... introduce load shedders and assign sampling rates starting with the 1) call Set SamplingRate (Sj7 for each data stream Sj THEOREM Among allpossible choicesfor theplacement of loadshedders 1.7 and ... ratios between effective sampling rates (each sampling rate is equal to Pi/Pj = Ci/Cj for some i, j ) and not on the actual Pi values themselves As a consequence, it is not actually necessary for ... of load shedders leads to inefficiencies The same basic approach that we have described can be applied in such a context by associating a processing cost per tuple with load shedding operators...
... Pearson Education Canada Inc 15 - The Case for Independence I Case For: Independent Bank likely has longer-run objectives, politicians may not Avoids political business cycle Less likely deficits ... Monetary Policy Report and the Update to the Monetary Policy Report Has increased the number of press conferences/releases and speeches, and reorganized its regional offices, with the objective of improving ... Bank of Canada: • serves as the lender of last resort if a bank faces a liquidity crisis, thereby preventing bank runs and panics • has explicit responsibility for the regulatory oversight of the...
... Routledge, and Stanley Zin, 2007, “Asset Prices in Business Cycle Analysis,” unpublished manuscript, Columbia Business School Balfoussia, Hiona, and Mike Wickens, 2007, “Macroeconomic Sources of Risk ... unobserved stochastic discount factors of investors Such a decomposition requires a model, and Christensen, Lopez, and Rudebusch (2008) use an affine four-factor AFNS model for this purpose This model specifies ... distorting its macroeconomic fit and stochastic moments.7 The remainder of this section, which summarizes Rudebusch, Sack, and Swanson (2007), and Rudebusch and Swanson (2008, 2009) introduces a benchmark...
... entrances) • Large warships • Arriving ballistic missile warheads • Satellite constellations • Some kinds of communications and electronic systems • Industrial capacity and cities Nuclear Weapons and ... Russian economic woes; the deterioration of some of its nuclear forces, command and control and warning systems, and nuclear infrastructure; and the general failure of Russian economic and political ... what situations, if any, nuclear weapons have an overwhelming advantage Chapter Five looks at future U .S strategic choices and addresses a number of specific issues that affect those choices Chapter...
... Asia can affect U .S relations with China, Iran, and others This creates a complicated dynamic of interests and goals Central Asia and Its Neighbors: Security and Commerce at the Crossroads This ... PAF PRC RATS SCO TDAPL UN WTO Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States Central Command Central Command Air Forces Central Intelligence Agency China National Offshore Oil Corporation ... needed most In this context, Chinese officials believe that the U .S military presence is not useful 22 Author interviews with Chinese officials and specialists in Central Asia, May 2003 CHAPTER...
... practice, a pre-accession process of ‘unprecedented length and complexity’ was designed, involving a sophisticated set of pre-accession instruments, strategies and policies.3 For the CEE accession ... international organisations Referendums Referendum experience: frequent and unsuccessful Public opinion and euroscepticism Accession referendums: procedural ‘manoeuvres’ Implications for the EU treaty ... idiosyncrasies of CEE constitutions Constitutional history of CEE countries Prominence of the constitutions in CEE legal orders ‘Souverainist’ character 14 36 44 52 56 61 Revision of CEE constitutions...
... lexeme choice and diacritics The DiacFull label is only positive if the surface diacritics of the analysis match the gold diacritics exactly; DiacPart is less strict in that the trailing sequence ... they correspond to the seven tasks described in Section Instead of showing 98 results, we show in Figure four results for each of the seven tasks: for both the BASE-16 and FULL-19 feature sets, ... lexemic aspects of a word in context This gives us a total of seven tasks AllChoice is the hardest of our tasks, since it subsumes all other tasks MorphAll is the hardest of the three morphological...
... in accordance with the guidelines and instructions of the ECB The Governing Council shall take the necessary steps to ensure compliance with the guidelines and instructions of the ECB, and shall ... thirds of the votes cast, that these interfere with the objectives and tasks of the ESCB Such functions shall be performed on the responsibility and liability of national central banks and shall ... its fields of competence Article Collection of statistical information 5.1 In order to undertake the tasks of the ESCB, the ECB, assisted by the national central banks, shall collect the necessary...
... Omission of covariances across different risky assets is one of the unfortunate features of the Basel Accord rules as they stand at present; this is one of several reasons why those monitoring financial ... if the central bank has shed these functions, as staff turnover effaces old habits of consultation between erstwhile colleagues Significant delays could ensue, particularly if channels of information ... limited to cases of systemic risk, and will involve co-operation with other supervisory bodies The position is less clear-cut for sales of failing institutions’ assets For industrial countries (Denmark,...
... approach the problem of measuring monetary policy shocks and predictability of central bank decisions The contributions can be summarise as follows: First, as a difference to other standard papers ... London Issing, O., June 2000, Communication challenges for the ECB, CFS research confidence “The ECB and its watchers II” Issing, O., 2001, Monetary policy and financial markets, ECB watchers conference, ... policy decisions has affected the term structure of interest rates compared to the normal impact of shocks on other days with no monetary policy decisions The paper is structured as follows:...
... algorithms for constructing statistical language models In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics-Volume 1, pages 40–47 Association for Computational Linguistics ... corpus We selected 100,000 French sentences from the news agency AFP and 100,000 sentences from the news agency Xinhua To have a more reliable set of training instances, we selected only sentences ... the context vectors ve 160 and vf up as described in Section We then calculate and sort all |Ve |·|Vf | distances which proves feasible in a few CPU hours even for vocabulary sizes of more than...
... environmental factors, such as chemoattractive cytokines or chemokines and the presence of ‘vasculature addresses’, contribute to the specific dissemination of metastastic cancer cells [78,79] One possible ... organ-specific metastasis have identified specific gene expression signatures for different organ-specific metastases The functional involvement of these genes and factors in directing organ-specific metastasis ... tumorigenesis, among which are the kinetics of carcinogenesis and the final size of tumors, differences in cell intrinsic features such as the requirements to transform cells, and differences in organ-specific...
... of contextual features: morphological, collocation-specific, and classbased, with part-of-speech (POS) categories serving as the word classes Within these classes, we choose a number of specific ... of new population parameters that characterize the effects of individual variables and their interactions The theory of log-linear models specifies the sufficient slatislics (functions of x) for ... methodology used for formulating decomposable modelsand Section describes the details of the case study performed to test the approach The results of the disambiguation case study are discussed and contrasted...
... Priorities and Military Roles SOFA USAF USSR WMD Status of Forces agreement United States Air Force Union of Soviet Socialist Republics weapons of mass destruction CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Policy Choices ... authors themselves Acronyms CSAR CTR EMERCOM FEMA FMF FOL FY IMET IMU MOB NATO NCO OEF PAF PfP PME SBCT SCO SOF combat search and rescue Cooperative Threat Reduction (program) Emergencies and Elimination ... objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world R ANDs publications not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research...
... of the intersection of this WFSA with the PCFG given in Table 1.7 PCFGs are a special class of weighted context-free grammars (WCFGs), If a state s total unnormalized cost of insertion arcs is ... Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items Journal of Memory and Language, 59(4):390–412 Frank, S L (2009) Surprisal-based comparison between a symbolic and a connectionist ... functions of PCFGs Research on Logic and Computation, 6:139–162 Roark, B., Bachrach, A., Cardenas, C. , and Pallier, C (2009) Deriving lexical and syntactic expectation-based measures for psycholinguistic...
... organisation 3.8 The Permanent Secretary, as Principal Accounting Officer, has delegated some of his functions and responsibilities to six new Sub-Accounting Officers These senior officials are responsible ... procurement fitness checks for public sector organisations A total of 32 checks have now been completed across the public sector in Wales Facilitated the use of e-auctions for £12 million of procurement ... public funds Figure 2: Arrangements for securing economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources The corporate performance management and financial management arrangements assessed...
... National Library of Wales - Staff Superannuation Scheme Account Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (abolished from April 2006) Sports Council for Wales Sports Council for ... (Specialist Services) Welsh non-Domestic Rating Summarised Account of local health boards in Wales Summarised Account of NHS trusts in Wales Assembly Members' Pension Scheme Account AGSPBs National ... of Wales Accounts prepared by the National Assembly National Museums and Galleries of Wales Assembly Core Resource account Assembly Consolidated Resource account Health Commission Wales (Specialist...
... Finally, factor analysis confirmed the factor structure of the HQLI Reliability of the HQLI was provided by generation of coefficient alphas for both total scale scores and subscale scores Subscale ... anxiety, fatigue, and sleeplessness which in turn affect functional status and cognitive status, and subsequently decrease quality of life.[4] Based on previous studies,[4,6,7] a specific study ... distress, feelings of mastery, and perceived quality of life as related to being caregivers Research Questions Severe dyspnea, whether acute or chronic, affects patients' functional status and...