... “Investing forthe Long Run”, in Bolton et al 21 Tett, “Singapore’s Lessons from the Harvard Model” 22 Spiegel defines long-term investors as a function of the liability structure of the fund: long-term ... 5% to 20% A closer look also shows that following the financial crisis, the allocation to publicly traded stock declined, that to alternatives continued to rise, while the allocation to bonds ... ability to meet theneedfor more reserves to affect currency 11 interventions or additional capital to fund larger budget gaps, to meet the reserve requirements of pensioners, or to satisfy the...
... proportion tothe concentration of antibody against DEV Nonreactive goat anti-rabbit IgG onthe conjugate pad will run over the test line, and then reacts with the rabbit IgG at the control line ... mm long and mm wide One end of the conjugate pad was attached tothe sample pad and the other end overlapped the membrane An absorption pad (cellulose membrane) was attached tothe end of the ... agents forthe prevention and control of DVE, and the monitoring of DEV-specific antibodies is a key to evaluate the effect of the attenuated DEV vaccine and develop the rational immunization programs...
... values The purpose of the paper is to give expressions forthe best predictor, prediction error variance, accuracy of selection, expected response to selection onthe additive genetic and onthe ... and it is the predictor of Ui with the highest correlation to Ui Furthermore, by selecting any upper fraction of the population onthe basis of ui bp , then the expected value of Ui (in the selected ... environments, then we must also know the number of offspring to be placed in the different environments In the following we give formulas forthe expected response to selection onthe additive...
... considered in the semantic stratum Here, ideational meaning refers tothe way one uses representational tools to compose the idea In the context stratum for example, functional components are concerned ... metaphor refers tothe consideration of meaning in an incongruent way at the level of the organization of the discourse The most congruent form of joining two ideas is An investigation into the role ... a certain place to another, is used to refer tothe meaning “ dismissing as a lover” In the second example, the action “ crying” is transferred to another An investigation into the role of metaphor...
... node connected tothe source, then the nodes in the subsystem belong to class B If a node connected tothe source does not exist, hut there is a node connected tothe tie switch, then the nodes ... possible to transfer the customers from the failed section tothe alternative supply, which will convert the nodes belonging to Class D into Class C The repair time for a transformer is much longer ... belong to class C If there exist nodes connected to neither the source nor the tie switch, the nodes belong to class D In summary, the nodes belonging to class A can be identified using the...
... come tothe consideration of those diseases of the respiratory and the circulatory systems (in other words of the lungs and of the heart) which we are accustomed to hear of in connection with ... first consider the cases of those who, either on their own testimony or on that of their relations and friends, sustained more or less injury from the training and exertion connected with the University ... our Colonies or in other parts of the world, and the only method I could discover of obtaining information regarding several of viil INTRODUCTION them, was to write to persons bearing the same...
... tothe description Forthe second type of question, human examinees would search their knowledge base forthe description of each of four candidate terms Then they would choose the candidate term ... noticeably improved, and the coverage was comparable with that forthe Nichigai dictionary Onthe other hand, in the case where random choice was performed, the Nichigai dictionary and the Webbased encyclopedia ... In the second type of question, examinees choose the most appropriate term for a given question, for which we show examples collected from the examination in the autumn of 1999 (translated into...
... and all converging upon one point onthe tip of Africa Casablanca Arrows onthe map illustrate the routes taken as the voice of a NARRATOR describes the migration NARRATOR (V.O.) With the coming ... are a drug onthe market Everybody sells diamonds There are diamonds everywhere Two thousand, four hundred WOMAN All right Onto another table where two CONSPIRATORS talk CONSPIRATOR The trucks ... The customers have all gone The house lights are out Rick sits alone at a table There is a glass of bourbon onthe table directly in front of him, and another empty glass onthe table before an...
... argues forthe change in conduction mechanism away from the bandwidth-controlled conduction tothe possible boundary-controlled percolative conduction To fit the data in the low temperature region ... but the confirmation needs further investigation In contrast tothe fractal dimension determined onthe basis of the voltage drop distribution across the Werner array matrix, the dimension measured ... dln(ρ)/d(1/T ) corresponds tothe activation energy, its drop signifies the variation of this energy and for our case, this means the change in conduction mechanism The estimation for WP from the slopes...
... Traditional Testing 19 For Evaluation Only in the illustration indicate processes that may take place on either the clientside or the server-side See Chapter 5, “Web Application Components,” for information ... more about the underlying architecture and the nature of the interfaces between the application under test and the other software and the operating systems The second edition continues the gray-box ... long as they had a few winners to make up for their losses A CEO has three to five years to get a start-up ready for IPO (six months to prove that the prototype works, one or two years to generate...
... this and other studies will help to restrict the number of genes onthe ampliChip to about 500 of the most predictive ones Although the AmpliChip is not the first array to enter the market (the MammaPrint ... antibodies and the difficulty in scaling up the flow cytometry for simultaneous analysis of multiple kinases C Boone from The University of Toronto, Canada described two recent extensions tothe synthetic ... at least one of the top 10% most highly connected TFs In addition, 82% of the promoters are bound by at least one of the other lesswell-connected interactors, and more than half of the target...
... VIMS Onthe other hand, an important feature of motion sickness is the adaptation process Adaptation occurs with repetitive exposure tothe motion that causes the motion sickness [8,9] The repetitive ... on both days but decreased at around 900 s only onthe first day Onthe other hand, ρmax of Subject-2 (Fig 3b), who belonged tothe TS-up group, decreased considerably in the latter part of the ... regarding the national health was passed and it fixes a months limit tothe coverage for rehabilitation programs For this reason, more effective and efficient rehabilitation methods are needed to finish...
... PCR) There was considerable variation in the deduced amino acid sequences between families Several small regions of conservation were identified Only one region with conservation of at least consecutive ... centrifuging the sample at 1000 × g for and concentrating the virus out of the supernatant as described above The filtration variation tothe protocol involved filtering the supernatant of the 1000 ... reactions PCR used the appropriate forward primer and the consensus reverse primer (Figure 1) The reaction conditions were: 93°C, for one cycle followed by 93°C, 30 sec; 45°C, min; 72°C for 35...
... further shows the position of FAPs considered in the performed simulation Several FAPs positions are chosen along the arrow in Figure within the simulation The position of FAPs directly next to ... directly tothe FAPs, since the signals from other stations (especially from the MBS) are stronger In the performed simulation, the UE is served by the FAPs on average only by 47% of simulation time ... reselection threshold is decreased by 10 dB to guarantee that the UEs remain connected tothe FAPs However, even with this improvement, the autoconfiguration scheme is outperformed by the abovementioned...
... After the signals from the first user are detected, the base station moves onto detect the signals forthe second user When the mth user is considered, the signals of the first m − users in the ... case 1, one iteration TOA, case 2, one iteration TOA, case 3, one iteration TOA, case 1, two iterations TOA, case 2, two iterations TOA, case 3, two iterations Figure 11: Average BER performance ... thank Dr Filippo Tosato and Dr Rafael Cepeda forthe discussions onthe channel model and providing the references The authors would also like to thank the directors at TRL for their continued support...
... vector Second, the approximate closed-form expression forthe outage probability of SLR is derived Then, we obtain the solution forthe transmit beamformer that minimizes the aforementioned outage ... (since the criterion is SLNR), and the BS needs only a limited feedback information from the receivers To facilitate the aforementioned scheme, we first analyze the statistics of SLNR (3) in the ... drawbacks of the feedback approach are the reduction of the system capacity because of the frequent channel usage required forthe transmission of the feedback information from users tothe BS, and...
... fn x where f derive the following equation from 1.3 : f x n n ∈ N Then we can n−1 I fn 1.4 f i I f i see 1–11 Let χ be the Dirichlet’s character with conductor d ∈ N Then the generalized Bernoulli ... approach to q-Euler, Genocchi numbers and their interpolation functions,” Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics, vol 18, no 2, pp 105–112, 2009 12 T Kim, On a q-analogue of the p-adic ... Acknowledgment The present research has been conducted by the research Grant of the Kwangwoon University in 2009 Journal of Inequalities and Applications References M Cenkci, The p-adic generalized...
... Recognition performance onthe XM2VTS database versus w1 w1 = corresponds to 3D alone, w1 = corresponds to 2D alone Figure 8: Recognition performance onthe Maga-D database versus w1 w1 = corresponds ... to fully make use of the advantages of the two sources of information to optimize the discriminant power of the whole system The degree to which the results improve performance is dependent on ... the appearance information records the texture of the surface Though the normals tothe surface affects the reflectivity of light and thereby the surface illumination, this has minimal effect on...
... [6] To this complexity, the required operations for updating the disparity field and the operations for updating the occlusion field have to be added, as mentioned in the previous subsection The ... coder outperforms some known state-of -the- art coders To further investigate the contribution of the MRF model tothe efficient handling of disparity estimation, its application onthe subband domain ... represent the computational complexity for updating the disparity and occlusion fields, respectively, and k is the number of required iterations The update of the disparity field concerns only the nonoccluded...
... proinflammatory function; a high resemblance tothe naturally processed epitope; expression of the epitope at the site of chronic inflammation for engagement of auto-responsive T cells; and, recently, the ... not shown) In conclusion, the analysis of both the hybridoma panel and the polyclonal T cell response tothe 263–275 epitope has led tothe identification of MHC binding and TCR contact residues ... activation No information is available on important residues in the MHC α-chain, but forthe β chain information on MHC restriction can be used (data not shown) The peptide does bind to HLA-DRB1*0402,...