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- Mistakes Into Assets: Thoughts On Product Innovation
- The publisher recently conducted a survey on innovation by examining the statements made by chief executives of large public companies in the public press. 1 Most recognized that innovation, although crucial for organic growth, is nevertheless difficult to sustain. Difficulties arise because most organizations tend to view deviations from institutionalized...
- White papers 2006-07-25
- Generalized Correlation for the Viscosity of Hydrocarbons Based on Corresponding States Principles and Molar Refraction
- A generalized correlation in terms of the reduced molar refraction parameter r is proposed for the calculation of the viscosity of dense hydrocarbon fluids. The input parameters are the refractive index and density at 20 °C, molecular weight, critical temperature, and pressure. For saturated gases (Pr < 1), the absolute...
- White papers 2004-12-03
- Channeling Inventory Management Tactics
- From the executive summary: ‘Quantity of inventory used in inventory management systems allow for deviations in demand or supply. Safety stock calculations take into account historic deviations and use a required service level multiplier to determine the optimal safety stock level. Marketers with more than a few stores or that...
- White papers 2004-08-15
- An Empirical Comparison of Credit Spreads Between the Bond Market and the Credit Default Swap Market
- This paper compares the pricing of credit risk in the bond market and the fast-growing credit default swap CDS market. The empirical findings confirm the theoretical prediction that bond spreads and CDS spreads move together in the long run. Nevertheless, in the short run this relationship does not always hold....
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Development of a Locally Designed and Manufactured Small-Scale Reverse Osmosis Desalination System
- A development program of a small-scale desalination unit, formerly designed and manufactured, was adopted to reduce the production cost of water and minimize the deviation in the water characteristics. Process design and full engineering were performed; the system was manufactured locally. Monitoring of feed and product water characteristics, quality and...
- White papers 2004-02-25
- The GATT and Gradualism
- This paper shows how the institutional rules imposed on its signatories by the GATT created a strategic incentive for countries to liberalize gradually. Free trade can never be achieved if punishment for deviation from a trade agreement is limited to a 'withdrawal of equivalent concessions.' Trade liberalization must be gradual...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Statistical Extreme Value Analysis of ANC Taxiway Centerline Deviations for 747 Aircraft
- This paper describes the analysis of 747 taxiway centerline deviation data that were collected from 9/24/2000 to 9/27/2001 at Anchorage International Airport. Deviations were measured for nose and main gear at two laser locations for each of two 75 ft straight taxiway segments with shoulder called KILO and ROMEO, respectively....
- White papers 2004-01-16
- Statistical Extreme Value Analysis of JFK Taxiway Centerline Deviations for 747 Aircraft
- This paper describes the analysis of 747 taxiway centerline deviation data that were collected from 6/24/1999 to 2/17/2000 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport JFK. Deviations were measured for nose and main gear at two laser locations for each of two parallel 75 ft straight taxiway segments with...
- White papers 2003-10-14
- Hedge Funds: Old Paradigm Or New?
- This paper speaks about Hedge Funds: Old Paradigm or New? The relative return manager is concerned with only one risk: tracking error or deviations from the benchmark. The relative return manager is concerned with only one risk: tracking error or deviations from the benchmark, active management isn't necessary to achieve...
- White papers 2003-10-07
- What is Six Sigma?
- Six Sigma is a business concept that answers customers demand for high quality and defect-free business processes. Customer satisfaction and its improvement should be the highest priorities of any business. In other words, Six Sigma is about abandoning the uncertainty of goals and forecasts. Sigmas is character of the Greek...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Quality Improvement
- The quality paradigm has assumed great importance in modern day business scenario. Quality, today, stresses on the problem solving approach. A problem is any deviation in the work process from the ‘ideal’ scenario. Problem solving is the process of fixing the aforesaid deviations. The paper examines the problem solving concept...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Sharpe, Treynor And Jensen's Ratios
- This article tries to discuss Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen's Ratios, which are used in the portfolio management. Sharpe ratio measures the return earned in excess of the risk free rate on a portfolio to the portfolio's total risk as measured by the standard deviation in its returns over the measurement...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Recognizing Deviations From Normalcy for Brain Tumor Segmentation
- A framework is proposed for the segmentation of brain tumors from MRI. Instead of training on pathology, the proposed method trains exclusively on healthy tissue. The algorithm attempts to recognize deviations from normalcy in order to compute a fitness map over the image associated with the presence of pathology. The...
- White papers 2002-11-13
- An Introduction to Fast REP (Risk Evaluation & Profiling)
- It is relatively simple to compare and choose among alternatives in a deterministic world because there is no uncertainty: what you see is what you get. Uncertain outcomes with their attendant distributions complicate the comparison effort. In the world of investments it is generally agreed that high mean rate of...
- White papers 2001-10-15
- Emerging Market Bond Spreads And Sovereign Credit Ratings: Reconciling Market Views With Economic Fundamental
- This paper uses a panel data estimation of a simple univariate model of sovereign spreads on ratings analyzes statistically significant deviations from the estimated relationship. The paper finds evidence of an asymmetric adjustment of spreads and ratings when such deviations are significant. In addition, it illustrates how significant disagreements between...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Absolute Risk
- The biggest mistake investors can make is to go beyond their risk tolerance. Planners play a key role in helping them determine their true threshold of comfort. Unfortunately, investors generally have to experience a real decline before they understand it. Brokers try to explain this phenomenon with academic terms, such...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- How Many Hedge Funds Are Needed To Create A Diversified Fund Of Funds?
- Hedge Funds generally seek strong absolute returns with low correlation to market indices through one of many hedging strategies. Investors have shown considerable interest in “fund-of- funds” products as an additional way to reduce volatility by diversifying across a group of hedge funds. However, many investors tend to examine the...
- White papers 2001-03-01
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- Question of the month
- Troy Alves 2003 AUSTRALIA PRO GRAND PRIX, RUNNER-UP "It was in 2000, when I was going up against Tevita Aholelei at the NPC USA, trying to get my pro card [finishing second to Aholelei among heavyweights that year, Alves earned his pro card at the 2002 USA]. I...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Political Thought of Ayatullah Murtaza Mutahhari: An Iranian Theoretician of the Islamic State, The
- Davari, Mahmood T., The Political Thought of Ayatullah Murtaza Mutahhari: An Iranian Theoretician of the Islamic State. New York: Routledge Curzon, 2005. 201 pp. A work that attempts to deal comprehensively with the thought of a significant philosopher often leaves out the subject's life events. It can be argued...
- Articles 2008-06-30
- Sense of Adventure Rests in Primitive Brain Region
- Your sense of adventure comes from a primitive area of the brain called the ventral striatum, British researchers say. Scientists from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London used fMRI to track brain activity in volunteers and found the ventral striatum was activated when participants chose unfamiliar...
- Articles 2008-06-25
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