estimation of average treatment effects based on propensity scores

... Trang 1Effects of Institutional Quality on FDI in Provinces of Vietnam: Empirical Evidence Based on Differenced Panel GMM NGUYEN VAN BON University of Economics HCMC – bonvnguyen@yahoo.com ... examined the effects of economic institutions, including property rights protection and contract enforcement, on the location choice of foreign direct investment for 6288 US multinationals investing ... approach consisted of reinforcing domestic institutional functions only, while the second one comprised, in addition, enforcing bilateral investment treaties and the interaction between functions and

Ngày tải lên: 04/02/2020, 03:59

... each non-detect using a normal distribution with one-half of the LOD as mean and one-fourth of the LOD as standard deviation It indicated that 95% of the concentrations of interest (95% of the ... sub-regions, namely Zhushan Bay (ZB, two stations), West Zone (WZ, two stations), South Zone (SZ, five stations), Dongtaihu Bay (DB, three stations), East Zone (EZ, four stations), Gonghu Bay ... perturbations Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM) is a decision-tree based approach coupling with a gradient boost algorithm to make accurate estimations of the response variable among highly non-linear

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... Influence of different reaction conditions on the activity of 3.24 Activity for the treatment of scot and the influence of scot on 3.2.5 Influence of aging condition on activity of MnCoCe catalysts ... Composition of mixture gases at different! reaction conditions for CyHe oxidation Table 2.6 Composition of mixture gases al different reaction conditions for CO oxtdthion 0 Af Table 2.7 Composition ... different reaction conililions (condition a: excess oxygen condition with the presence of CO: 0.9% Cslls, 0.3% CO, 586 Q2, Nz balance, condition b: excess oxygen condition with the presence of CO and

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2025, 14:06

... category of nanofluids The final sec-tion contains the main conclusions reached by the cur-rent review Characteristics of nanofluids This section epitomizes the most common nanofluid preparation methods ... and enables the demonstration of a gen-eral view of the thermal performance of nanofluids Thesecond level focuses on the most commonly studiednanofluid types and compositions and makes possible ... transfer modes of nanofluids: a review based on statistical analysis Antonis Sergis*and Yannis Hardalupas Abstract This paper contains the results of a concise statistical review analysis of a large

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... corresponds to one of the 2k possible values of xt This allows the degree of reliability of the network function to vary based upon the state of a gene’s predecessors Note that 2k is only an ... minimization in pattern recognition, where the cost function for the classifier is a sum of the resubstitution error of the empirical-error-rule classifier and a function of the VC dimension of the ... for smalln and only worse than Network MDL for n =80 In terms of computation time, Reveal was fairly constant for all of the simulation settings, taking an average of 6.35 seconds to find predecessors

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... are iterations and Z( ·) are normalizing constants to be determined Because of the integration in analytic expression By choosingq( θ) as a member of the exponential family, this condition is satisfied ... data and clustering can be done based on either similar-ity of expression magnitude or the shape of expression dynamics Clustering methods include hierarchical and partitional types (such as K-means, ... Partitional clustering can be done on the data itself or on spline representations of the data [3, 4] In either case, square-error techniques such as K-means are often used K-means is computationally

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... Corporation Journal of Inequalities and Applications Volume 2009, Article ID 759251, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2009/759251 Research Article Certain Classes of Harmonic Multivalent Functions Based on Hadamard ... subclasses of the class of complex-valued harmonic multivalent functions based on Hadamard product Copyright q 2009 Om P Ahuja et al This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons ... “Harmonic functions starlike in the unit disk,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 235, no 2, pp 470–477, 1999 12 Journal of Inequalities and Applications H Silverman, “Harmonic

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... final aggregation of several channels of informa-tion sources into one state has not considered the contribu-tion variacontribu-tion of individual channels of informacontribu-tion to that state ... envi-ronment conditions such as monotony of road (MR), and the number of lanes (NL) The inferring of fatigue based on these features is developed by first collecting feature data through questionnaire ... because of the two limitations One is that current techniques of image processing cannot always ensure the recognition precision, the other is that an introverted person might have tendency of controlling

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... general, the accuracy of position estimation depends on the propagation characteristics of the specific environment, on the number of transmitting devices, and on the resolu-tion of the RF-radio map ... position with one point insideU A In Table 2we show the average extension ofU Aas a function of the number of RFID responding devices,Nresp In the same table we also indicate the average of the ... the position with the algorithm in (4) and we compared it with the exactposition of the terminal From 3 The goodness of one configuration of ADs with respect to another one for localization could

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... the distortion can be quite severe Often, the image integration time is only a few seconds in duration and the target’s rotational displacement is only a few degrees The conventional quadratic ... result of a constant circular motion of the target with respect to the radar, resulting in a nonconstant Doppler velocity introduced along the radar’s line of sight due to the acceleration of the ... angular motion of the target and r is the positional vector of the scatterer on the target measured from the intersection of ω and the x-axis (seeFigure 4) The rotational motion of the target

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... draw-backs of conventional sampling 2.2 AMPs of transmitters An AMP of a digital transmitter, regardless of its architecture, has to perform reconstruction filtering, conversion of recon-structed ... architectures: (a) direct up-conversion architecture, (b) offset up-conversion architecture with baseband reconstruction, (c) offset up-conversion architecture with bandpass reconstruction of the transmitter ... are considered inSection 6 2 CONVENTIONAL ARCHITECTURES OF THE RADIO AMPS 2.1 AMPs of receivers In digital receivers, the main purpose of AMPs is to create conditions for signal digitization Indeed,

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... ill-conditioned Designing efficient pre-conditioner for the Helmholtz equation is currently an active field of research (Erlangga & Nabben; 2008) Efficient preconditioners based on one cycle of ... For multidimensional simulations, the interpolation function is built by tensor product construction of 1D windowed Sinc functions If the source positions matches the position of one grid node, ... theoretical one In order to assess the scalability of the LU factorization, we consider a computational FD grid of dimensions 177 x 107 x 62 corresponding to 1.17 millions of unknowns The size of the

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 23:25

... which consist of cellulolytic bacteria.7,9 Monitoring were done periodically every one month with measuring the change of its weight caused by natural degradable process 2.1 General Information ... means of interesting test to every bio-composites specimen using tensometry The functional groups of compounds were characterized by FTIR The profiles of degradation and decomposition of compounds ... DTA Morphological analysis of bio-composite specimens was done using SEM (in 2500x magnification) 3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION 3.1 Characterization of Functional Groups of Starting Materials: rPP,

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20

... ubiquitination, whereas the mobility of the E2 was Detection of polyubiquitination and self-ubiquitination of CIP8 Figure 3 Detection of polyubiquitination and self-ubiquitination of CIP8 A to ... JD, Hicke L: Non-traditional functions of ubiquitin and 278(38):35857-35860. 8. Hofmann RM, Pickart CM: Noncanonical MMS2-encoded ubiq-uitin-conjugating enzyme functions in assembly of novel polyubiquitin ... internalization of membrane proteins, acti-vation of signal transduction and DNA damage repair [7] The formation of lysyl-63-linked polyubiquitin chains is generated by specific combinations of E2s

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... population Cases (true positive) and controls (true negative) manifestation profiles were generated by the manifestation profile simulation algorithm (MPSA) The inclusion criterion was the simulation ... stages so treatment of unaffected systems can be initiated (according to the transmission effect) None of the abovementioned works [1,3,18,19] estimated the impact of available information on the ... differentiation based on both explained and optimum available information (F% and N%-cutoff) is more accurate than using explained and available information without cutoff (F% and N%) Both F% and N%-cutoff

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... translational score systems Additional molecular information can improve outcome prediction depending on the marker used and the applied algorithm Two models, one based on regressions and the other on ... interactions within tumours, it is unlikely that one single marker will be sufficient to predict outcome [10] Therefore, prediction of prognosis will rely on a combination of numerous clinical data concerning ... particularly information relating to biomarkers However, translational integration of this large amount of information into one risk assessment is a major challenge A mul-tiple regression model derived

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... information, thus allowing straightforward comparisons of phosphorylation patterns found under different conditions The database also contains the largest available collection of atomic models of phosphorylatable ... these potential sources of variability, the degree of conservation of each phosphosite was assessed for several subdivisions of the initial alignments Briefly, conservation scores were calcu-lated ... frequency of occurrences of phosphorylated (a) serine/threonine and (b) tyrosine residues in the elements of secondary structure of the models as defined by Dictionary of Protein Secondary Structure

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Conservation of Balearic honeybees The conclusions derived from microsatellite and mitochondrial data indic-ate that Balearic honeybee populations still have a natural genome worth of being protected ... situation has been found in the honeybee population of Tenerife [6, 8], where recent importations of south-eastern Mediterranean races with the C haplotype have occurred 4.2 Evolutionary history of ... populations of African origin (A m iberica, A m sicula and A m ruttneri) in the Mediterranean islands is a consequence of successive colonisation events during the Pleistocene glaciations 4.3 Conservation

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... entirety, under the supervisions of Professor Sam Li Fong Yau (National University of Singapore), Assoc Professor Hu Jiangyong (National University of Singapore) and Asst Professor Toh Chee Seng (Nanyang ... sensor for Na+ based on Na+-inhibited K+ intercalation Chapter 3 continues with the exploration of Na+-inhibited K+intercalation with intention of adding-on a K+ analysis functionality to the ... dissertation 29 Fig 2.1 Typical CV responses of the PB-ME showing (a) the anodic shifts of Epc with increasing concentrations of K+ and (b) the cathodic shifts of Epc with increasing concentrations of

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:13

... Discussions 71 4.3.1 Effects of Hydrophobic Modifier Addition on Phase Separation during Copolymerization 71 4.3.2 Influence of Co-monomer Distribution on Solution Behavior 74 4.3.3 Structures of ... course of monomer conversion (●) and the logarithm of monomer consumption (■) in (AN-GMA) synthesis at 65 °C in EC via ATRP The monomers at the start of the reaction had the composition ratio of ... Investigations of the Effects of Hydrophobic Functional Groups on Phase Separation in Solution The inclusion of hydrophobic TFPM in the random ionomer design also averted an early phase separation

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