... autoregressive process for sales, the signs of the predicted relations and correlations (other than earnings changes) andthe results are essentially unchanged Therelationbetween sales and cash flow ... =0 the forecast error variance is the same forthe best and 2] the earnings forecasts [(1t - oiO' but higher forthe current cash flow forecast by 0'2 In fact this result holds for all longer forecast ... for difference in means or a t-test forthe mean of the pairwise differences betweenthe actual and predicted correlations 47 Table Correlation between predicted and actual correlations at the...
... finite mass andthe system caused to rotate round A and B, the effort of the ring to get away from the axis distance between them andthe law same as if A and B to approach each other, of approach ... of the mass of these particles is due to the ether gripped by their lines of force they carry means If that the lines of electric force grip the ether, then, since of light, according to the ... exert forces the forces between moving electric charges, in particular unless the two spheres are moving with the same speed and in the same direction the forces between them are not equal and...
... relevant randomized trials We also used the Cochrane Library, searchingthe Clinical Trials Registry for randomized trials, andthe Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) as well as the Database ... virus We had no language restrictions The titles (and the abstracts, when available) in the MEDLINE and EMBASE printouts, andthe reference lists of all primary and review articles were reviewed ... of articles for inclusion in the review We standardized presentation of the randomized trial results using relative risk, and calculated 95% confidence intervals using the log transformation method...
... whom had received their research funding from the ARC, to discuss and review their work in the reading area As noted by Pratt and Coltheart7, the issues covered andthe emphases of the different ... move into the next stage of ‘reading to learn’ Forthe purposes of the evaluation, the children in Year in the year preceding the introduction of the SWELL program formed the control group These ... administrators andthe public These concerns include the social factors related to the development of literacy, including the early development of literacy in the home and preschool environment, and the...
... open forum for policy dialogue among OECD members, non-members and other stakeholders worldwide This forum provides them with a platform for exchanging their expertise and experience in meeting the ... EFFECTIVE POLICIES FOR SMALL BUSINESS A GUIDE FORTHE POLICY REVIEW PROCESS AND STRATEGIC PLANS FOR MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT About the OECD The Organisation for Economic ... framework forthe review of existing policies andthe state of the SME sector This covers: • • • • • • The state of the SME sector, its needs and its reactions to policies; The process of formulating...
... 2226 The Journal of Finance ues of the call options Therefore therelationbetween Treasury yields and yield spreads of callable corporate bonds should be more negative than therelationbetween ... changes in the level andthe slope I measure the level of the Treasury term structure with the three-month Treasury bill yield, denoted YT,104, t , and measure the slope with the spread betweenthe ... relationbetween yield spreads andthe slope of the Treasury term structure is weaker, andthe thirty-year yield no longer summarizes the relevant information in the term structure The hypothesis...
... the connection of the two ideas And on the other hand, there seems to be a close connection betweenthe several views of "special creation" of the soul before both the single earth-life andthe ... past the land of Isis the home of the builders of the Pyramids the people of the Sphinx Whether these people were the direct descendants of the people of destroyed Atlantis, the home of the Ancient ... Reincarnation, and to the ideas of the complex soul As the survivors of Atlantis are believed to have been the ancestors of the Egyptians on the one hand, and of the Ancient Peruvians on the other the two...
... (Fig 2A) Therefore, ferric ions must be present for formation of the complex between ApoTf and Ggly or Gamide Theeffect of ferric ions on the stability of the gastrin–ApoTf complex was then investigated ... a ligand forthe first ferric ion, and that Glu8 and Glu9 act as ligands forthe second ferric ion, in the gastrin– ferric ion complex for both Ggly [12] and Gamide [13] To characterize the involvement ... ApoTf into the BIAcore channel to determine whether the ferric ions were required forthe interaction between gastrins and ApoTf In the presence of EDTA, no interaction between ApoTf and either Gamide...
... example and then used to generate a prediction forthe leftout example The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, andthe true label as given by the ... English Relation Extraction Given a relation name, labeled examples of the relation, and a corpus, traditional Relation Extraction (RE) systems output instances of the given relation found in the ... consider the task of open extraction, in which the goal is to extract relationships from text when their number is large and identity unknown We then consider the targeted extraction task, in which the...
... banks to their customers, therefore they have effects on the behaviour of borrowers and consequently on the real economy On the other hand, prices set by banks influence their profitability and soundness ... probability, and can be therefore assumed as the “Normal” regime Regime 1, on the other hand, contains 15% to 20% of the observations and has an average duration over months only for 12 Given the optimal ... parentheses Daggers ‡ and † denote significance at the 5% and 10% levels, respectively Forthe LR tests we report the degrees of freedom of the chi-square statistics in parentheses andthe corresponding...
... contribute to the binding affinity, for example those between T420 andthe backbone atoms of H68, L429 and Y77 in strand b4, andbetween P431 andthe aliphatic part of Q80 side chain in the loop connecting ... found betweenthe carboxylate group of E422 andthe amine groups of K43 and K44 of monomer B, andthe side chains of R421 and D12 of monomer A These residues point towards the interior of the peptide ... corresponding values forthe van der Waals’ and electrostatic terms are )887 and )8523 kcalÆmol)1 forthe complex, and )56 and )259 kcalÆmol)1 forthe intermolecular contributions, respectively The mean...
... in the shutter domain, but at the head of strand andthe base of the reactive centre loop The mutation forces open the gap between strands and of b-sheet A to allow partial loop insertion and ... b-sheet A and stabilize the shutter domain against opening further, thereby preventing the incorporation of the reactive loop of another molecule and hence the formation of polymers Theeffect of ... rapidly forming polymers and that theeffect of the compounds is to increase the activation temperature required for polymerization The striking effects of glycerol, erythritol, trehalose and glucose...
... the mathematical models and wrote the manuscript JG co-designed the experiment, assisted in the data processing and interpretation and writing of the manuscript KS conducted the experiments and ... anterior For a full description of the structure andthe parameters of the force-velocity and force-length relationships of the model (Eq A15) we refer to [47] The most important parameter values ... compute the muscle force from the active state andthe muscle length and velocity according to: Freflex ,tri = f v (v tri ) f (l tri ) tri (A15) and similarly forthe tibialis anterior For a full...
... row) versus the values of MAS forthe elbow (left column) and ankle (right column) The scatter of the points andthe low values of the correlation coefficient (r2 < 0.23) indicate that there was ... Figures and show scatter plots of the slope and intercepts for GR (left column) and K (right column) versus the values of MAS forthe elbow (Fig 6) and ankle (Fig 7), respectively The scatter of the ... properties were estimated using the difference betweenthe slope/intercepts of the paretic andthe slope/intercepts of the nonparetic side Since abnormalities in the GR and K of the ankle joint in people...
... AES, in which the Slepian-Wolf coder takes the twofold role of compression step and diffusion step for security The last two papers are in the field of secure entropy coding, and address the design ... Journal on Information Security problem of security in a distributed video coding framework, where the correlation of adjacent frames is exploited at the decoder, as opposed to the encoder In their ... compression and encryption In their paper “Multimedia encryption with joint randomized entropy coding and rotation in partitioned bitstream,” Xie and Kuo propose a framework that couples randomized...
... Mau Hai and Phung Van Manh pluripolarity of graphs andthe holomorphicity of Hartogs type and of Forelli type (see Theorems 3.2 and 4.1 below) The paper is organized as follows Beside the introduction, ... weaker than the theorem of Shcherbina At the same time, this result itself is a form of Hartogs theorem However before proving this result we establish some results on therelationbetween holomorphicity ... other hand, E2 = D2 \ A2 is pluripolar Hence fz1 = fz1 on D2 Thus f = f on D1 × D2 andthe proof forthe case N = is completed Now we assume that the conclusion of the theorem holds for N −...
... flow theory, asymptotic response from a single cycle of selection is calculated as the sum of the product of the asymptotic proportion of genes deriving from the different age-sex classes and their ... deriving from the kth sexage group, Sk is the genetic selection differential forthe kth sex age-group expressed as a deviation from mean of the whole contemporary sex-age group andthe sum is taken ... higher than the expected proportion based on the contribution of one-year-old sires to the newborn offspring Therefore, in an ongoing selection program, equation (2) is invalid Forthe scheme in...