... Richard [1987], Jagannathan and Wang [1996], and Gomes et al. [2003]. More recently,Avramov and Chordia [2006] show that allowing betas to vary with firm characteristics and macroeconomic vari-ables, ... repricing or maturity time of assets and liabilities covers a significant portionof banks’ balance sheets. For example, assets for which no repricing or maturity information isavailable account, on average, ... transformation, bankprofitabilityWe thank Bill Bassett, Elmar Mertens, Bill Nelson, George Pennacchi, Alberto Rossi, James Vickrey, MissakaWarusawitharana, Jonathan Wright, Emre Yoldas, Hao...
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... next action creates a variable named matchFound and assigns it an initial value of false. The importance of this variable will become evident in a moment. Enter an invalid state name (anything ... errors array because that function is able to push error messages into the array, thus affecting its length and the way the statement is evaluated. In the end, if validateName(), validateEmail(), ... defined. Placing this function call here adds state-name validation capability to the main validateForm() function. This function call is placed just above the conditional statement that checks...
... Ramachandran, Tzi-Bun Ng, Jack Ho Wong, Arvind M. Kayastha, Alka Dwevedi, Marco Arruda, HerbertBarbosa, Lidiane Mataveli, Silvana Ruella Oliveira, Sandra Arruda, Ricardo Azevedo, Priscila Gratão, ... Enterobacteriaceae [138]. Due to their commercial importance as naturalpreservatives and as therapeutic agents against pathogenic bacteria, these antimicrobialpeptides have been a major area of ... 317Rafael Real-Guerra, Fernanda Stanisỗuaski and Cộlia Regina CarliniChapter 16 Explanations for the Rise of Soybean in Brazil 341Eduardo Antonio GavioliChapter 17 Climatic Restrictions for Maximizing...
... multiple databases.This problem arises when organizations consolidatetheir databases and hence must transfer data from olddatabases to the new ones. It forms a critical step indata warehousing and ... Management: An emergingimportant application class is peer data management,which is a natural extension of data integration (Aberer2003). A peer data management system does away withthe notion ... Supposewe have created the mappings, and have used themto transfer the house listings from database S and an-other database U (not shown in the figure) to those ofdatabase T . Databases S and U may...
... 4: Manual EvaluationsHere, we manually evaluate quality of summaries, a common DUC task. Human annotators are giventwo sets of summary text for each document set,generated from two approaches: ... details),responsiveness and overall performance.We asked 4 annotators to rate DUC2007 pre-dicted summaries (45 summary pairs per anno-tator). A total of 92 pairs are judged and eval-uation results ... in documents given ab-stract summaries created by humans is im-portant in extractive multi -document sum-marization. In this paper, we formulate ex-tractive summarization as a two step learn-ing...
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... accounted for the vast bulk of Irish trade and apparently represented as stable a currency as was then available. The substantial degree of financial integration between Ireland and the UK was also ... of a currency board arrangement, it is hard to disagree with Fischer (1993) that a currency board is likely to be good as a transitional device, but less than optimal as a permanent arrangement. ... monetary arrangements towards comprehensive central banking took place very gradually, and without losing the financial stability that the original pure currency board arrangement had established.29...
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... execution phase, an attempt is made to maintain the planned start dates for these gating activities. For all other activities, the planned start dates are ignored. Instead, a “road-runner” ... its ideas can be easily adapted by practicing managers. Keywords: Critical Chain, Theory of Constraints, Buffer Management, Critical Path MethodEMJ Focus Areas: Program & Project Management ... published more than 100 papers in leading academic and professional journals, and co-authored a book on Value Creation, Managerial Decision Making and Cost Accounting. Contact: Thomas G. Lechler,...
... of theoretical and actual sample by gender and age 30 Table 2-16 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by geographical area 33 Table 2-17 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample ... Table 2-18 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by education level 36 Table 2-19 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by occupational status 36 Table 2-20 The ratios for expanding ... subsection. Table 2-15 compares the planned and actual sample by country. Table 2-15 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by gender and age FRANCE Theoretical sample (No,=500) Actual sample...
... Action Against Sexual Harassment at Work in Asia and the Pacific, Geneva International Labour Organisation: Bureau for Gender Equality. 2000, Violence Against Women in the World of Work, Gender ... targets and are financially penalised as a result. Women are also required to cover the cost of transport to the sales office each day and this absorbs a significant portion of their salary. A ... who reported being aware of drug use, almost 69% cited Yama (amphetamine) use. It has been reported that the use of amphetamines is increasing in Cambodia, particularly in urban areas and these...
... structure for organizing information, and a systematic approach to the evaluation of imprecise andunreliable information.Darzentas (1987) formulates the facility location problem as a fuzzy set partitioning ... and9 Table 6: Fuzzy Quality ManagementQuality Area Author(s) Fuzzy Quality ApplicationAcceptance Otha and Ichihashi (1988) Single-stage, two-pointSampling attribute sampling planChakraborty ... Kanagawa, A. , Tamaki, F. and Ohta, H. (1993) Control charts for process average and variability based onlinguistic data, International Journal of Production Research, 31(4), 913-922.[38] Kandel,...