... aimed at automatically tagging blog posts with moods Mishne and de Rijke (2006a) lift this work to the aggregate level, and use natural language processing and machine learning to estimate aggregate ... an overview Much work in this area focuses on recognizing and/ or annotating evaluative textual expressions In contrast, work that explores mood annotations is relatively scarce Mishne (2005) reports ... to deal with these cyclic events and aims at finding global changes Let POSTS (mood, date, hour) be the number of posts labelled with a given mood and created within a one-hour interval at the...
... the native fold of the protein, preventing aggregation and restoring proper steady-state levels Where are chaperones important? Protein chaperones function in most cellular compart ments, and ... disorder, arises from mutations in the gene coding for the lysosomal enzyme acid-β-glucosidase (GCase) More than a hundred such mutations are known, and only a handful are nonsense mutations or involve ... possible that if you are trying to stabilize a protein with a reversible inhibitor, you could give so high a dose that it would still attenuate the activity below necessary levels? Yes, that is sometimes...
... Reason for migration to United Kingdom and Great Britain Main Reason for migration to United Kingdom and Great Britain Number of respondents: 1615 policy are more active in organisations representing ... believe our data identifies a group of young doctors whose self-reported motivation for migration is assessed here With evolving immigration policies aiming to manipulate international migration, we ... have been attracted by prospects of post-graduate training Changes to immigration policy that fail to factor in the aspirations and needs of doctors who have already migrated to the UK are likely...
... on the care that I can give to people and it is not based on finance I think that's what motivates me every day It may not be in the best conditions, but you know it's the type of care that you ... progression, dissatisfaction with health management, concerns about family welfare and political instability and security issues, with some variation from country to country Table 1: Population [5] and health-related ... narrowness of the study is another limitation, and the experiences of medical students, new medical graduates and doctors in rural and regional areas were not explored Generalization to The overall...
... ways #1 Not understanding the user Your plans are based on what you think the user wants maybe you even have a few buddies who thought it was cool and how they like doing things Be careful about ... careful about telling them how they should act Be careful about telling them how they should act this usually backfires #2 Too in love with the tech You love adding features “Wouldn’t it be awesome ... or tested and your competition will hit the market with a good basic solution Hence keep it lean get to market fast and add functions as user demand warrants it #4 No real sales strategy Capturing...
... moderate identifications with parents and find a harmony between what they expect and what theyare able to realize from life But suppose the pains of separation are amplified by a combination ... music that he feels within himself With this type of determination and carry- through, this boy became one of the great violinists of his day.” Empathy is not simply a matter of paying attention ... longing for good and heroic parents? Or is it true that no matter how competent managers are, their leadership stagnates because of their limitations in visualizing purposesand generating value in...
... activity data to our survey Without their commitment providing comprehensive and verified pan-European statistics would not be possible We also thank all regional and national private equity associations ... team that is raising/managing the fund (“industry statistics”) • The funds included in the statistics are: private equity funds making direct private equity investments, mezzanine private equity ... early-stage and development, with no particular concentration on either Endowment: An institution that is bestowed money (and possibly other assets) via a donation with the stipulation to invest it and...
... ensuring that individuals and families are well-protected against the sudden shocks that are likely to overwhelm them They improve equityat both national and global levels by reducing poverty and destitution ... resilience, equity, and opportunity cannot be achieved with isolated programs, within a single sector, or through public mandates alone Attaining them requires an appropriate policy, legal and institutional ... what works These goals of resilience, equity, and opportunity cannot be achieved with isolated programs, within a single sector, or through public mandates Attaining them requires an appropriate...
... Small businesses information employed are generally not publicly traded and therefore on 10K forms, and their data arenot collected in corporate finance research arenot required to release ... nature and behavior of the financial At the core of this issue are questions about the type of financing need and receive at various stages of their growth, the nature of the private equityand ... the infants and adolescents would not be candidates for angel finance, and the overwhelming majority would not be candidates for venture capital, The importance of the external private equity can...
... the room and that while you are out theyare to take the pack and count down from the top until they come to the number thought of, which card theyare to look atand remember, but they must ... (backward) and showing it to them for the second time ask them if theyare sure it is not their card, andat the same time ask them to place it in their pocket Repeat the same operation with the ... card that they see as you run them over; and then to make that person place the card theyare thinking of in their pocket without knowing it Hold the deck squarely in the palm of the left hand in...
... variable(s) Inequalities in health No standardization Standardization and decomposition* Inequalities in utilization No standardization Standardization and decomposition* Benefit incidence analysis ... data fields completed: tables and graphs that are feasible are shown in black; those that arenot feasible are shown in gray As the level of sophistication of the analysis increases, so the data ... that are typically used in these analyses are age and gender These are required for any standardization and decomposition analysis Other health determinants are also required for standardization...
... estimated bond and CDS volatility and modelimplied and CDS bond volatility Volatilities are in % Only firm-years that are in both the corporate bond and CDS sample are included t-stats are calculated ... characteristics are used, the coefficients on ratings and time to maturity are positive and the coefficient on ln(Amount Outstanding) is negative The results for ratings and time to maturity are consistent with ... Xing, and Zhang (2006) examine volatility, but of idiosyncratic equity returns and find that high idiosyncratic equity volatility portfolios have lower future equity returns We note that an important...
... questions that could be explored in this session are: • Whyareequityandinclusionimportantandare these objectives atcrosspurposeswith regulation? • Can an inclusive regulatory philosophy ... with a lack of information on financing – so they cannot be sure that the assets being financed by them arenot being financed in parallel by others Regulationandequity The impact of regulation ... sector development that helps many How can we make this new orientation operational? What does this enhanced regulation mean for growth and for equity? Are the implications of regulatory reforms different...
... particle, each with sensors, computing circuits, bidirectional wireless communication and a power supply They could gather data, run computations and communicate with other motes at distances of ... right, and while there are benefits that come with increased transparency, theynot outweigh the costs.” Alejandro Pisanty, vice chairman of the board for ICANN and a member of the United Nations' ... world ahead With growing data-handling capacity, networking costs shall be low,” he wrote “The incremental efficiency in hardware and software tech shall propel greater data movement across the...
... concept of private equity in its mother country (i.e., the United States) and the EU Private equity is an extraordinary source of creating new ventures and stimulating research projects with a seed ... expand andare in the mature stages to launch acquisitions or run new investments Big buyouts, pushed in many cases by privatization, are managed by investment banks and M&A boutiques, and rarely ... first worked with corporate banking andat that time private equity in Europe was for pioneers and quite distant from European culture, and meant to be studied in a laboratory with a pure theoretical...
... together with differences between firms and financial markets, one worldwide definition and classification for private equity and/ or venture capital does not exist However, Private Equityand Venture ... horizontal integration path — Projects create a holding that includes operative and complementary firms with similar supplied business areas, technologies, customers, etc Private equity operators develop ... to expand and develop the activity of the firm, whereas private equity operators fund firms at the end of their first/fast growth process The European definition proposes that private equityand venture...
... to explain whyand how firms and institutions realize a deal, while agency theory states that entrepreneur’s choices arenot automatic and both parties emphasize that financiers arenot just part ... understanding of the relationship between financiers and existing shareholders This becomes important if financiers are venture capitalists or private equity operators since they may also act as shareholders ... corporate governance issues and corporate finance deals 2.3 THE IMPACT OF PRIVATE EQUITY OPERATIONS In the last few years while private equity deals and operations have grown both in size and geographic...
... closed-end funds Not operating at 2008 Not operating at 2008 Not operating at 2008 Incentive to R&D investment Not operating at 2008 Not relevant Not operating at 2008 Comparative incentive D ... conduct private equityand venture capital deals 6.2 TAXATION ANDEQUITY INVESTORS: LESSONS FROM THEORY AND RELEVANT MODELS There is a strong relationship between taxation rules and private equity ... PRIVATE EQUITYAND VENTURE CAPITAL Policymakers play a fundamental role in private equityand venture capital development They must address regulatory and administrative barriers and ensure Private...
... process Legal and fiscal skills areimportant during the deal structuring, closing, and exiting because theyare the stages when the private equity fund has to define and respect specific legal and tax ... fund and the general partners are damaging the fund Corporation — A company where the shareholders are the investors The main disadvantage, compared with the previous organizational forms, is that ... the supply of private equity (the relative desire of institutional investors to allocate capital in the sector), and the demand for private equity (the number of entrepreneurs with a good idea...
... cannot due to statute clauses There are two main areas of investing: Valuation and selection of opportunities and matching them with the appropriate investment vehicle Target company valuation, ... statements The first statement states that the mix of debt andequity does not create any impact on the company value in a world: Without tax Without any type of financial distressed costs Without any form ... profitability, legislation and regulations, and the internal organization of environmental control and pollution Identifies and verifies the impact on the environment and the pollution problems not yet resolved...