... approval.”21In the minds of many—including the vast majority of executives the major business scandals of recent years were primarily the result of greed. There were, however, varying opinions on whether ... trust—particularly in the arena of risk management and the stability ofthe housing market the headwinds that leaders are facing as they attempt to get ahead of the crisis may in part be a result of low public ... networks of relationships as if they were a web of zero-sum games—repeatedly trading off the interests of one stakeholder in favor ofthe interests of another.We further recommend that leaders:...
... = 1.00. Then the values are weighted by the ECTS credits for each course. This is done by multiplying the value by the ECTS credits for each course and then calculating the sum ofthe products. ... within their program/specialization. 3.4.2 Time Period and Format The thesis work can take place both in the spring or in the fall. The thesis work starts at the beginning ofthe semester ... up by the student are to be kept by the relevant department, center or equivalent unit for one year from the date ofthe examination. 3.3.3 Rules and Regulations for Other Forms of Assessment...
... about the situation of learning EEE of d06, k52 students in FOFL; HUT has notyet been done. Therefore, theobjectivesof this research is to consider the advantages anddisadvantages they meet ... for teaching, the main difficulties they met are the lack of basic knowledge and new terms.Moreover, the main reason they got bad marks are that most of them did not learn EEEuntil the test. Based on the ... D06K52Faculty of Foreign LanguageHa Noi University of Technology The Situation of Learning English for Electrical Engineering of D06k52Students in Faculty of Foreign Language, Ha Noi University of Technology...
... 4.86 The evidence using the MAE metric (se Table 3) strengthens the results reported above. The structural EqCM performs the best of all the models at all horizons (with the exception ofthe ... However, neither of these two hypothesis can be rejected when the rest ofthe cointegrating vectors are left unrestricted, implying that the hypotheses of PPP and UIP should be combined. In the end, ... side, so that it is the forecast of (the log of) the actual exchange rate (and not its change) that are compared. Following Meese and Rogoff (1983), we perform an out -of- sample forecasting exercise...
... from the duration ofthe prerecorded segments in the case of concatenate synthesis. Another part is related to the accent. Another one, reflecting the linguistic function ofthe word in the ... transcription and a description ofthe prosodic intent of the speaker. The starting point of intonation research is the time series of F0. But the interpretation ofthe F0 information diverges widely ... are transcribed in the most abstract form ofthe prosodic string. But this abstract form has to be transformed into a flow of parameters in order to control the synthesizer. The parameters to...
... net, the location of a new large (300+ employees) firmoften retards the growth ofthe existing enterprises or discourages the establishment of enterprises that would otherwise have located there(Edmiston). ... interms of gross new jobs at the new firm. The dollars of incentives aredivided by the number of jobs. During the recruitment stage, these costsare often substantially underestimated. For ... than at the end ofthe period. TableA1 decomposes job growth from the second quarter of 2000 into jobclasses using beginning size of firm, mean size of firm over the period,and end size of firm....
... degrading entities [18]. For example, the major role ofthe MMP family is the control of cellularresponses critical to homeostatic regulation ofthe extra-cellular environment and the immune response ... level 1 match-sets are the reference gels of the respective quadrants from the 2D gel sections of eachcondition and the four higher-level match-sets are the reference gels ofthe two different conditions ... triggered by the activationand not by the overexpression of meprina ⁄ b(Fig. 5C). Obviously, activation of meprina ⁄ b resultsin the release of proteins into the culture medium.Validation of direct...
... no-table since the Google model only requires n-gramcounts to implement. The Backoff Erk model is the best, using the Baseline forthe majority of decisions and backing off to the Erk smoothingmodel ... guessed unseenanswer), and then backing off to the Google/Erkresult for Baseline unknowns. These are labeledBackoff Google and Backoff Erk.7 ResultsResults are given forthe two dimensions: con-founder ... inthis material are those ofthe authors and do notnecessarily reect the view ofthe AFRL. Thanksto Sebastian Pad´o, the Stanford NLP Group, and the anonymous reviewers for very helpful sugges-tions.452...
... e2)pret→cause(e1, e2)rlt) The Rate VNMA transfers the qualitative rate of progress of events in the source domain to the qual-itative rate of progress of its mappee:Rate: ∀e, r(rate(e, ... the importance of relations between text segments indiscourse interpretation. In fact, the incorporation of the above types of information ties in well with the SDRT (Asher and Lascarides, 2003) view of language ... means of lexical information regarding“starving”, it can be inferred that McEnroe deprivedConnors of a necessity (see, e.g., Wordnet), namely, of the food required for his normal functioning (the NECESSITIES...
... sufficient evidence forthe identification of that constituent; e.g., if the leftmost daughter is either the specifier or the head of that constituent in the sense of Jacken- doff (1977). Third, ... > of S. P2 ~ ~in, on, ] Among the expressions generated by the extended grammar G2 are those in E3. (E3) a. the boss knew that the teacher saw the child yesterday b. the friend ofthe ... CFPSG. The first set is explicitly designed to preserve the property of noncenter-embedding. The second is designed to maximize the use of prefixes on the basis of being able to predict the identity...
... cover the entire world of knowl- edge. as generic resource (see figure 2). Before starting the development, the set of field labels relevant for the application must be identified. Then the ... requirement. Unfortunately one ofthe cur- rent trends in IE is the progressive reduction of the size of training corpora: e.g., from the 1,000 texts ofthe MUC-5 (MUC-5, 1993) to the 100 texts in MUC-6 ... mentioned, there are two problems related to the use of generic dictionaries with respect to the IE needs. First there is no clear way of extracting from them the mapping between the FL and the...
... building the personality, the dimension, the interconnection between your brand and the consumer, the greater the connection, the greater the bond, the greater the loyalty, the greater the sales, the ... The customer’s perspective has got to be what THEY want. Whether they trust in their dealings with you, they trust in the construction ofthe product, they trust in the promise you make, they ... build a brand, there are two kinds of brands. There are the solid, respective, qualitative, distinctive brands, which represents the bulk of the products out there. Then there are the fiercely...
... Summary of results The country specific models forthe rest ofthe world is estimated following the sameprocedure as that forthe US and the euro area. The results forthe UK show that the credit ... rate in the period when the shiftoccurs with the median ofthe growth rate ofthe two periods prior and after the levelshift. The level ofthe series is then adjusted by backdating the series ... featuressuch as the size and maturity of capital markets. In Asia, the credit variable improves the fit forthe inflation and the real exchange rate equation for China and India. While for the other Asian...