... 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 portion
of banks’ balance sheets. For example, assets for which no repricing or maturity information is
available account, on average, ... transformation, bank
profitability
We thank Bill Bassett, Elmar Mertens, Bill Nelson, George Pennacchi, Alberto Rossi, James Vickrey, Missaka
Warusawitharana, Jonathan Wright, Emre Yoldas, Hao...
... Key Audiences
Communication tactics may include traditional channels, such as media (television, radio,
newspapers and magazines) and Web sites, as well as non-media channels, such as grassroots ... should always be available to respond to the
media in an attempt to prevent the media from approaching other sources for
information. Ask other staff members to refrain from comment and forward all ... information that will assist you with shaping future marketing plans for the various
teams on your campus. Survey instructions and a demographics survey template are available
below for your...
... the list, sorted
alphabetically by last name. Unavailable buddies (marked by red dots and visible
Away messages) get shoved to the bottom.
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By First Name, By Last Name. Just what you'd ... when
you're too busy to chat with annoying barely-acquaintances, but want to keep an
eye out for a particular pal. You can still send and receive messages anyone on your
Buddy List.
... people, by far the juiciest option is a new one in Mac OS X 10.5: a status called
Invisible (available for .Mac and AIM accounts only). It's like a Star Trek cloaking
device for your onscreen...
... 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, Herbert
Barbosa, Lidiane Mataveli, Silvana Ruella Oliveira, Sandra Arruda, Ricardo Azevedo, Priscila Gratão, ... Enterobacteriaceae [138]. Due to their commercial importance as natural
preservatives and as therapeutic agents against pathogenic bacteria, these antimicrobial
peptides have been a major area of ... 317
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Chapter 16 Explanations for the Rise of Soybean in Brazil 341
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Chapter 17 Climatic Restrictions for Maximizing...
... multiple databases.
This problem arises when organizations consolidate
their databases and hence must transfer data from old
databases to the new ones. It forms a critical step in
data warehousing and ... Management: An emerging
important application class is peer data management,
which is a natural extension of data integration (Aberer
2003). A peer data management system does away with
the notion ... Suppose
we have created the mappings, and have used them
to transfer the house listings from database S and an-
other database U (not shown in the figure) to those of
database T . Databases S and U may...
... 4: Manual Evaluations
Here, we manually evaluate quality of summaries,
a common DUC task. Human annotators are given
two 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...
... of a technical process
for which he obtained a patent, or he may have obtained from
another inventor such a patent ora trade-mark ora design or an
industrial model of an earlier producer or ... their
stature. Of Professor Ballvé it could be said, as in the characteri-
zation that gives a contemporary play about Sir Thomas More its
title, that he was indeed a Man for All Seasons.”
Like Erasmus ... increases as it becomes scarcer. But this is by no
means certain, for it can happen that a thing may become scarcer
every day and yet have no value at all because nobody wants it.
Horse-drawn carriages...
... 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.
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... the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada,
Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, support is given to a
Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) in education with one national
sectoral plan including all education ... of Education
Ministry of Education
Antigua and Barbuda
The Bahamas
Barbados
Barbados
Belize
Dominica
Grenada
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
Joint British and Dutch overseas
Territories (Anguilla)
Joint ... National policies for safe and sanitary school environment
Anguilla
Antigua
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
& Grenadines
Trinidad...
... 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 Method
EMJ 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 and
unreliable information.
Darzentas (1987) formulates the facility location problem as a fuzzy set partitioning ... and
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Table 6: Fuzzy Quality Management
Quality Area Author(s) Fuzzy Quality Application
Acceptance Otha and Ichihashi (1988) Single-stage, two-point
Sampling attribute sampling plan
Chakraborty ... Kanagawa, A. , Tamaki, F. and Ohta, H. (1993) Control charts for process average and variability based on
linguistic data, International Journal of Production Research, 31(4), 913-922.
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