the evolution of a framework for mixed reality experiences

... undergraduate students The goal of each volume is to encapsulate the current state of knowledge in a particular area of finance so that the reader can quickly achieve a mastery of that special area ... describe the current state of financial research and practice in a particular area of finance The essays in each volume are intended for practicing finance professionals, graduate students, and advanced ... by the downfall of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998 All of these events raised fears of a global economic meltdown Also notable at the end of 1998 was the creation of the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... application and gain access to a database of credit card numbers has significant tangible characteristics, which are therefore easy to measure Another aspect of a success can be the management of the ... attacker The goal is to not abandon these disadvantages and attempt to fully imitate a hacker Simply approach an ethical hack—as a customer or consultant—fully aware of your disadvantages and limitations, ... derivative of a military term and I have heard it used in Taiwan and Japan, another place the use of ethical hacking, as the name of an act, does not go over well Nevertheless, the most predominant...

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... only patients on antimicrobial and other therapies that can alter the balance of the gut microbiota (for example, antacid/proton pump inhibitors and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), but also ... with a loop and inoculated into the top to mm of BHI agar in the glass vial These were then left overnight in the anaerobe chamber; the vials were then removed from the anaerobe chamber and photographed ... inoculated onto the surface of Brazier's agar and was then dried for 15 to 30 minutes Etest strips were placed onto agar surface Agar plates were incubated anaerobically (37°C) for 24 hours and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... not available At the onset of my thesis, I assessed what is known based on the available data The reconstruction of phylogenies of large groups like the Calyptratae can be approached by either ... these years: Gaurav, Shiyang, Gwynne, Guanyang, Weisong, Yuchen, Farhan, Danwei, Denise, Dave, Nanthinee, Zeehan, Martin, Mirza, WaiKit and Huifung Thanks Anu, Aparna, Nilofer and Rika for all the ... available datasets was poor, adding more data into a supermatrix of taxa from across the calyptrate group was regarded as the most appropriate approach This is the technique that I have used for this...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 09:21

... attacks 2.4 2.4.1 Advantages of Approach Value of Malwares Hackers are motivated to write malwares for some kind of reward, either for fun or profit Therefore, a malware without any purpose has ... shares is also another vector These are all attack vectors that most research cannot guard against Our behavioral approach concentrates on dynamically looking for behaviors that indicate malwares ... exploits We take advantage of the fact that while malwares can have many attack vectors, they have a limited number of actions that enables them to successfully replicate and perform their nefarious...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 22:15

... modes of interactivity and collaboration The landscape of the workplace has changed dramatically, even in the past year The same forces that have shifted the barriers to remote work the ubiquity of ... IT departments may lose the ability to vet them for data safety In the worst case, a user may not even realise that corporate data are at risk The EIU survey found that security was not the only ... IT and technology 11 Singapore, Switzerland Healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain Manufacturing Belgium, Bulgaria,...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:19

... former case, there is the advantage of studying reactions to real art and the disadvantage that any two works of art differ from each other in several different respects, so that the actual factor ... et al., 2006) Another major difference among the three studies is the task that participants were asked to perform Kawabata and Zeki (2004) asked their participants to rate the beauty of the ... preference have been captured by two of the reviewed studies: the representation of reward value and the awareness of the emotional state The cortical processing of the magnitude of the reward of the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... Singapore The Straits of Malacca The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The South China Sea The South China Sea The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The ... Sarawak in the north of Kalimantan Kuala Lumpur, the national capital, Labuan UNEP/SCS – National Report Malaysia and Putra Jaya form the Federal territories The multiracial population of Malaysia ... result in a gain for others The optimal management of shared stocks is an area that requires collaborative effort among the littoral nations of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea Demersal fish...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... framework, QARLA, that addresses such issues Given a set of manual summaries and another set of baseline summaries per task, together with a set of similarity metrics, QARLA provides quantitative measures ... similarity metrics to compare summaries An evaluation framework should include, at least: • A measure QM,X (a) ∈ [0, 1] that estimates the quality of an automatic summary a, using the similarity ... non-informative (constant) metric x should have KM ,A (x) = 3.1 QARLA evaluation framework QUEEN: Estimation of the quality of an automatic summary We are now looking for a function QM,x (a) that...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 05:20

... suggests that C paradoxa PsbU has a higher homology with the red algal protein than with the cyanobacterial one The C paradoxa thylakoid membranes also contained a band cross-reacted with anti-(R-PsbQ¢), ... Chloroplast DNA Cyanidium caldarium Chloroplast DNA Bacillariophyceae (diatoms) Thalassiosira pseudonana Nuclear DNA Chloroplast DNA Odontella sinensis Chloroplast DNA Prasinophyceae Mesostigma viride ... merolae Based on this they pointed out that the evolutionary history of the water oxidation domain in the red algae may be more complex as biochemical data suggests that the red alga C caldarium has...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... Analysis approach and therefore adopts this specific modality, with the elaborated milestones pathway as the platform for future implementation and evaluation of Training and Fellowship Capacity ... Geneva Authors’ contributions AR was primarily responsible for the formulation of the evaluation framework and for drafting the paper MZ was primarily responsible for the literature review and AG ... Whilst the contribution analysis approach may not be able to provide the casual relations among variables leading to an impact, it could establish a ‘plausible association’ whereby a ‘reasonable...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... timely and well worth reading, given the many changes afoot in the areas of exchange regulation and clearing.’ HARVEY L PITT Chief Executive Of cer of Kalorama Partners and former Chairman of the ... independent academic methodology The findings of the book not necessarily represent the of cial stance of Barclays Capital The International Capital Market Association’s sponsorship of this publication aims ... that clearing is a topic that has always been regarded as sort of an operational thing The exchanges’ matching engines have had the glamour But I think in the long run the value added of clearing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... risk.86 Variation margin is a payment made when the market price of a transaction has changed.87 It is therefore a risk management tool to cover the latest exposure Variation margin is called for ... importantly, collateral management ensures that margin requirements are covered by available collateral If there is a collateral shortfall, a collateral call is generated If there is collateral ... efficient collateral Clearing Services for Global Markets management for the markets In practice, the approach of maintaining a level of competition in financial services may seem more likely, in the EU...

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... positions of the partner clearing house in the form of an omnibus account.136 This means that the opening of a position at one CCP can automatically lead to the creation of an equal and opposite ... monitoring the clearing status of transactions and monitoring margins via a single interface At the same time, clearing houses update and replace their software and systems periodically, typically on a ... compliance with a clearing house’s risk management requirements can be regarded as an offset for the risk assumed by the CCP for the clearing members and for the savings in risk management gained...

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... relevance of cost of capital was mainly based on the following arguments: r collateral-rich clearers have enough capital available; r clearing houses can serve as a cheap form of custody; and r clearing ... firms that offer individual traders access to trading platforms and clearing services Arcades offer traders a place where they can work together, rent a desk and trade for their own account at reduced ... volume of trading of a broker or a bank The clearest example of that are the so-called black-box traders, who trade through an automated system, doing arbitrage of various kinds, or some kind of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... mainly affecting the indirect cost categories All of these factors are detailed in the following paragraphs Whereas the validation of the data on clearing house charges revealed that the above-mentioned ... vital As the analysis has shown, the organisation of derivatives clearing could serve as a role model for other parts of the European market infrastructure As outlined above, to evaluate the ... of cost of capital and risk management costs 5.3.2 Transaction cost analyses – clearing members r The comparative analysis of per-contract fees charged by the major horizon- tally and vertically...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... marketplaces as a means to increase scale are the level of automation and the use of standard interfaces The higher the level of automation and the more common the use of standard interfaces, the ... collateral management and information effects can positively impact the liquidity and allocation of risk and capital – thus increasing the efficiency of capital markets.62 Additionally, the information ... size, for example, results in a doubling of the number of contracts traded, but at the same time also to a bisection of the contract value Therefore, the value of the contracts traded ultimately...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... smaller; they don’t have the capital of a Morgan Stanley or a Goldman Sachs, so the Asian clearing houses can play a role in representing the financial standing and credit standing of their smaller ... necessarily an advantage to the other side, and there is a cost involved So links are difficult things; unless you can persuade both parties that there is an advantage to each of them there is always ... intermediaries in the market are covering the liabilities they have, then they will have to manage them more actively, banks themselves will have to manage them more actively That means that yesterday Refer...

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... network strategies have varying potential for the realisation of network effects and economies of scale and scope The Transaction Cost Impact Matrix and the Efficiency Impact Matrix analyse whether ... deployment of a European clearing intermediary.121 All it is is a cheaper way of offering GCM services, at the end of the day And the reason that the link doesn’t have more customers is because the ... London Clearing House Ltd (LCH) and the Paris-based clearing house Clearnet SA This network initiative provides valuable material for a case study analysis for various reasons The transaction constitutes...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... usually not have the leeway to benefit from and further leverage their installed base r Single CCP initiatives (as a particular form of M &A initiatives) have the drawback that the majority of ... initiatives leading towards the creation of a Single CCP The nature of these initiatives gives clearers no choice of participation; participation is obligatory The magnitude of the increase of indirect ... to analyse their customers’ usage patterns in detail The clearing link strategy for Europe should be formulated on the basis of these findings For the purpose of identifying the value of any particular...

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