some models are better than others

... perform better than others We find that some business models are much more common than others, and that some do, indeed, perform better than others For example, the most common business models for ... results show that business models are a better predictor of financial performance than industry classifications and that some business models do, indeed, perform better than others Specifically, selling ... business models are in the economy and whether some business models have better financial performance than others This paper provides a first attempt to answer these basic questions about business models...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... nation’s largest metropolitan areas have seen their populations stagnant or declining Others have seen rapid growth The question of why some areas are growing and others are shrinking is of major ... Growth in: TABLE (cont.) Low-Tax Metro Areas Grew Faster Than High-Tax Metro Areas Cato Journal Why Some Cities Are Growing FIGURE State and Local Taxes Are Negatively Correlated with Employment ... Metro Areas Had Lower Taxes Than Low-Growth Metro Areas Why Some Cities Are Growing 295 296 11.3% 9.8 12.5 10.2 9.6 12.6 9.5 10.1 10.5 9.5 10.6% 10.0 Ten Lowest-Population-Growth Large Metro Areas...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS EDWARD D KLEINBARD WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS HOW GOVERNMENT SHOULD SPEND OUR MONEY Oxford University Press ... sector, We Are Better Than This shows that we can afford to pay for government to take on a larger role, and that our semi-annual budget emergencies are largely false fiscal crises It calls for somewhat ... government has a few choices of how to relate taxing to spending, some of which are more disreputable than others Its honorable choices are to tax now to pay for current spending, or to issue bonds...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 09:49

... heads (auditors) are better than one in reducing information uncertainty with respect to reported earnings Assessing France’s Joint Audit Requirement: Are Two Heads Better than One? Introduction ... evidence that some of these ownership characteristics are also associated with the use of two rather than one Big auditor, which suggests that two Big auditors are perceived to be better than one ... title, there is evidence that two Big auditors are better than one, and that one Big auditor is better than none, although there is no evidence that firms are valued more highly in the French stock...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... efficacy criteria are critical to the longterm success of hand hygiene promotion, a worldwide priority challenge for patient safety [7] Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... Long-term monitoring of practices is also critical [7,8] Compliance in this study cannot be compared with previous reports, including our own [2,6,7], for several reasons In particular, the present ... Critical Care Vol 11 No Maiwald and Widmer hand rubs must imperatively use products that meet the most stringent...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... more than 80% of instances with some relationship are predicted to be coordinates, and most of the rest are predicted no relationship It seems that we are only distinguishing between no vs some ... changes, spacing changes X and Y have the same lemmas X and Y are related and X or Y is a URL X and Y are related in some other way X and Y are not related in any obvious way Example low cost; cheap ... for each class are shown in Table We seem to have regressed to predicting no vs some relationship Because these results are not as good as the human-labeled results, we believe that some of our...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... by the ratio of two areas: one, Q, is the area bounded by the curve for ideal performance (the dotted line in Figure 1) and the positive diagonal of the unit square This area indicates the superiority ... areas: one, Q′, is the area bounded by the curve for ideal performance—which in ROC space is a line running from (0, 0) to (0, 1) to (1, 1)—and the positive diagonal of the unit square This area ... properties of the ROC area index are shared by the CAP index of accuracy These include the well-developed statistical properties of the index (e.g., Bamber, 1975) However, the area theorem does not...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21

... Reader’s share feature in its “Must Read” category For Google Reader refugees, you may remember a feature that allowed users to share content anonymously Users in illiberal dictatorships freely shared ... elements that Google removed from its reader, such as friends, Buzz and shared First, download and unzip the archive Here are some directions on how to export your Google RSS data The file you’re ... Unofficial Guide To Feedly: Better Than Google Reader By Kannon Yamada, http://www.agreatrecess Edited by Justin Pot This manual...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 21:39

... collect malware binaries The collected binaries are analyzed in an isolated environment to elicit any IRC related features and then produce configuration templates These templates are used to ... and DNS cache hits from tracking 100 IRC servers for more than 45 days When insider information is not available because bot activities are not echoed on the channel (and so can no longer be overheard ... Caveats As we alluded to earlier, there are several additional issues that complicate the task of counting botnet members Temporary bot migration and bot cloning are major contributors to this effect...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... accept that there are some things that are better and some things that are worse, and there is nothing you can about it Now if you will excuse me I have to drive to Vermont and collect some mail from ... US are sitting on historically unprecedented hoards of cash rather than investing that cash (or returning it to shareholders), although a little more so in the UK than in the US; and,  The share ... Bryson’s quote, I believe that we can something about some of them My basic goal is to offer an explanation why the US economy has had a better recovery than the UK economy from the global financial...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... of d, but the differences not concern us here All three models, as well as IBM Models 3–5, share the same t For further details of these models, the reader is referred to the original papers describing ... function is j=1 The parameters of these models are the distortion probabilities d(a j | a j−1 , j) and the translation probabilities t( f j | ea j ) The three models differ in their estimation of ... brief review of the IBM and HMM word alignment models, then describe how to extend them with a smoothed prior and how to efficiently train them 2.1 IBM Models and HMM Given a French string f = f1...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... and needs-based models are Markovpopulation models, also called "stock and flow models" Some countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States have used the three types of models alternatively ... and expertise that are often unavailable • Level and mode of health care utilization are sensitive to the environment and are rapidly evolving Modeling • Deterministic models are likely to generate ... types of models are based on extrapolation, while the third is based on expert scenarios The first two types of models aim at projecting a likely future given the current parameters, although some...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 11:21

... incomparably better in every way than that of our poor forefathers No doubt, in comfort, convenience, interest, variety, general health and well-being, we are superior Are we, however, really happier than ... bustle, hurry and racket, roar and rush There is a fever in our blood We are restless and unsatisfied, ever and ever seeking for some new things We have lost the quiet, and the sheer pleasures of the ... those days To get a picture of their lives, we must cut out many of the things which are so familiar and necessary to us today We wonder how men could ever have got on without them...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 04:20

... arthritis < 0.001 (by log-rank test) cantly better than in RA (p = 0.0065) Similarly, survival of etanercept as first medication in SpA was significantly better than in RA (p = 0.0439) There were no ... Data that are incomplete are censored at the time the last reliable information was recorded The censoring was done to avoid having long drug survival that reflected under-reporting rather than true ... characteristics of patients are summarised in Table Compared with patients with RA, patients with SpA were younger (p < 0.001) and more frequently male (p < 0.001) Adalimumab was rarely used in SpA (15...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... protocolized weaning, HFOV infants fared significantly better than CV infants In this trial, infants on HFOV were extubated, on average, a full week earlier than infants on CV, and had a lower ... randomized to CV showed worse pulmonary function than children who had been randomized to HFOV [16] In the trial by Courtney et al., which compared HFOV with a sophisticated CV strategy including ... ventilation and/or developing CLD to a center that can provide effective HFOV Con: No, HFOV is not better than CV for premature infants Eric C Eichenwald and Ann R Stark Most infants born at 28 weeks...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... intensive care unit scoring system? Crit Care Med 2002, 30:1976-1982 Livingston BM, MacKirdy FN, Howie JC, Jones R, Norrie JD: Assessment of the performance of five intensive care scoring models ... Scottish database Crit Care Med 2000, 28:1820-1827 Popovich MJ: If most intensive care units are graduating with honors, is it genuine quality or grade inflation? Crit Care Med 2002, 30:2145-2146 ... probability models (MPM II) based on an international cohort of intensive care patients J Am Med Assoc 1994, 270:2478-2486 Glance LG, Osler TM, Dick A: Rating the quality of intensive care units:...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... and neutrophillymphocyte count ratio predict bacteremia better than conventional infection markers in an emergency care unit Critical Care 2010 14:R192 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central ... CRP alone performed no better in bacteremia prediction than either a model combining lymphocytopenia and neutrophilia, or lymphocytopenia alone [6] de Jager et al Critical Care 2010, 14:R192 http://ccforum.com/content/14/5/R192 ... [38] Our observations clearly show that lymphocytopenia performs better in predicting bacteremia in an emergency care setting than either the WBC count, neutrophil count or CRP level, with the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21