chapter 6  from models to patterns

... effectively and directly from dung pat to dung pat, or from one piece of carrion to another, by attaching themselves to dung or carrion beetles They usually attach to a newly emerging adult, and leave ... it The result is that individuals are closer together than expected by chance How these patterns appear to an observer, however, and their relevance to the life of other organisms, depends on the ... advantage to individuals that the selfish herd aggregate with others was suggested by Hamilton (1971) in his paper ‘Geometry for the selfish herd’ He argued that the risk to an individual from a predator...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 13:20

... LINQ to Relational Data • LINQ to DataSet – Leveraging the existing investment • LINQ to SQL – Designer-generated mapping – Custom mapping, ORM facilities • LINQ to Entities – VS2008 ... 14-18 Baruch Hirsch St Bnei Brak 51202 Israel Mapping Data to Objects • LINQ to Objects: – Data = objects LINQ to SQL is an • LINQ to SQL: Object-Relational Mapper – Data = normalized relational ... 51202 Israel Querying Inheritance • The OfType query operator – The LINQ to SQL query provider translates it to a WHERE on the discriminator column //LINQ: var cars = from car in context.GetTable()...

Ngày tải lên: 12/01/2013, 16:18

... and unprofitable customers No company can be expected to pay the same attention to an unprofitable customer as to a profitable customer Smart companies define the types of customers they are seeking ... unless the customer flies within two months Companies should reward their loyal customers Too often, however, companies give a better deal to new customers than to their old customers Thus a telecom ... from customers, how well telephone operators answer phone calls, how easy it is to locate merchandise in a store, and many other uses Mystery shopping is used to evaluate a company or competitor’s...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... to be PR Sector: Public Affairs/Government PRCA Consultancy: AS Biss & Co Objectives • To influence policy makers and thereby get legislation amended to ensure all vehicles legally required to ... announcements to the London Stock Exchange, and making sure investments and write-downs are viewed by investors in a realistic and transparent light • Allow the PR team to be available to the Board ... coverage for the FT was the fact that other media are not keen to feature one of their competitors So a creative solution had to be found to capture the imagination of broadcast media and generate...

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Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 12:15

... angle [Geiger 1910, p 497] 37 The total stopping power of a thin material was assumed to be the product of the stopping power per atom times the number of atoms per unit volume times the thickness ... below)     14 Thomson continued to refer to negative atomic charges as “corpuscles” throughout the article, and for many years after George Stoney claimed in 1894 to have coined the term electron; ... number of different atoms, from the inner rings (upper rows) to the outer rings (lower rows), where N represents the total number of charges in each atom The N = 3, 11, 24, 40 & 60 atoms would form...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 08:20

... Use efficient data structures to store the candidates or transactions – No need to match every candidate against every transaction © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining 11 Reducing ... Pointer to projected database of its ancestor node – Bitvector containing information about which transactions in the projected database contain the itemset © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to ... Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining 12 Illustrating Apriori Principle Found to be Infrequent Pruned supersets © Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining 13 Illustrating Apriori...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... and measured if it produces a signal with a minimum to signal -to- noise ratio B SIGNAL -TO- NOISE RATIO All electronic instruments are subject to various forms of “noise,” or random, meaningless ... specifications are common to all types of instruments (dimensions, weight, power requirements, etc.) and are easily understood Specialized instruments have specifications that are unique to the task for ... signal -to- noise measurement As mentioned is Section A, the smallest particle that can be reliably measured must produce a signal amplitude at least twice that of the noise, or a to signalto-noise...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Gravel stony-faulty Non-cohesive Upper sector = Upper range Lower sector = Lower range – damage due to excavations, – damage due to the growing roots of plants The second group of factors deals ... Inspector Fitters Storekeeper Administrator © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK 700 km2 150,000 60,000 1300 km 12,000,000 m3 27 1/1 18 274 Introduction to Urban Water Distribution Topographic ... pumps that will avoid air entrainment Inhibitors Inhibitors: Chemicals added to the water that form a protective film on the pipe surface are called inhibitors This film provides a barrier between...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... research laboratories of the UFC and businesses Franc-Comtois Due to ISIFC links to established research laboratories in the field of engineering, microtechnologies or health (about 30 laboratories and ... network They need to interact with and to learn from each other The three permanent members of the ISIFC Biotika® (CEO, Director human resources and Director Quality / Regulatory Affairs) are ... healthcare to stimulate commercialization of new medical device, to reduce costs and to deliver faster Marketing, regulatory and clinical affairs, service support, accounting and inventory are...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 12:20

... by supplying or absorbing active power to/ from the network FESS also sends a command to the main power supply to adjust its output so as to keep suitable stored energy level of FESS Load (Consumer) ... modified to a lower (or a higher) value when the rotor speed is under (or over) 1.044pu, at which the stored energy becomes a half of the maximum storage energy These control schemes correspond to ... may no longer be able to effectively control the system frequency due to theirs slow response To overcome this problem, an Energy Storage (ES), which is able 78 From Turbine to Wind Farms - Technical...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... applied to draw some conclusions and to extrapolate results from empirical studies to general cases The tower shadow, wind shear, rotor asymmetry and unbalance, blade misalignments produce a torque ... generator power electronics interactions affects notably the generator electromagnetic torque and the turbine power fluctuations, especially in the frequency range from tenths of Hertzs to grid ... the ratio of the farm fluctuation relative to the fluctuation of one representative turbine Some stochastic models are derived in the frequency domain to link the overall behaviour of a large number...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... I therefore tookrefuge in other dark passages of the document "What is the meaning of this word Scartaris, and what have thekalends of July to with it?" My uncle took a few minutes to consider ... philosopher did get to the bottom of Sneffels, he has seenthe shadow of Scartaris touch the edge of the crater before thekalends of July; he may even have heard the legendary stories told inhis day about ... enter into the legion of speculation, Ican discuss the matter no longer." "But I have to tell you that the highest names have come to thesupport of my views Do you remember a visit paid to me by...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 14:20

... XYZ Company stock rises to $13 per share, you have 10 warrants to use for purchasing that stock at $11 per share I'm an investor who wants to purchase XYZ Company stock, so you offer to sell me ... them to buy stock, you hold on to them and wait until the price of XYZ Company stock climbs to $14 per share You then find another investor who is willing to pay $2 per warrant The advantage to ... has risen to $10 per share, and XYZ Company decides that it wants to raise some more cash to open a new Widget factory in a nearby town So, the company offers another 200 shares of stock for sale...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 21:20

... expect stock prices to rise in the coming months Conversely, a Put gives an investor the right to sell 100 shares of stock at a pre-set price Investors purchasing Puts expect stock prices to decline ... these investors provide excellent signals for market tops and bottoms Interpretation A Call gives an investor the right to purchase 100 shares of stock at a pre-determined price Investors who purchase ... methods can be applied to other security types as well q q q q q Tops and Bottoms The RSI usually tops above 70 and bottoms below 30 It usually forms these tops and bottoms before the underlying...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 12:20

... buys the stock on the first day at its price V He then waits until the price of the stock increases by one to V + and sells He then continues to watch the stock until its price falls back to V He ... fair coin is tossed three times It is natural to think of X as the sum of the random variables X1 , X2 , X3 , where Xi is defined to be if the ith toss comes up heads, and if the ith toss comes ... holds the stock, it does not get back up to V + 1; and this is the only we he can lose In Figure 6.4 we illustrate a typical history if Mr Ace must stop in twenty days Mr Ace holds the stock under...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... hospital's benefactor But there is more to the story Why did Price kill Doorn? And was anyone else involved? Each step in the problem-solving process leads to other steps The detective has to decide ... `Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature' ± a paper that also had implications for the theories of evolution for Galton's cousin, Sir Charles Darwin Galton used regression to refer to certain ... has a tattoo mark stained in a manner only practised in China This last point is important, as Holmes is able to make this comment because he has contributed to the literature on tattoo marks...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 00:20

... troops as well To it, taxes had to rise from 3–4 percent of GNP to just about the 10 percent that Petty proposed (Holmes, 1993, p 439) Petty saw no objection to allowing France to expand on the ... and carry improvements into every art and science Profound ignorance is totally banished, and men enjoy the privilege of rational creatures, to think as well as to act, to cultivate the pleasures ... factors that he thought relevant) could lead to unemployment It was the duty of the statesman to ensure that the people were employed Steuart had a very ambivalent attitude to luxury and to international...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:20

... where 0 to J are unobserved thresholds This amounts to the indicator variable I½yi ¼ jŠ, which is if observation yi belongs to category j and otherwise, for i ¼ 1; ; N; and j ¼ 1; ; J To preserve ... of "i It is important to notice from (6.6)–(6.8) that the parameters 1 to JÀ1 and are not jointly identified One may now opt to set one of the threshold parameters equal to zero, which is what ... intercept parameter equal to zero This is the same as assuming that the regressor vector Xi contains only K columns with explanatory variables, and no column for the intercept To avoid notational confusion,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 05:20