... correlation matrix
was initially made for all independent variablesin
order to determine which indicators to be included in
the final model. For those variables that were in-
ter-correlated and ... followed up to the age of 7 and 10 years. The
study includes medical record examination and a
‘spectral analysisin remaining and non-remaining
cases at the age of ten of asthma symptoms, signs ... reporting asthma
or not reporting asthma at the age of 10) and least
highly inter-correlated, were included in the final
multiple logistic regression model. Odds ratios and
95% confidence intervals...
... maturity using 1976 industry weights.
The difference increases to more than 20% in 2000. This
suggests that changes in industry weights play an important
role in explaining the decline in debt maturity. ... in debt
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In untabulated results, we obtain similar findings if we add to the
model control variables included in Table 6. We also obtain similar
findings if we estimate the Fama and MacBeth regression ... with listing vintage is not
important in explaining the trend in debt maturity.
Although firms are listing earlier in their life cycle, this
is not sufficient to explain the time trend in debt
maturity....
... As
shown in Figure 8-9
, two important bits of information are sequence information and timestamping. RTP uses
the sequence information to determine whether the packets are arriving in order, ... is queuing
delay. Queuing delay occurs when more packets are sent out than the interface can handle at a given interval.
Cisco IOS software is good at moving and determining the destination ... problems in determining when
speech ends and begins, and in distinguishing speech from background noise. This means that if you arein a
noisy room, VAD is unable to distinguish between speech...
... income (Y) for household. We include the
following quality variablesin the form of dummyvariables
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3) In ... independent variables used inregression equations, which usually take values over
some continuous range. Frequently, one may wish to include the quality independent variables, often
called dummy variables, ... Econometrics DummyVariables
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4) Use data file SRINA
4.1) Regress Ip on Ig
4.2) Repeat the regression using (i) an intercept dummy; (ii) a slope dummy; and, (iii) both
slope and intercept...
... continued fall in Irish house prices is examined. The incre a s e d rate of decline in 2011 resulted in
Irish prices being almost 50 per cent down from peak levels of mid 2007. Accordingly, in ... Kennedy and McQuinn, Whyare Irish house prices still falling?
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Why are Irish house prices still falling?
Gerard Kennedy and Kieran McQuinn
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prices,” Economic Modelling, Vol....
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Bank lending and total reserves
When interpreting data such as that in Figure 1, it is important to keep in mind that total reserves
in the banking system are determined almost entirely ... affairs in this example, when the interbank market is performing this function
efficiently. Also note that total reserves in the banking system are $20, all of which are required
reserves. In this ... offsetting the decline in Bank B’s lending.
Given the nature of the problem in our example, however, the central bank might be able to
intervene more effectively in another way. Suppose that instead...
... Program?
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Is ICDS the answer to malnourished children in India?
3.1
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3.2
Child Development Programme In India 31
3.3 ...
was conducted in 1992-93, followed by NFHS-2 in 1998-99 and NFHS-3 in 2005-06. NFHS-3 data is
obtained from interviewing 124,385 women in the age group 15-49 years and 74,369 men in the age group ...
to invest in combating nutrition reduces potential economic growth. In India, with one of the
highest percentages of undernourished children in the world, the situation is dire. Moreover,
inequalities...
... 1996. The data are obtained from a
trading house that chose the real-time feed, permitting the collection of some
historical information for analysis.
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VOLUME 3
Essays in Microstructure in Honor of David K Whitcomb
March 9, ... This,
in turn, implies liquidity clustering in an environment in which informed trading
further exaggerates the clustering effect. In Scharfstein and Stein (1990), large
order flows, observable...
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Libin Jiang received his B.Eng. degree in Electronic
Engineering & Information Science from the Univer-
sity of Science and Technology of China in 2003 and
the M.Phil. degree in Information ... degree in Information Engineering from
the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005, and
is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer
Science, ... Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology, 1980, a M.S. in EE from UC Berkeley,
1982, a M.A. in Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1983,
a C.Phil in Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1984 and
a Ph.D. in...
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Worldscope
Table 1. Indices in SRI fund performance studie
s
Major sustainability indices
Dow Jones Sustainability Index STOXX
FTSE4Good Global
Dow Jones Sustainability Index World
Ethical ... sustainability indices, and five (12%) incorporate
regional sustainability indices. For a complete list of indices used in the studies, we refer to Table 1.
0 5 10 15 20
Major Index
Major Sustainability ... responsibility
information translates into actions by the fund.
Survivorship bias
4. Incorporate dead funds into the analysis or explain how refraining from dead funds and
stocks might in uence the...
... preparation, including (i) preliminary trimming, washing, soaking,
slicing, or chopping; (ii) the cooking process; (iii) holding of the cooked
food on a steam table, in a warming oven or insulated ... refraining from overcooking; and (vi)
using cooking water for soups. Steaming or pressure cooking and stir-
frying result in less vitamin loss than boiling or typical pan frying.
References
1. Institute ... treatments, freezing, frozen storage, and
thawing. Vitamin losses occur mainly in the prefreezing treatments
(e.g., blanching, washing, peeling, trimming, and grinding). The actual
freezing step does...
... Detection
Verbs are an important factor in providing an
event profile, which in turn might be used in cat-
egorizing articles into different genres. Turning
to the literature in genre classification, ... help in
determining methods for performing semantic
aggregation of individual clauses in text gener-
ation for summarization.
Future Work. Our plans are to extend the
current research in terms ... the 59% mark we reached a point of
difficulty in adding new verbs due to ambigu-
ity, e.g. verbs such as
get.
Thus, although our
results using EVCA are revealing in important
ways, it must...