a framework for unsupervised learning of dialogue strategies

... and R each have a value of 1 L, and S have each a value of 0 P has a value of −1 The “Artifact Map” is F i.F i(m, n) has the form described in [1] We do evaluateW i differently in this paper For ... algorithms Temporal artifact quality assess-ment criteria can also be combined with the assessassess-ment of spatial artifacts to form an overall quality assessment criteria for binary halftone videos ... quantitative measures for evaluating these artifacts are desirable Quantitative assessment of temporal artifacts can facilitate comparison of binary halftone videos produced using different algorithms

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... other software packages. The DNA-Chip Analyzer (dChip) [24] is a Windows software package for Affymetrix platform and high-level analysis of gene expression microar- rays and SNP microarrays [14,25]. ... viewed as a function of overall variant call rate. As we have shown, concordance rate can be artificially boosted sim- ply by calling variants at a high rate. When evaluating the per- formance of future ... the analysis of array- based DNA copy number data Biostatistics 2004, 5:557-572 Venkatraman ES, Olshen AB: A faster circular binary segmentation algorithm for the analysis of array

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... risk, and hazard risk, the quantitative apparatus for incorporating strategy into a model of the firm is often underdeveloped or simply lacking As a result, analysts address strategic forces in a ... the Trang 2paradigm of Panning [4], one can use such a framework to calculate the value of a business based on its future earnings This has particular application to the problem of estimating ... parallel track of qualitative analysis, which supplements the quantitative analysis but cannot integrate with it This paper proposes a detailed framework in which strategic considerations can

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... Social Modes of Co-construction framework as being primarily an operationalization of the idea of transactivity, they describe how they draw from a variety of related frameworks rather than narrowly ... Golbeck [21] argue that Piaget’s theory of learning applies equally to individual and collaborative learning while creating a natural place in the process for social interaction to play a key role ... post-test gains on academic topics, the approach to verbal protocol analysis has been primarily categorical and quantitative [24] and one goal has been to define patterns of conversation that can be

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... Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia c Convenor of the Australian Bioinformatics Facility, Bioplatforms Australia, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia d School of ... Victoria, Australia f Genetic Services & Familial Cancer Program of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia Email addresses: MIB: mbellgard@ccg.murdoch.edu.au; ... mbellgard@ccg.murdoch.edu.au Trang 3ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTAbstract Orphan drug clinical trials often are adversely affected by a lack of high quality treatment efficacy data that can be reliably

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... SFL conceptualizes metafunctions of language not just as “uses of language” but as a fundamental property of language itself To illustrate the applicability of the metafunctional framework to ... This way of understanding about the of any natural language, however, will reveal that language is “multifunctional” (Halliday & Hasan, 1989, p 23) Now, if we accept the view that language ... by the author of this article) would hardly draw a notice of the formal grammarian, but it would certainly attract the attention of the functional grammarian for it would lead to insights about

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... group and the control group for both the signal representation approach and the signal modelling approach in the univariate and bivariate cases. Once the features were available, classification was ... distributions of biomarkers The results of this paper indicate that univariate Wavelet analysis, as well as bivariate synchronization analysis based on MS-COH, can... classification scores obtained ... The bar graphs also show that overall the Gamma1 band was consistent, as well. For Task 2, the classification scores are more sporadic than those obtained for Task 1. The most stable result across

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... necessarily represent the official stance of Barclays Capital The International Capital Market Association’s sponsorship of this publication aims to promote research and the continuing development of ... theory reveals – framework for efficiency analysis of 7.1 Scale Impact Matrix 242 7.1.1 Analysis of network strategies’ supply-side scale effects 243 7.1.2 Analysis of network strategies’ demand-side ... of exchanges, clearing organizations and banks should be interested in this scholarly work, as should relevant national authorities and central banks.’ MARK SPANBROEK Partner of a privately held

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... asnovation, netting and risk management, as well as transaction/position man-agement, collateral management and cash management The scope of nettingand risk management services that a CCP can offer ... growth of exchange-traded derivatives in the past decade has been accompanied by an increasinginternationalisation of the markets and their clearing arrangements.46Insti-tutional and individual traders ... Collateral Management Netting Novation Risk Management Cash Management BASIC CLEARING SERVICES Trade Confirmation Delivery Management COMPLEMENTARY CLEARING SERVICES Transaction / Position Management

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... adaptations. Dealing with a CCP also entails costs for the banking intermediaries. Clearing houses usually demand that all clearing members hold dedicated accounts for the physical delivery of ... cost of capital a clearing member has to bear in compliance with a clearing house’s risk management requirements can be regarded as an offset for the risk assumed by the CCP for the clearing ... an underlying and cash payments. This requirement entails administrative costs stemming from the maintenance of margin accounts and the calling and calculation of margin requirements. 50 Clearing

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... transaction costs of clearing as well as to derive a basis for analysing the impact that network strategies have on clearing costs Describes the underlying data Details the method of data collection ... relevance of CCP clearing; Part 2 asked for concrete cost data and concerned the transaction cost analysis of derivatives clearing; Part 3 contained closed questions related to analysing demand- and ... complexity of the research question and the general lack ofpublicly available studies, data and insight, a semi-structured approach waschosen to afford more flexibility as well as the ability to actively

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... cross-checking of the data revealed that the figure of€128 million for capital costs in 2005undervalues the magnitude of capital costs in that it mainly accounts forexternal financing costs As the empirical ... structurally mated by clearing members is the cost of capital As outlined above, calculat-ing, analysing and understanding the true cost of capital related to clearing underesti-is difficult for various ... therefore be based on publicly available data. 62 This type of analysis facilitates the comparison of the per-contract fees charged by clearing houses by equalising the different contract values Although

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... cost of capital and back -of ce costs Additionally, as more collateral is held and managed at a ‘secured place’, i.e with a trustworthy and sustainable CCP, the higher the potential savings ... whether financial intermediaries should engage both in balance and off-balance activities Malkam¨ ki a (1999) and Schmiedel/Malkam¨ ki/Tarkka (2002) estimate translog cost functions for their ... studies, a relying on a broader sample of data available for their focus area Book (2001) on the other hand copes with the problems related to the limited availability of data for

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... transactions, Clearing Members can clear their own transactions, their clients’ transactions and those of affiliated exchange participants... provide a fairly substantial period for analysis ... use of various clearing houses. [...]... access to the away market: Many of the Asian brokerage firms tend to be smaller; they don’t have the capital of a Morgan Stanley or a Goldman ... members. r For globally active clearers with a prop. focus, the efficiency gains of network strategies translate into a proportional profit increase, whereas for globally active clearers with an agency

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... six-year amortisation period and long-term investments an amortisation period equal to or greater than seven years. Trang 9adaptations and expenses for CCorp than for ECAG,99the particularities ofthis ... clearing relationship with ECAG The implementation of Phase II would have thus required ECAG to deal with a greater number of technical, operational and legal adaptations than CCorp Although Phase ... that CCorp had alreadyestablished an interface to the a/c/e system and that the CCPs cooperated onthe basis of an outsourcing agreement that served to minimise the impact oflink-related software

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... initiatives (as a particular form of M&A initiatives) have the drawback that the majority of resources must be committed to the inte- gration of the partnering clearing houses; this type of ... costs). r Regarding the issue of governance, the M&A and the Single CCP case studies revealed that ceding partial control over a clearing house in the context of a merger as a trade-off for efficiency ... constitute a natural monopoly. Despite the widespread belief that clearing generally qualifies as a natural monopoly, no evidence of this was found in multinational markets, such as the European clearing

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... time to cover all major European markets r A basic framework was provided that can serve as a starting point for European CCP managers to determine which European clearing housesactually ought to ... clearing houses today act as a so-calledcentral counterparty (CCP) Central counterparty clearing has become anintegral part of clearing services and can even be said to constitute the core Trang ... transaction costs that clearing members have to bear are reduced(and vice versa) The total transaction costs of clearing are composed of direct and rect costs, and can be impacted by integration

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... roughly equal the fixed charges incurred by a clearing member through itsmembership at Eurex Clearing OMX clearing house charges are accounted for at a laterstage of the calculation of total clearing ... 1.2: Calculation of variable clearing house charges per clearing house and clearing member: help of the interviewees, the European market share for each of the six benchmark clearerswas estimated ... no of contracts Equities no of transactions Trang 2444 How would you classify your organisational structure (i.e functional organisation ororganisation according to business areas/asset classes)?Thank

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... RESEARCH Open Access A framework for ABFT techniques in the design of fault-tolerant computing systems Hodjat Hamidi * , Abbas Vafaei and Seyed Amirhassan Monadjemi Abstract We present a framework ... blocks of data over a wide range of variances are performed. For the Figure 8 Detection performance of the comparator versus threshold. Hamidi et al. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing ... significantly. In particular, for a convolution code of rate R that corrects all but a fraction ψ of bursts of length a or less relative to a guard space of length b b a ≥ R +[log 2 (1 − ψ)]/a 1

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... by a financial intermediary. Trang 4of a financial market.170 The effectiveness of a CCP’s risk management andsufficient levels of financial resources are therefore crucial for the stability ofwill ... Up-to-date and consistent view of portfolio. • Use of central collateral/cash pool. • Calculation, collection and custodial management of margin and collateral payment. • Simplified, standardised and ... incl revaluation of positions on a daily or intra-day basis using mark-to-market, collection of margins. • Mark-to-market and collateralisation disciplines create savings at the operational level,

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