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...   PTSD in Women Returning From Combat: Future Directions in Research and Service Delivery A Report by the Society for Women’s Health Research As of September 30, 2008 over 200,000 women ... International, and Magellan Health Services.  PTSD in Women Returning From Combat – A Report by the Society for Women’s Health Research     in men.10 For more information regarding criteria for diagnosing ... caregiver for family members – not only for their children, but also for their aging parents The stress of extended deployments for these women is compounded by the demands of caring for their...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... pace and scope of technical development for weapon, sensor, and command and control systems for many of which there is substantial uncertainty and by the future mix of systems dedicated to homeland ... from and expanding upon RAND’s research on active/reserve force-mix alternatives • Conducting short-term analyses of possible homeland security and traditional mission alternatives employing RC forces, ... active and reserve force organization and management; defense transformation; and other topics Forms of support included the following: • Identifying potential RC roles in homeland defense and traditional...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... MTBE in California from 2003 will force refiners to look for a new fuel additive and will probably have adverse implications for the existing and proposed production units for MTBE and other fuel ... performance This separation is necessary because n-butenes are required in the pure form for producing pure butene-1, as a co-monomer for polymerization of ethylene, feed for acrylates, and for ... gave valuable commentaries on future trends and challenges in this field of research Gorak and co-workers [7] summarized rate-based modeling techniques for RD and also for reactive absorption Book...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:30

... Sudan, Syria, and Tunisia € Data on population living below poverty line reflects 1997 estimates for Jordan, 1998 for Iran and Yemen, 1999 for Libya and Oman, and 2000 for Egypt and Syria ¥ Data ... for the EMR (68.2% missing data for Midwives; 63.6% for Community workers; 50% for Environmental and Public Health workers; 45.5% for Lab technicians, Health Management and support workers; and ... 8: Priorities for research in terms of management and planning for HRH Priorities for research Management and utilization of existing HRH HRH planning - Employee characteristics and productivity...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... force acting through a displacement, and 2) the product of torque and angular displacement s F · ds W= (3) θ and τ · dθ , W= (4) where force and torque are denoted as F and τ, respectively, and ... strike) in the form of heat, plastic deformation, sound, or other forms, and 2) motion in which the muscles perform negative work Exploiting Riemer and Shapiro Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation ... phase For an energy-hungry application, we need to maximize the total amount of energy to be harvested, and, therefore, heel strike, and knee and ankle motions seem to be good candidates for energy...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... around K ~0.25 for each subject Design challenges and future directions Although great progress has been made in the centurylong effort to design and implement robotic exoskeletons and powered orthoses, ... (front) and posterior (back) sides of the wearer's body, potentiometers for joint angle measurement, ground reaction force sensors, a gyroscope and accelerometer mounted on the backpack for torso ... the body up the next step, and delaying the onset of bicep and tricep muscle fatigue In future developments, robotic exoskeletons and powered orthoses could be put forth that actively vary impedance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... forecasting and empirical research relating to financial engineering 2.9 Conclusion This chapter has presented a variety of networks for forecasting, for dimensionality reduction, and for discrete ... (1992); Lumsdaine and Papell (1997); Perron (1989); and Zivot and Andrews (1992)] Fortunately, for most financial time-series data such as share prices, nominal money supply, and gross domestic ... simply cut and paste the derivative formulae from this Toolbox to your own programs Simply type in the command funtool.m, and in the box beside “f=” type in the standard normal Gaussian formula,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... particular point forecasts Granger and Jeon (2002) have suggested “thick modeling” as a strategy for neural networks, particularly for forecasting The idea is simple and straightforward We should ... overall network forecast They call this forecast a thick model forecast We can also use this method for obtaining intervals for our forecasts of the network Granger and Jeon have pointed out an intriguing ... in emerging market countries Table 3.3 gives the results for the goodness of fit or R2 statistics for this base set of realizations, as well as the mean and standard deviations of this measure for...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... predictions each period and to use a trimmed mean of the multiple network forecasts for a thick model network forecast For comparing the linear and thick model network forecasts, the root mean ... also forecast out-of-sample well and make sense and add to our understanding of economic and financial markets 4.5.1 MATLAB Program Notes Many of the programs are available for web searches and ... different speeds and show different volatilities for the same sets of shocks and same laws of motion For values y0 = or y0 = 1, of course, the process remains at zero, and for y0 < and y0 > 1, the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... option, τ ; and the annualized volatility or standard deviation of the underlying returns, σ The maturity parameter τ is set at unity for annual, 25 for quarterly, 125 for monthly, and 004 for daily ... chaos model), forecast onevar svjdmodel new1.m (for the stochastic volatility jump diffusion model), forecast onevar markovmodel new1.m (for the Markov regime switching model), and forecast onevar ... performance of alternative neural network models relative to the standard linear model for forecasting relatively complex artificially generated time series We see that relatively simple feedforward...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... draw upon the standard Phillips curve framework used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting inflation in the United States They define the inflation as an h-period ahead forecast For our quarterly ... equivalent to a 12-month lag for monthly data, used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting inflation To make the model operational for estimation, we specify the following linear and neural network ... curve is for the linear prediction errors, the dashed path is for the STRS prediction errors, and the dotted path is for the NNRS errors We see that the NNRS models outperforms both the STRS and linear...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... California, San Diego, Economic Modeling, forthcoming Ha, Jimmy, and Kelvin Fan (2002), “Price Convergence Between Hong Kong and the Mainland.” Hong Kong Monetary Authority Research Memoranda ... and nonlinear functions for extracting one component, brought in the next observation, and applied these coefficients and functions for estimating the new principal component We used this new forecast ... Theory and Practice Oxford: a Oxford University Press Baesens, Bart, Rudy Setiono, Christophe Mues, and Jan Vanthienen (2003), “Using Neural Network Rule Extraction and Decision Tables for Credit-Risk...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... parametric and semi-parametric models, and models that have and not have closed-form solutions The typology appears in Table 2.1 Both linear and polynomial models have closed-form solutions for estimation ... while β0,k and βk stand for the location and direction of the network, with |βl | = 2.4.5 Jump Connections One alternative to the pure feedforward network or sieve network is a feedforward network ... β, δ0 , δ1 , and δ2 The likelihood function L is the joint probability function for yt = yt , for t = 1, , T For the GARCH-M models, the likelihood function has the following form: T Lt =...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... particular point forecasts Granger and Jeon (2002) have suggested “thick modeling” as a strategy for neural networks, particularly for forecasting The idea is simple and straightforward We should ... overall network forecast They call this forecast a thick model forecast We can also use this method for obtaining intervals for our forecasts of the network Granger and Jeon have pointed out an intriguing ... in emerging market countries Table 3.3 gives the results for the goodness of fit or R2 statistics for this base set of realizations, as well as the mean and standard deviations of this measure for...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... option, τ ; and the annualized volatility or standard deviation of the underlying returns, σ The maturity parameter τ is set at unity for annual, 25 for quarterly, 125 for monthly, and 004 for daily ... chaos model), forecast onevar svjdmodel new1.m (for the stochastic volatility jump diffusion model), forecast onevar markovmodel new1.m (for the Markov regime switching model), and forecast onevar ... performance of alternative neural network models relative to the standard linear model for forecasting relatively complex artificially generated time series We see that relatively simple feedforward...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... draw upon the standard Phillips curve framework used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting inflation in the United States They define the inflation as an h-period ahead forecast For our quarterly ... equivalent to a 12-month lag for monthly data, used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting inflation To make the model operational for estimation, we specify the following linear and neural network ... curve is for the linear prediction errors, the dashed path is for the STRS prediction errors, and the dotted path is for the NNRS errors We see that the NNRS models outperforms both the STRS and linear...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... California, San Diego, Economic Modeling, forthcoming Ha, Jimmy, and Kelvin Fan (2002), “Price Convergence Between Hong Kong and the Mainland.” Hong Kong Monetary Authority Research Memoranda ... and nonlinear functions for extracting one component, brought in the next observation, and applied these coefficients and functions for estimating the new principal component We used this new forecast ... Theory and Practice Oxford: a Oxford University Press Baesens, Bart, Rudy Setiono, Christophe Mues, and Jan Vanthienen (2003), “Using Neural Network Rule Extraction and Decision Tables for Credit-Risk...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... Domenico, and Alessandro Vicini (1998), “Coupling Genetic Algorithms and Gradient Based Optimization Techniques,” in Quagliarella, D., J Periaux, C Poloni, and G Winter (eds.), Genetic Algorithms and ... Strategy in Engineering and Computer Science: Recent Advances and Industrial Applications West Sussex, England: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd Quagliarella, D., J Periaux, C Poloni, and G Winter (1998), ... (1998), Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategy in Engineering and Computer Science: Recent Advances and Industrial Applications West Sussex, England: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd Razzak, Weshah...

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