... investors react to certain types of splits more favorably than to others? Using monthly stock price data, Gillespie (1974) analyzed the price impact of factors such as post-split stock prices, ... stock price resulting from a Reverse Stock Splits 24 reverse stock split may enable a company to change its image from a “penny” stock Woolridge and Chambers (1983) assert a higher stock price ... The market price is the closing price of the common stock as of the end of the year prior to the announcement of the reverse stock split For statistical analysis purposes Reverse Stock Splits...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:58
... therapy are important factors to conduct the monitoring and to understand the data on the serum concentration of digoxin [16-19] The serum level of Cr has been used to estimate the renal function, ... measurement Kidney Int 2004; 65(4):1416–1421 Shimizu-Tokiwa A, Kobata M, Io H, Kobayashi N, Shou I, Funabiki K, Fukui M, Horikoshi S, Shirato I, Saito K, Tomino Y Serum cystatin C is a more sensitive ... being problematic Due to the advantages in these areas, Cys-C is expected to be more useful when compared with Cr in terms of the estimation of digoxin pharmacokinetics To date, two reports are...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:08
How to Fight a Price War
... and how to fight a price war, when to flee one—and even when to start one Ways to Fight a Price War Tactic Example Nonprice Responses Reveal your strategic intentions and capabilities Offer to match ... way to reduce industrywide price competition Price leaders tend to develop reputations for eschewing price cuts as a way to gain market share and for responding quickly and decisively to price ... Motorola’s distributors had created a “gray market” because Motorola had given them a reason to believe that prices in the United States were too high Sometimes contributors can help reduce price...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20
Welcome to the Stock Market
... Pacific Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange, and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (the Philadelphia Stock Exchange is our country’s oldest organized stock exchange) Other countries with stock ... multiple market makers for a stock The more popular the stock, the more market makers will be assigned to the stock WELCOME TO THE STOCK MARKET 15 For instance, a stock like Microsoft could have ... will understand how to buy or sell stock Just as in an auction, every stock has a price This price changes frequently—every few seconds for some stocks Let’s say that a stock you’re interested...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20
Stock Price Distribution
... estimate volatility from historical stock price data, measuring either daily or weekly price movements, then we get more or less the same result by using either the stock prices themselves or their ... into account simply by making the substitutions m → m − q and µ → µ − q 32 3.3 INFINITESIMAL PRICE MOVEMENTS 3.3 INFINITESIMAL PRICE MOVEMENTS (i) Let us return to equation (3.7) for the stock ... appeal The model has the stock price growing at a constant rate µ, with random fluctuations superimposed These fluctuations are proportional to the standard deviation of the stock price and are dependent...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 19:20
Tài liệu ADJUSTING STATED INTENTION MEASURES TO PREDICT TRIAL PURCHASE OF NEW PRODUCTS: A COMPARISON OF MODELS AND METHODS doc
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Contrasting Multi-Lingual Prosodic Cues to Predict Verbal Feedback for Rapport" pptx
... role of Speaker, this participant then related the story to the active and engaged Listener, who understood that they would need to retell the story themselves later We have collected 114 elicitations: ... we would like to extend our work to exploit sequential learning frameworks to predict verbal feedback We also plan to explore the fusion of multi-modal features to enhance recognition and increase ... Shriberg, A Stolcke, and D Baron 2001 Can prosody aid the automatic processing of multi-party meetings? evidence from predicting punctuation, disfluencies, and overlapping speech In Proc of ISCA Tutorial...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20
Construing the world: conceptual metaphors and event-construal in news stories potx
... a preliminary study of a bigger newspaper corpus comprising 40 news stories where the number of neutral reporting verbs in four different news stories in ten newspapers (The Sun, The Daily Star, ... of work still to and my appetite for doing it is undiminished“ • „There is an enormous amount still to do“ • he was right to have gone to war to topple Saddam Hussein Secondly, Tony Blair is ... event-construal of the news story for the reader) However, conceptual metaphors seem to be particularly important for establishing construals of ‚newsworthy‛ events in news stories in that they...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Mining Refinements to Online Instructions from User Generated Content" doc
... them on top and around the pork and] [tossed in a can of undrained french cut green beans and] [cooked everything on high for about hours].” To make refinements easier to identify, and to facilitate ... describe an action are refinements (e.g., “I took the cake to work”, “I followed the instructions to a T”) Models In this section we describe our models To identify refinements without labeled data, ... Furthermore, to enforce the correct semantics of each state, paths cannot start with bok , p(z1 = bok |y = yes; θ) = 0, and transitions from bnot−yet to bok , bok to bnot−yet , and r to bnot−yet...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems" pdf
... was used to collect the experimental data (using dialogue context as a predictor of language models for speech recognition, see below) We chose this baseline because it has been shown to perform ... crosstalk classes correspond to those described for the baseline However, we decided to divide up the out-of-grammar class into the two classes oog (WER ≤ 50) and oog (WER > 50) to get a more finegrained ... as route planning, home automation, and tutorial dialogue The ISU approach is a particularly useful testbed for our technique because it collects information relevant to dialogue context in a...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech" pptx
... individual speaker differences To really test the usefulness of these variables, one would have to combine them with acoustic features that have been demonstrated to be good predictors of pitch accent ... as opposed to HMMs which generate observation sequences In this paper, we limit ourselves to 1-order Markov model features to encode inter-label dependencies The information used to encode the ... boundaries according to the Tilt Intonational Model (Taylor, 2000) This model is characterized by a series of intonational events: accents and boundaries Labelers were instructed to use duration,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22
stock assessment for fishery management a framework guide to the stock potx
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL" potx
... prove to be the best predictor of the three The regression models By the end of the parameterisation stage, each text of the corpus has been reduced to a vector comprising the 14 following predictive ... text belonging to the baseline level, it is easy to compute the numerator, since exp(0) = The value of the denominator is the same for each j Heilman et al (2008) drew attention to the fact that ... not a good fit to the corpus There remains one last issue to be discussed before comparing our results to those of other studies: the empirical evidence for tense being a good predictor of reading...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20
Classification and regression tree (CART) model to predict pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients docx
... laboratory shortage, results can take up to days instead of a few hours [2] The lack of specific clinical symptoms to predict pulmonary TB diagnosis makes the correct decision to admit patients to ... they had any respiratory symptom and were also isolated Clinical data regarding demographic characteristics, respiratory and constitutional symptoms, potential predictive factors for TB diagnosis, ... (SNTB) with good results Santos et al [29] also showed good results in applying CART to SNTB patients To our knowledge the only study that applied CART methodology to predict TB in hospitalized...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning to predict pitch accents and prosodic boundaries in Dutch" ppt
... without overlap, by four different annotators, and were corrected in a second stage, again without overlap, by two corrector-annotators The annotators’ task was to indicate the locations of accents ... original n-gram are stored Computations are based on the complete ILK Corpus Distance to previous occurrence – The distance, counted in the number of tokens, to previous occurrence of a token within ... 9999 Distance to sentence boundaries – Distance of the current token to the start of the sentence (D2S) and to the end of the sentence (D2E), both measured as a proportion of the total sentence...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20
How to tell short stories to the 6th graders in Haiphong
... Listening to stories can be a vivid creative experience Most of a story told takes place in the imagination of listener Through the magic language and the story-teller’s skill, stories can come to life ... It aims to produce a single narrative effect with the greatest economy of means and utmost emphasis” ( according to Sara Cone Bryant – “ How to tell stories to children and some stories to tell”- ... and short stories are not the exception A good story-teller not only can make the stories interesting with listeners but also help them to acknowledge the deep value of the stories To retain...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 23:45
HOW TO TELL STORIES TO CHILDREN AND SOME STORIES TO TELL potx
... ADAPTATION OF STORIES FOR TELLING It soon becomes easy to pick out from a collection such stories as can be well told; but at no time is it easy to find a sufficient number of such stories Stories simple, ... Nature Stories (especially stories of animals) FOR CLASSES IV AND V.: Folk Tales Fables Myths and Allegories Developed Animal Stories Legends: Historic and Heroic Historical Stories ... through Story-telling By E.L CABOT and E EYLES Third Impression 384 pages Stories for the Story Hour From January to December By ADA M MARZIALS Second Impression Stories for the History Hour...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning to Predict Case Markers in Japanese" doc
... due to the ambiguity with their primary targets Bilingual case prediction task: simulating case prediction in MT Incorporating a case prediction model into MT requires taking additional factors ... Therefore, we have in total 18 case particles to assign to phrases 2.2 Task definition The case prediction task we are solving is as follows We are given a sentence as a list of bunsetsu together This ... contains news articles of January 12-13 and editorial article of September 4,833 sentences, 47,580 phrases Test: contains news articles of January 14-17 and editorial articles of October-December...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20
Body composition in the elderly: Reference values and bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy to predict total body skeletal muscle mass pot
... has been shown to represent ASMM.10 Furthermore, DXA has been validated against MRI to predict TBSMM (TBSMMDxA).11 The aims of this study were to validate BIS against DXA and to report BIS reference ... Furthermore, we wanted to investigate the validity of existing BIA-equations to predict SMM in our population, and if needed, to develop a regression equation for the prediction of TBSMM from ... prediction of TBSMM from BIS Finally, we wanted to evaluate the extent to which BIS measurements were accurate compared to previously reported SF-BIA predictors.4,8 Materials and methods 2.1 Subjects...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Exploiting Latent Information to Predict Diffusions of Novel Topics on Social Networks" ppt
... and novel topics We utilize THt,*, the row vector of the topic-hidden matrix TH for a topic t, as a feature set In brief, we apply LDA to extract the topic-hidden vector THt,* to model topic signature ... parameter to determine the size of hidden topic categories TH indicates the distribution of each topic to hidden topic categories, and HW indicates the distribution of each lexical term to hidden topic ... relevant to each topic (including existing and novel topics) Note that the set of keywords for novel topics should be seen in that of existing topics From these sets of keywords, we construct a topicword...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20