... into the wild and used in conjunction with other pieces of software The demand for DSS software was ripe and the vendors were beginning to taste the huge amounts of potential profits If only they ... complex DSS software is used to determine the risk to the bank based on your financial history The result of this information will aid the loan officer as to whether the bank should make the decision ... refers to the action of transforming the data into the required layout in the data warehouse or data mart This is where the heavy lifting ofthe ETL process takes place and is usually the part...
... in 1713 The expected utility theory allows the representation ofthe level of satisfaction by the sum of utilities from outcomes weighted by the probabilities of these outcomes Nevertheless, ... Utility Theory of Machina [367]; the Anticipated Utility Theory of Quiggin [420]; the Dual Theory of Yaari [507]; and the Regret Theory introduced by Loomes and Sugden [365] Utility theory 1.5.1 ... the identity but u(x) = x, then the RDEU is the dual theory of Yaari [507] As mentioned in Tallon [488], the RDEU has several advantages: • Contrary to the EU, the RDEU allows separation of the...
... necessary for theperformanceof these systems (including the algorithms) to be determined since the metric of success is whether the consumer likes the product and buys the device In other imaging ... component ofthe imaging system Likewise, there are many books in the area of imaging system performance that consider the optics, the detector, and the displays in the system and how the system performance ... methods The majority of these books emphasize the mathematics of image processing and how they are applied to image information Very few ofthe books address the overall imaging system performance...
... instruction; instead the time required to decode the instruction is added to the time comprising ofthe delays from the prefetch stage to the end ofthe execution stage The third stage, the execution ... simplifications have been made to the core ofthe Opteron in order to focus the analysis entirely on the memory architecture ofthe processor These assumptions include the change ofthe variable length instructions ... setup block ofthe model (block 1) contains the details ofthe connections between the fields mappings ofthe Data Structure attributes as well as the routing table that contains any ofthe virtual...
... when the initial weight is w0 = and the step-size is μ = 0, the APIC reduces to the CPIC The horizontal line in the figure represents theperformanceofthe CPIC receiver, and we can see that the ... that the derivation ofthe BER for the CPIC receiver can be unified under the same framework Simulation results are provided to verify the theoretical Huahui Wang et al derivations The effect ofthe ... Remark Other than the theoretical approximation, a more accurate value ofthe MSE can be determined with the aid of computer simulations It is easy to show that if the adaptive step-size ofthe algorithm...
... expiry time of packet, queue length ofthe node, and data rate ofthe source, are considered and the application of fuzzy logic to combine these variables and hence find the priority index ofthe packet ... result of this, the number of packets delivered to the client node and the end-to-end delay ofthe packet transmission improve The inputs to the fuzzy system are identified by a complete search ofthe ... limited to the universe of discourse ofthe input variable and the output is a fuzzy degree of membership in the qualifying linguistic set (always the interval between and 1) A fuzzy set A in the universe...
... on the ‘bifaciality’ (i.e., the ratio ofthe current responses of both sides ofthe module), the latitude, the diffuse fraction and the albedo [71, 88] Due to the various factors affecting the ... percentage ofthe front side current [100, 101] In the literature, the terms “equivalent efficiency” or “equivalent power” are also used by some manufacturers to provide the bifacial performanceof their ... using the method agrees to within 1% with the measured power for a number of illumination conditions on front and rear sides ofthe bifacial modules This thesis also investigates theperformance of...
... such a system requires the dense installation of RFID tags on the floor ofthe service area The setup is very expensive in terms of not the tags themselves but the labor input Another approach that ... orientation ofthe kernel function Note that the term “bandwidth” here refers to the spread ofthe kernel It should not be confused with the system bandwidth in the RF spectrum The choice ofthe bandwidth ... ofthe relative permittivity ofthe material respectively As also shown in Fig 3.2, the two shaded circles at the bottom correspond to the locations ofthe actual Wi-Fi APs deployed in the building...
... performanceofthe MRC, the A-WSD, the WSD, the A-PL detector, the A-CWSD, the PL detector and the CWSD in a single relay system 119 5.2 ABEP performanceofthe MRC, the ... 121 5.4 Effect ofthe location ofthe relay on the ABEP performanceof different destination detectors in a single relay system 122 5.5 ABEP performanceofthe A-ML and the ML detectors ... which uses the statistical information ofthe source-relay link for detection at the destination The use of this statistical information, of course, simplifies theperformance analysis ofthe ABEP...
... to the data link layer performance measures, i.e average accepted packet error probability, throughput and goodput 11 1.4 Organization ofthe Thesis 1.4 Organization ofthe Thesis The rest ofthe ... ofthe channel statistics is required at the receiver and no explicit carrier phase estimation is required in making the data sequence decision Being a sequence detector, theperformanceofthe ... is similar to the Craig’s form ofthe Gaussian Q-function The averages of these SEP performances over fading not always reduce to closed forms For example, the SEP performances of MPSK and MDPSK...
... analyze the achievable performanceofthe MAC protocol in a multi-hop CRN 1.4 Contributions and Organization ofthe Thesis 1.4 Contributions and Organization ofthe Thesis The main contributions of ... number of SUs, we analyze the optimal performances of throughput and delay, respectively, and also study the tradeoff between the achievable performanceofthe secondary network and the effects of ... Pr{·} the occurrence probability of an event · the floor function of a real number · the ceiling function of a real number k CS or S k the set of all k-combinations of a set S dom the domain of an...
... probability ofthe event in the brackets Re{·} the real part ofthe quantity in the brackets sign(·) the three-valued sign function tr(A) the trace of matrix A vec(A) the vectorization ofthe matrix ... 122 Diagram ofthe split ofthe triangles in the derivation ofthe generic single-integral bounds on Q(a, b) 125 Diagram ofthe derivation ofthe new generic lower ... 89 3.10 BEPs ofthe QR, the CR and the GQR for the USTC-OD versus the normalized fade rate 90 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.11 PEPs ofthe QR, the CR and the GQR for the OUSTC versus...
... discussed Viewed another way, this thesis has two major contributions On the one hand, 14 1.4 Organization ofthe Thesis the mathematical method used for theperformance analysis in this thesis is insightful ... fraction ofthe scattered component received at the first channel, θ is the fraction ofthe LOS component received at the first channel, and ζ is the ratio ofthe total LOS components to the total ... Introduction the theoretical performance limit ofthe channel However, the development ofthe techniques for a single channel has yet to catch up with the increasing demand for the capacity While...
... among the adaptations ofthe different groups ofthe taps ofthe filters, an internal iterative algorithm is introduced Moreover, the analysis ofthe convergence in the mean ofthe taps ofthe ... Introduction Performanceof Mismatch Canceller Performanceof DC Offsets Canceller Performanceof Mismatch Canceller and DC Offsets Canceller Performanceof CDFE Performanceofthe Internal Iterations ... performanceofthe mismatch canceller 53 Figure 5-2 BER performanceofthe DC offsets canceller 54 Figure 5-3 BER performanceof BPSK 56 Figure 5-4 BER performanceof QPSK 56 Figure 5-5 BER performance...
... syncretism, Hinduism and Islam Lastly, the character ofthe local economy is examined, including the nature of poverty and the livelihood ofthe population, the structure ofthe informal economy, the microenterprise ... stipulated in the Quran and the teachings ofthe Prophet In the broader context of Islamic teachings, almsgiving is the third ofthe Five Pillars ofthe religion In the classical literature of Islam, ... from the Raiffesien cooperative model The primary mission ofthe microfinance institution was to counter massive The birth ofthe first cooperative microfinance in the town of Purwokerto in the...
... and C, the first 15 cycles were the period of acclimation for phenol and the last six cycles were the period of de-acclimation for phenol To evaluate the contribution of S polyrrhiza to the phenol ... during the first cycles but were detected after the 2nd and 6th cycles, respectively The copy numbers of C12O gene and C23O gene then increased up to the 15th cycle The increases in the numbers of ... differences in the dynamics ofthe DGGE banding patterns of 16S rRNA gene, C12O gene and C23O gene between systems A and B (Fig 4) These differences are attributed to the influence ofthe addition of phenol...
... levels The thinner the rib section, the better it is for saliency ratio A thinner rib section can also decrease the mechanical strength ofthe rotor and the rotor needs to be strengthened by other ... operation of reluctance synchronous machines (RSMs) is based on existence of variable reluctance in the air gap ofthe machine, high reluctance in the quadrature axis and low reluctance in the direct ... modifications to the rotor magnetic circuit so as to achieve a high Xd/Xq, while the stator is similar to a standard 3-phase AC motor The analysis of RSM can be attempted by using the d-q model of machine...
... (T) and the number of answer ofthe Gold Standard (A) We present the number ofthe retrieved questions by the traditional system (TQA) and by the opinion one (OQA) We take into account the first ... was the fact that we gave a high weight to the presence ofthe NE ofthe sought type within the retrieved snippet and in some cases the name was misspelled in the blog entries, whereas in other ... the scores of answers containing NEs ofthe question Expected Answer Type (EAT) Table presents the results obtained for English and Table for Spanish We indicate the id ofthe question (Q), the...