... Example of full fixation plates Example of a full but lesser range in size and shape of clavicle fixation plates Figure 15 Latest generation of clavicle plates Example of a newly developed range of ... models Source and target clavicle models mean landmarks and a set of eigenvectors which represent the linearly independent modes of variation (principal components) of the data set Landmark data ... clavicle and the fourth and fifth groups included six and nine female clavicles respectively The mean shape of each of these groups is illustrated below (Figure 11) Discussion and Conclusions The application...
... Study of the Relative Efficiency of Bank Branches: AnApplicationof Data Envelopment Analysis M VASSILOGLOU and D GIOKAS Operational Research Sector, Economics Division, Commercial Bank of Greece ... Commercial Bank of Greece in assessing the relative efficiency of bank branches After a description of the model and the data, the results of the analysis are discussed, and a note is made of certain ... products can be classified into approximately eight categories corresponding to the departments in a branch, and the results of the analysis can be interpreted in terms of the performance of the branch...
... Negotiation analysis 2.2.1 Theoretical roots of negotiation analysis Negotiation analysis can be characterized as an approach, which builds on the theory of games, decision analysis and behavioral ... dilemma, and negotiations can effectively be considered as a process of moving away from less-than optimal outcomes towards increased payoffs, and the distribution of those payoffs In an era of growing ... negotiations in the context of project sales and delivery processes The body of this report first develops an understanding of the concept of negotiation and reviews the negotiation analysis approach Second,...
... this study applied GIS and remote sensing for analysis the land use pattern changes Statement of Problems • After 1999, the landscape in the study area has been changed cause of policy implementation ... differences in the state ofan object or phenomenon by observing it at different times (Singh, 1989) The change detection of land use and land cover of the study area was analyzed by cross-classification ... agencies As we know, GIS and remote sensing have an important role in linkage and analysisof such data, in particular for detection, interpretation, area calculation, monitoring and future estimating...
... Prof Uwe Schmock for all the help with the mathematical theory And last but not least, many thanks to all my friends and family for their help and support -2- Master Thesis: AnApplicationof ... European indices, Nasdaq - the much more volatile than its European counter-parties American index And the stocks of a highly liquid financial institution, and the highly volatile stocks of ABB, ... table below Each of our options has a 4% probability of a payout of 100 CHF and a 96% probability of payout of zero, and the underlying variables of the two options are independent of each other...
... cost of capital: Survey and synthesis’ Financial Practice and Education, 8(1) 13– 28 Chan, K.C and Chen, N.F (1991), 'Structural and Return Characteristics of Small and Large Firms' Journal of ... more significant than the SMB in explaining the excess return The result is also reflecting that the performance discrepancy of high and low BE/ME is greater than those of small and big size ... variables of Fama French should be adopted while they insignificantly contributed to cost of equity evaluation According to Drew and Veeraraghavan (2003) and Artmann et al (2012), the efficiency of an...
... the use of the target language as a means of instruction and communication in the language classroom, and by the avoidance of the use of the first language and of 14 translation as a technique ... Richards and Rodgers (2001) described other significant characteristics of this approach including its efforts to make tasks and language relevant to a target group of learners through ananalysisof ... part of teachers and led to the development of new techniques of language, such as demonstrations of pictures and objects, the emphasis on questions and answer, spoken narratives, dictation and...
... and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard deviation – Round includes task-level data mean scores of candidates in bottom and top quartiles, and overall – Round includes percentage of ... C2 candidate would know the correct answer? Or • How many of 100 JQCs would know the correct answer? • Three rounds of judgments, with feedback and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard ... assistance • • • and prepared presentations Develops clear arguments with relevant examples on wide range of topics in field of interest Sustains conversation with degree of fluency and spontaneity...
... (2004): An Empirical Analysisof the Network Structure of the Austrian Interbank Market,” Oesterreichesche Nationalbank’s Financial stability Report, 7, 77–87 Gelman, A., and J Hill (2007): Data Analysis ... of the LVTS and the Bank of Canada For the purposes of this study we exclude the Bank of Canada since it does not send any significant payments in Tranche 2.67 We discuss implications of this in ... Which Bank Is the “Central” Bank? AnApplicationof Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System Morten L Bech, James T E Chapman, and Rod Garratt Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
... interaction terms of individual SNP and pollutant The current version of MTP allows one to identify the significance of a group of candidate variables to reduce the false discovery rate meanwhile adjusting ... 8-hydroxy-2’-deoxyguanosine and plasma analysisof B vitamins Urinary 8-OHdG analysis was conducted by Genox Corp (Baltimore, MD) A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to analyze urinary ... level of the test in advance This study reported adjusted p-values Then, we quantitatively estimated associations between the pollutants and 8-OHdG across those carrying variants of the significant...
... Kausik Chaudhuri and Bodhisattva Sengupta * Working Paper 49/2009 MNEs and Export Spillovers: AnAnalysisof Indian Manufacturing Industries Chiara Franco and Subash Sasidharan * Working Paper ... cost–benefit analysis and discounting”, Ecological Economics, 69, 839-847 Birol, E., N Hanley, P Koundouri and Y Kountouris (2009b), “The optimal management of wetlands: Quantifying trade-offs between ... Limited Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 31 Markandya A and M.N Murty (2004), “Cost-Benefit analysisof cleaning the Ganges: some emerging...
... Spoofed portscanning A new breed of publicly available scanner is spoofscan.c by jsbach, which is available from http://packetstorm.securify.com/UNIX/scanners/spoofscan.c Spoofscan takes advantage ... Host and jsbach’s spoofscan utility installed Due to the fact that spoofscan sends out spoofed probe packets and then sniffs the responses using the shared network segment, we can spoof portscans ... choice of domain over which to launch attacks against companies It provides an anonymous playground on which hackers can scan and probe hosts and networks to their hearts content with a low risk of...
... description of text-leve] relations The use of FORTHand the Prolog formalism allowed f a i r ly easy development of the system even without the powerful structure manipulation capabilities of a language ... The major part of the system was b u i l t in the programming language FORTH, which is an interactive, incremental system with a low-level semantics which the user can easily and quickly extend ... suited to the specification of templates and the algorithms for instantiating them For ease of implementation, the compiler for the subset of Prolog u t i l i z e d in this application was written...
... detection limit of the PSA-iR of lead is 0.64 mg/dm3, for an electrolysis time of 600 s, at an electrolysis potential of –0.96 V, with a stirring rate of 4000 rpm and an inverse current of mA Good ... stripping analysis with a constant inverse current in the analytical step was defined The defined method considers the analysisof samples (extracts of glassware with % acetic acid as the extractant and ... spectrometry and electrochemical stripping analysis The detection limit, selectivity and reproducibility, rapidity and simplicity of electrochemical stripping analysis (ESA), as well as the price of the...
... point of view References [1] G Christian, A Monfort, Times Deries and Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, 1997 [2] Nguyen Van Huu, Nguyen Huu Du, Statistic Analysis and Forecast, Hanoi ... the behaviour of output response and is equal to the degree of the asymptote of output response q = if the asymptote of output response is horizontal asymptote q = if the asymptote of output response ... Select the degree of q and fix it from the output response's behaviour Exploratively select values of denominator's degree n, and values of nominator's degree m = n − simultaneously For each...
... point of view References [1] G Christian, A Monfort, Times Deries and Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, 1997 [2] Nguyen Van Huu, Nguyen Huu Du, Statistic Analysis and Forecast, Hanoi ... the behaviour of output response and is equal to the degree of the asymptote of output response q = if the asymptote of output response is horizontal asymptote q = if the asymptote of output response ... Select the degree of q and fix it from the output response's behaviour Exploratively select values of denominator's degree n, and values of nominator's degree m = n − simultaneously For each...
... “Construction of fixed points of nonlinear mappings in Hilbert space,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 20, pp 197–228, 1967 15 S.-S Chang, “Some problems and results in the study of ... 1257–1264, 2009 Journal of Inequalities and Applications 15 L.-C Ceng, S Al-Homidan, Q H Ansari, and J.-C Yao, An iterative scheme for equilibrium problems and fixed point problems of strict pseudo-contraction ... Marino and H.-K Xu, “A general iterative method for nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 318, no 1, pp 43–52, 2006 X Qin, M Shang, and...
... and (ii) of Theorem 3.1 can be handled in a straightforward manner, the treatment of case (iii), where the connection set is a subgroup of Z∗ , needs additional n knowledge of the structure of ... circulants, and all basic quantities satisfy Ti = −Ti Proof (i) is obvious (ii) follows easily from the definition of γ 6.4 Proofs Proof of Lemma 3.1 Since n | (dm+1 ± 1), dm+1 ±1 n is an integer ... exists, is an efficient step in the process of recognizing circulants, which can be applied to any graph G, provided its coherent configuration is an association scheme and contains an equivalence...
... Boardman N.K., Comparative photosynthesis of sun and shade plants, Ann Rev Plant Physiol 28 (1977) 355-377 [6] Breckling B., An individual based model for the study of pattern and process in plant ... generated branches have particular initial dimensional and physiological properties and a particular branching angle The number of branches, angles and the initial properties are specified in an input ... all in constant communication via the transfer of information and materials [1] ALMIS includes an “environment part” and a “plant part” [6, 18] The model trees, represented by the plant part (figure...