... elasticity of s ubstitution 1@3Discount factor 0=99Cobb-Douglas share of labour 2@3Relative productivity of retirees 0=325Depreciation rate of capital 0=05Growth rate of technological ... probability ,while(1 )denotes the probability of death of retirees. Hence, the total lifespan of agents betweenbirth and death is made up of two distinct states, working age and retirement ... analysis of questions in which the monetary margin naturally does play a muchmore signicant role (like questions of optimal monetary and scal policymaking or a comparison of short-run features of...
... models are pro-posed by (Bilmes and Kirchhoff, 2003). In thiswork, factors are used to define alternative back-off paths in case surface-form n-grams are not ob-served a sufficient number of ... limiting the problem of poor estimation of weights for rare features. Finally, we extendedconfidence-weighted learning with soft margins tohandle the case where labels of training data arenoisy. ... Technologies, Beijing, Cina.Jeff A. Bilmes and Katrin Kirchhoff. 2003. Fac-tored language models and generalized parallel back-off. In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL, Edmonton, Al-berta, Canada.Koby Crammer...
... Luhn (1958)). Then, the weight of each cluster is calculated by dividing the square of the number of significant words in the cluster by the total number of words in the cluster. Sentences ... weight of sentence i in document j, nsi is the number of words in sentence i, k is the kth word in sentence i, tfjk is the frequency of word k in document j, nd is the number of documents ... definition of discourse segments because we used the discourse trees from Carlson et al. (2002)’s database of coherence-annotated texts. 3.1.2 Kinds of coherence relations We assume a set of coherence...
... 444.4.5 Comparison results on eutrophication 444.4.6 Comparisonof results on resources 454.4.7 Comparisonof results on land use 464.4.8 Comparisonof results on water use 464.4.9 Comparisonof ... 414.4 Comparisonof results per environmental theme 424.4.1 Introduction 424.4.2 Comparisonof results on greenhouse effect 424.4.3 Comparisonof results on acidification 434.4.4 Comparisonof ... lifecycle modeling of the other product groupings. 21Environmental Impact of Products (EIPRO)ã Chapter 4 forms the rst main pillar of the study: it makes a cross-cutting analysis and comparison...
... SoftwareLife Cycle Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ISO 12207 and Related Software Life- Cycle Standards:www.acm.org/tsc/lifecycle.htmlCrosstalk magazine articles:− Comparisonof ... Lifecycle Models There are many lifecycle models, or paradigms. Most of them are variations of three classic software development models: the waterfall, incremental, and spiral models. These ... Testing Software SpecificationReviewIntegration TestingSystem TestingMaintain Software System SegmentSpecification Software RequirementsSpecification Software DesignDocument - PreliminarySoftware...
... aspects of tree development can be modeled interms of an elementary unit. The functional aspects of tree development are the capture of resources and the dis-tribution of growth (in terms of mass). ... part of the shoot resulting from uninterruptedextension growth. Room et al. [87] describe it as “exten-sion of the contents of a previously dormant apical budfollowed by growth of neoformed ... tree models (FMSs) that are an outgrowth of developments in process-based models (PBMs) on the one hand, and morphological models on the other. Existing morphological and functional-structural models...
... Whileseveral types of full-system power models have been proposed,often in the context of enabling a particular optimization,they have not been systematically compared over a variety of software workloads ... power consumption of the disk, we also evaluated models that used the number of I/Orequests and the number of disk transfers as parameters in orderto have some idea of the balance of random vs. ... high-level full-system power models for a wide range of workloads and machines, and we compare the accuracy of these models in each instance. This analysis illuminates the trade-offsbetween simplicity...
... the different in vitro models of HCV that have been developed and theircontribution to our current knowledge of the virus life cycle. Around 10 years after discovery of the HCV genomeand after ... largelypunctuated by the development of original modelsof research. At the end of the 1980s, the chimpanzee model led to cloning of the viral genome andthe definition of infectious molecular clones. ... involvement of p7 and NS2in HCV morphogenesis and release.This recent in vitro model reproducing the entire life cycleof HCV in Huh7 cell lines has enabled extensiveresearch into various areas of...
... be considered a part of the newspaper lifecycle or a part of the lifecycle of heat and electricity or both. There are two principally different ways of handling this type of allocation problems. ... present average economic lifetimes of total lifeof 6-7 years (first life 5-6 years). According to Sverker Sjölin at Stena Technoworld, a major part of computers are recycled (personal communication ... analytical tool 13 Figure 5. A LifeCycle Assessment consists of four phases. 1.2.2 Allocation and system expansion Life Cycle Assessment is one example of an environmental systems analysis...
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... 6ACLandIDEAalsosupporttheimporting of printfiles,allowingyoutoeasilydefinethefieldsandstripouttheheaders.WhilstthiscansometimesbeachievedinExcel,itisoftenafairlymanualtaskandcanleadtopoordataintegrity.ThereareadditionalproductsthatcanbeusedtoimportprintfilestoExcel,suchasImportWizard(http://www.beside.com/download.html)However,inrealitymostmodernaccountingpackagesanddatabasescanexporttoeither.xlsor.csvsotheseadditionalimportfunctionsarerarelyused.Furthermore,it’softeneasiertogetreportsinExcelformat,asthisiswhattheaccountingdepartmentattheclientusetoruntheirbusiness!HowtoselectapackageTestdriveWhenI’minthemarketforacar,Imayliketheappearanceandlook of aparticularvehicle.AndthenI’lllooktoseehowmanycars of thatmodelIseeontheroad.ButIfinallybasemydecisiononhowthecarfeels.AlmostanycarwillgetmefrompointAtoBandwillprovidesimilarfunctions.Shoppingforfraudinterrogation software issimilar.Some of thebellsandwhistlesmayberequirementsforaminority of users,butthecorefunctionalityandusabilityseemstobewhatmostpeoplewantonadailybasis.Mybestsuggestionistotakeatestdrive:obtaindemoversions of the software packages(trials of bothActiveDataandTopCAATscanbedownloadedfromtheirrespectivewebsites),andrunthesamereportthrougheachproduct.Youcandeterminewhichproductfeelsbest.Talktothecompanyrepresentatives,thehelpdesk,andotheruserstohelpformyouropinion.SummaryWhenchoosingGeneralizedAudit Software, therearemanyissuestoconsider:dataanalysisfeatures,ease of use,cost,importrequirements,etc.Beforerushingoutandpurchasingexpensive software forthewholedepartment,startsmallandbeginusingsome of thesetechniquesonafew of yourengagementstoassessyourneeds.AlltoooftenIseecompaniesinvesttens of thousands of dollarspurchasingandimplementingfraudinterrogation software onlytoshelveitforacouple of monthsandhitabrickwallwhentheywenttouseitagainbecausetheyhadforgottenmost of whattheyhadlearned.AsActiveDataandTopCAATsintegratesowellwithExcel,theytendtobeusedonamuchmoreregularbasis,andthisdecay of knowledgeovertimeismuchlessprofound.IhopeI’vehelpedtodispelthemythsthataudit software isdifficultandexpensive,andmovedyouclosertousingproactivedataanalysistechniquesonsome of yourengagements. 1 Comparison of GeneralizedAudit Software Intoday’smodernandcomputerizedworldevensmallcompanieshavehugenumbers of financialtransactionsgoingthroughthebooks.Asan(external)auditor,it’syourresponsibilitytoanalysethesetransactionsandultimatelytoformanopinionastowhethertheaccountsshowatrueandfairview of thecompany’sposition.Butwiththishugenumber of transactions,it’simpossibletoanalyseeverythingmanually,sowhatisthealternative?Theansweriswhatisknownas“generalizedaudit software .Generalizedaudit software packagesaretoolsdesignedspecificallyforauditorsandhavetwomainfunctions:1) ... 1 Comparison of GeneralizedAudit Software Intoday’smodernandcomputerizedworldevensmallcompanieshavehugenumbers of financialtransactionsgoingthroughthebooks.Asan(external)auditor,it’syourresponsibilitytoanalysethesetransactionsandultimatelytoformanopinionastowhethertheaccountsshowatrueandfairview of thecompany’sposition.Butwiththishugenumber of transactions,it’simpossibletoanalyseeverythingmanually,sowhatisthealternative?Theansweriswhatisknownas“generalizedaudit software .Generalizedaudit software packagesaretoolsdesignedspecificallyforauditorsandhavetwomainfunctions:1) Tofacilitateandautomatethetesting of 100% of apopulation2)...
... and various levels of weight loss or gain.AbbreviationsHRQOL: Health-related quality of life; PRO: Patientreported outcomes; IWQOL-Lite: Impact of Weight onQuality of Life- Lite questionnaire; ... Williams GR: Development of a brief measure to assess quality oflife in obesity. Obes Res2001, 9:102-111.5. Kolotkin RL, Crosby RD: Manual for the Impact of Weight onQuality ofLife Measure (IWQOL ... citation purposes)MeasuresImpact of Weight on Quality of Life- Lite (IWQOL-Lite)The IWQOL-Lite is a validated 31-item, self-report meas-ure of weight-related quality oflife that provides a totalscore...