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Eli Lily: Cardiac Output Indices Measurement Using LabVIEW: Researchers in Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company, want to study the cardiac output patterns of mice that have undergone different heart surgery operations. A custom-built Doppler frequency analyzer was used to measure the blood flow speeds in the mice's hearts during each heartbeat. The Doppler quadrature signals were feed through...; Tags: Corporate governance, Mice, indice, board, mouse, DSP, monitor, plug-in; Case studies
A New Wall Street Line Dance: Performance: It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus one worships, one just can't know where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections? even more is squandered comparing portfolio Market Values with...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, indice, investor, stock market, stock, environment, performance; White papers
Consumer Price Indices: This is a template for consumer price indices.; Tags: Indice; Tools & templates 2007-12-19
Chain Indices Of The Cost Of Living And The Path-Dependence Problem: An Empirical Solution: This paper proposes an empirically feasible method for correcting the path-dependence bias of chain indices of the cost of living. Chain indices are discrete approximations to Divisia indices and it is well known that the latter are path-dependent: the level of a Divisia index is affected not just by the...; Tags: London School of Economics, indice, endpoint, income, theory; White papers 2007-05-01
Targeted Budgeting Tool: The purpose of this template is to help you develop Return-On-Marketing-Investment ROMI indices indices of your expected results for each type of marketing based either on Return On Marketing Investment ROMI or on margin mROMI.; Tags: Microsoft Corp., indice, budgeting, marketing; Tools & templates 2005-12-09

Fiscal Transparency and Economic Outcomes: This paper develops indices of fiscal transparency for a broad range of countries based on the IMF's Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency, using data derived from published fiscal transparency modules of the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes ROSCs. The indices covers four clusters of fiscal...; Tags: IMF, indice, budgeting; White papers 2005-12-01
Comparative Assessment of Three Different Indices of Multimorbidity for Studies on Health-Related Quality of Life: Measures of multimorbidity are often applied to source data, populations or outcomes outside the scope of their original developmental work. As the development of a multimorbidity measure is influenced by the population and outcome used, these influences should be taken into account when selecting a multimorbidity index. The aim of...; Tags: Vertical industries, BioMed Central, indice, health care; White papers 2005-11-23
Index Calculation Engine Design Challenges: The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of indices, index calculations and challenges in designing an index calculation engine. Financial indices are numbers that measure the change in price movements of stocks, bonds and other forms of investments, and are meant to capture the overall behavior of...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Wipro Technologies, indice, bond, financial, stock, performance; White papers 2005-07-12
Residential Real Estate Price Indices as Financial Soundness Indicators: Methodological Issues: This paper focuses on the potential uses of residential real estate price indices as a tool to monitor asset market instability, and the methodological issues involved in their development. The paper examines how real estate price indices can serve as a monitoring device to help minimize financial instability. It reviews...; Tags: Financial accounting, Bank for International Settlements, indice, financial, monitoring, asset, monitor, tool; White papers 2005-04-22
US Commercial Real Estate Indices: Transaction-Based and Constant-Liquidity Indices: This paper discusses commercial price indices, focusing on transaction-based indices. It discusses the problems created by using transactions as the basis for a price index and solutions to the problems. It also introduces a recently derived index that provides measures of the value of commercial property in an environment where...; Tags: Financial services, Bank for International Settlements, indice, commercial property, commercial real estate, appraisal, liquidity, environment; White papers 2005-04-22
Aggregation Bias and the Repeat Sales Price Index: A house price index is by definition a summary indicator of spatial and/or inter-temporal house prices. House price indices provide a basis for measuring real estate values and their growth through time. The question examined in this paper is whether transaction-based house price indices differ from true or housing stock-based...; Tags: Bank for International Settlements, indice, real estate, stock; White papers 2005-04-22
Can the Hedge Fund Industry Mature Without Investable Indices?: Hedge fund indices can be described as disguised funds of funds that have discovered the label 'index' as very useful for their marketing effort. The article catalogues every problem, large or small, facing index providers. This article examines whether the hedge fund industry has become a mature and stable industry...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, marketing, industry; White papers 2004-09-01
Hedge Fund Indices: A New Way to Invest in Absolute Return Strategies?: While index based investing is prominent and comes with a clear foundation in the traditional investment universe, this approach still must prove its validity in the realm of absolute return oriented hedge funds. Investable hedge fund indices come with considerable theoretical and structural shortcomings as well as significant implementation challenges....; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund; White papers 2004-06-01
Hedonic Price Indices for the Paris Housing Market: This paper calculates a transaction-based price index for apartments. The heterogeneous character of real estate is taken into account using a hedonic model. The functional form is specified using a general Box-Cox function. The data basis covers 84 686 transactions of the housing market in 1990:01{1999:12, which is one of...; Tags: Investment, bond, real estate, housing market, asset, stock; White papers 2004-04-19
Understanding Deflation: Treating the Disease, Not the Symptoms: Deflation can be defined as a falling general price level utilizing one of the common price indices: the consumer price index; the GDP deflator or other, narrower indices as the wholesale price index; or an index of manufactured goods prices. Falling indices of output prices can be the result of...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, deflation, indice, consumer price index, gross domestic product; White papers 2003-10-13
Building a Better Benchmark: On December 2, 2002, Morgan Stanley Capital International ("MSCI") moved beyond the realm of international equity indices, in which it is known as the leading provider, by initiating a family of U.S. equity indices. The Vanguard Group announced shortly afterward that it would replace the benchmarks of seven of its...; Tags: equity; White papers 2003-10-01
Measurement of Process Capability: Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk, Probability Plotting, and Six Sigma: Process capability and process performance index studies are to assess a process relative to specification criteria. Quantification of this measurement is often reported using units Cp, Cpk, Pp, and/or Ppk. Statisticians often challenge how well commonly used capability indices do this; however, the fact remains customers often request these indices...; Tags: Channel management, Smarter Solutions, indice, supplier, Six Sigma, process improvement; White papers 2003-03-04
The Benefits Of Commodity Investment: This article describes direct commodity investments as a historically been a minor part of investors’ asset allocation decision. In contrast it also talks about indirect investment (e.g., equity or debt ownership of firms specializing in direct commodity market production) was the principal means of obtaining claims on commodity investment. This...; Tags: Asset management, Financial services, stock fund, indice, asset allocation, stock, investment, bond, hedge fund, real estate, equity, asset, benefit; White papers 2003-03-01
Dissecting the Decline: The challenge during any period of equity market volatility, whether up or down, is obtaining a clear "read" on how the market--collectively--is actually performing. The media, and as a result many investors, tend to focus too much on popularized indices that may or may not be representative of the collective...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Thomson Corp., indice, equity, stock market, analysis, stock; White papers 2002-10-01
Predicting Equity Returns For 37 Countries : Tweaking The Gordon Formula: Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about whether and how much the U.S. stock market is overvalued, leading some economic gurus to suggest that foreign markets may be good investments. It ask whether this is the case and apply the Gordon formula to predict future real rates of...; Tags: Investment, Duke University, indice, investor, equity; White papers 2002-07-12