... rounds of judgments, with feedback and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard deviation – Round includes task-level data mean scores of candidates in bottom and top quartiles, and overall ... standard deviation – Round includes task-level data—P+ values of candidates in bottom and top quartiles, and overall – Round includes percentage of candidates classified A2 , B2, C2 based on panel’s ... countries – Familiar with TOEFL®, English language instruction, learning and assessment, and the CEFR • Standard setting approaches – Performance-sample (Profile) approach for Writing and Speaking –...
... Bank Is the “Central” Bank? AnApplicationof Markov Theory tothe Canadian Large Value Transfer System Morten L Bech, James T E Chapman, and Rod Garratt Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff ... topology, interbank, money markets Bech: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (e-mail: morten.bech@ny.frb.org) Chapman: Bank of Canada (e-mail: jchapman@bankofcanada.ca) Garratt: University of California, ... true since the Bank of Canada is also a participant in the LVTS and acts as a drain of liquidity in Tranche Specifically, the Bank of Canada receives payments on behalf of various other systems (e.g...
... Vasan RS: Vitamin D deficiency and risk of cardiovascular disease Circulation 2008, 117:503-511 65 Quan F, Korneluk RG, Tropak MB, Gravel RA: Isolation and characterization ofthe human catalase ... Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Zaridze D, Lissowska J, Rudnai P, Fabianova E, Mates D, Foretova L, Janout V, Bencko V, Gaborieau V, Gioia-Patricola L, Bellini1 I, Barale R, Canzian F, Hall J, Boffetta P, ... each of candidate SNP via adding an interaction term ofthe SNP and the pollutant simultaneously with both the main effect terms adjusting for the same covariates as the above [12,23] Because two...
... Investment and Tourism: Empirical Evidence from India Saroja Selvanathan, E .A Selvanathan and Brinda Viswanathan * Working Paper 47/2009 Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development in Indian Fiscal ... surrogate markets such as land prices which may vary depending on the quality and quantity of irrigation water from the Ganga it may have access to Since there are missing markets for quality and ... Zero Quality of Quantity of Regeneration Treated Treated ofthe Park Wastewater Wastewater Average Average Average Average Average Average vs vs vs vs vs vs profile profile profile profile profile...
... S R CS The formal definition ofthe sublanguage currently takes the form ofan ATN grammar The parser takes a sentence as input and produces a parse tree The parse is input tothe ERL "machine", ... as mentioned above a language that is well suited tothe specification of templates and the algorithms for instantiating them For ease of implementation, the compiler for the subset of Prolog u ... encoded as in Table The head ofthe "construct" clause has three arguments: a template name, the name ofthe syntactic constituent which serves as the context which is searched in an attempt to find...
... brought into a variety of programs for analysis The details and full description ofthe mathematical model at the heart ofthe IOF Allocator and its implementation are included in Appendixes A and ... grouping, and control of both organic and nonorganic sensors and weapons are major challenges tothe Army [13] In the spring of 2002, TRAC began a weapons and munitions mix analysis to investigate what ... The IOF Allocator as Part ofa Suite of Analytical Tools xii Internetting of Fires Is the Dynamic Pooling of Resources Enabled by C4ISR The IOF Allocator as Part ofthe WMT Suite of Analytical...
... Page of Table Mean and standard deviations of linear measurements Length/mm 10% Diameter/mm 50% Diameter/mm 90% Diameter/mm Sternal Angle/° Acromial Angle/° Male Female Male Female Male Female ... supervised the research, edited and evaluated the manuscript HM assisted in the design ofthe study, supervised the research, edited and evaluated the manuscript and provided clinical relevance and ... Distribution Modelling (PDM) [3] The PDM technique represents a training set of landmark data using the Figure Clavicle models Source and target clavicle models mean landmarks and a set of eigenvectors...
... normal tothe horizontal The attenuation of irradiance within the tree canopy is a function of leaf area: irradiance in each cube is calculated according tothe summed total leaf surface in the ... (which then are “predecessors”) The newly generated branches have particular initial dimensional and physiological properties and a particular branching angle The number of branches, angles and the ... cubes above The parameterization ofthe LambertBeer’s equation [28] is based on irradiance data measured at various levels in an alder canopy (data not shown) 2.2 Characterisation of different leaf...
... Relevant market includes relevant product market and relevant geographic market Analyses and methods used by the EU and the US in identifying relevant market are basically similar to each other ... VLC and US and EU law on the identification of dominance While US and EU law pay attention to two elements: “significant market power” and the “durable” feature ofthe power for an appearance of ... Treaty Articles 85 and 86 became Articles 81 and 82 ofthe EC Treaty and used to be called as Article 81EC, Article 82EC The Treaty was further amended by the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Treaty...
... Tran, Hoang Nga List of Abbreviations ASEAN Associations of South East Asian Nations AAC Average avoidable cost ATC Average total cost AVC Average variable cost CCHC Competition Case Handling ... violates the antitrust laws and permits States to sue companies for antitrust violations parens patriae 15 In those Acts, Section ofthe Sherman Act14, Sections and ofthe Clayton Act15 and the ... Vietnam – EU Cooperation Agreement was signed Then, Vietnam officially became a member ofthe Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on July 25, 1995; ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) on January...
... clinical symptoms, high titers of anti-viral capsid antigen IgM and IgG as well as IgG against early antigen and membrane antigen complexes can be detected IgA against viral capsid 11 Humanized ... EBNA-LP was also shown to greatly enhance the immortalization process 86,87 and enhance EBNA2-mediated transcriptional activation 88 Therefore, EBNA2, 3A, 3C, EBNA-LP and LMP1 are essential for ... lymphoma in Africa; almost all cases ofthe anaplastic variant of nasopharyngeal carcinoma endemic in southern China 100; and 20-40% of Hodgkin lymphoma in the Western world 101,102 In addition,...
... be found in the upper layers ofthe epithelium and lamina propria ofthe airways These DCs are at an immature state Therefore, at steady state, uptake and presentation of antigen by these DCs would ... in tolerance rather than induce an inflammatory response For example, the administration of ovalbumin (OVA) into the lung of mice had been shown to result in immunologic tolerance rather than an ... understanding ofthe mechanism ofthe disease to assist in the development ofa cure or at least, more effective therapies 1.1.2 Causes of asthma Asthma is a complex disease that can be induced by a...
... description of dependent variables and original explanatory variables with the denotation in STATA below The explanatory variables in our estimations include all variable data which are available, in case ... loans Large banks enter themarket using credit scoring and automated centralized system (Allen and Scott, 2007) Automated small-business lending allows banks to profitably make loans and able ... being approved or not and derive the quantitative model By using the model, all applications are evaluated equally and consistently Then the analysts set up a cut-off point to separate applicants...
... description ofthemodel and the data, the results ofthe analysis are discussed, and a note is made of certain aspects ofthe follow-up analysis Key words: banking, data envelopment analysis, linear ... Non-controllable inputs are those which, although important for branch performance, cannot be affected by branch management Often, an attempt is made to adjust for the impact of factors over which management ... envelopment analysis Mgmt Sci 32, 1613-1627 10 J SMULLEN (1989) Theapplicationof data envelopment analysis to branch planning and management appraisal Presented at the European Working Group of OperationalResearch...
... general Sincere thanks to Roberto Frassanito and Michael Rey for their most useful explanations and remarks I am very grateful to Prof Uwe Schmock for all the help with the mathematical theory And ... portfolio (the gain or loss ofthe portfolio, given that the positions stay unchanged and the next day themarket behaviors exactly as in the considered day) The major advantages ofthe historical simulation ... option The estimated risk measures obtained by fitting GPD tothetothe tail ofthe P&L, when they are mapped separately to risk factors and the aggregated P&L, and also the historical risk measures...
... related toa situation Therefore, in perceiving a language, the students must always be aware ofthe accompanying situation It is clear that the uses to which a language may be put are many; we cannot ... special characteristics of language skills we aim at teaching Aims, in general, tend to have a rather broader character than objectives The objectives illustrate the aims ofthe syllabus and are ... be achieved and in what proportion - Translate decisions into actual teaching units There are many theories that examine the nature and function of language in detail All of these, according to...
... Journal of Business and Management H.JamalZubairi, ShaziaFarooq (2011) “Testing the validity of CAPM and APT in the oil, gas and Fertilizer Companies listed on the Karachi Stock Echange Pakistan ... of asset i and that ofmarket portfolio as a fraction of total variance ofmarket portfolio In Roll’s critique, he also points out a number of drawbacks of CAPM such as its implication ofmarket ... more factors in Fama French, firm size and book tomarket In their study, the relation between market beta and average return is weak, as opposed to that of Fama French factors Similarly, Drew and...
... Method by the use ofthe target language as a means of instruction and communication in the language classroom, and by the avoidance ofthe use ofthe first language and of 14 translation as a technique ... instructors can give students practice in managing and varying the language that different scripts contain 2.6.3.3 Using language to talk about language 32 Language learners are often too embarrassed ... a chance to participate and monitoring their performance to see that it is satisfactory At the final stage, the production one, the teacher takes on the role of manager and guide Students are...