macro economics and the current crisis

... THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE STATE OF ECONOMICS This page intentionally left blank THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE STATE OF ECONOMICS Edited by Robert Skidelsky and Christian Westerlind Wigström THE ... Marc Potters 31 Ambiguity and Economic Activity: Implications for the Current Crisis in Credit Markets Sujoy Mukerji Part II 43 Macro- Economics and the Current Crisis Macro- Economic Failures Charles ... what goods and services they are going to demand in the market today, tomorrow, and every future date for the rest of their lives, but also “know” what their grandchildren and great-grandchildren...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 17:00

... need SqlCommand, and for Microsoft Access, we need OledbCommand Among other tasks, the main jobs of Command are to take the SQL query from the client and pass it to the data source and make a ... SQL query The second line specifies the connection to the command, and the third line is the actual SQL query statement instructing the database to send all columns and all rows from the table ... you look at the code, it starts with calling the Open() method from the connection object The following three lines provide the input to the command object CommandType.Text means that the input...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 08:48

... Construing the world the COAST is the boundary between land and water from the land’s point of view“ (Fillmore 1982: 121) Similarly, to be in the bus implies that the bus is not in service, to be on the ... smiling and waving to the viewer Again, there is certainly no semiotic contradiction between the images and the event-construal, no matter how the meaning of these images is interpreted The BATTLE ... where the number of neutral reporting verbs in four different news stories in ten newspapers (The Sun, The Daily Star, The Express, The Mirror, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... practical way of handling the data in the computer, than a way of understanding the data The profound effect of unfolding occurs when the multi-way structure of the data is ignored, and the data treated ... is one of the underlying keys to an understanding of the relationships between raw products, the manufacturing and the behavior of the consumer Chemometrics or applied mathematics is the tool ... The argument – x – that minimizes the value of the function f(x) Note the difference between this and min(f(x)) which is the minimum function value of f(x) The cosine of the angle between x and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... time, , the change in the temperature is nearly equal to the product of the constant , the and the di erence in the room temperature and the present temperature of the co ee Consider the following ... 1) The heat from the source is at time The heat content of the volume is where is the density and is the specific heat By combining these we have the following approximation of the change in the ... electrical current and from left and right di usion will remain the same as in the previous section By combining these we have the following approximation of the change in the heat content for the :...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 10:01

... takes the place of the prior, and the statistical model for the data takes the form of a cost function on the fit of the deformed model to the data In much of the above-mentioned work, the gray-level ... given the instantiation of the contour—one distribution for the interior of the contour, and another for the exterior An illustration is given in figure 2.3 The left panel shows the points in the ... code them on their own; however, the readers also have the option of delving into the finest details of the implementations using the accompanying software Indeed, it is sometimes the case that the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 23:23

... history of the HMMs consists of two parts On the one hand there is the history of Markov process and Markov chains, and on the other hand there is the history of algorithms needed to develop Hidden ... the classical filter theory dominated by the linear filter theory, the non-linear and stochastic filter theory became more and more important At the end of the 1950's and the 1960's we can notice ... (5) the hierarchical recognition of spoken commands and in (6) the HMMs application in the Text-To-Speech synthesis is described Chapter (7) presents the algorithms of the ECG signal analysis and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 13:20

... illustrate the flexibility of the H1, H2 and H3 models Functions illustrate the flexibility of the H1, H2 and H3 models One parameter is varied while the others are held constant to demonstrate the ... than the logistic function The Gompertz function has the same number of parameters as the logistic function and the Weibull function has the same number of parameters as the Richards function and ... flexible The H3 function has the same flexibility as the H1 function at the expense of one more parameter, similar to the Weibull and Richards equations Some of the flexibility of the H1, H2 and H3...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:22

... Rong, Liu Lixiu and Yan Yan for their kind help and the happy time they brought to the lab I also thank Liang Dong, Li Yan, Xiang Wei, Wang Xingang, Li Zhen, and Zhan Huiqin for their kind help ... at the identification, expression and function of nanog in the medaka and zebrafish as excellent models for analyzing pluripotency and patterning The medaka and zebrafish nanog termed Ong and ... in the early zygotic expression of ventralizing genes (vox, ved and vent), dorsoventral patterning gene pou2 and neuroectodermal genes (pax2.1 and pax6.1) and to the expanded expression of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:45

... First, the translator analyzes the source language text to discover its meaning, or the semantic representation and the authors intention and implication Then, all these factors are synthesized and ... cases, the object and metaphoric images are quite explicit and familiar with the target language Readers could therefore easily understand the sense, the meaning of the hidden comparison The reservation ... metaphors by the professional translator This chapter is devoted to the analysis of the translaion of metaphors in the two books Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Deathly...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2012, 09:53

... rules for the warehouse  Marketing  Never use directly for the warehouse A Typical Modeling Approach  Analyze the subject area  Gather the requirements  Develop the models  Map the entities, ... data by examining where and why it is used List the data models that may already exist in a company and describe where they may be useful to the warehouse model Explain the two common data warehouse ... entities, attributes, and relationships  Re-engineer the source data  Design the database  Integrate the model into the warehouse architecture repository  Review with client and revise  Oracle...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 20:33

... within the range from 4.4 to 6.5 After the transfer of the moss, the exposure medium which consists of the same components as the main culture, except for agar, was added onto the moss layer The ... (2) where y (%) is the growth rate of the moss, x is the copper dose, x50 is the dose to reduce 50% of growth rate, and β is a parameter showing the inverse of the slope of the dose response curve ... model), and the fraction of BL bound by Cu2+, fCu, (BLM) were substituted for the dose term x in eq According to the BLM, fCu determines the bioavailability and the toxicity of copper The cation-BL...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... understood by the user Consider for example, the case when the current clock time is t, and the user wishes to find clusters in the stream based on a history of length h Then, the macro- clustering ... leader nodes estimate the probability of the target's direction and determines the next monitoring region that the target is going to traverse The leaders of the cells within the next monitoring ... STREAMS: MODELS AND ALGORITHMS the community This is because of the rapid advancement of the field of data streams in the past two to three years While the data stream field clearly falls in the emerging...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... clusters The data points of each synthetic dataset will follow a series of Gaussian distributions, and to reflect the evolution of the stream data over time, we change the mean and variance of the current ... points in the past horizon at current time Tc For each point pi, we find the centroid Cpi of its closest macro- cluster, and compute d(pi, Cpi), the distance between pi and C,, Then the S S Q ... be achieved by using the data about the timestamps stored in the micro-cluster M We note that the timestamp data allows uito calculate the mean and standard deviation3 of the arrival times of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... de-activating the least promising leaves and ignoring the poor attributes The calculation of these poor attributes is done through the difference between the splitting criteria of the highest and lowest ... of the model reconstruction according to the classification error rate The error rate is calculated by measuring the difference between the error rate during the training at one hand and the ... According to the data rate and the available memory, the algorithm output granularity is applied as follows: 2.1 Measure the distance between the new record and the stored ones 2.2 If the distance...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... and Sustaining Cultural Change Some of the more significant characteristics that they imbued their system with and the tools they developed, primarily within the Toyota Production System, in their ... contribute to the goals setting process People will feel they have control of their own environment and will raise their own standards They will feel that accomplishment is its own reward and they are ... Maintain the posters When they begin to show their age, or become damaged, replace them It’s just human nature to associate the “condition” of the media with the condition of the program Keep them...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2013, 14:10

... Categories Reveal about the Mind [13] and The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor by Lakoff [14] Over the last decades, within the framework of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor set by Lakoff and Johnson, emotion ... ANGER, SADNESS and FEAR in English and Vietnamese based on the theory of cognitive semantics - discovering and explaining the similarities and the differences in cognitive metaphors of the three negative ... The HEAT metaphor highlights the cause of anger, the intensity and the duration and the danger to others b Subversion 2: ANGER IS THE HEAT OF A FLUID IN A CONTAINER The general metaphor ANGER IS...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:17

... subtracting the density at spatial location X fiom the density at X (eperturbation along the ith dimension), and dividing the result by E The smaller the value of E ,the better the approximation Therefore, ... up the total value in all the P2counters, and divide each counter by this total Thus, for the normalized coordinates the sum of the values over all the P2 coordinates will be equal to Then the ... segment, and when we combine them together, we need the counts for the itemsets which are frequent but not maximal However, estimating the counts for these itemsets can be very difficult The similar...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... the computation and storage of the cuboids along the path The aggregations along the drilling path from the mlayer to the o-layer are performed during the generalizing of the stream data to the ... materializing all the cuboids between the m- and o- layers, and (2) the top-k cubing approach, i.e., materializing only the top-k measured cells of the cuboids between the m- and o- layers, and we set ... From the table, one can see that the closer to the current time, the denser are the snapshots stored In the logarithmic and progressive logarithmic models discussed above, we have assumed that the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15