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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"U-shape"”.
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An enhance framework on hair modeling and real-time animation
… However, each visible strip is warped into U-shape for rendering after tessellation. Alpha and texture mappings are then applied to the polygon meshes of the U-shape. Note that the U-shape is not explicitly stored in the data structure. Because of the U-shape technique, we also adapt the …
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Other people's money: does external debt improve economic growth performance of Frontier market economies?
… a linear relationship as well as an inverted U-shape curve between external debt and economic growth. An inverted U-shape curve implies that a threshold point exists which signals a point beyond which an economy becomes over-indebted, thus hampering economic growth. The findings of this study …
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The role of information asymmetry and the level of market trading activity in shaping the time-to-maturity pattern of futures return volatility
… pattern”) and find that it has an inverted U-shape. I point out that the results for tests of a linear volatility pattern are more significant when the inverted U-shape of the sensitivity pattern tilts more towards maturity. As an example of the practical implication of my findings, I show …
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Novelty, Prediction Error and Memory Encoding: Limitations of the Pimms Framework
… (iVR) kitchen, I showed that memory is a “U-shaped” function of expectancy, with best memory for highly expected or highly unexpected locations relative to intermediate levels of expectancy. Using OSF-registered Bayesian inference, this U-shape was consistent across four experiments. While …
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Design of fixtures and specimens for high strain-rate tensile testing on a drop tower
… used a double dog-bone specimen bent into a "U"-shape and impacted by a weighted force sensor with a steel tup attached to the bottom. The appropriate fixtures were designed. Future work on this project includes manufacturing of the fixtures, design and construction of a method for creating the …
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Essays on the financial system of developing economies
… appropriate corrections generates the inverse U shape savings rate profile predicted by the life-cycle model.
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Essays on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
… heat on overall happiness adopts an inverted-U shape, the effect of heat on health happiness can be represented by a U-shape. And, 3) the effect of climate disasters on people’s religiosity that constitutes an effect on individual preferences and that refers to the role of religion as a …
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The Economy and Workplace Safety: Evidence from the Macro-Level
… support for the hypothesized nonlinear, “U-Shape” curve between workplace safety outcomes and the state of the macro economy. Safety outcomes improved as the state of the economy worsened until reaching a “tipping point” at approximately 3.94% above the state mean-level of unemployment. …
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The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes
… ranking analysis suggested a possible inverted U-Shape relationship between collective investment scheme fund size and risk-adjusted performance. This therefore presents an argument for an optimal fund size range of between R912,267,649.3 and R1,930,696,676 (about 1 - 2 billion Rand) in assets …
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ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION: THE CASE OF SAUDI ARABIA WITH REFERENCE TO RICH NATURAL RESOURCE COUNTRIES
… whether natural resource countries will have a u shape relationship between their level of diversification and their per capita revenue as it has been estimated and observe d by Imbs &Wacziarg (2003).
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Assessing psychological changes of gifted students in a residential high school
… the change in stress formed an inverted-U shape, as students adapted to the challenges of the school. Phenomenological interviews were conducted with 9 senior students with a wide range of YOQ-SR scores at the beginning of their junior year. Four categories emerged from the interviews about …
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Design multilayer bandpass filter using hairpin resonator for digital broadcasting
… half wavelength resonator into a “U” shape . This research will contribute towards a small size filter using the latest multilayer stack up model .The proposed microstrip half wavelength coupled line resonator design is employed to design the multilayer band pass filter . For parallel …
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Female labour force participation and economic growth in South Africa
… different results and also indicating a U-shape relationship between female labour force participation and economic growth. This study adopted the Cointegration Vector Autoregressive and Vector Error Correction Model (multivariate equations) together with cointegration equations …
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Acoustic and perceptual analyses of politeness in Japanese speech
… Politeness ratings showed an inverted-U shape as a function of speech rate, but differed according to particular speakers. The speech rate of listeners was found to affect their utterance rate preference; listeners clearly preferred rates close to their own, i.e., rates they perceived as …
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Design, synthesis, and testing of novel organic oligomers for use as molecular-scale electronic devices
… to 200 nm depending on conditions. Novel U-shape oligomers have been synthesized to aid in the elucidation of molecular switching behavior and monolayer film formation using advanced surface characterization techniques. These conformationally restricted oligomers are designed to be of use in …
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Propuesta de mejora en una empresa agroindustrial
… is proposed, adjusting the process in a “U” shape, reducing the distance traveled by the operators at 23 meters and, consequently, the processing time of the products. Lastly, a table of raw material requirements planning is prepared, which, based on the demand for the products, allows …
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Three Essays on Environmental Economics and International Trade
… in Chinese provinces has an inverted-U shape.
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Auditor Size And Audit Quality: A Partner-Level Perspective
… wealth of an audit partner took an inverted-U-shape relation to audit quality. In contrast to prior studies, I examine two aspects of client portfolio size for an audit partner: the total assets of the client portfolio of an audit partner, which measure the busyness effect; and the total audit …
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Emergence of strategic direction, organizational structure and employee integration : a framework for the Dialectic Organization
… relationship follows an inverted U-shape. When this relationship is included in current models of organizational change, they become highly instable. Through the development of a system dynamics model, it was found that the stability of the system is achieved through the inclusion of …
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Two Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions
… creation and the Q-difference is an inverse U-shape. This is direct evidence in support of the Q-hypothesis of M&As using firm-level data from after 1990. The results are not driven by the acquirer's corporate governance structure and the difference in industry. The second chapter investigates …
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