... measured at Harvard School Public Health monitoring station For each day, SO42-, OC and O3 values were averaged for periods for up to four weeks before the visit as these averaging periods were shown ... addition, we adjusted for creatinine clearance rate using the Cockcroft-Gault formula ([140 - age(year)]*weight(kg)]/[72* serum creatinine(mg/dL)]) [47] We also adjusted for chronic disease status ... period to decide which day moving averages for each pollutant were strongly associated with 8-OHdG for effect modification assessment We used the log-transformation of 8-OHdG to minimize Page of...
... analysis for the upper tail is performed, therefore just the case of being long bond is exposed The numbers describing VaR of the bond for each mapped P&L are in the table (4.1.2.1) and the one for ... 0.03511 For more details the reader is advised to see 1.3 Before going further in estimating the extremal index for Yukos log returns a small description of the method used is given for the general ... NASDAQ Index Tech weight High UBS Financial Mergers/ LTCM crisis Medium ABB Industry Liquidity crisis High/ cyclical Disetronic Med Tech Tech bubble High Political events High Energy Yukos Table...
... HML is the average monthly return of twohigh book-to-market ratio portfolios minus average return of two low books to market ones HML = 1/2 (Small High + Big High) – 1/2 (Small Low + Big Low) Rate ... and big size performance, while the high BE/ME performance are significantly different from those of Low BE/ME As a result, the HML has higher predictive power than the SMB in forecasting excess ... Test result for dependent variable allTicker-Rf: Test result for dependent variable BH: 40 Test result for dependent variable BM: Test result for dependent variable BL: 41 Test result for dependent...
... such as using language appropriately in different types of situations; using language to perform different kinds of tasks, e.g to solve puzzles, to get information , etc.; using language for social ... countries Therefore, to meet the new demands for different competencies and increased quality for Vietnam’s development, higher educational curricula and methods are required to be further reformed in ... suitable for the students with the high intermediate proficiency For those with low proficiency in the target language, simpler authentic materials (for example, the use of weather forecast when...
... assessment, and the CEFR • Standard setting approaches – Performance-sample (Profile) approach for Writing and Speaking – Modified Angoff approach for Reading and Listening Familiarization/Calibration ... just performing at each CEFR level – Done for Writing, Speaking, Listening, Reading • During Meeting – Calibration to CEFR Levels – Consensus on skills expected of candidates just performing ... through C1 levels for all four language skills • Listening and Reading judged to be too challenging for threshold A-level candidates • Writing judged to be too challenging for A1 threshold candidates...
... from the literature on social networks In this literature, the highest ranked node in a network is referred to as the central node See Arjani and McVanel (2006) for an overview of the Canadian ... need not conform to the initial allocation Banks with high credit limits granted to them may not be major holders of liquidity throughout Allen and Gale (2000) analyze the role network structure ... distribution In the present application, we define a transition probability matrix for the LVTS using the normalized BCL vectors for each bank This approach is based on the premise that money flows out of...
... especially concerned about treating wastewater to a higher quality (secondary treatment) level before discharging in the River Ganga and/or before using it for irrigation or aquaculture This result reveals ... households, regardless of their income levels, are WTP higher taxes to ensure higher quantity of wastewater is treated to a higher quality in the local STP before being discharged into the Ganga There is ... treatment programme option) is higher than those for other alternatives U ij V ( Z ij ) (1) e( Z ij ) Where, for example in the case of the experiment presented here, for any resident i, a given...
... standards is to rely on a fairness procedure For example, when two children must share a piece of cake, it is customary for one to divide it in to two pieces and for the other to get first choice; or ... agreement) can be applied in practical settings for the purposes of training professionals and preparing for negotiations, and ultimately for transforming negotiation games in the favor of practicing ... individuals who are trying to forge an agreement for mutual benefit (Young 1991) Also Kremenyuk (1993) defines negotiation as basically purposeful communication between two or more parties Communication...
... For ease of implementation, the compiler for the subset of Prolog u t i l i z e d in this application was written in S~OBOL4 For example, the "destination" slot in the "construct" procedure for ... data base which serves as a support tool for higher-level analytical functions in a decision-making environment represented in Table in a simplified form, is encoded as in Table The head of the ... the following two: (1) i f additional information needs to be associated with a particular predicate, this can be done simply by adding another clause; and (2), Prolog provides a uniform way of...
... Classification of two images 1999 and 2004 100.0 Irrigation paddy Bare land/Wet soil Shrub/other crops Total Changes land use classes Changed Dark evergreen forest Bright evergreen forest Disturbed forest/fallow ... boundary May,1999 March, 2004 Dense forest Open forest Shifting cultivation Bamboo Field crop Wet paddy Irrigated paddy field Reservoir Shrub land/other Dense forest Open forest Shifting cultivation ... (decreased/increased) and fragmented (field crop, evergreen forest, fallow forest) as a result of both farmers who lost their lands and turned to clear-cut forest areas for upland rice cultivation, and private...
... causes the problem bigger, and therefore makes the problem illconditioned To avoid this drawback, we recommend directly using the model of transfer function in form (1) and solve the model estimation ... L{w(t)} , U (s) = L{u(t)}; s - complex variable; L{.} ∞ g(t)e−st dt - Laplace transformation, - notation for Laplace transformation; G(s) = L{g(t)} = from any g(t) function in real domain (g(t) = 0, ... j∞)} - the real part of enough, for instance X(C, ω + j∞) Select the upper limit (ωM ) of the integral which is big enough, then trasform into approximate sum form, we obtain: 2e t x(C, t) =...
... causes the problem bigger, and therefore makes the problem illconditioned To avoid this drawback, we recommend directly using the model of transfer function in form (1) and solve the model estimation ... L{w(t)} , U (s) = L{u(t)}; s - complex variable; L{.} ∞ g(t)e−st dt - Laplace transformation, - notation for Laplace transformation; G(s) = L{g(t)} = from any g(t) function in real domain (g(t) = 0, ... j∞)} - the real part of enough, for instance X(C, ω + j∞) Select the upper limit (ωM ) of the integral which is big enough, then trasform into approximate sum form, we obtain: 2e t x(C, t) =...
... (CT) These specimens were stored in a freezer compartment in airtight bags fortwo months after the course and defrosted for 24 hours prior to being scanned Surrounding soft tissue was not removed ... models using aligned local coordinate frames followed by affine ICP transformation Figure Opacity Opacity reduced to show centres of each slice as acromial and sternal angles were obtained using ... corresponding anatomical landmarks on each subject model Using the corresponding surface landmarks, a statistical model of clavicle form was generated using Point Distribution Modelling (PDM) [3] The...
... Y Liu introduced two iteration schemes by the general iterative method for finding an element of EP φ ∩ F S In 2001, Yamada 10 introduced the following hybrid iterative method for solving the ... introduced two iteration methods by the hybrid iterative method for finding an element of EP φ ∩ F S , where S : C → H is a k-strictly pseudocontractive non-self mapping, and then obtained two strong ... recently, by using the general approximation method, Qin et al obtained a strong convergence theorem for finding an element of F S On the other hand, Ceng et al proposed an iterative scheme for finding...
... vertex-transitive graphs Because of their high symmetry, Cayley graphs are ideal models for communication networks In this context, recently particular interest has been awaken for so-called geometric circulants ... an S-set for every a ∈ Z∗ Assume that there is an a ∈ Z∗ \ {1}, satisfying ad = d For such a we find n n γ(0) \ aγ(0) = {1, −1} is an S-set and therefore must be a basic set of S Therefore, (i) ... numbering for G This preprocessing needs constant time and does not influence the theoretical complexity of our recognition method Therefore we formulate the following recognition algorithm for processing...
... application, Plant Cell Environ 18 (1995) 1157-1173 [3] Ballaré C.L., Scopel A.L., Sánchez R.A., Foraging for light: photosensory ecology and agricultural implications, Plant Cell Environ 20 (1997) ... environments [29, 41] Phenotypic plasticity is known to play an important role in plants’ “foraging for light” [3] Therefore, in order to explore the role of light acclimation of single leaves on whole-plant ... leaves are treated uniformly The dependencies of the calculated irradiance values on leaf area index (LAI) were close to those measured in the canopy of the alder forest [17] For simplificity, the...
... CXCR4 and CCR5-and-CXCR4 tasks For these two prediction tasks, the performance of the BS kernel was closer to the one obtained for the DS kernel than the one obtained for the LA kernel Table 1: Datasets ... string kernels for discriminative protein classification Bioinformatics 2004, 20:467-476 Liao L, Noble W: Combining pairwise sequence similarity and support vector machines for remote protein homology ... for three different kernels For the CCR5-usage prediction task, the SVM classifier achieved a testing accuracy of 96.63%, 96.42%, and 96.35%, respectively, for the BS, LA, and DS kernels By using...
... measures for dealing with abusive pricing, after setting out theoretical issues such as the basic rules of laws, concepts and forms of abusive pricing For every issue, I correlate and analyse information ... theory, and tests for bundled discounts (i.e., tests for predatory and tying features of the practice) There are differences in tests for single product loyalty discount, but both the two systems apply ... the measure of cost used to test for predatory pricing is ATC, the one used to test for excessive pricing on the buyer side is “cost of production” Using ATC for a predatory pricing test means...
... dissertation were visited and double-checked for the last time on 30 June 2011 I will use my best efforts to ensure that the information used is trustworthy, reliable and updated This Dissertation ... and publications not provide detailed information regarding cases in process, but also not report such information for cases that have been adjudicated for some time Complete decisions of the ... problems, information has been collected from many unofficial and indirect sources Information from a variety of sources is compared in order to weed out incorrect information These information...