... Companies in Financial Markets Investment companies have been among the largest investors inthe domestic financial markets for much of the past 20 years and held asignificant portion of the ... 16,090 Investment company data include only investment companies that report statistical information to the Investment Company Institute The data include mutual funds that invest primarily in other ... for many retired Americans because it replaces a large share of annual labor income for many low- to moderate-income families At the same time, the creation of IRAs inthe 1970s andthe expansion...
... stainings of a keratome biopsy before (A, B and C) transplantation and after (D, E and F) transplantation and treatment inthe psoriasis xenograft SCID mouse Before transplantation the expression ... each of these three treatments The biopsies were fixed in buffered formalin immediately after sampling and fixed for at least 24 hrs before being embedded in paraffin Sampling of biopsies for ... treatment inthe stainings of a keratome mouse Immunohistochemicalpsoriasis xenograft SCIDbiopsy before (A, B and C) transplantation and after (D, E and F) transplantation Immunohistochemical stainings...
... Rapamycin levels forthe asparaginase plus rapamycin and vincristine plus rapamycin cohorts are not reported due to the treatment schedules of asparaginase and vincristine Asparaginase and vincristine ... for asparaginase and asparaginase plus rapamycin treated animals (b) Survival curve for indicated treatment cohorts Based on survival analysis and comparison of tumor volumes on day 30, asparaginase ... increasing survival when compared to the untreated cohort Single agent asparaginase is not as effective as rapamycin at decreasing tumor volume or increasing survival Furthermore, adding asparaginase...
... like in previous winters the fact that quite a predominating part of water infiltrates to the underlying rock and then drains away without any damage can be considered to bethe most important finding ... that coniferous mountain forests retained snow fora substantially longer period than the open area andthat they participated effectively inthe prolongation of the period of spring runoff In ... precipitation inthe spruce and beech stands, snow depth and snow water equivalent were always higher inthe leafless broadleaved stand At the same time, it has been proved thatthe rate of snow...
... created per animal (and thereby decrease the total number of animals sacrificed), andthe amputation was performed inthe proximal forelimb in order to mimic the clinical scenario that is often ... performed critical macroscopic and microscopic analysis of the histologic specimens; and TK and GD participated inthe design and coordination of the model All authors read and approved the final ... Charlette Cain, andthe rest of the veterinary staff at the Center for Comparative Medicine at Northwestern University for their assistance with animal care from the inception of the amputation...
... this, Halbert and others have argued that trademark protections are being expanded in ways that are inappropriate and potentially damaging to the market place A recent example that tends to support ... out thatthe first applicant forthe candyland.com domain name was not Hasbro, the toy manufacturer who marketed the Candyland game, but instead was the operator of a pornographic website Many ... the “Amazon” name Initially, one would assume that Amazon.com would have a good case for registering “Amazon” both as a trademark anda domain name Before the Amazon.com e-commerce site had been...
... this, Halbert and others have argued that trademark protections are being expanded in ways that are inappropriate and potentially damaging to the market place A recent example that tends to support ... out thatthe first applicant forthe candyland.com domain name was not Hasbro, the toy manufacturer who marketed the Candyland game, but instead was the operator of a pornographic website Many ... the “Amazon” name Initially, one would assume that Amazon.com would have a good case for registering “Amazon” both as a trademark anda domain name Before the Amazon.com e-commerce site had been...
... Gas7 andthe ERK1 ⁄ signaling pathway in MIH expression H Devaraj andA Natarajan Statistical analysis Mean and standard deviation were calculated Differences between molting stages were analyzed ... downstream signaling pathway for many growth factors that act by binding to tyrosine kinase receptors in cardiac myocytes [19] The mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway is involved ina number ... Experimental animals The Indian white shrimp F indicus was selected for this study because of its nonseasonal availability and easy maintenance They were obtained from the coastal region of Kovalam,...
... system to be more portable across subject domains and languages, as long as those resources are available forthe targeted domains and languages FrameNet in particular allows us to generate multiple ... candidates forthe example above contains possibilities The main task of the lexical search process is to choose the most optimal candidate, thus the most natural-sounding candidate (or at least ... A relatively small domain-independent corpus of spoken dialogue is semi-automatically labeled with frames and semantic roles For each frame, all the occurrences inthe corpus are ordered according...
... demonstrate thatthe average individual in an asynchrous population, being reproductively active for only a portion of the breeding season, has fewer mating opportunities relative to the average individual ... with a kinetic-based mating equation This latter feature can be generalized to incorporate alternative mating factors into the model A set of alternative models, each embodying a different mating ... apparency to males or females increasing their own mate-searching efforts actively An unmated female alive on day t of the breeding season can expect: The mean age of males at any time during the...
... 1998) Fear appeals are embraced with enthusiasm by social marketers For instance, the recent antismoking campaign in Australia, which has also been employed in Poland, Thailand, and Norway, was described ... studies that have examined real advertising campaigns that use fear appeals These reasons are elaborated below Artificially High Attention Fear research has been concerned more with internal rather ... For marketers, the crucial question is not “can fear messages change behavior inthe laboratory” but, rather, “can fear appeals change behavior inthe sophisticated and overcrowded clutter of the...
... invalid The anchors forthe VAS used in this study (as included inthe EQ5D questionnaire) were labeled "best imaginable health state" and "worst imaginable health state" Clearly, these anchors ... upper quarter of the scale were adjusted and, in order to maintain the relative position of other scores, a positive linear transformation was performed No adjustment was performed forthe unhealthy ... directly "assesses" and "evaluates" a health state on a scale of 0.00 (death) to 1.00 (perfect health) The health states that are evaluated inthe direct approach can be hypothetical or can be the...
... Obviously, and trivially, fora data set of K vectors, K linear combinations will explain the total variation of the data But it may bethe case that only two or three linear combinations or principal ... projections or combinations of data that explain most of the variation of the original data, or extract most of the information from the larger set of variables, in decreasing order of importance Obviously, ... Well-known indicators such as the Dow-Jones Industrial Average, the Standard and Poor 500, orthe National Association of Security Dealers’ Automatic Quotations (NASDAQ) are just that, indices or averages...
... networks for our overall network forecast They call this forecast a thick model forecast We can also use this method for obtaining intervals for our forecasts of the network Granger and Jeon have ... replacement, and then taking repeated forecasts Bagging is particularly useful if the data set exhibits instability or structural change Combining the forecasts based on different randomly sampled ... homoskedasticity, are the first steps for evaluating whether or not there is any meaningful information content inthe residuals The penalty factor attached to the number of parameters ina model...
... always being updated as new information becomes available, if for no other reason, than that linear estimates are very easy to obtain It is hard to conceive of any organization using information ... first-differencing is the norm for linear forecasting, for example, then neural networks should use the same data transformation For deciding the lag structure of the variables ina time-series context, the ... the out-of-sample performance of a model, we begin by dividing the data into an in- sample estimation or training set for obtaining the coefficients, and an out-of-sample or test set With the latter...
... of artificial data, extend the length of the sample, and modify the network models used for estimation and forecasting performance against the linear model I invite the reader to continue these ... used, and more widely accessible, data sets All of the data sets are raw data sets, requiring adjustment for stationarity 6.1 Forecasting Production inthe Automotive Industry The market for automobiles ... designed for variables emanating from a linear data-generating process 136 Estimating and Forecasting with Artificial Data TABLE 5.11 In- Sample Diagnostics: Model (Structure: Lags, Neurons) Diagnostic...
... variables and excess demand to be more important factors forin ation Clearly, there are a large number of alternative nonlinear as well as neural network specifications for approximating thein ation ... rate of growth of bank lending as further explanatory variables forthe evolution of in ation As before, we forecast over a one-year horizon, and all rates of growth are measured as annual rates ... Specification We draw upon the standard Phillips curve framework used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting in ation inthe United States They define thein ation as an h-period ahead forecast For...
... to a complex neural network Similarly, forecasting can be done ina thick modeling or bagging approach: all of the models can be used, anda mean or trimmed mean can bethe forecast from a wide ... economy inthe wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks andthe start of the war in Afghanistan The continuing volatility in 2003 may also be explained by the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong and East Asia ... well-known Basel accord for international banking standards While the negative number forthe minimum of the capital-asset ratio may seem surprising, the data set includes both sound and unsound banks...
... postprocessing, and data transmission Inthe initialization stage, the drift and carrier gas flow rates are measured and if they are out of their desired operating ranges, they are adjusted accordingly In ... program data from the PROM and places it in SRAM The bootloader then jumps to the start of the SRAM and executes the program The bootloader program andthe methods used for extracting the data from ... extracted, injected, and analyzed orin continuous mode in which a continuous stream of sample is injected into the IMS for analysis These valves are controlled by swapping the high and low terminals and...
... postprocessing, and data transmission Inthe initialization stage, the drift and carrier gas flow rates are measured and if they are out of their desired operating ranges, they are adjusted accordingly In ... program data from the PROM and places it in SRAM The bootloader then jumps to the start of the SRAM and executes the program The bootloader program andthe methods used for extracting the data from ... extracted, injected, and analyzed orin continuous mode in which a continuous stream of sample is injected into the IMS for analysis These valves are controlled by swapping the high and low terminals and...