chapter 20  real world apps connections transactions performance and more

... positive savings performance among various populations of youth The better we understand youth and their savings preferences and performance, the more effectively financial institutions and public ... participation and facilitating positive savings performance Evidence from these and several other savings programs suggests that there is demand for youth savings products and services More Acknowledgments: ... as Kenya, India, and Uganda, suggests that youth—regardless of income, gender, age, religion, parental status, and marital status, and other personal characteristics—want to and save This section...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... 0.55 and ff = 0.8, resulting in an “overall” σtot ≈ 0.6) and a performance upper bound (σPSF = 0.3 and ff = 0.8, resulting in σtot ≈ 0.4) on the real -world performance Note that in Figure the performance ... here the real -world performance is equal to the performance lower bound Furthermore, it can be seen that the performance on real -world data of the three algorithms is similar for low and medium ... better performance, hence the lower the curve, the better the performance 5.1 Results of real -world data and simulated data experiment The results of the “real -world data experiment” and the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 20:20

... (bonds and equity), where performance data and benchmarks are readily and reliably available, the infrastructure and reliability of performance data for alternative investments, in general, and ... as it is more representative of the performance of trading advisors as a whole and cannot be criticized as having selection bias The sample portfolio is made up of CTA, Canadian, U.S., and international ... environments in which traditional stock and bond investment media offer limited opportunities, and participate in a wide variety of new financial products and markets not available in traditional...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 23:20

... "SQLAzure"; ConnectionString = $sql.MemberDatabase.ConnectionString} ) # Add the connection string and storage account name/key to the website Set-AzureWebsite -Name $Name -AppSettings $appSettings -ConnectionStrings ... without having to create VMs and keep them updated, install and configure IIS, etc We host your site on 13 our VMs and automatically provide backup and recovery and other services for you The ... the appSettings and connectionStrings values that the application needs to access the storage account and databases when it runs in Windows Azure # Configure app settings for storage account and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2014, 13:58

... understand the safety and performance of the ZES and PES in the real -world patients, (patients not subject to any anatomic or clinical exclusion criteria) whose cases are more complex or problematic ... major adverse cardiac events, CABG and definite stent thrombosis then the PES The safety and efficacy of ZES and PES had previously been examined in ENDEAVOR and TAXUS trials (3-9, 15-17) respectively, ... subjects, and the study protocol was approved by the local ethical committee 69 Medications and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Procedure All patients were pretreated with aspirin and clopidogrel...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... 100, and the standard deviation is 10 Point ‘‘a’’ would be 105, and point ‘‘b’’ would be 120 The probability of the actual cost being between 105 and 120 is 28.57% If the standard deviation is and ... point on the horizontal axes and the mean value To use the tables, standardize the values desired by dividing them by the standard deviation In the previous example, the standard deviation was 10, ... the mean value was 100, and the desired probability was between ‘‘a’’ at 105 and ‘‘b’’ at 120 To use the table we must standardize the values: Z ‫( ס‬x ‫ מ‬mean value) / standard deviation Z for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 16:15

... handle, or if the ping( ) method fails, Apache::DBI establishes a new connection, stores the handle, and then returns the handle to the caller It is important to understand that the pool of connections ... different connections (using different connect( ) arguments), in total there will be 20 opened and persistent connections This module must not be used if (for example) you have many users, and a ... persistent connections, which might be largely unused Since database servers have limitations on the maximum number of opened connections, at some point new connections will not be permitted, and eventually...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:15

... the room with an air more stately than usual, and on perceiving whom, she said to the girls, ‘Now, I insist upon it, that you, all of you, hold your tongues, and let me and Mr Collins have a ... pleasure of understanding you,’ said he, when she had finished her speech ‘Of what are you talking?’ ‘Of Mr Collins and Lizzy Lizzy declares she will not have Mr Collins, and Mr Collins begins ... him.’ ‘My dear,’ replied her husband, ‘I have two small favours to request First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room I shall...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 15:15

... now opening, now wandering through the room, now fixing on me, and ever glazed with the dulness of horror I must dip my hand again and again in the basin of blood and water, and wipe away the ... Yes." "Go back and fetch both." I returned, sought the sponge on the washstand, the salts in my drawer, and once more retraced my steps He still waited; he held a key in his hand: approaching ... down into my bedroom, and walk straight forward into my dressing-room: open the top drawer of the wardrobe and take out a clean shirt and neckhandkerchief: bring them here; and be nimble." I went;...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 03:15

... neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance and animated complexion My friend would then turn to me, quiet and pale, and would say, 'No, sir; that is impossible: I cannot it, because it is wrong;' and ... April showers and gleams, followed by a lovely spring morning, could make them: the sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down ... "Precisely: I see you I see genuine contentment in your gait and mien, your eye and face, when you are helping me and pleasing me working for me, and with me, in, as you characteristically say, 'ALL...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 03:15

... does form double and triple bonds  C=C and C≡C are more reactive than C−C  C with single bonds is tetrahedral,  singles and double is trigonal planar  doubles or triple and single is linear ... and σ bonds With sp2 hybridization there is one (1) π bond and σ bonds Chemistry, Julia Burdge, 2nd e., McGraw Hill Why Carbon sp3, sp2, and sp hybridization Chemistry, Julia Burdge, 2nd e., McGraw ... Aromatic carbon-carbon bonds, C-X, C-O, C-N, and C-S bonds to make new molecules Alcohol Aldehyde Ketone Carboxylic Acid Inorganic molecules like CO, and 10 Ester CO3-2 are not considered organic...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2013, 01:12

... /usr/local/bin/license_manager 37 A very handy command in this situation is the fuser command This is not available for all Unix operating systems, but it is available on Irix and Linux The command was issued to find ... solution for this particular event The hacker can return and probe other RPC ports and probably find other ports that listen and serve up ToolTalk A more all-encompassing solution would be to block inbound ... the alleged compromised host and whatsup.net is the hostile IP What’s wrong with the break-in theory? Well, no connections were established, no data exchanged, and no connections were stopped after...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:15

... book and, in particular, CMS.NET will help you understand what is happening under the covers of its more expensive siblings Programmers (and I am one, so I can say this) like to make the world ... a content title and teaser Teaser is a term borrowed from the newspaper and magazine world; it refers to text and/ or images designed to quickly attract the attention of readers and get them interested ... as input fields during check-in and checkout or by mandating a standard format in the provided comments field If you add the workflow stage and checkout date and time to the version tracking,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 14:15

... fire away and place your demands, and listen for the other one to reply The software should recognize that the other end is talking, too, and recover, but often enough both ends give up and drop ... problems We’ll look at the more common ones on page 361 Setting up kernel PPP It makes more sense to run PPP in the kernel than in user space: in the kernel it’s more efficient and theoretically less ... for nothing (’’) and resets the modem with the command ATZ The following line waits for the modem to reply with OK, and dials the ISP Call setup can take a while, almost always more than five seconds...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 00:15

... to and fro; caught her throat; and, uttering a gurgling sound, gasped for breath ’Nancy!’ cried Oliver, ‘What is it?’ The girl beat her hands upon her knees, and her feet upon the ground; and, ... ghastly grin, and, nodding his head, left the room Oliver leaned his head upon his hand when the old man disappeared, and pondered, with a trembling heart, on the words he had just heard The more he ... suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely He remained lost in thought for some minutes; and then, with a heavy sigh, snuffed the candle, and, ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... of goods sold) and marketing and administrative expenses, and the outcome is net profits before income taxes Subtract taxes and divide by the number of common shares outstanding, and you have earnings ... in computer and Internet activity, and there is the possibility that data, priority delivery, and other features can produce valueadded service and superior revenues 10 THE REAL WORLD OF FINANCE ... stories and lessons for the twenty thousand jobs and retirement plans put at risk by these actions 11 Introduction ■ ■ The impact on the energy industry (Enron handled onefifth of the energy transactions...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 09:12

... in steps i and iv, and the added heat is 1422 J  339 J  1761 J and the efficiency is 131 J 1761 J  0.075, or 7.5% The efficiency of a Carnot-cycle engine operating between 250 K and 450 K is ... 1Ta and Tc  r γ 1Td , and so the argument of the logarithm in the expression for the net entropy change is identically, and the net entropy change is zero c) The system is not isolated, and ... and p1  1.01  10 Pa, with the volume found above, V1  8.62  103 m3 V2  V1  8.62  103 m3 , and p2  T12 p1  p1  2.03  105 Pa T (using pa  1.013  105 Pa) p3  p1  1.01  105 Pa and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 03:16

... (20.30) where a1 and a2 are some arbitrary constants (for example, a1 0:1 and a2 0:1 seem to be suitable) Of the preceding functions, G1 and G2 grow more slowly than G3 and thus they give more robust ... complex random variables First, we review some basic concepts of complex random variables; see [419] for more details A complex random variable y can be represented as y = u + iv where u and v are ... zero-mean complex random vector y = (y1 : : : yn ) is H E fyy g = C11 C1 n1 C C n nn (20.22) where Cjk = E fyj yk g and yH stands for the Hermitian of y, that is, y transposed and conjugated...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 11:20

... came at once upon a handsomely engraved and colored frontispiece a human figure, stark naked At that moment a shadow fell on the page and Tom Sawyer stepped in at the door and caught a glimpse ... book to close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half down the middle She thrust the volume into the desk, turned the key, and burst out crying with shame and vexation "Tom Sawyer, ... I'll be whipped, and I never was whipped in school." Then she stamped her little foot and said: " Be so mean if you want to! I know something that's going to happen You just wait and you'll see!...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 20:20