determining the number of periodic payments

... function of the number of sources, Ns , is the vector of parameters needed for the model that generated the data Y The criteria are composed of the negative of the ˆ ˆ log-likelihood function of the ... both of these methods, the estimate of the number of sources is that value of Ns which minimizes the criterion In [9] there is a more thorough discussion concerning determining the number of degrees ... rank, if there are fewer sources than sensors, then the rank of SCS is equal to the number of signals incident on the array or, equivalently, the number of sources If there are Ns sources, then SCS...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2013, 04:15

... to the strategy of the proof of Theorem 1.3.9 At the n-th stage of the induction over the period we consider the family of polynomial ˜ perturbations {fε

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... year, the Ministry of Education and Training will introduce new measures in an effort to reduce the number of student dropouts Last school year, the number of dropouts was lower than that of the ... increase the number of qualified teachers across the nation 18 And finally, the fifth project will reform the existing financial structure of the sector, including tuition fees to make them more ... in the first five years of operation, universities will not have to pay tax, while they will pay 5% in tax in the 6-9 th years, while the full tax of 10% will be imposed as of the 10th year of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/07/2013, 16:34

... determine the effect of the number of the ventilation pipes on the composting rate, an attempt was made to correlate the composting rate with the number of the perforated pipes for air supply in the ... Fig shows the effect of the number of the pipes on the composting rate, which was determined through Eq (3) It was clearly found that the number of the vertical pipes greatly affects the composting ... determine the real enthalpy of the composting reaction, ∆Η , due to a lack of data Therefore, the nutritional energy of the DF about 3500 kcal/kg-DF was assumed as the enthalpy of the reaction...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... to the experiment, a stable water level in the reservoir was kept by the overhead tank Once the bottom of the capillary tube contacted with water in the reservoir, the dynamic movement of the ... K is the permeability, L is the length of the capillary tube, Pc is the macroscopic capillary pressure, φ is the porosity, µ1 and µ are the viscosity of water and air, and ρ1 and ρ are the density ... With the background above, the purpose of the present work was to present a novel laboratory method determining the hydraulic permeability of sand layer based on the capillary rise (CR) theory...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 17:03

... reset the rotation of the various hands on the clock to their starting positions The next action attaches the sound named alarm in the library to the alarmSound Sound object The last action uses the ... second (the frame rate of the movie) if necessary This allows the user to reset the minute and second settings of the timer dynamically—that is, while the timer is on—and update the value of totalTimeToAlarm ... when the alarm is set to go off The functionality of the Alarm section of the application will be handled by two main functions: one for starting the alarm timer, and another for stopping the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 14:15

... discuss your responses with the class The instructor will write the class consensus on a flip chart Use the space below for brainstorming Activity 7.2: Determining the Impact of Technology on a Windows ... Identify the level of impact — high, medium, or low — that each technology type would have on the given layer of a Windows DNA design Write your answers in the grid provided After completing the above ... 7.2: Determining the Impact of Technology on a Windows DNA Design Exercise 1: Determining Technology Implications ! Determine technology implications Participate in small groups as assigned by the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 06:16

... types (nchar, nvarchar, and ntext) report double the value of the MaxLength property of the column object In the example, the ShipCountry column of the Orders table reports MaxLength = 15 (stores ... keyed on the column name The code then iterates over the collection of columns in the table and displays the length, precision, and scale for each from the Hashtable Information from the FillSchema( ... is the name of a table object, the result set returns data including the length, precision, and scale of each column in columns named Length, Prec, and Scale The column length returned by the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 05:15

... ethanol The overhead vapors pass to the bottom of the rectifier, where the concentration of ethanol is increased from 45% to 91% by weight The bottoms from the rectifier are pumped to the top of the ... degerm the corn but rather have the corn germ (and oil) be included in the DDG Separation of the corn germ prior to fermentation should add to the profitability of the dry milling process VII.2 The ... explore the potential of co-location of cellulosic ethanol with their existing corn ethanol processes The final reports of five of the six contracts were received in the first quarter of 2000...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... ; then L is the normal closure of L over M Further, DL ≤ (DL )1/|H0 | K (NK DL/K )1/|H0 | It follows from the main theorem of [18] that Q the number of possibilities for L (and hence the number ... = Z/2Z In the former case, the proposition follows from the theorem of Datskovsky and Wright [6] on the number of cubic extensions of number fields (More precisely, EXTENSIONS OF A NUMBER FIELD ... Substituting these r! r r r values of r, c into (2.6) yields the upper bound of Theorem 1.1 In the language of the beginning of this section, we have taken A to be Spec RΣ and the map F to be FΣ The...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21

... bounds for the number of pants decompositions of length ≤ L on a hyperbolic surface X were obtained by M Rees in [Rs] Idea of the proof of Theorem 1.2 The crux of the matter is to understand the density ... different proof of the growth of the number of simple closed geodesics by using the ergodic properties of the earthquake flow on PMg,n , the bundle of measured geodesic laminations of unit length ... measure μ, the carrying map defines a counting measure μ(b) for each edge b of τ At a switch, the sum of the entering numbers equals the sum of the exiting numbers Let E(τ ) be the set of measures...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21

... Massive amount of Deposits the Largest Balance of Deposits in the World The Bank has the largest amount of deposits in the world, even in comparison  with overseas banks, and is one of the world’s largest financial institutions ... Average of Japan’s Mega Banks 1,750 Number of Municipalities*2 26,146 25,786 JAPAN POST BANK Total of Six Major City Banks NUMBER OF DOMESTIC OUTLETS*1 NUMBER OF DOMESTIC CD ATMS (As of March ... As mentioned previously, Japan has the largest amount of savings in the world, and with its deposits of about ¥175 trillion, the Bank has a share of about 25% of Japan’s deposits. This is a dominant share that exceeds the ...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... distribution of surrounding words of target terms For example, the distribution of co-occurrence words of the terms, the distribution of predicates which have the terms as arguments, and the distribution ... long Therefore the large quantity of information is gained by this message (Haykin, 1994) If we consider the terms in a corpus as messages of a channel output, the information quantity of the ... A set of journal abstracts was extracted from MEDLINE database using the disease names as quires Therefore, all the abstracts are related to some of the disease names The set consists of about...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... thousands of new cases of the disease, both in the UK and across the world Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of this progress thanks to the sustained support and generosity of the UK public The ... accomplish by the year 2020: • People will know how to reduce their risk of cancer Three-quarters of the UK public will be aware of the main lifestyle choices they can make to reduce their risk of getting ... whose breast cancer has extra copies of the Her-2 gene We have shown that radiotherapy to the breast can reduce the chances of regrowth of the tumour after the primary is removed, and that giving...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... h u s , if the input d e s c r i p t i o n F0 is inconsistent, then there is a proof of F0 , in which every branch of the proof ends in a subproof like that in Figure There we have the simple ... are pairs of finite sets of formulas, and we can make the further restriction that formulas on the right of the sequent arrow ("succedents") contain at most a single member The axioms of the calculus ... roughly We then define the full set of compound relation name expressions R* as the closure of the basic relation names under A, V and ' A formula of is then an element of R* applied to a pair of node...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:21

... PARTICIPATING IN THE WORK OF THE EUROPEAN FORUM ON THE SECURITY OF RETAIL PAYMENTS 24 ECB Recommendations for the security of internet payments April 2012 GENERAL PART This report presents a set of recommendations ... recommendations to improve the security of internet payments These recommendations were developed by the European Forum on the Security of Retail Payments, SecuRe Pay (the “Forum”) The Forum was set up ... way as to reassure them of the integrity and authenticity of the messages received The PSP should provide assistance and guidance to customers with regard to the secure use of the internet payment...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... types and the number of reordering rules applied on the training data In table 3, the number of the English clauses with all considered clause type/tense combination are shown The bold numbers ... define the English counterparts of the two components of the German verbal complex We defined nonfinite English verbal elements as a part of the main verb complex which are then moved together with the ... have any constraints with respect to the position of nodes marking a verb within the tree Only the syntactic structure of the sentence restricts the distance of the linguistically motivated verb...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... increasing the size of their intakes, training institutions anticipated having to accept candidates from regions further from their school, which would present the risk of increasing the number of students ... Within the MoH, there are three separate units that oversee the funding, construction, and management of training institutions Outside of the MoH, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Finance ... be teaching for the first time The government and the professional regulatory bodies closely regulate the material taught in the classroom and set exact goals for the number of procedures that...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... further research [17] The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an ICP in patients with an acute fracture of the hip The main outcome measure was the length of hospital stay; ... disturbing the flow of patients with other diagnoses ICP documentation was developed in the form of a check list that displayed what to and when to it Furthermore, the ICP covered all the critical ... other wards Before the start of the intervention, staff in the emergency room and radiology department was encouraged to attend and treat these patients rapidly so they could be admitted to the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... retired Analysis of the country of origin of publications showed 50% of journals were published in the US, 40% in the UK, 7% were from the East and 3% from Latin America Analysis of publishers showed ... statistical review can improve the quality of methodology of studies [27] The use of a statistical checklist may therefore be beneficial in improving the quality of papers during the review process in ... influence the speed of publication of a manuscript according to the system of review The introduction of online systems for peer review is seen as advantageous by authors and editors rather than...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20