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Richard Holt Hutton: A Biographical and Critical Study
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The Australian-American alliance: Holt, LBJ and the Vietnam War
… alliance during the prime ministership of Harold Holt in relation to Australia’s role in Vietnam, and growing concerns over Britain’s planned withdrawal from Southeast Asia.
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Forecasting of work in process quality using Holt-Winters method for missing observations
… develop a forecasting model using extension of Holt-Winters method for missing data. The variable of interest considered was the fraction non-conforming of a process. Initial values were generated using Beta distribution. Values of fraction non-conforming for future periods were generated using …
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Discrete and dynamic population models with logistic growth rate
<p>"The Beverton-Holt difference equation defines a discrete relation describing a population model. Considering periodic carrying capacity and periodic inherent growth rate, a population with seasonal changing life cycle and environment is reflected. The so-called periodically forced Beverton-Holt …
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Determining effectiveness of evidence-based education and interventions for fall prevention in long-term care
… regarding falls in older adults residing in Holt Senior Care and Rehabilitation Center in Holt, Michigan. The main goal of the project was to provide education to direct care workers and to reduce falls and fall-related injuries of the older adult population at the Holt facility. Methods: A …
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Place names in the northwest counties of Missouri
Counties: Atchison, Holt, Nodaway, Andrew, Buchanan, Worth, Gentry, DeKalb, Clinton, Harrison, Daviess, and Caldwell
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Upon the treatment of respiratory affections: by the intra-tracheal injection of drugs
… are those of early Phthisis and Tracheitis. Holt (8) and Marland (10) were such cases of early phthisis, and obtained marked benefit, in fact are both returned to their occupations in greatly improved health: the patient Holt improved remarkably in a few days, although he had had a cough for …
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Breaking the silence: an intersectional approach to sexual violence and harm narratives of women living in Lebanon
… structures (Accad, 1990; Farr et al., 2009, Holt, 2014; Holt, 2013; Joseph, 2012). This dissertation utilizes a qualitative methodological approach to uncover in-depth narratives detailing the experiences of violence among Lebanese women within a politically conflicted nation. The research …
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Optimizing smoothing parameters for the triple exponential forecasting model
… method proves to be better than the standard Holt-Winters procedure for the entire forecasting horizon in five out the six categories of data considered . We also show that this method significantly improves the accuracy over the short term forecasting horizon when compared to the automated …
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Forecasting international regional tourist arrivals to China
… forecast methods applied in this study are Holt, Exponential Smoothing, Naïve, ARMA, Neural, and Basic Structural Model (BSM) with and without intervention, and the causal explanatory forecast models are the Time-Varying Parameter (TVP) with and without dummy variables. This research has …
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Financial Decision Making Under Stress
… and stress. In a laboratory experiment, Holt and Laury lottery was used to elicit participants risk preferences. The Cold Pressor Test was used to induce a safe level of stress. In the treatment group, 62% of participants are risk averse; versus 76% in the control group. Additionally, …
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The logic of practice - understanding the Chinese newly rich consumers' status consumption in luxury fashion clothes.
… cultural idealist status consumption practice (Holt, 1998), which are aligned with their social trajectory route, volume and the composition of their cultural capital. Informants cultural idealist status consumption practice indicated two important forms of cultural capital as social …
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Informing U.S. Caribbean fisheries management through simulation modeling: a case of length-based mortality estimation models
… length-based mortality estimators, the Beverton-Holt and Gedamke-Hoenig models. The simulations also tested aspects of the Gedamke-Hoenig model previously not thoroughly addressed, such as the effects of varied life history parameters, violating the assumptions of constant growth and recruitment, …
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Error magnitude and directional accuracy for time series forecasting evaluation
… between SARIMA, time series regression, Holt-Winter, intervention neural network and fuzzy time series. The root mean square error, mean absolute percentage error, mean absolute deviation, Fisher’s exact test, Chi-square test, directional accuracy, directional value and the modified of …
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A Content Analysis of Three Textbook Series
… paper was to analyze three music text series, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Macmillan, and Silver Burdett/Ginn, using the concepts of melody and rhythm as a basis of criteria. The number of rhythmic activities, including chants and movements, and the number or opportunities for instrument playing, …
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A Descriptive Study of the Similitude That Exists Between Shyness, Generalized Social Phobia, and Avoidant Personality Disorder
… J.D., Hope, D.A., and Bellack, A.S. (1992; Holt, C.S., Heimberg, R.G., and Hope, D.A. (1992); and Turner, S.M., Beidel, D.C., and Townsley, R.M. (1990), was compared with research conducted on a group of shy college students. When examining social anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and …
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Erasing the object : sculptural manoeuvres into the sublime
… Smithson (1938 - 1973) and his artist-wifeNancy Holt (1938 - )2 travelled to the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (Roberts 2000: 552).Over a century earlier, in 1841, the American 'travel writer' John Lloyd Stephens(1805 -1852)3 had embarked on a similar voyage to the Yucatan peninsula and documented …
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Population Dynamics of Sheepshead (<i>Archosargus probatocephalus;</i> Walbaum 1792) in the Chesapeake Bay Region: A comparison to Other Areas and an Assessment of Their Current Status
… growth and reproductive biology into a Beverton-Holt yield-per-recruit (YPR) model, results suggest YPR can be maximized by setting age of recruitment to the fishery to 7 years of age, corresponding to a 483 mm (19 in) minimum length limit, resulting in a maximum YPR of between 1.2 to 1.7 kg. …
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Búskapur á Háteigi 1920-1940
Sögusvið þessarar ritgerðar er Rauðarárholtið í Reykjavík á árunum 1920-1940. Býlið Háteigur er í aðalhlutverki, það var byggt árið 1920 í Rauðarárholtinu. Þar af leiðandi verður sjónum beint að hjónunum Halldóri Kr. Þorsteinssyni og Ragnhildi Pétursdóttur sem byggðu húsið og reynt að fá innsýn inn …
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High-quality source of fiber-coupled polarization-entangled photons at 1.56 [mu]m
… due to measurement, or the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality violation in a single experimental setup. An HOM dip with a two-photon quantum interference visibility of 80% was demonstrated.
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