... However, as we shall see later, the usual form of Monte Carlo
sampling, namely importance samplingMonte Carlo, leads to ‘dynamic’ cor-
relations between subsequently generated observations fA
i
g. ... Markov chains and master equations
The concept of Markov chains is so central toMonteCarlosimulations that
we wish to present at least a brief discussion of the basic ideas. We define a
stochastic ... can play
in producing
understanding
of the results of some simulations.
This book is intended to serve as an introduction toMonteCarlo methods
for graduate students, and advanced undergraduates,...
... contribute to the
understanding of paper as a material.
In this thesis anew outlook to fibre bonding and paper strength was adopted in order
to explain the interactions between strength additives and ... (side groups), that can again carry
galactopyranose, fucopyranose, and arabinofuranose residues (Dumitriu 2005; Zhou
et al. 2007). Xyloglucan from tamarind, a commercial product, has only xylose ... strength and
formation (Swanson 1950). Guar gum is a branched galactomannan polymer which
has a linear 1-4 ȕ-D-mannan backbone with 1-6-linked Į-D-galactose side groups on
approximately every...
... is
determined by saying her whole space-time path has a certain
character. For the action [with advanced and retarded terms]
the equations are no longer at all easy to get back into Hamil-
tonian form. ... which leaves the action invariant
(for example, the transformation may be a rotation). The trans-
formation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuous
function of a. Fora equal to zero, ... of
photons may be nothing more than the result of matter interacting
with matter directly, and according to quantum mechanical laws.
An attempt to investigate this possibility and to find a quantum
analogue...
... gradable adjectives
According to L. G. Alexander (1988, 108) adjectives can be also
divided into gradable and non- gradable.
Gradable adjectives mean a large class of words which can be graded, ... subject at most language universals.
According to C. James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study
and a central concern of applied linguistic. As a matter of fact, C .A has had
much to ... learning a foreign language
Contrastive analysis (C .A) first developed in the 1950s, and it has still
existed up to now. C .A plays an important role in learning a foreign language as
a main subject...
... 135
Human Capital and Transformational Change 137
Human-Capital Management in Government 138
Challenges Facing Human Resources Managers 139
Challenges in Sustained Leadership 142
A Human-Capital Leadership ... managers or staff to accept change is often rooted
in a culture of inertia and bureaucratic thinking. Failure or inability of an agen-
cy’s management or staff to adapt to changed conditions can ... changing the way it ◾
does business,
Conceiving anew organizational paradigm to bring about this change, ◾
Leading the organization down the path to the new paradigm, and utilizing ◾
metrics to...
... Equation
Partnering: ANewApproachto Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2001, Technical Paper N
o .
3, UNFPA, New York
Partnering: ANewApproachTo Sexual And Reproductive Health
Other traditional practices ... reveals more factors in the origins of violence than what is
familiar in feminist analysis and it helps in promoting empathy with men and going beyond a
“blame the perpetrators approach . Traditionally, ... violence against women as a pandemic have combined to transform population
into a field that epitomizes social transformation. Just as family planning and the pill were re v -
olutionary 50 years ago,...
... Computational Linguistics
A newApproachto Improving Multilingual Summarization using a
Genetic Algorithm
Marina Litvak
Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev
Beer Sheva, Israel
litvakm@bgu.ac.il
Mark Last
Ben-Gurion ... information on the Internet
in an ever-increasing variety of languages
2
dic-
tates the importance of developing multilingual
summarization approaches. There is a particu-
lar need for language-independent ... language as input.” In this pa-
per, we introduce MUSE, a language-
independent approach for extractive sum-
marization based on the linear optimiza-
tion of several sentence ranking measures
using...
... Evaluation,
pages 719-
724.
Sadao Kurohashi, Masaki Murata, Yasunori
Yata, Mitsunobu Shimada, and Makoto
Nagao. 1998. Construction of Japanese
nominal semantic dictionary using " ;A ...
(5) mado 'window' no curtain 'curtain'
curtain
a hanging cloth that can be
drawn to cover a window1.0 ina
room0.s3, to divide a room0.s3, etc.
(6) osetsuma 'living ... room' no curtain 'curtain'
curtain
a hanging cloth that can be
drawn to cover a window0.s2 ina
room 1.0, to divide a room 1.0, etc.
(7) oya 'parent' no isan 'legacy'...
... illustration of the
behavior of the morphological and syntactic
parsers on a more complicated example:
Ngarrka-ngku.ka marlu marna-kurra luwa.rnu
ngarni.nja-kurra (man-ergative-aux kangaroo
grass-obj ...
Barbara Brunson*
AT&T Bell Laboratories
and
Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 .
Abstract
We present a model of morphological
processing ... Vowel-Harmony
The first rule indicates that a word consists of
an optional prefix followed by a Vowel-
Harmony-Domain; the second claims that a
Vowel-Harmony-Domain is a string analyzable
as a...
... work badly against an adap-
tive adversary who can test attacks against the classifier and refine them before
release. Tuning heuristics can also be very difficult, in particular adjusting the
false-positive ... the token to read what Cronto call a ‘visual cryptogram’ [100]
containing details of the transaction and an authentication code to be copied back
to the bank.
As with CAP the presence of part ... effectiveness
In Chapter 2 attack vectors on e-banking were described using an attack tree.
This can also be used to analyse how effective various defences are against those
attacks.
There are several classes...
... understanding: international organisations
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Inquiries
46 Cases in which Treasury may arrange independent inquiries
47 Power to appoint ... made by section
3 of this Act).
3 Financial stability strategy and Financial Policy Committee
(1) After Part 1 of the Bank of England Act 1998 insert—
“P
ART 1A
F
INANCIAL STABILITY
Financial ... May, the Bank and FSA published The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation
Authority: Our approachto banking supervision, setting out the approach the PRA will take to
banking supervision and...
... A FLEXIBLE APPROACHTO COOPERATIVE RESPONSE GENERATION
IN INFORMATION-SEEKING DIALOGUES
Liliana Ardissono, Alessandro Lombardo, Dario Sestero
Dipartimento di Informatica - Universita' ... hence, a definitive negative an-
swer can be provided. Clarification dialogues are or-
ganized ina top-down way, along the GH.
In our approach, answers should include not only
information about ... information on
his intentions. In van Beek and Cohen's approach
cl,'wification dialogues are started, even in case the
answers associated with the plausible hypotheses are
distinguished...
... privately funded earthquake insurance company, the California
Earthquake Authority (CEA) that was created in 1996.
Losses from natural disasters can have a severe impact on an insurer’s
financial ... targeted to individuals concerned with monitoring and
managing the impact of catastrophe risks. For example:
Senior insurance and reinsurance managers can gain insight into the
policy implications ... communicating risk toa stakeholder. Finally, a conceptual
framework is presented that illustrates the critical role that catastrophe
modeling plays in managing risk.
San Francisco, California, Earthquake...