... disposal the essential communications and analytical tools to capture that data and incorporate it into a financial and valuation model that forms the basis for a successful investment strategy ... action and economic performance, andthe markets’ take on both It is a rich and robust way to analyze all the important aspects of both the real economy (the G and E part) andthe financial economy ... advice to others Rather, investors invest That is to say, they create and manage portfolios for themselves and, in the case of portfolio managers, for others Here, once again, the PC andthe Internet...
... indicate prolonged times of rest and, usually, darkness Although many analyses ofthe activity andofthe transformed CS data are possible, the data in Figure were used to develop a quantitative ... occur at nearly the same time The angular direction ofa phasor indicates the phase relationship between light and activity for an individual Greater amounts of activity near the onset of circadian ... cycle was reversed every 48 hours (as if this group of rats instantly travelled back and forth from Asia tothe Americas every other day) Animals were housed individually and allowed to eat and...
... SR, AS and HH contributed equally tothe content ofthe article and gave their final approval All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... kg−1) A total amount of about 700 kg artificial sediment was prepared for the experiments in the annular flume and half ofthe sediment was spiked with the abovedescribed PAHs This approach was ... one ofthe major challenges of this proofof-concept study The characterization of sedimentological parameters resulted in critical bed shear stresses and temporal variations of suspended particulate...
... ofthe MMP family is the hallmark of several inflammatory disorders, including arthritis MMP-9, in particular, has been implicated in the degradation and damage of articular cartilage in RA and ... La Fondation Armand-Frappier andthe Canadian Arthritis Network 16 17 References Momohara S, Kashiwazaki S, Inoue K, Saito S, Nakagawa T: Elastase from polymorphonuclear leukocyte in articular ... metalloproteinase (96-kd gelatinase B) in human rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1996, 39:1576-1587 Yoshihara Y, Nakamura H, Obata K, Yamada H, Hayakawa T, Fujikawa K, Okada Y: Matrix metalloproteinases...
... models These models are dual tothe centric models [15,16], and they have the same characteristics in terms of realism and computational behavior The fourth class of models, called sub-cellular lattice ... interactions between cells and surrounding medium as Graner and Sawada did And finally it borrows from Graner and Glazier an additional constraint on the shape of cells In addition, one strength of ... by Graner and Glazier (GG model) [17] Tuning the internal parameters of centric or lattice models is usually achieved by direct comparison ofthe model output andthe real data that they are supposed...
... a form of inter-language study anda central concern of applied linguistic As a matter of fact, C .A has had much to offer not only to practical language but also to translation theory, the description ... 1 1A 19 Graduation paper 2.2.5 Exclamatory adjective sentence An adjective as head of an adjective phrase or as its sole realization can be an exclamation: How good of you! An exclamation is a ... non- gradable adjectives According to L G Alexander (1988, 108) adjectives can be also divided into gradable and non- gradable Gradable adjectives mean a large class of words which can be graded,...
... mother taught me to share with people andto reach out to others and help She taught me that I am a human being first anda man second And that as a man, I should help the women publicly and privately ... Reproductive Health for East and South East Asia andthe Pacific Island Countries UNFPA, CST Bangkok, Pattaya, May 2000 (Regional) H Meeting on the Health and Development Needs of Male Adolescents and Young ... means to be a father Thus, there is not a single model of fatherhood, but rather three basic perspectives: the father as symbolic function, the father as a legal institution andthe father as a biological...
... phenomena in paper, andtothepropertiesof paper as a material In this thesis of basic research, an approach derived primarily from adsorption, adhesion, and polymer sciences was applied to study the ... regard to paper manufacturing andthe end-uses of paper products as well as in paper recycling Almost as long as man has made paper, first by hand and then industrially, different additives have ... with a reduced number of variables are required to resolve the interactions andto further contribute tothe understanding of paper as a material In this thesis anew outlook to fibre bonding and...
... 2009 M Acıkgoz and S Aracı, “On the generating function of Bernstein polynomials,” in Proceedings ofthe ¸ ¨ 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM ’10), ... Aracı, The relations between Bernoulli, Bernstein and Euler polynomials,” in ¸ ¨ Proceedings ofthe 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM ’10), AIP, ... interpolates the q-Bernoulli polynomials at negative integers and are associated with q-Bernstein polynomials NewApproachto q-Bernoulli Numbers and Polynomials Let N be the set of natural numbers and...
... efficiency, and ECAPi is the ratio of equity capital to gross total assets The use of ECAPi as an inverse measure of leverage is standard in banking research in part because ofthe regulatory attention ... these additional banks are owner managed rather than professionally managed, and therefore not provide a good laboratory for testing the agency costs ofthe separation of ownership and management.19 ... holdings, and institutional holdings Our application to data from the banking industry is advantageous because ofthe abundance of quality data available on firms in this industry In particular, we have...
... area at day is defined as 100 percent original area, the areas at day 3, and are calculated as the percentage ofthe original area for each group of rats The data of 6th day suggests the largest ... with the head covered and both the length (L) andthe breadth (B) ofthe wound was measured so as to calculate the total wound area (i.e L x B) A mathematic model was applied to determine the ... BX51) at 400X magnification - 42 - Chapter Materials and Methods Statistical analysis Data are presented as mean ± SE Statistical significance was analyzed by variance (ANOVA), a Tukey test was applied...
... Highlights ofthe proposed scheme for the synthesis of We now report the first total synthesis of heptemerone G (2) and, en route, anew synthetic approachto compound (which is a guanacastepene A precursor ... protection ofthe oxo group at C14, to install the oxo group at C-3 andthe allyl group at C-8 The intermediate would then be dehydrogenated andthe product subjected to methylation to afford Danishefsky4b,d ... Danishefsky4b,d and Mehta14 have shown that methylation of similar a, b-unsaturated ketones introduces the methyl group in a trans-orientation with respect tothe angular methyl group The allyl and oxo...
... into a special mode to carry out their altered role mechanically, at the moment of adopting anew law (World Bank, 12 approachto law and economics, and it has sullied a lot of our analysis and ... ofthe law What the focal point approachto law and economics does is to take on the full game ofthe economy, including the police andthe judge, and then tries to explain how and why the law ... approachto law and economics treats all enforcers ofthe law, those I refer to as functionaries, as part ofthe game, but it does not treat the act of creating the law as part ofthe game and leaves...
... farm level Such veterinarians are motivated to collect valid data at the herd level They perceive the collection ofthe data in andof itself as the basis for taking relevant action at the farm ... scores as a 'diagnostic tool' related to each individual treatment decision rather than being part ofa collaborative data collection For example, they could add rectal temperature and other parameters ... such a study Considerations on data quality and different quantitative analysis The epidemiological issue of variation and bias are linked tightly with the terms accuracy and precision Accuracy and...
... quantum analogue for the classical Lagrangian function It is preferable for the sake of analogy to consider the classical Lagrangian as a function ofthe coordinates at time t andthe coordinates ... analogue ofthe action integral of classical mechanics It is a solution tothe problem ofthe quantization ofthe classical theory of least action described in the first part ofthe paper A generalization ... The Calculation of Matrix Elements in the Language ofa Lagrangian 32 The Equations of Motion in Lagrangian Form 34 Translation tothe Ordinary Notation of Quantum Mechanics 39 The Generalization...
... change initiatives, and they serve as approaches to framing the planned change to fit into the technical and human aspects ofthe change The Social and Behavioral Perspective in Transformation This ... the departments of Transportation, Commerce, Defense, and Homeland Security; the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA); the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); andthe White ... attempting to impose a transformational change into their organizations (Slavin and Woodard 2006, 23): We close with a caution anda challenge Transformation has many elements, andthe failure of any...
... of Language Resources and Evaluation We are grateful to Michael Elhadad and Galina Volk from Ben-Gurion University for providing the ROUGE toolkit adapted tothe Hebrew alphabet, andto Slava ... using a GA to find an optimal set of values for the outcomes of 14 indicators and apply the optimal combination of values from data on one text toa different text With such approach, training may ... andanew solution is created using crossover and mutation, that are the most important part ofa genetic algorithm The GA performance is influenced mainly by these two operators New parents are...