the simple mathematics of dynamic efficiency

... student was studying the civil rights record of the Johnson Administration, another the effects of lengthening the schoolday for elementary students, another the question of whether a computer could ... to the slacking student and the rest of us, “What can any person in the face of all the world’s challenges? He or she can try.” xi The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People As I conducted the ... dozens of pictures of women and asked to choose the six that other people would think are the most beautiful The person whose answers most closely resembled the collective opinion of the other...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2013, 16:10

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Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 11:36

... for another: the history of Work the System is a perfect illustration of the systems mindset that is the centerpiece of the book itself I self-published Work the System in the spring of 2008 This ... messages Clearly, back in the real world these guys worked together in an office One predicted the total messages would be 150, another, 250 The young man on the receiving end of the jest was robust ... your world, examining the comings and goings of the day as if they are tangible, physical objects You see the separateness of the systems of your life; the components are simple and understandable...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 22:38

... observed On the other hand, direct injection of arginine into branches of Douglas fir from the end of April to the end of June did not stimulate flowering (McMullan, 1980) It seems therefore that ... either by stem girdling or by root flooding at the end of shoot elongation The level of ACC and its malonyl form (MACC) increased rapidly in the shoots just after stem girdling and at the end of ... biochemical marker that is specific to the transition stage and, if possible, at the level of the shoot instead of the meristem Certainly, protein analysis using the molecular biology tools could...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... prices The spread between the two ($0.11) is revenue for the broker In the U.S., at that time, a bid-ask spread of 1/8 ($0.125) was not uncommon The ‘profit’ of $15 million reflects the size of the ... all.) Whether the dealer knows everything about the particular bond makes no difference The market has the information and that information is reflected in the price Therefore, the cost of ‘lemons’ ... part of the dealer’s spread No, this does not follow The decline in prices merely reflects the consensus market opinion about the seriousness of the country’s difficulties The stability after the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... Therefore, whilst the underlying principles of good writing and good speaking are constant, the way they are applied can be markedly different In the 'I' of the Storm: the Simple Secrets of Writing ... you They will get lost in your text and either give up or come out the other end not knowing what it is they have read What about the second element of the formula, de-emphasise what is of secondary ... stop them from reading it! There are various methods to generate such a strong desire to read, depending on the type of readers and the type of information Whatever the most appropriate device, the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 05:15

... to the right of the decimal is less than (4, 3, 2, 1, or 0), then ignore all digits after the second one to the right of the decimal Example: In the number 98.74285, the third digit after the ... digits to the right of the decimal place, for example, 98.74 rather than 98.74285 To round off to two decimal places, you must examine the third digit to the right of the decimal ● If the third ... the use of or inability to use the work, even if any of them has been advised of the possibility of such damages This limitation of liability shall apply to any claim or cause whatsoever whether...

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... from one to the other While the methods may be confusing, the mathematics behind them is the same for all In this paper, you will learn some of the simpler ways to figure out many of the subnetting ... about the fourth octet of the address or mask The fourth octet of the mask is all zeros and does not indicate any subnetting structure The fourth octet is part of the host field of the address The ... Page Multiply the number of groups by the result of division above 1*8=8 The beginning address of the subnet is 172.90.8.0! Since there are groups of 256 addresses in the subnet, the ending address...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 04:18

... wavelength of 1.540600 Å The X-ray data was collected using an MBraun curved PSD with a chamber depth of cm The focal radius of the system was 57 mm, and the cm length of the PSD subtended ∼25° 2θ of the ... however, the assignment of component polymorphs to sample mixtures depended on the XRPD results Conclusions Interconversions of the Polymorphs of Disodium Salt The interconversions of polymorphs of the ... anhydrous thermal event Form I to Form II melt of Form II Form I to Form II melt of Form II loss of water melt of Form I Form I to Form II melt of Form II loss of water melt of Form III melt of Form...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... London The first subsection describes the data that are used in this case study, the second discusses the choice of statistical models, while the third presents the results 5.1 Description of the ... the other trend components, the degrees of freedom should be estimated simultaneously within the MCMC algorithm, but this makes the average trend impossible to estimate As the smoothness of the ... years on the logged scale 5.2.2 Modelling the effects of PM10 After modelling the influence of unmeasured risk factors, the effects of PM10 at a number of different lags were investigated A lag of one...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... requirement of the THO complex for the expression of long genes [14], the GLAM ratios of the two THO mutants were dramatically reduced when compared with the wild type (Fig 6) The absence of effect of ... absence or in the presence of sublethal amounts of MPA (B) mRNA levels of the transcription units and strains analyzed in (A) cultured in the absence of MPA The relative values of the mRNA levels ... exclusively impairing the initial steps of transcription influence equally the Assay for gene length-dependent mRNA biogenesis expression of the reporters, independently of the length of their 3¢-UTR Results...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... the title of the book: metamathematics is mathematics applied to study of mathematics I chase shadows: I am trying to identify and clearly describe hidden structures of elementary mathematics ... get insights into the interplay of mathematical structures in mathematics Mathematics has an astonishing power of reection, and a self-referential study of mathematics by mathematical means plays ... childrens perception of mathematics can be affected by logical and mathematical structures (such as systems of numerals) of the language of mathematics instruction and their mother tongue In this...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 12:20

... Addition of tetracycline or doxycycline to the culture medium turns on expression: the inducer binds to the repressor, which then dissociates from the operator From the lack of interaction of the ... proportion because of the limited capacity of the synthesis machinery, especially for membrane proteins [17] To improve the signal-to-noise ratio, we thus aimed to reduce the efficiency of translation ... that the mRNA of OCT1h was predominantly terminated upstream of the EBNA-1 binding site region With pEBTetD, the copy number of OCT1h mRNA was reduced as compared with pEBTet by a factor of nine...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:21

... is believed that the dissociation of the phosphate product occurs through the back door of the motor domain on the opposite side of the head to the one where the ATP enters The atomic structures ... dominated by the change of the R distribution, even in the case of a slight variation of ặj2ổ [18] Comparison of the temperature induced changes in different forms of the protein therefore provides ... to the exibility of the protein matrix In general, the larger change of the f results from greater exibility of the protein matrix [17,18] Figure shows the results obtained in the absence of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... margin (they would be the same whatever the size of the margin) Rather, the profits and losses are the product of the exposure of unit (1 futures contract) The amount put up as margin is further ... axis being the geometric mean, the other being the value for f itself The higher the geometric mean at the optimal f, the better the system, Also, the lower the optimal f, the better the system ... will spend 97.6% of the time on the same side of the origin! With a probability of 5, we can expect the equity curve to spend in excess of 85.35% of the time on the same side of the origin That...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... and the subsequent use of brewing water for preheating the incoming wort and the mash tun; After preheating of the wort, the heating of the mash tun is thermodynamically suggested This cools the ... Further, the integration of solar SC thermal energy has been considered For the ideal integration of solar heat solar system simulations are required to identify the system efficiency and the ... promptly identified The results of the energy balances are brought together in a list of benchmarks and compared with aim-targets Additional to the energy balance, the thermodynamic minimal energy...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20

... conjugate of the complex number z In[5]: ?Abs Out[5]: Abs[z] gives the absolute value of the real or complex number z In[6]: ?Arg Out[6]: Arg[z] gives the argument of z DRAFT of Mathematics of the ... In[2]: ?Re Out[2]: Re[z] gives the real part of the complex number z In[3]: ?Im Out[3]: Im[z] gives the imaginary part of the complex number z DRAFT of Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform ... EULER’S THEOREM The special case k = is called the primitive M th root of unity, since integer powers of it give all of the others: ej2πk/M = ej2π/M k The M th roots of unity are so important that they...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:21

... such Greek is the delta, which is the rate of change of the option premium with respect to the price of the underlying The delta is thus the slope of the tangent line to the graph of the option ... mathematics Nevertheless, since the subject of this book is the mathematics of finance, I have not watered down the mathematics in any way (appropriate to the level of the book, of course) That ... after the short sale, the buyer of the stock, who is the owner of record, will receive that dividend On the other hand, the lender of the shares is also entitled to the dividend Therefore, the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:21

... to preserve the character of the original volume The book contains a collection of mathematical solutions of the differential equations of diffusion and methods of obtaining them They are discussed ... moisture In each case the rate of exchange of moisture at any instant depends on the relative humidity of the air and the moisture concentration in the surface of the solid The simplest reasonable ... would be 'Mathematical solutions of the diffusion equation', for it is with this aspect of the mathematics of diffusion that the book is mainly concerned It deals with the description of diffusion...

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