... Institute of Technology, Zürich University of Zürich, Swiss Banking Institute Master of Advanced Studies in Finance Master Thesis Statistical Methods of Valuation and Risk Assessment: Empirical Analysis ... volatility) for major equity market indices using standard methods as well as the most recent state -of- the-art methods. The analysis of the risk measures calculated by Riskometer on September ... ratio of 1.05 where the directional strategies exhibit a ratio of 0.75 and in the case of a minimal acceptable rate of 0% non-directional strategies exhibit on average an annualised ratio of 1.75...
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Tài liệu Methods of Payment in International Trade pdf
... Methods of Payment in International Trade This guide explains the different methods of getting paid and the different levels of risks involved. You should note that none of the methods ... some research? On the basis of this information, the exporter can start to think about his stance in terms of the payment risk ladder. 5 SITPRO Financial Guide: Methods of Payment in International ... method of settlement for the exporter as it carries the risk of dishonour upon presentation as well as the added inconvenience of being slow to clear. There is also the very real danger of the...
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Tài liệu Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications pdf
... Although the existence of intrinsic scales does not mean that they are always readily observable, a suite of methods, including spectral analysis, fractal analysis, wavelet analysis, scale variance, ... slope of the regression line changes significantly over adjacent regions. 2.2.2 Dimensional Analysis and Similarity Analysis The concepts of similarity are the foundation of dimensional analysis ... and this often amounts to the derivation of a power-law relationship. This notion of scaling has often been related to the concepts of similarity, fractals, or scale-invariance, all of which...
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Tài liệu Negotiations in project sales and delivery process: An application of negotiation analysis pdf
... and a focus away from equilibrium analysis and toward perceptions of the zone of possible agreement. Each of these four distinctive features of negotiation analysis are discussed in the following. ... is often assumed in game theory (Sebenius 1992). One of the main purposes of negotiation analysis is to help the parties identify and realize potential gains through a systematic study of the ... - 10 - 2.2.2 Special features of negotiation analysis Although negotiation analysis draws heavily from the three fields of theory discussed above in the end of the previous section, the approach...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Plasticity of S2–S4 specificity pockets of executioner caspase-7 revealed by structural and kinetic analysis pdf
... assistance during X-ray data collection. Use of the Advanced Photon Source was supported by the US Department of Energy, Of ce of Science, Of ce of Basic Energy Sci- ences, under Contract No. ... S1. S2 subsite of caspase-7. Fig. S2. S3 subsite of caspase-7. Fig. S3. S4 subsite of caspase-7. Table S1. Polar interactions of caspase-7 with peptide analogs. Table S2. Examples of physiological ... rotation of the side chains of Tyr230, Trp232 and Phe282 can reduce or expand the S2 subsite of caspase-7 to accommodate various sizes of hydrophobic P2 residue. The aromatic side chain of P2 His...
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Tài liệu A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis pdf
... number of low-end servers instead of deploying a smaller set of high-end servers. With this rise of in- terest in clusters has come a proliferation of tools for programming them. One of the earliest ... kinds of systems in terms of performance and de- velopment complexity. To this end, we define a benchmark con- sisting of a collection of tasks that we have run on an open source version of MR ... Section 3 of the architectural trade-offs. Then, in Section 4 we present our benchmark consisting of a variety of tasks, one taken from the MR paper [8], and the rest a collection of more demanding tasks....
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khóa học: Quantitative analysis, using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, of the N-terminal hydrolysis and cyclization reactions of the activation 2 process of onconase pdf
... addition of the exopeptidase). Preparative activation Activation of (Pyr)-ONC (M23L) was performed as described in the Materials and methods. The presence of pyroglutamyl at the N-terminus of the ... observation of an induction band only in the SDS/PAGE analysis of crude extracts of BL21(DE3)-pET11d-(Met1)-ONC (M23L) induced cells. These yields were comparable to those obtained by using other methods ... the Materials and methods. Completion of the hydrolysis was confirmed by the disappearance of the (Met1)-ONC (M23L) signal in the MALDI-TOF mass spectra 1 h after the addition of AAP. The pH was...
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Tài liệu AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS pdf
... coefficient number of ways to choose k out of n items [ n k ] Stirling number of the rst kind number of permutations of n elements that have k cycles { n k } Stirling number of the second kind number of ways ... Indeed, when the results of analytic and empirical studies agree, we become strongly convinced of the validity of the algorithm as well as of the correctness of the process of analysis. Some algorithms ... distribution Nk of costs are also relevant to our understanding of performance characteristics of an algorithm. Fortunately, for virtually all of the examples that we study in the analysis of algorithms,...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 20:20
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE, BEING A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE, AND THE METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION pdf
... Chapter I. Of The Necessity Of Commencing With An Analysis Of Language. Chapter II. Of Names. Chapter III. Of The Things Denoted By Names. Chapter IV. Of Propositions. Chapter V. Of The ... connotation of the name. And the fact, that no questions science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence. In so far as belief professes to be founded on proof, the office of logic is ... enumeration of all kinds of Things which are capable of being made predicates, or of having any thing predicated of them: after which to determine the import of Predication, that is, of Propositions,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Thematic segmentation of texts: two methods for two kinds of texts" pdf
... to the addition of related words. So, in order to build a text segmentation system independent of the kind of processed text, we have proposed to make a shallow analysis of the text characteristics ... articles often refer to a same notion with a large set of different words linked by semantic or pragmatic relations. Thus, there is often no reiteration of terms representative of the text ... compound nouns in 11 years of the French Le Monde newspaper. They have been collected with the INTEX tool of Silberztein (1994). The part of speech tagger TreeTagger of Schmid (1994) is applied...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "A STRUCTURED REPRESENTATION OF WORD-SENSESIR OR SEMANTIC ANALYSIS" pdf
... detailed description of the algorithm, refer to [PAZ87] At the end of the semantic analysis, the system produces two possible outputs. The first is a set of short paraphrases of the input sentence: ... " ;of& quot; or by the ending "'s", indicates a social relation (SOC_I,~F,|,) as in "the doctor of John" or in "the father of my friend", part -of (PART -OF) ... study of examples found in the analyzed domain. The final set is a trade-off between two competing requirements: 2. A large number of conceptual relations improves the expressiveness of the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20
Employer Partnership Program Analysis of Alternatives pdf
... should include: • Number of website visitors and users as a percentage of unemployed RC service members (or other measures of the number of potential users); • Number of website users (who click ... form. Figure 2.9 Average Number of Jobs Viewed by Number of Visits RAND TR1005-2.9 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total number of jobs viewed Number of productive visits 4 Employer ... objectivity. xii Employer Partnership Program Analysis of Alternatives active duty who are seeking civilian employment. For example, the Oce of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Aairs’ Yellow...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Investigation of the substrate specificity of a b-glycosidase from Spodoptera frugiperda using site-directed mutagenesis and bioenergetics analysis pdf
... molecular basis of the enzymatic specificity. Having a better understanding of the m olecular basis of b-glycosidase specificity would result in an i mproved knowledge of the physiological role of these ... properties of the residue 39 side-chain, while maintaining its length) did not affect the energy of that interaction (Ta ble 5). More over, the replacement of Q39 with N, which sh ortened the length of ... are a sum of DG à .EachDG à value represents the disruption of a noncovalent i nteraction owing to the substitution of residues 39 or 451 for an alanine residue or because o f t he lack of a glycone...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "INIGATION OF PROCESSING STRATEGIES FOR THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ARGOMF" pdf
... hearer (H) of a particular point of view. We then concentrate on the analysis problem of determining the overall structure of the argtm~nt. Considering an argument as a series of propositions, ... than one of the taxonomy's categories. For these cases, the union of possible restrictions may have to be considered. 2.3 IMPLICATIONS OF THIS ANALYSIS DESIC~ Our description of various ... class="bi x0 y0 w1 h1" alt="" I~IGATION OF PROCESSING STRATEGIES FOR THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ARGOMF/Trs Robin Cohen Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, Canada M5S IA7...
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