tsai yu yun hsiao zhao jun pan and hong hwa chen

... Colin-Dufresne, Goldstein, and Martin (2001) and Longstaff, Mithal, and Neis (2005)) Bao and Pan (2008) document a significant amount of transitory excess volatility in corporate bond returns and attribute ... Subrahmanyam, Chacko, and Mallik (2008) and Mahanti, Nashikkar, and Subrahmanyam (2008) propose a measure of latent liquidity and examine its connection with the pricing of corporate bonds and credit default ... calculate the time-series mean and standard deviation of its monthly returns, whose cross-sectional mean, median and standard deviation are reported under Avg Ret and Volatility Price is the average...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... Let the receiving room impulse responses for Q Pan and T Aboulnasr x1 (n) and x2 (n) be h1 (n) and h2 (n), respectively Two adaptive filters h1 (n) and h2 (n) of length L in stereophonic acoustic ... − x2 (23) Q Pan and T Aboulnasr Sort p in descending order as T p = p1 , , pL , p1 > p2 > · · · > pL (24) Order x1 and x2 according to the sorting of p such that x (n − i) and x (n − i) ... regular convolutive BSS and XM selective tap BSS for speech signal measured by SIR for the second output Q Pan and T Aboulnasr 11 Table 2: Average PESQ scores for mixtures and separated signals...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... Obviously, B1 is a finite set, B2 , B3 , and B4 are infinite sets, B1 , B2 , B3 , and B4 are mutually disjoint, and N2 = B1 ∪ B2 ∪ B3 ∪ B4 C J Tian and G Chen 285 Theorem 2.7 Assume that x∗ is ... Mξ i+ j , ∀1 ≤ i ≤ m and all j ∈ N0 (2.47) C J Tian and G Chen 289 Then, for all n ≥ 0, one has (m − σ,n − τ) ∈ Ω and (m,n) ∈ D1 ∪ D2 ∪ D3 Hence, it follows from (2.4) and (2.42) that there ... Hong Kong Research Grants Council under the CERG Grant CityU 1004/02E, and partially supported by the NNSF of China (60374017) and the NSF of Shenzhen References [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] S S Cheng,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... in specific practice offices and audit clients in the same geographic locale; hence, their expertise and knowledge is both officeand client-specific (Francis, Stokes, and Andersen 1999; Ferguson et ... between and percent Frankel et al (2002) and Carey and Simnett (2006) use a cutoff value of percent, and our results are robust to this smaller cutoff level, as well as intermediate cutoffs of and ... indicates that both fixed-effect and random-effect models control for omitted variables in panel data, and that a fixed-effect model is a special case of the more general random-effect model For the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:42

... Chen and Tsung O Cheng Contributors Takashi Seki, Hsieh, Ping-Chung Leung, Wen-Long Hu, Yu- Chiang Hung, I-Ling Hung, Yutaka Takaoka, Yoichiroh Hosokawa, Aki Sugano, Akihiko Ito, Mika Ohta, Zhonghua ... post-baseline period), there are still 142 and 141 participants available in the acupuncture and sham groups, respectively Most of the participants in both true and sham acupuncture groups reported ... medicine from the standpoint of Western medicine and basic science, and has also extensively studied reactive oxygen species (ROS) and NO metabolism in various physiological and pathological conditions...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 18:20

... Let X, Y , and Z be real topological vector spaces, and let K and C be nonempty subsets of X and Y , respectively Let F : K × C → 2Z , S : K → 2C be set-valued mappings If both F and S are upper ... mapping s at y, then SEP I reduces to the GVVIP which is discussed by Huang and Fang and Zeng and Yao : to find a vector x ∈ K and s ∈ T x such that As, y − x ≤ F y − F x /int C 0, ∀y ∈ K 1.6 If Z L ... problem which is considered by Fang and Huang , Chiang and Yao , and Chiang as follows: to find a vector x ∈ K such that ≤ T x , y − x /int C 1.7 Fixed Point Theory and Applications for all y ∈ K The...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... Appendix B, and final results are rewritten here: E dsr Xl,k,1 N −N1 −1 = CσX φ Δn N − N1 − Δn J0 βΔn WNk,k Δn =−(N −N1 −1) (17) (22) W.-L Chin and S.-G Chen is the desired signal power, and E Nk,1 ... modulation, N = 256, γ = 23 and 29 dBs As can be seen, the derived result (31) is more accurate than that in [10, Equation (15)] NUMERICAL AND SIMULATION RESULTS W.-L Chin and S.-G Chen The SIR curves ... 2 2 where σX is the signal power and C τ =0 σhτ /N = σH /N Similarly, with is the total channel power normalized by N (11) and (1), the power of combined ICI and AWGN can be shown to be N k,0...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... Society, examine the differences of their present patterns between Singapore-Malaysia and Hong Kong-Macao, and analyze how these differences were formed The contribution of this thesis is not ... obtained both from historical documents and oral interviews of my fieldwork Chronological and logical approaches were adopted in order to capture the development and intrinsic connection accurately ... ethnic Chinese are able to recall their tradition and culture And by the rituals they practice their own culture can be preserved in a multicultural and multi-races environment This is the secret...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 22:51

... and environmental characteristics and people’s perceptions have been examined and measured for their actual association and effect on companies’ overall crisis preparedness in Singapore and Hong ... two surveys with business managers and executives from a total of 413 business companies in Singapore and Hong Kong The study investigated and examined companies’ existing status of crisis preparedness, ... economically and otherwise Amid the rapid globalisation and development of information and communication technologies, more and more Asian companies have moved to become regional and/ or global...

Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2015, 17:20

... increased intracranial and systemic pressure, and nausea and vomiting, and should not be used routinely • Spinal anaesthesia produces more rapid and dense anaesthesia than epidural and an anaesthetic ... patients, and few manuals or handbooks bridge the gap between routine obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia and this challenging area of practice Finally, the boundaries between obstetric anaesthesia and ... the vertebrae and sacral canal, vertebral ligaments, epidural space, meninges and spinal cord The important peripheral aspects are the lumbar and sacral plexi and the muscular and cutaneous supply...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... Nietzsche and Schopenhauer And this is not to mention other well-known or popularly accredited cases such as Goethe and Spinoza (or Leibniz), Heine and Hegel, Hofmannsthal and Mach, Brecht and Marx, ... German and Head of Department at the University of Liverpool He is the author of Poetry and history in Novalis and the German Enlightenment () and ‘Prediger aus der neuen romantischen Clique.’ ... of German and Head of Department at the University of Liverpool He is the author of Poetry and History in Novalis and in the Tradition of the German Enlightenment () and Literature and Pulpit...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:58

... Weldon Hammond and Evan Ronald Hammond The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused ... what is written and what must be written – between text and context, expression and ideology – is so extensive and complex that the traditional line between the “literary” foreground and the “historical” ... to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... Hutchinson and H Kerr Graham Index 241 Geoff Sheean The measurement of spasticity 64 Garth R Johnson and Anand D Pandyan Physiotherapy management of spasticity 79 Roslyn N Boyd and Louise Ada Seating and ... techniques and surgery We have also stressed the importance of adequate measurement techniques and, indeed, Chapter has been completely rewritten by Garth R Johnson and Arnand D Pandyan We hope ... internally rotated arm with pronated forearm and flexed wrist and fingers The leg is extended, internally rotated and adducted, and the ankle is plantar flexed and inverted, often with toe flexion Other...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02

... out and inspect, and if it is undamaged re-pack and send to me If damaged, pack another machine, subject to the same treatment until you are convinced that it can stand being thus handled and ... windows and fires, hats, white shirts and woolen underwear, boots and shoes, trunks, bags and boxes, CHAPTER VIII 44 bedsteads, mattresses, sheets and blankets most of which a Chinese can without, and ... beyond the South Gate, and there fed by common charity Huddled together in disease and rags and unspeakable misery, they died in thousands, and the Chinese say that of five thousand who crossed the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

... of multicarrier and space– time signal formats The network architectures include macro- micro- and picocellular networks and home (HAN) and personal area networks (PAN) Broadband radio access ... the adaptation chain 4.1.7 Estimation process and estimate error 4.1.8 Channel process and estimation delay 4.1.9 Feedback process and mode command reception 4.1.10 Link service rate with imperfections ... broadcasting, satellite, mobile ad hoc and sensor networks Two additional chapters on ad hoc and sensor networks should help the reader understand the main problems and available solutions in these...

Ngày tải lên: 09/01/2014, 15:40

... environmental stress [5,8] Depending on the stimulus and cellular context, the JNK pathway has been implicated in both apoptosis and cell survival [9] The duration and extent of MAPK activation depends not ... with endosomal and Golgi structures using specific markers (EEA1, TfnR for endosomes and GM130, TGN46 for Golgi) and found that JSP1-wt partially colocalized with the Golgi apparatus and showed minimal ... mutant expression plasmid, and endogenous JNK was precipitated from total cell lysates using recombinant GST-tagged c -JUN Precipitates were incubated with [c-32P]-ATP, and c -JUN phosphorylation was...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 14:20

... to +53 and )148 to +53 regions of c -jun in p12 3jun- eGFP and p14 8jun- eGFP, respectively Recombinant clones were confirmed for insertion of the promoter regions of c -jun by sequencing Cells and cell ... Therefore, to assay jun promoter activity, two promoter constructs ) p12 3jun- eGFP and p14 8jun- eGFP ) were made by cloning PCR amplified )123 to +53 region and )148 to +53 region of c -jun, respectively ... region on c -jun promoter activity (A) Schematic diagram of plasmids p12 3jun- eGFP and p14 8jun- eGFP used in reporter gene assay Plasmid p12 3jun- eGFP consists of the )123 to +53 region of c -jun cloned...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:22

... p65 and c -Jun (A, B and C) RAW cells were transfected with each reporter construct (0.2 lg each) and the indicated expression vectors (50 ng each) encoding NF-jB p65 (A), c -Jun (B) or both (C) and ... p65 and c -Jun enhances LPS-induced CMV IE enhancer/promoter activation (A and B) RAW cells were transfected with pCMV-Luc and indicated amounts of plasmids expressing NF-jB p65 (A) or c -Jun (B) ... regulated in part by the activation of c -Jun NH2-terminal kinase which phosphorylates and subsequently increases the transcriptional activity of c -Jun in LPS- and CpG-ODN-treated macrophages [37,38]...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... to select a command by using the Ribbon, I describe the command by using the tab name, the group name, and the command name: for example, Choose Home➜Alignment➜Wrap Text This command translates ... here: ➤ Popular Commands: Displays commands that Excel users commonly use ➤ Commands Not in the Ribbon: Displays a list of commands that you cannot access from the Ribbon ➤ All Commands: Displays ... add a command that’s not on the Ribbon or add a command that executes a macro In all other situations, it’s much easier to locate the command on the Ribbon, right-click the command, and choose...

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