... RAND occasional papers undergo rigorous peer review to ensure that they meet high standards for research quality and objectivity OCCAS ION A L P A P E R Making Sense of Data- Driven Decision Making ... Population and Aging Public Safety Science and Technology Substance Abuse Terrorism and Homeland Security Transportation and Infrastructure Workforce and Workplace This product is part of the RAND Corporation ... data for decision making are knowledgeable about and committed to data use, and thus they build a strong vision for data use in their schools (e.g., Detert et al., 2000; Mason, 2002; Lachat and...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Transparent combination of rule-based and data-driven approaches in a speech understanding architecture" pot
... on in-domain test data for different amounts of training data and different versions of the system Training and test data both in speech form "Data" = proportion of training data used; "Rules" ... important one Summary and conclusions We have presented a simple speech understanding framework combining rule-based and datadriven methods, which has been implemented and Data Rules NGrams Both ... only; "Both" = both rules and N-grams • Quantity of training data • Modality (text or speech) of training data We randomly divided the training corpus into ten equal pieces, and trained on subsets...
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BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY pot
... Biomedical Sciences (from anatomy, physiology and molecular biology to pathology) provide the information and knowledge base for biomedical engineering and technology Formulation of biological and physiological ... science of sol-gel processing, involving areas of physics (e.g fractal geometry and percolation theory) and chemistry (mechanisms of hydrolysis and polycondensation) and ceramics (sintering and ... PN, C and R For the monitored lung volume V and pressure PN data, we can evaluate C and R by matching the model solution expression with the monitored lung volume V and driving pressure PN data...
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INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY – MATERIALS SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY doc
... method and as a reliable technique for quality control, Infrared Spectroscopy – Materials Science, Engineering and Technology molecular structure determination and kinetics [14-16] in biosciences(see ... splitting) and 1080-1026 cm–1 (1 activation) (Table 2) By comparing these data with the our case, we can observe that the 3 split bands at 1605, 1530 and 1345 cm–1, and the 1 activated band at ... the TG and EGA curves are shown in Fig 10 The mass losses after quenching at 100 °C, 170 °C and 300 °C were 0.8 %, 3.1 % and 5.0 %, 30 Infrared Spectroscopy – Materials Science, Engineering and...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 10:20
Environmental science engineering and technology radioactive waste sources types and management
... Hidaka, Satoshi, and Yuan, Wenxu Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology : Radioactive Waste : Sources, Types and Management New York, NY, USA: Nova, 2012 ... 2012 Nova All rights reserved Hidaka, Satoshi, and Yuan, Wenxu Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology : Radioactive Waste : Sources, Types and Management New York, NY, USA: Nova, 2012 ... 2012 Nova All rights reserved Hidaka, Satoshi, and Yuan, Wenxu Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology : Radioactive Waste : Sources, Types and Management New York, NY, USA: Nova, 2012...
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private real estate investment data analysis and decision making
... Estate Investment Data Analysis and Decision Making Private Real Estate Investment Data Analysis and Decision Making Roger J Brown, PhD Director of Research Real Estate and Land Use Institute ... Craig and I spent many a lunch over most of a decade dreaming about new and different ways in which data will be used in future real estate decisions Pat Barnes and Bruce Howe provided vital data ... under the wise guidance of Bob Wilbur, Andy Do, and Milton Chen In 1995 these fine academics breathed a sigh of relief and handed me off to Professors Ken Lusht and Jeff Sharp at Penn State, two superb...
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Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making_1 potx
... Estate Investment Data Analysis and Decision Making Private Real Estate Investment Data Analysis and Decision Making Roger J Brown, PhD Director of Research Real Estate and Land Use Institute ... Craig and I spent many a lunch over most of a decade dreaming about new and different ways in which data will be used in future real estate decisions Pat Barnes and Bruce Howe provided vital data ... under the wise guidance of Bob Wilbur, Andy Do, and Milton Chen In 1995 these fine academics breathed a sigh of relief and handed me off to Professors Ken Lusht and Jeff Sharp at Penn State, two superb...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20
Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making_2 docx
... templates to guide their database design at the early stages Why Location Matters 17 (a) (b) FIGURE 1-14 Viewing the location decision through data REFERENCES Alonzo, W Location and Land Use Cambridge, ... excellent data gatherers and providers; some are independent firms, and some are in-house for major real estate companies It is to these industry support groups we direct a final appeal As real estate data ... will be where rent is being paid and no inquiry has been made In time as data collection is more streamlined and coverage is more complete, the grid will become finer and the picture more complete...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20
Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making_5 potx
... rates, and land assessments are handed down by government Taking the relevant data from Table 4-1, in Equation (4-4) we reproduce Equation (4-3), providing fixed values for tax rates and land assessments, ... from a San Francisco dataset of 731 repeat sales of buildings between and 100 units covering the period from July 1987 through September 2001 Prices and dates of purchase and sale for each building ... This list and the way we process it creates an interesting thought experiment about what part of this calculus is objective, making it truly like a calculus, and what part is subjective, making...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20
Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making_6 pdf
... constant and/ or adding a constant merely rescales and re-centers the distribution This is how a normal distribution is ‘‘standardized’’ into ‘‘standard normal,’’ where the mean is zero and the ... Mittnik and Rachev (1993), using financial asset data, found that the Weibull distribution, plotted in Figure 6-3, provided a good fit for non-normal random variates The simple fact is that normal data ... standard error, sum of squared error, and mean squared error are all zero, and confidence intervals occupy zero space All of these are expected in that rare case where one variable completely and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20
Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making_9 pot
... self-management and disaster Perhaps there is, and perhaps data can assist The key is to manage the manager The owner must institute supervision policies to keep the manager alert and aware of his duties and ... gallons in column D) and column E shows the number of days between meter readings The mean of the data is 451.8 gallons per day, and standard deviation is 228.9 gallons per day If the data are distributed ... (ltv), debt coverage ratio (dcr), and capitalization rate Explore how data on capitalization rate trends can guide lenders and borrowers to better decisions LENDERS AND THEIR RULES The lender influences...
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Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making_10 pptx
... Acquisition standards and criteria for Tier I and Tier III properties differ as much as the participants in these two markets The level of due diligence, analysis techniques, appraisal standards, and negotiating ... investment decisions An interesting empirical question might ask if there is a relationship between the top of the market and a time when rules of thumb dominate appraisal and acquisition standards ... lender’s and the buyer’s perspective earlier Then the borrower was negotiating with the lender to allow an underwriting restriction to vary in order to improve both parties’ analysis and decision making...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20
Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series)_2 ppt
... templates to guide their database design at the early stages Why Location Matters 17 (a) (b) FIGURE 1-14 Viewing the location decision through data REFERENCES Alonzo, W Location and Land Use Cambridge, ... run Land users and policymakers must strike a balance between the competing interests represented in the private economic market Land Use Regulation 37 and the market for public services and lifestyle ... will be where rent is being paid and no inquiry has been made In time as data collection is more streamlined and coverage is more complete, the grid will become finer and the picture more complete...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Veterinary decision making in relation to metritis - a qualitative approach to understand the background for variation and bias in veterinary medical records"
... of generating score data and decision making in relation to treatment of metritis and their motivation to produce data This information was condensed into a 'model of understanding' that demonstrates ... interaction and relations between the recording of metritis scores and veterinarians' decision making connected to metritis treatment and potential links to data quality This understanding provides ... metritis) and the population level (data analysis), and potentially use observation or data through either experience- or evidence-based decisions at the farm level Quality of data (e.g., intra and...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
... a t e random number i n [ , ) ∗/ double r e t = ( double ) rand ( ) ; return r e t / (RAND MAX+1); } i n t s a m p l e g e o m e t r i c r v ( double p ) { double q ; i n t n = ; { q = rand double ... dict.h? If so, how would you ensure the data structure variable remains private? (c) Congratulations! You’re done and ready to compile your code Write the command line that you should use to compile ... 3.5 In this problem, we will be reading in formatted data and generating a report One of the common formats for interchange of formatted data is ’tab delimited’ where each line corresponds to...
Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 08:07
Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model
... availability and accessibility to MFIs, and impact of Government support to MFIs amongst lower income populations The data was tabulated and analyzed through qualitative analysis of the gathered data, ... political, and cultural circumstances and its impact on the borrowers’ behavior A low literacy rate, depriving economic conditions, extreme political involvements and pressures, inflexible and unsupportive ... dimensions reflecting the behavioral characteristics and decision making patterns of respondents including educational, communal, cultural, political and economic facets The questionnaire also evaluated...
Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48
Management science decision making through systems thinking
... successfully in the biological and physical sciences and, by extension, in all branches of engineering? ” There are a number of reasons! First, experts in science and the philosophy of science not agree on ... for decision making The 20th century, and particularly its second half, was marked by the unprecedented realization of the complexity of even everyday decision making, let alone decision making ... attractive form And then there are the thousands of students who read the text and whose questions and queries for explanations have led to saying some things more simply and clearly The scholar and teacher...
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