... produces the principal policies and plans for achieving those goals, and defines the range of business the company is to pursue, the kind of economic and human organization it is or intends to be, and ... seeks to elucidate between “man and plan,” that is, between the execution of a plan bythe person so charged andthe purpose and potential of a plan as proposed In his history of the Peloponnesian ... of an investor, they make similarly stringent demands on the concept of strategy as does game theory: The gambler, constrained by his initial fortune f and subject tothe rules imposed by the...
... where kk in the numerator is the mean, and kk in the denominator is the standard deviation; for the ZIP model, the mean and standard deviation were replaced by their corresponding values 2.5 Field ... only zeros with probability h, andan ‘‘imperfect’’ one that follows a Poisson distribution, with probability (1 À h) and Poisson parameter k It can be shown that the mean and variance of a ZIP ... assumed to follow independent normal distributions with null mean and variance r2 ; ram the residual was independent and identically distributed as ei;j;k $ N ð0; r2 Þ e (H2, H4) Poisson and ZIP...
... 1.6) Topology and Geology Topologically and geologically, the mainland of the study area can be separated into two regions: the lowlands in the Western part and highlands in the Eastern part The ... the order of importance of the factors/processes provided bythe model andto compare them withthe experts’ experiences Therefore, the total BOD load tothe coastal sea andthe living coral area ... limited tothe embouchures and lower courses of the local rivers They consist of clay, sand and shells The fluvial deposits were formed by meandering rivers like the Jeneberang river They occur...
... guaranteed to have found this edge, and can use it to construct the copied conjunct over spans toand therefore the whole co-ordinated NP from spans toTo simplify the implementation of the copying ... noticed a tall man and a strange woman when she entered the house DT NN and DT JJ NN (non-parallel) Hilda noticed a man and a strange woman when she entered the house DT JJ NN and DT NN (non-parallel) ... general mechanism, and that the copy mechanism is not needed This conclusion is strengthened when we turn to consider the performance of the parser on the standard Penn Treebank test set: the Within...
... augmented byan allowance for the pain, grief and suffering experienced bythe relatives and friends of the car occupants Findings by Needleman (1976) and Jones-Lee et al (1985) suggest that this allowance ... for urban and other roads on the one l-land and highways on the other hand Due to a lack of data the values could not be differentiated according to level of congestion Case presents the results ... infrastructure this formula allows us to compute the marginal change in the noise level due toan additional PCU The total effect on noise is not necessarily larger than the direct effect and can...
... these gold standards withthe paper They are available tothe research community In the following sections, we describe the median9 heuristic andthe splitting method of Algorithm The splitting ... transliteration module on the extracted transliteration pairs and how to integrate it into MGIZA++ (Gao and Vogel, 2008) by interpolating it withthe ttable probabilities of the IBM models andthe HMM model ... corpora The gold standard is a subset of the data sets The English/Hindi gold standard contains 180 transliteration pairs and 2084 non-transliteration pairs The English/Arabic gold standard contains...
... edges, and a heap, which is used to store the typed-feature structures that are referenced bythe edges Each thread has full access to its own agenda, chart, and heap, and has read-only access tothe ... to steal work from the victim’s agenda A thief will steal half of the work on the agenda This balances the load between the two threads and minimizes the chance that either thread will have to ... outstanding unification tasks, andthe unchecked foreign edges, which resemble outstanding match tasks between threads A thief first picks a random victim to steal from It first attempts to steal the...
... 0.02, and 0.04 (images fur and wood from the texture category, images baby and pumpkin from the structure category, and images butterfly and sail from the edges category) Figures 3, 4, and depict the ... which b is allowed to vary along with q and g results in b = 0.035, 0.034, and 0.032 for textures, structures, and edges, respectively, andan insignificant change in q and g from the values listed ... adjusted to match TvC curves We too have left g as a free parameter 3.1.2 The Excitatory and Inhibitory Exponents p and q, andthe Semisaturation Constant b The parameters p and q, when used with...
... this the covariance structure does not need to be estimated Provided that p,, and known, the method can be used to estimate the additive genetic covariance between the quantitative traits andthe ... are the standard normal and A OL AN logistic distribution functions In the first case, the probability of response is where (.) and (D(.) variate, respectively, are the density and distribution ... inference and fit of the model A method is proposed to estimate jointly the components of variance and covariance involving the quantitative andthe categorical variates Finally, procedures are illustrated...
... 1.6) Topology and Geology Topologically and geologically, the mainland of the study area can be separated into two regions: the lowlands in the Western part and highlands in the Eastern part The ... and Wendy from the Construction and Transport groups; Our secretaries: Anke, Joke and Ellen; Yan, Dong, Ping, Chang Wei and Jan from the ‘Chinese community’ Dank je wel and Xie xie The work of preparing, ... limited tothe embouchures and lower courses of the local rivers They consist of clay, sand and shells The fluvial deposits were formed by meandering rivers like the Jeneberang river They occur...
... rank); u q x random vector; and e: n x vector of random residuals The conditional distribution that generates the data is: where I is an n x n identity matrix, and e Qis the variance of the random ... vector of variance components other than the residual; and be the sets of all prior variances and degrees of belief, respectively As shown, for example, by Macedo and Gianola (1987) and Gianola ... is obtained by successively integrating out all nuisance parameters, these being the fixed effects, all the random effects other than the one of interest, andthe variance and covariance components...
... , ; constraints (22), (23) and (24) is obtained by equating tothe derivatives of f (w) with , c,, l respect to w’ (c X, /.1, v) where: = and X, p, v are Lagrange multipliers The first and second ... Smith and Quaas’ problem in the general case Statement of the problem Let u, x x,, be n+1 random variables with joint multivariate normal distribution: , l u is theThe breeding objective andthe ... Besides the notations defined in the text, let us define: , ij square of the multiple correlation coefficient between u andthe predictors x x By first differentiating N and then using Jain and Amble’s...
... values on the one hand, andthe same prior expectations and variances (formulae 13a and b) on the other hand Probability values for methods II and III are shown in Tables II and III The agreement ... as theoretically expected for such binary traits Using this value in (13a and b) leads to !o equal to -2.0242 and -1.8081, and h in the binary scale to 0.0394 and 0.053 for 7! equal to 0.025 and ... contrarily to what happened in the Gaussian linear model For ! ?!- = 0.025 and h = 0.25 and a = 0.9, 73 to 167, 157 to 325, 330 to 671, 904 to 1663 and 4041 to 7062 progeny are required to exceed...
... In fact, the smaller the cell size (n andthe smaller CV, thethe shrinkage of the sample estimates (6 toward the ) f mean variance since theregression coefficient toward this mean in the equation ... log-variances and take the population factor ( eg region) as fixed and herd as random within that factor An illustration of the flexibility and feasibility of our procedure was recently given by Weigel ... was supported byan INRA Thomas Sutherland grant The authors are grateful to D Waldron (Ruakura, New Zealand) for the English revision of the manuscript andto A Valais (Maine-Anjou breeders...
... Singapore Island is surrounded bythe South China Sea on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, and Java Sea on the southeast As the complexity of its location, the water motion in the Singapore Strait ... (Shaw and Chao, 1994; Zu et al., 2008), the Singapore Strait area (Chen et al., 2005; Chan et al., 2006) andthe Malacca Strait up tothe Andaman Sea (AS) region (Hii et al., 2006; Ibrahim and Yanagi, ... providing the local maritime data for analysis Additional thanks to my friends, Dr.Yi Jiangtao, Mr Wang Shanquan, Ms Zhang Nan and Mr Wang Li, for all the great time we spent together Last but not the...
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... Versus Stock Savings and Loans,” Rand Journal of Economics 20: 483-98 Mester, L.J., 1993 “Efficiency in the Savings and Loan Industry,” Journal of Banking and Finance 17: 267-86 Mitchell, K and N.M ... each bank over time, andthe random errors lnε are assumed to tend to average out over time To reduce the impact of substantial random outliers, we truncated the average residuals at the 5th and ... L., and S.G Timme, 1993 “Corporate Control and Bank Efficiency,” Journal of Banking and Finance 17: 515-30 Saunders A., E Strock and N Travlos 1990 “Ownership Structure, Deregulation, and Bank...
... V.Fock, The Theory of Space, Time, and Gravitation, trans By N.N Kemmer, 2nd rev.ed., Macmilan, New York, 1964 [5] S.Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of General Theory ... - 2006 An different observer B stands in a system which moves with velocity V with respect to A on X- direction ( V is measured by A ) Gravitational potentials in system of B, following the Lorentz ... find that when the system of frame moves with velocity approaching c, inertial forces will be infinite Acknowledgements: We extend our thanks tothe professors in laboratory of theoretical physics...
... carried out the studies, participated in the design and conception of the project, and helped draft the manuscript JS participated in the design and conception of the project and drafted the manuscript ... of Env bythe pAD8Env vector compared tothe pNL4-3Env vector (unpublished observations), and/ or to greater expression of CCR5 than CXCR4 bythe TZM indicator cells, which were engineered to overexpress ... (lanes and 5); the latter shows that theinteraction between Nhelix-YFP and Env was not due to non-specific stickiness of YFP To see if the processing defect of the Env precursor complexed with...