... Ohno M, Taguchi J, Togo M, Hashimoto H, Ogasawara K, Aizawa T, Ishizaka N, Nagai R: Heme oxygenase-1 gene promoter polymorphism is associated with coronary artery disease in Japanese patients ... chronic disease status (cardiovascular disease or chronic respiratory diseases) asa dummy variable [23] We examined effect modification by each of candidate SNP via adding an interaction term ... Leinonen J, Lehtimaki T, Toyokuni S, Okada K, Tanaka T, Hiai H, Ochi H, Laippala P, Rantalaiho V, Virta O, Pasternack A, Alho H: New biomarker evidence of oxidative DNA damage in patients with non-insulindependent...
... standard deviation used was the unbiased estimator and it is equal to 0.018 For normal distribution this ratio is 1.146 -18- Master Thesis: An Application of Alternative Risk Measures to Trading ... the tail to the generalized Pareto distribution the obtained estimate for xi was very close to zero, which is a sign that the tail decays as an exponential function For Nasdaq stocks the analysis ... represents the VaR(99%) This is a good application of ES not just as measure of risk, but also asa measure for sensitivity of the overall P&L to risk factors When using VaR asa risk measure, since...
... more factors in Fama French, firm size and book to market In their study, the relation between market beta and average return is weak, as opposed to that of Fama French factors Similarly, Drew and ... need to incorporate additional factors to modify CAPM (Lawrence et al, 2007) Fama and French (1992) confirm the insufficiency of CAPM by illustrating a weak relation between market beta and average ... of asset i and that of market portfolio asa fraction of total variance of market portfolio In Roll’s critique, he also points out a number of drawbacks of CAPM such as its implication of market...
... second language and translation asa practice technique put the learner into an active problem-solving situation Finally, Grammar-Translation Method appears relatively easy to apply and it makes ... student’s native language is maintained as the reference system in the acquisition of the second language Language learners are passive in language learning and teachers are regarded as an authority, ... reluctant to speak English in class Question 5: What factors make you reluctant to speak in class? Table 4.2: Factors making students reluctant to speak English in class Factors Learning goal is...
... standard deviation – Round includes task-level data—P+ values of candidates in bottom and top quartiles, and overall – Round includes percentage of candidates classified A2 , B2, C2 based on panel’s ... feedback 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 ... countries – Familiar with TOEFL®, English language instruction, learning and assessment, and the CEFR • Standard setting approaches – Performance-sample (Profile) approach for Writing and Speaking –...
... data t induced by the fact that the yit variables have to sum to one for each bank Given the difficulty in estimating the mean parameters, estimating these covariance parameters, as well as accounting ... topology, interbank, money markets Bech: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (e-mail: morten.bech@ny.frb.org) Chapman: Bank of Canada (e-mail: jchapman@bankofcanada.ca) Garratt: University of California, ... course, departing from the standard designation of a country or countries’ principal monetary authority as the central bank The Bank of Canada is the central bank of Canada by that account The...
... at its maximum capacity for primary treatment and treats higher quantities of wastewater and also to upgrade its technology to treat wastewater at a higher quality, i.e., secondary treatment Methodology ... significant Treated wastewater quantity and quality are significant factors in the choice of a wastewater treatment programme, and ceteris paribus, these two attributes increase the probability that ... CLM and RPLM estimates for wastewater treatment programme attributes CLM Attributes ASC Quality of treated wastewater Quantity of treated wastewater Regeneration of the park Monthly increase...
... rational for each party, that is, it assigns for each party a payoff that is at least as good as that party’s BATNA The set of feasible contracts is called the zone of possible agreement (ZOPA) ... increasing the payoffs toa single party unilaterally, often referred toas the “negotiators dilemma” (Raiffa et al 2002) This is a key distinction central to negotiation research and a prevalent ... agreements that are individually rational for both parties Alternatives to negotiated agreement also play a tactical role The more favorable alternative courses of action negotiators have, the smaller...
... "extensional" data base which serves asa support tool for higher-level analytical functions in a decision-making environment represented in Table in a simplified form, is encoded as in Table The head ... sublanguage currently takes the form of an ATN grammar The parser takes a sentence as input and produces a parse tree The parse is input to the ERL "machine", which uses templates for the interpretation ... following two: (1) i f additional information needs to be associated with a particular predicate, this can be done simply by adding another clause; and (2), Prolog provides a uniform way of representing...
... (Ground data, GIS data and satellite imagery data) • The zonation can be regarded asatool for sustainable agricultural development in the watershed area 17 Suggestion zones for sustainable of watershed ... landscape in the study area has been changed cause of policy implementation such as rubber plantation and irrigation system were installed in the area, and than this place was changed in dynamics ... – classified to 11 classes • Create zone by overlaid three physical data (Ground data, GIS data and image classification) The area is located in the northern Laos, Lat: 65º07'16" to 67º59'13"...
... horizontal asymptote q = if the asymptote of output response is oblique asymptote q > if output has no asymptote In fact, q in most cases To define the global optimal estimation model, the steps to ... this case, classic methods are either ineffective or inapplicable Because of the above reasons, in order to increase the applicability, we recommend a controlled object identification method based ... Disregarding the characteristics of dead time delay of an object is one of the reasons that leads toa great number of research directions of control theory impractically developed, even caused a...
... horizontal asymptote q = if the asymptote of output response is oblique asymptote q > if output has no asymptote In fact, q in most cases To define the global optimal estimation model, the steps to ... this case, classic methods are either ineffective or inapplicable Because of the above reasons, in order to increase the applicability, we recommend a controlled object identification method based ... Disregarding the characteristics of dead time delay of an object is one of the reasons that leads toa great number of research directions of control theory impractically developed, even caused a...
... methodology was found to be reproducible in assessment by both the same as well as different users A set of sparse points, acting as anatomical landmarks, was then defined on one clavicle and an affine ... (Figure 5) Applying a transformation based on these axes, a coordinate frame with x-, y- and z-axes was defined Several linear measurements including clavicle length, width, thickness as well Methods ... right Biodata was available in all cases and cause of death in the group of fresh frozen specimens was known None of the 21 clavicles scanned showed signs of a previous fracture All CT scans were...
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... gc-graphs but also for all graphs generating an association scheme having a connected basic graph (X, γi ) of degree ≤ and for graphs having a factor graph which is a cycle The algorithm could easily ... circulants GC(n, d) are discussed In most cases we can prove that the Schur ring generated by a geometric circulant contains {1, −1} asa basic set In such cases we are done, because such a basic ... commutative A coherent configuration the Bose-Mesner algebra of which is commutative is known as association scheme [5] For this reason we shall call a circulant coherent configuration a circulant association...
... increase of A max by 30% resulted in a large increase in tree biomass (+ 135%), while a decrease of Amax by 30% decreased tree biomass by 85% (table II) Increase and decrease of dark respiration ... in each cube is calculated according to the summed total leaf surface in the cubes above The parameterization of the LambertBeer’s equation [28] is based on irradiance data measured at various ... additionally gained carbon can be used to build more biomass and more carbon gaining leaves On the other hand, it has to be considered, that an increased number of leaves leads to increased mutual...
... viruses Los Alamos National Laboratory HIV Databases Although we used only the Los Alamos National Laboratory HIV Databases as our source of sequence information, it is notable that this data provider ... TGA or TAG are stop codons The dataset was first shuffled and then splitted half-half, yielding a training and a testing set The decision to shuffle the dataset was made to increase the probability ... kernel Statistics In Table is reported the distribution of coreceptor usages in the datasets created from Los Alamos National Laboratory HIV Databases data In the training set, there are 1225...
... valid provisions of concerned legal systems Sources such as laws, case law, preparatory work and doctrine are assigned value and analysed in such a way asto shed light on the given problem and ... relevant market The second case, which has reached a final result – a decision made by the Competition Case Handling Council (CCHC) – is the Vinapco case The third case is the Megastar case, ... Treaty Articles 85 and 86 became Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty and used to be called as Article 81EC, Article 82EC The Treaty was further amended by the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Treaty...
... Vietnam – EU Cooperation Agreement was signed Then, Vietnam officially became a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on July 25, 1995; ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) on January ... such as laws, case law, preparatory work and doctrine are assigned value and analysed in such a way asto shed light on the given problem and find the answers to the question posed The ultimate aim ... friends and my students for their warm support, encouragement, care and love Ho Chi Minh City, August 31, 2011 Tran, Hoang Nga List of Abbreviations ASEAN Associations of South East Asian Nations AAC...