... Epidemiology Research and Information Center of the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, and is a component of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center It is partially ... interaction terms of individual SNP and pollutant The current version of MTP allows one to identify the significance of a group of candidate variables to reduce the false discovery rate meanwhile ... significant interactions using the bootstrap method with the combination of coefficients of the main effect and the interaction [6] Page of Table Descriptive statistics of the demographic characteristics,...
... distribution for transformed maxima from (1.2.3) The parameter ξ is called the shape parameter, and it is an indicator of the fatness of the tail -8- Master Thesis: AnApplicationof Alternative Risk ... European indices, Nasdaq - the much more volatile than its European counter-parties American index And the stocks of a highly liquid financial institution, and the highly volatile stocks of ABB, ... volatile than its European counter-parties American index The stocks of a highly liquid financial institution - UBS, that managed to maintain its high ratings notwithstanding the many mergers and crises...
... cost of capital: Survey and synthesis’ Financial Practice and Education, 8(1) 13– 28 Chan, K.C and Chen, N.F (1991), 'Structural and Return Characteristics of Small and Large Firms' Journal of ... more significant than the SMB in explaining the excess return The result is also reflecting that the performance discrepancy of high and low BE/ME is greater than those of small and big size ... section of stock returns’.International journal of finance and economics, 15, 198211 Kandel, S and Stambaugh, R.F (1995) ‘Portfolio inefficiency and the cross-section of expected returns’.Journal of...
... the use of the target language as a means of instruction and communication in the language classroom, and by the avoidance of the use of the first language and of 14 translation as a technique ... scope, the significance and the organization of the study Definitions of terms are also presented in this chapter Chapter 2, review of literature, presents various concepts most relevant to the research ... Richards and Rodgers (2001) described other significant characteristics of this approach including its efforts to make tasks and language relevant to a target group of learners through an analysis of...
... assistance • • • and prepared presentations Develops clear arguments with relevant examples on wide range of topics in field of interest Sustains conversation with degree of fluency and spontaneity ... and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard deviation – Round includes task-level data mean scores of candidates in bottom and top quartiles, and overall – Round includes percentage of ... C2 candidate would know the correct answer? Or • How many of 100 JQCs would know the correct answer? • Three rounds of judgments, with feedback and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard...
... Which Bank Is the “Central” Bank? AnApplicationof Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System Morten L Bech, James T E Chapman, and Rod Garratt Federal Reserve Bank of New York ... obtain the sum of bilateral credit limits granted to bank i However, a bank’s initial payments cannot exceed this amount times the system wide Bank of Canada grants to other banks in Tranche As this ... Summer, and S Thurner (2004): An Empirical Analysis of the Network Structure of the Austrian Interbank Market,” Oesterreichesche Nationalbank’s Financial stability Report, 7, 77–87 Gelman, A., and...
... with Interactions Estimates for Wastewater Treatment Programme Attributes Attributes and Household Characteristics ASC Quality of treated wastewater Quantity of treated wastewater Regeneration of ... be associated with any wastewater treatment programme alternative j Following Lancaster‟s theory of consumer choice, the utility derived from any of the wastewater treatment alternatives depends ... quantity and quality of wastewater treated in the STP and the regeneration of the Wonderland Park Assuming that the relationship between utility and attributes is linear in the parameters and...
... dilemma, and negotiations can effectively be considered as a process of moving away from less-than optimal outcomes towards increased payoffs, and the distribution of those payoffs In an era of growing ... Negotiation analysis 2.2.1 Theoretical roots of negotiation analysis Negotiation analysis can be characterized as an approach, which builds on the theory of games, decision analysis and behavioral ... understanding of negotiation as a phenomenon, and understanding of related conscious or unconscious managerial practices is important For creating such understanding, the clarity of concepts and...
... The major part of the system was b u i l t in the programming language FORTH, which is an interactive, incremental system with a low-level semantics which the user can easily and quickly extend ... description of text-leve] relations The use of FORTHand the Prolog formalism allowed f a i r ly easy development of the system even without the powerful structure manipulation capabilities of a language ... output of the procedure, i e , the instantiated slots The computer program which embodies this approach to natural language understanding is written in FORTH, Pro]og, and SrIOBOL4, and runs...
... change detection of land use and land covers • To create a tool for decision support system in the watershed land use planning by created land zoning Materials and Methods Materials • • • • Satellite ... ETM+1999 and ETM+2004, it provided two land use maps of 1999 and 2004 In each map was classified into 11 categories of land use/land cover types Land covers 1999 Land covers 2004 Intensive of changed ... this study applied GIS and remote sensing for analysis the land use pattern changes Statement of Problems • After 1999, the landscape in the study area has been changed cause of policy implementation...
... degree of polynomial fraction to a great value, and therefore making the synthesise problem of systems more complex, even lose its essence Disregarding the characteristics of dead time delay ofan ... point of view References [1] G Christian, A Monfort, Times Deries and Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, 1997 [2] Nguyen Van Huu, Nguyen Huu Du, Statistic Analysis and Forecast, Hanoi ... Eykhoff, System Identification Wiley, 1974 [4] P Eykhoff, Trends & Progress in System Identification, Pergamon Press, 1981 [5] A.A Krasovski, Summarization of Development History and Situation of...
... degree of polynomial fraction to a great value, and therefore making the synthesise problem of systems more complex, even lose its essence Disregarding the characteristics of dead time delay ofan ... point of view References [1] G Christian, A Monfort, Times Deries and Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, 1997 [2] Nguyen Van Huu, Nguyen Huu Du, Statistic Analysis and Forecast, Hanoi ... Eykhoff, System Identification Wiley, 1974 [4] P Eykhoff, Trends & Progress in System Identification, Pergamon Press, 1981 [5] A.A Krasovski, Summarization of Development History and Situation of...
... correct numbers of clusters were determined by iterively varying k until the sum of the mean Euclidean distance between each data point and the centroid of the neighbouring clusters was maximized ... http://www.josr-online.com/content/5/1/21 Page of Table Mean and standard deviations of linear measurements Length/mm 10% Diameter/mm 50% Diameter/mm 90% Diameter/mm Sternal Angle/° Acromial Angle/° Male Female Male ... measurements later assisted in describing the principal components of our clavicle data with the acromial and sternal angles referring to the lateral and medial angles described and referenced...
... Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, vol 70, no 3, pp 1257–1264, 2009 Journal of Inequalities and Applications 15 L.-C Ceng, S Al-Homidan, Q H Ansari, and J.-C Yao, An iterative ... spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 331, no 1, pp 506–515, 2007 A Tada and W Takahashi, “Weak and strong convergence theorems for a nonexpansive mapping and an equilibrium ... spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 318, no 1, pp 43–52, 2006 X Qin, M Shang, and S M Kang, “Strong convergence theorems of modified Mann iterative process for strict pseudo-contractions...
... and (ii) of Theorem 3.1 can be handled in a straightforward manner, the treatment of case (iii), where the connection set is a subgroup of Z∗ , needs additional n knowledge of the structure of ... If B is an S-subset, then B is an S-subgroup (S7) For any S-subset B and any a ∈ Z∗ also aB = {ab : b ∈ B} is an S-subset n (S8) If two subsets K and L of Zn are S-sets then their intersection ... circulants, and all basic quantities satisfy Ti = −Ti Proof (i) is obvious (ii) follows easily from the definition of γ 6.4 Proofs Proof of Lemma 3.1 Since n | (dm+1 ± 1), dm+1 ±1 n is an integer...
... are arranged in a hierarchical system The different objects are all in constant communication via the transfer of information and materials [1] ALMIS includes an “environment part” and a “plant ... generated branches have particular initial dimensional and physiological properties and a particular branching angle The number of branches, angles and the initial properties are specified in an input ... axis), and into by 12 steps in z-coordinate (768 cubes) The interactions between the single parts of the environment and the plant, and between the plant parts themselves, are ensured by a system of...
... possible choices of α and This project was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (MM, 122405 and FL, 262067) ... the time and space required for computing the kernel matrix and obtaining the most significant components of the discriminant w are bounded polynomially in terms of all the relevant parameters Consider ... These results indicate that any deterministic classifier cannot achieve an accuracy greater than 99.15%, 98.66% and 97.96%, respectively for the CCR5, CXCR4, and CCR5-and-CXCR4 coreceptor usage...
... demands of both enterprises and consumers who wish to understand the concepts and forms of a large group of abuses of dominant position, i.e abusive pricing, and discover ways of avoiding to and/or ... EU, and Vietnamese legal systems regarding abusive pricing The interdependence and disparities of the systems are analysed At a macro level, I compare the spirit, style, and method of these systems ... Section of the Sherman Act, Sections and of the Clayton Act, and the Robinson – Patman Act regulate abuses of a dominant position (in the US usually called a “monopoly power”) In the European Union,...
... demands of both enterprises and consumers who wish to understand the concepts and forms of a large group of abuses of dominant position, i.e abusive pricing, and discover ways of avoiding to and/or ... preventing the dangers of this type of monopoly formation and of the way it can constrain free competition The investigation of the concept of “dominant position” is one of the central tasks of this ... scope of condemned affect: “ restraint of trade or commerce in any Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or in restraint of trade or commerce between any such Territory and...