gradients and the albedo and also perform blind image restoration The surface gradients and the albedo are modeled as separate Markov random fields (MRFs), and a suitable regularization...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... at the desired BS Using (1), (16), and (17), the pdfs for cellular systems with D = 2R (typical value for WCDMA systems) and D = 5R are evaluated for both the proposed model and the circular-cell ... the circular-cell approximation and the proposed model is 4.7% if ρ = R, and 10.3% when ρ = r Integrating (1), (16), and (17), the corresponding cdfs are calculated and illustrated in Figure Noticeable ... previously defined The mean absolute, eP , and the mean relative, εP , estimation errors are defined from (20) and (21) substituting f [i] and [i] [i] fsim with P [i] and Psim , that is, the values of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University His research interests include channel estimation and equalization, multiuser detection, and statistical and adaptive signal processing and analysis ... follows from (10) and (28)–(30) that CH = D T −1 It follow from (14) and (19) that ⎡ C : = c A c0 A · · · c0 A (18) Using (13), (15), and (18), it follows that (for (q, m) = (q, 0)) = T and an [N(Q ... channel and the input sequences At iteration k, with an initial guess of the channel H (k) and the mean m(k) , the algorithm estimates the input sequence s(k) and the channel H (k+1) and mean...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... Justino, F Bortolozzi, and R Sabourin, “Off-line signature verification using HMM for random, simple and skilled forgeries,” in International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, vol ... handwritten signature images: survey and perspectives, ” in Structured Document Image Analysis, H Baird, H Bunke, and K Yamamoto, Eds., pp 219–234, SpringerVerlag, NY, USA, 1992 [22] J Gupta and ... C.-W Ho, and H.-R Tyan, “Waveletbased off-line handwritten signature verification,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol 76, no 3, pp 173–190, 1999 [8] T Kaewkongka, K Chamnongthai, and B...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... http://jbiol.com/content/5/6/20 DNA and RNA co-distribution and uridine incorporation in the nucleolus using 15N-uridine and 81Br of bromodeoxyuridine or 14C-thymidine; to reveal domains in cultured endothelial cells using ... electrostatic prism, tilting the entry and exit faces of the magnetic prism, and focusing in the vertical section using additional lenses placed between the electrostatic and magnetic prisms The deflectors ... as 13C- and 12C1H- (mass 13.003355 and mass 13.007825, respectively; Figure 15b); 12C14N- and 1H12C13C(mass 26.003074 and mass 26.011180, respectively; Figure 15c); 12C15N-, 13C14N- and 12C14N1H-...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... generation for RM and MM data sets, respectively For the case of full PI, the same figures were 2% and 1% For low h2 , the biases were 23% and 28%, and 1% and 2% for the cases of missing and full PI, ... MSE of CG and, in less extent, of breeding value estimates in nonrandomly selected populations with full PI (analyses and 10 vs 15 and 16) With missing PI (analyses 11 and 12 vs 17 and 18), the ... scenarios Bayesian and EBLUP estimation yielded rank correlations between true and predicted breeding values that were equally decreased by randomly missing PI and by both phenotypic and BLUP selection...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... complex segregation analysis was introduced by Elston and Stewart (1971) and Morton and MacLean (1974) Complex segregation analysis combines three factors into a mixed model for analysis of phenotypes ... gene frequencies of 0.1, 0.5, and 0.9, respectively Using the finite polygenic mixed model and its sub-model the corresponding values were 4, 3, and 4, 4, 3%, for set and set 3, respectively Thus ... linkage between a major gene and polygenes, on the power of detecting a major gene and on parameter estimation Behavior of the mixed model of segregation analysis (Morton and MacLean, 1974) was compared...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... RNA-seq analysis AG and ET applied the method to the mouse brain dataset AL and SR supervised the project AG, LC, SR and SS reviewed and revised the manuscript All authors have read and approved ... FASTA file and using it in the alignment and mapping steps of the MMSEQ workflow Table MMSEQ estimates for H13 and Mcts2 isoforms in F1 hybrid samples MMSEQ estimates for each haplotype and isoform ... human and mouse Ensembl cDNA files under the assumption of uniform sampling of reads and ran the MMSEQ workflow We found good correlation between simulated and estimated expression values and between...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... Standards and samples (100:l; diluted in PBST containing 1% BSA) were added to the wells and plate was incubated at 37°C for hours After removing standards and samples, wells were washed with PBST and ... read at 450 nm Statistical analysis Analysis was done using a statistical software package (SPSS 12.0 for windows) Differences among groups were compared using one-way analysis of variance followed ... light microscopy were processed and embedded in paraffin Sections (five micron) were cut onto the polyL-Lysine coated slides and used for hematoxylin and eosin staining and immunostaining Pieces of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... tissue and alveoli (F12 and F21) and de novo synthesis (P) of disaturated-phosphatidylcholine were also smaller than in controls Fractional rates of transfer between tissue and airways (k21 and ... contributions PEC participated to the design and coordination of the study and drafted the manuscript GMT, MC, CC performed the data modeling and analysis CO and AV were responsible of the clinical ... SD where m1 and m2 are the amount (in mg) of disaturatedphosphatidylcholine-palmitate tracer in compartment and respectively, m1 and m2 (mg/h) represent their rate of change, k21 and k12 (h-1)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20