... bond risk premia and their components in order to better understand the economic significance of bond return predictability Specifically, we now compare the means and variances of predicted excess ... Review of Economic Studies 58, 495—514 Campbell, John Y., and Robert J Shiller, 1996, “A Scorecard for Indexed Government Debt”, In National Bureau of Economic Research Macroeconomics Annual 1996, ... 511—26 Pflueger, Carolin E., and Luis M Viceira, 2011, "Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis" forthcoming Annual Review of Financial Economics McCulloch, J Huston, and H Kwon, 1993,...
... granted is just a phenomenon conditioned by a country’s circumstances The application of cross-national research could benefit researchers because it offers a chance for the researcher to see ... their current and former occupations, and factors such as personality and social and physical environment affect older people’s voluntary behaviours Fischer and Schaffer (1993) made a comprehensive ... lack of effective communication channels between policy makers and the citizens, the feeling of alienation and anomie among citizens, and the increasing pressure from citizens for better services,...
... SScore ( C i , GN ) ⋅ LScore ( C i , GN ) LScore(Ci,GN) combines phonetic values and word senses to evaluate the lexical similarity between Ci and GN SScore(Ci,GN) concerns both recurrences information ... duplicate re-weighting and unnecessary verification There is one problem in verification we should concern Since we only consider recurrence information in both directions, but not cooccurrence ... is applied: EDA→B (0, t ) = t EDA→B (s,0) = s LScore (C i , GN ) = ∑all matched pairs GN ab and Cij LSim (GN ab , C ij ) , Total # of words in C i ∑ all matched pairs GN ab and Cij LSim...
... curve modeling at the Bank of Canada, technical paper, Bank of Canada Brennan, M J. , T Chordia and A Subrahmanyam, 1998, Alternative factor specifications, security characteristics, and the cross-section ... The pricing formula above is not complete because it does not include the effect of liquidity risk, which is considered to be a critical factor for municipal bond pricing Liquidity is perceived ... 2006 by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 The new tax law also increases the taxable income level for the 10% bracket Other effects of the 2003 tax act include child...
... intraday liquidityand urgency threshold, settlement of payments takes place mechanically: banks receive payment instructions and process them according to urgency Costs are defined as in Galbiati and ... reception and execution of payment r with urgency ur Delay costs thus increase linearly with payment urgency The dependence of Ci on τi and on ‘others’ choices j comes via the delays, which ... liquidity needs, risks and efficiency in payment networks’, Bank of Finland Studies, E: 39 Martin, A and McAndrews, JJ (2008), Liquidity- saving mechanisms’, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol 55(3),...
... Table 3: The simple statistics on STEP 2000 Korean Chunking dataset ặ ĩ éỉ Ô éỉ ộ ị ộ ị Đ ứ ặ êở ụỉ Đ ọ Â nq jcm nq ncn jcj mmd ncn ncn jxt ncn ncn nq jcm nq jca paa ef sf B-NP I-NP I-NP ... Golding and P Rosenbloom 1996 Improving Accuracy byCombining Rule-based and Case-based Reasoning, Articial Intelligence, Vol 87, pp 215254 T Joachims 1998 Making Large-Scale SVM Learning Practical, ... method Acknowledgement This research was supported by the Korean Ministry of Education under the BK21-IT program andby the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology under NRL and BrainTech programs...
... shortcomings of cross-industry comparisons are that they cannot identify the impact of unobserved, industry-specific factors, they cannot control for firm- and industry-specific characteristics, and ... adjustment costs by including bank-specific and market-structure variables, such as the bank’s size, its market share and geographical scope, and the concentration of the market Our approach ... bank and local market characteristics Section employs competing risk models to study the determinants of asymmetric adjustments Section concludes Empirical Framework a Data Our dataset contains...
... cij ( ; c1 ; ij r+ )= ij [ ij c1 (1 (1 ) )+ ij i ] ij : (6) The bank’ optimization can be written as s max 2[0;1] ;c1 ;f ij E[U ] gi2I ;j2 J (7) s.t ij cij ( ; c1 ; for i I; jJ ij r+ )= ij [ ij ... the case of N states, as shown in the Appendix A 16 c2 1l(ρ) c2 0j( ρ) u(ctij) c2 1h(ρ) c1 (ρ) c1 (1) c1 (0) c2 0j( 0) c2 0j( 1) c2 1h(1) c2 1h(0) Figure 4: Equilibrium allocation for c2 1l(0) c2 1l(1) ctij(ρ) ... ) and = r): Arrows indicate the change in consumption between the suboptimal and the …rst best equilibria c2 0j (ρ) u(ctij) c2 1l(ρ) c2 1h(ρ) c1 (ρ) c1 (1) c1 (0) c2 0j (0) c2 1h(1) c2 1h(0) c2 0j (1) c2 1l(0)...
... DHMMs-based character recognition system can be divided into two basic functional components: training and recognition Both training and recognition share a common pre-processing, frames generation and ... y'=y- (j- 1)xH Because the maximum order (n + m) is 3, a local Tchebiechef feature vector Tz(i j) or a local Krawtchouk feature vector Fz (i, j) extracting from a zone can be written as j) = {TOO(i ... in Table and Table It 3.5 The Acceleration of Feature Extraction According to (12), the computation of Trnm involves the computation of the function t (x) and p(n,N) And each function consists...
... NS UCGUCUUCGUCUCCUAACCUU(UAC) UCGUCUUCGUCUCCUAA(UAC) UCGUCUUCGUCCCCUAGGCUU(UAC) UCGUCUUCGUCCCCCAAUUAU(UAC) UCGUCUUCGUCCUCUAAACCAAAAGUUUU(UAC) UCGUCUUCGUCCCCUGAAAAUUUGU(UAC) UCGUCUUCGUCCCCAUGAAAAAGUUU(UAC) ... AGCAGUAGCAAGGGGAUUUUUUCUUAUAAUGA(UCA) AGCAGUAGCAAGGGGAUUUUUGUUUUUUAUAAAACUGUACAAAAUAUUGACCAACACAUUAUCCAUUUUUCAAAA UUGUCUCAA(UCA) AGCAGUAGCAAGGAGAUUUUUGAAUUAUAUAUAGCAAUACAACAGUUGAUCAUAAAAUGUGCGAUGAAUUUAAUC UGACUUUAAUUUUCUCCAGGAAUGUUG(CUA) ... of the CAT RNA were as follows: sense CAT primer (6 s) 5'-GCTGGATATTACGGCCTTTTTAAA-3'; antisense CAT primer (5 as) 5'-ACCGTCTTTCATTGCCATACG-3'; and CAT probe 5'(FAM)-TATTCACATTCTTGCCCGCCTGATGAA(TAMRA)3'...
... http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/106 Recall that the destination selects only one signal among K received signals to decode The selected relay might forward a correct bit, an incorrect ... average SNR ¯ is γi ,j = Ei σi ,j /N0 With Rayleigh fading, the pdf of gi ,j is fi ,j (γi ,j ) = −γ i ,j/ γi ,j ¯ γi ,j e ¯ Nguyen and Nguyen EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011, ... Nguyen and Nguyen EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011, 2011:106 http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/106 Destination Relay θ0,1 > θ rth Y N Discard Decode and...
... λ j PC j PCT , j Σ= (11) j =1 where λ j is the eigenvalue of each principal component PC j The principal components determine the span of the time-frequency space (5) Rotate the principal components ... Hertel, and W J Williams, Conscious and Unconscious Processes: Psychodynamic, Cognitive and Neurophysiological Convergences, Guilford Press, New York, NY, USA, 1996 [3] H Shevrin, W J Williams, ... J Racine, X U Yan, andC A Chapman, “Monitoring neuronal oscillations and signal transmission between cortical regions using time-frequency analysis of electroencephalographic activity,” Proceedings...
... data sets corresponding to the unicellular Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the multicellular Drosophila melanogaster The potential cell cycle and circadian rhythmic genes were identified and compared ... one-dimensional synchronization methods and fail to achieve a complete synchronization It is fully possible that the discovered periodicity is completely caused by chance or by the speci c synchronization ... and CCW12 in the cell cycle arrest experiments, we hypothesize that CCW12 is also cell cycle regulated at phase S/G2 All the detected 722 genes are hierarchically clustered in Figure The hierarchical...
... modeled by LP coefficients [1] Thus, by computing LP coefficients, we can model the vocal tract and obtain information on formants 2.1 Spectral peak picking method The spectral peak picking method and ... synthetic spectrum and the actual spectrum The synthetic spectrum is obtained using the approximated formant frequencies Thus, if the differences between the synthetic spectrum and the actual spectrum ... more accurate values that can reduce the above-mentioned differences between the synthetic and the actual spectra This process is performed using some systematic procedures, like dynamic programming...
... U.S Currency – (Regular issue U.S Currency from 1880’s forward, Colonial, Confederate States of America, Military Payment Certificates, Fractional Currency, Depression Scrip, Obsoletes,…) Selected ... increase in activity and prices Strong – noticeable increase in activity and prices ### About the author: Doug West is the senior numismatist at the family owned business C& D Coins andCurrency ... Currency in Derby, Kansas Doug has over four decades of experience as a coin collector and dealer Doug is President of Wichita Coin Club, member of the American Numismatic Association, and Secretary/Treasurer...
... al Critical Care 2010, 14:R100 http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/R100 Page of Figure Principle of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and the functional EIT image (fEIT) Electrical excitation currents ... of recruitable alveolar collapse and hyperdistension by electrical impedance tomography Intensive Care Med 2009, 35:1132-1137 Bikker et al Critical Care 2010, 14:R100 http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/R100 ... Bikker et al Critical Care 2010, 14:R100 http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/R100 on the measurement of lung tissue impedance by injection of small currents and voltage measurements, using electrodes...
... seroclearance Int J Med Sci 2006, 60 Dual Infection of HBV and HCV and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) Conflict of interest HBV and HCV infections are confirmed causes of HCC What’s the combined ... effect of HBV and HCV coinfection on HCC? Accumulated epidemiological data suggested that coinfection with HBV and HCV could increase the risk for development of HCC A case-control study [51] conducted ... that occult infection may contribute to chronic liver damage and the development of HCC [32, 33, 34, 35] Cacciola [36] studied the prevalence and clinical significance of occult HBV infection...
... procedures are user-friendly and offer customers greater convenience Balancing Demand and Capacity In general, services that process people and physical objects are more likely to face capacity ... exclusively— those w h o are in direct contact with customers promotion and education: all communication activities and incentives designed to build customer preference for a specific service ... Latin American and Caribbean nations the service sector accounts service sector: the portion of a nations economy represented by services of all kinds, including those offered by public and non- profit...
... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gillespie, Ronald J (Ronald James) Chemical bonding and molecular geometry from Lewis to electron densities / R.i Gillespie, P.L.A Popelier p cm -(Topics ... p cm -(Topics in inorganic chemistry) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-19-510496-X (ppk), 0-19-510495-1 (cloth) I Chemical bonds-History Molecules-Models I Popelier, P.L.A ... New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi...