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... inundated area and is subject to 53 percent of the total damage The railways and the urban land use are the next land use types that suffer large damages The damage to the forest area and to the area ... and Van đer Sande [9, 14, 15] to determine the damage per square meter These resources are of use to understand the foundations of the damage curve and the associated maximum damage value Van ... and Van der Sande [4, 9, 14] were listed The U.S Army Corps of Engineers developed HEC- FDA model to formulate and evaluate flood damage reduction plans using Risk-based Analysis Expected Annual

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... performance Thus, it can considered to be relevant to study the underlying factors of diversification and a firm’s strategy in developing and constructing an industrial portfolio This paper aims to ... 1.2.3 Transaction costs and Diversification Strategy Transactions costs are the negotiating, monitoring and enforcement costs that firms need to undergo, to allow an exchange or a transaction ... that managers invest in projects just for the sake of investing to manage a bigger and more diversified firm” An explanation for this is that managers of larger firms tend to have higher Trang

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 11:20

... UltraScan P991 19-inch monitor at a display resolution of 28 pixels/cm The display yieldedminimum and maximum luminances of, respectively, 1.2and 99.2 cd/m2, and an overall gamma of 2.3 Luminancemeasurements ... pho-tometer (Minolta Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) The pixel-value-to-luminance response of this monitor was approxi-mated via L(X) =(0.7 + 0.026X)2.3, (2)whereL denotes the luminance in cd/m2, andX ... the RMS contrast of the distortions (target) computed with respect to the mean luminance of the background-image patch (mask) Let I and I denote an original and distorted image patch, respectively,

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... Distributions of Singular BVPs on Time Scales and an Application to Emden-Fowler Equations Ravi P Agarwal, 1 Victoria Otero-Espinar, 2 Kanishka Perera, 1 and Dolores R Vivero 2 1 Department of Mathematical ... (C and (PM, f satisfies (C c , and g satisfies (C g . Then, if for each j ≥ 1 there exist u j and u j a lower and an upper weak solution, respectively, to P j  such that u j ≤ u j on D and ... weak upper solution toP j Therefore, for every j ≥ 1 so large, we have a lower and an upper solution to P j, respectively, such that2.2 is satisfied and so,Corollary 2.5guarantees that problemP

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 11:20

... Trang 1Prediction of genetic merit from data on binary and quantitative variates with an application to calving difficulty,birth weight and pelvic opening J.L FOULLEY, D GIANOLA R THOMPSON’ ... developed, and we consider some approximations for posterior inference and fit of themodel A method is proposed to estimate jointly the components of variance andcovariance involving the quantitative and ... iteration can start with y , °1 = 0 As this is a «nested» Gauss-Seidel iteration, with P°-&dquo; symmetric and positive definite (VAN NORTON, 1960) Then, one needs to return to (47) and to the

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... Daniella, Steven,…and their partners; Roos, Rolnan, Cornelie, Judith and Wendy from the Construction and Transport groups; Our secretaries: Anke, Joke and Ellen; Yan, Dong, Ping, Chang Wei and ... district (Fig 1.6) Topology and Geology Topologically and geologically, the mainland of the study area can be separated into two regions: the lowlands in the Western part and highlands in the Eastern ... Tien Giang Enschede, July, 2005 Trang 14of critical questions such as: to what extent can such models contribute to our knowledge and ability to manage our environment? Are they useful and do

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... decisions Bayesian inference and fully recursive model The models studied were fitted via Bayesian analysis and consisted of SEM with recursive causal structures and a diagonal residual covariance matrix, ... causal structures when compared to standard mixed effects SEM applications Trang 5Background Structural equation models or SEM ([1,2]) are used to model multiple traits and functional links among ... The conditional covariance matrix of y given u can be obtained by fitting a standard multiple trait animal model (MTAM, [17]) and obtaining the estimated residual covariance matrix, here represented

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... parameter to zero. Trang 7as discrepancy statistic, where kk in the numerator is the mean, and ffiffiffiffiffikk p in the denominator is the standard deviation; for the ZIP model, the mean and stan-dard ... arises from an excess of zeros Zero-inflated models for count data in animal breeding have been discussed by Gianola [15] and used by Rodrigues-Motta and collaborators [27] in an analysis of the ... probability h, and an ‘‘imperfect’’ one that follows a Poisson distribution, with probability (1
h) and Poisson parameter k It can be shown that the mean and variance of a ZIP variate are and respectively,

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... sampling: an overview The Gibbs sampler was used first in spatial statistics and presented formally by Geman and Geman (1984) in an image restoration context Applications to Bayesianinference ... q x 1 random vector; and e: n x 1 vector ofrandom residuals The conditional distribution that generates the data is: where I is an n x n identity matrix, and Q e is the variance of the random ... not taken into account when predicting breeding values Gianola and Fernando (1986), Gianola et al (1986) and Gianola et al (1990a, b, 1992) advocate the use of Bayesian methods in animal breeding

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... q::;;n-1 variates Trang 4Using the general result of Jain and Amble (1962) we have: Since Q(c , c n ) is to be equal to a constant P, the maximization of Ep (u) is tanta-mount to the maximization ... with no more than 2 variables (Namkoong, 1970; Evans, 1980; Cotterill and James, 1981; Smith and Quaas, 1982) Recently, Ducrocq and Colleau (1986) treated examples with 3 variables to illustrate ... (7) to (11) are simpler, since Q = 1 and Q= 0 Algebraic and numerical results are equivalent to those given by Smith and Quaas (1982). In (9), Q;ik = 1 The algorithm described here leads to the

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:23

... II and III very slightly less regressed towards the mean incidence 7 r = 0.04 than in method I On the other hand, this is a good example of a change of ranking according to criteria used B and ... 1984) the expression for 7 can be written as and that for 7 as: In what follows, and to simplify notation, J will be referred to as 7 Letting t = fail be an (q x 1) vector, a natural choice for ... is usually taken to be (Berger, 1985, p 224) The form shown in (18a and b) applies as well to the asymptotic variance since both of them tend to the same limit as no = En tends to infinity This

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... ge-netic variances tend to stabilize, residual variances of log-transformed records are larger in herds with the lowest production level (De Veer and Van Vleck, 1987; Boldman and Freeman, 1990; ... 1990) and for growth performance in beef cattle (Garrick et al, 1989) This heterogeneity of variances, also called heteroskedasticity (McCullogh, 1985), can be due to many factors, egmanagement ... refined to take into account covariances among elements of different u!s As proposed by Gianola et al (1992), this can be accomplished by relating Ui to a general q x 1 vector u of standardized

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... greatly I also thank Maritime Port Authority (MPA), Trang 4local maritime data for analysis Additional thanks to my friends, Dr.Yi Jiangtao, Mr Wang Shanquan, Ms Zhang Nan and Mr Wang Li, for all ... include: (a) To assess the performance of TLRN based on different predictors in the model residue prediction and to analyze the influence of different predictors Trang 29(b) To enhance the application ... Kriging (AOK and ASTOK) and Kalman filter (two-sample KF and UKF) The primary objective of this study is to develop and implement applicable data assimilation scheme which is able to provide desirable

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:56

... comments on my thesis research and writing Many thanks to Dr Zhou Peng and Dr Teng Suyan who helped me a lot during my PhD study I also wish to thank Ms Ow Lai Chun and Mr Victor Chew for their excellent ... Sherman and Ladino (1995), and Athanassopoulos (1997) In industry sector, DEA has been applied to various assorted activities For instances, Weber and Desai (1996) employed DEA to construct an ... processes; • Standard metrics to measure process performance; Trang 2614 • Management practices that produce best in class performance and • Standard alignment to software features and functionality Having

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:39

... micrometers features and sub-micrometer tolerances An advantage of this process is the ability to use any machinable material, quick process planning and material removal, and three-dimensional ... like to thank all members of Advance Manufacturing Laboratory (AML), specially Mr Simon Tan, Mr Lim Soon Cheong and Mr Nelson Yeo for their assistance during my experimentation Also special thanks ... and titanium carbide and tantalum carbide are sometimes Trang 30added to the mixture to provide greater hardness for wear resistance Virtually all carbide tools used today in manufacturing operations

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 20:57

... Trang 1Urban Planning and the Place Marketing Model: An Application to Cities and Provinces in Viet Nam Trang 2Declaration I, Van Thi Thanh Hoang, declare that the PhD thesis entitled Urban ... and offered an A$20 million low-interest loan to build a motor raceway and a further loan to pay out Victorian creditors of the Australian Motor Cycle Grand Prix promoter, so that NSW could bid ... post-Keynesian urban policies (Thatcherism and Reaganomics) in the USA, Europe and Australia, to deal with urban crises The common paradigm of place marketing in this stage was to regenerate and expand

Ngày tải lên: 19/12/2016, 12:14

... Trang 1Audit Sampling: An Application to Substantive Tests of Account Balances Chapter Nine Trang 2Substantive Tests of Details of Account Balances The statistical concepts ... apply to this chapter as well Three important determinants of sample size are: 1 Desired confidence level. Trang 3Substantive Tests of Details of Account (€3,000,000 × 2%) Book value of inventory ... than the tolerable misstatement. The results of our audit test depend upon the tolerable misstatement associated with the inventory account If the tolerable misstatement is €50,000, we cannot

Ngày tải lên: 15/05/2017, 08:06

... application and expansion of PMT can contribute to new or enhanced mitigation and preparedness measures which can be integrated into current arrangements to promote human safety and support community ... help Human-animal bond, grief and loss Attachment theory [75] has expanded over time to include relationships between humans and non-human animals [62] Animals contribute positively to human life, ... community as an animal-owning group, widely recognised as resourceful and self-reliant, and highly experienced in animal husbandry and land management, could contribute significantly to assist other

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 13:59

... by an N×N matrix as follows: Trang 6𝑋 = [where xij represents the loan of bank i to bank j The sum of rows 𝑙𝑖 = ∑ 𝑥𝑗 𝑖𝑗 represents bank i’s total loans to other banks and 𝑏𝑗= ∑ 𝑥𝑖 𝑖𝑗 is bank ... the bankrupt bank’s assets) and the amount of the creditor bank’s loan to the failed bank In this case, the creditor bank j survives if e j ’ + l j + y j – f j ≥ d j + b j If the creditor bank ... bank and arrows show the direction and magnitude of interbank loans Figure 2 presents the structure of assets and liabilities of each bank Trang 5other banks If a bank fails (i.e it goes bankrupt),

Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2020, 22:30

... can handle one- or two-dimensional explanatory variables In many cases, CIA is exploited using a matching estimator; for recent examples, see Angrist (1998), Dehejia and Wahba (1999), Heckman, ... asymptoticall y more efŽ cient However, to compare binary and multiple treatments, it appears advisable to use commonly used and stable algorithm s and to avoid discussions about optimal bandwidth ... balance the covariates Table 6 shows the results for two summary measures—the median absolute standardized bias and the mean squared standard-ized bias—that give an indication of the distance

Ngày tải lên: 04/04/2021, 11:44