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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"exploitability"”.
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Style anomalies on the London Stock Exchange : an analysis of univariate, multivariate and timing strategies
… This thesis investigates the presence and exploitability of style anomalies on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and is divided into three main branches of research.
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Probing Orthologue and Isoform Specific Inhibition of Kinases using In Silico Strategies: Perspectives for Improved Drug Design
… of new techniques to determine kinase exploitability for therapeutic design with high specificity essential for the advancement of novel drug strategies. In silico approaches have become increasingly prevalent for providing useful insight into protein structure-function relationships, …
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Towards breach hypothesis based predictive autonomous cyber defense ecosystem: Proactive prevention of imminent threats and productivity losses
… characteristics include security vulnerability exploitability, cyber threat intelligence with atomic and behavioral indicators from past cyberattacks, with possibility of recurring impact across any industry. The data collected from secondary datasets with these characteristics helped analyze …
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An investigation of firm specific and macroeconomic variables and their influence on emerging market stock returns
… and speculation as to the true robustness and exploitability of such influences. These firm specific influences have been termed 'style characteristics' . This study employed the use of the DataStream International Emerging Market Index for the extraction of all firm specific and return data. …
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The informational content of trading statement releases on the JSE
… the importance, timeliness and financial exploitability of trading statement releases for both the regulator and investor. Lack of depth in trading statement history limits sample size and renders traditional earnings expectation models, which rely on comparative period figures, useless. …
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Unveiling Emerging Web Application Attack Surfaces
… and database configuration influence the exploitability of concurrency issues. Collectively, these contributions provide measurement methodologies, tooling, and mitigation guidance for securing next-generation web applications.
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Secure Coding Practice in Java: Automatic Detection, Repair, and Vulnerability Demonstration
… on the correctness of detection, and the exploitability of the reported issues. To address these limitations, the second work proposed SEADER, an example-based approach to detect and repair security-API misuses. Given an exemplar ⟨insecure, secure⟩ code pair, SEADER compares the snippets …
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Social and environmental disclosures: a comparative analysis of listed Nigerian and UK oil and gas companies
… study. Legitimacy debate and vulnerability and exploitability analytical framework were espoused to develop a theoretical framework to underpin the study.<br/><br/>Results indicate Nigerian companies making disclosure on fewer social and environmental aspects than UK companies. Quantity and …
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Robust and Scalable Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in Adversarial Scenarios
… to a new opponent while maintaining low exploitability for any possible opponent exploitation in adversarial scenarios. The contributions presented in this thesis facilitate building autonomous agents that can make robust decisions under competitive multiagent scenarios with uncertainty …
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Firm-specific attributes and the cross-section of JSE securities exchange returns
… risk-adjusted asset returns and the source and exploitability of these anomalies remains controversial. This thesis empirically investigates the cross-sectional relationship between twenty-four firm-specific attributes and stock returns on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE). The results are …
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Style anomalies on the Toronto Stock Exchange : a univariate, multivariate, style timing and portfolio sorting analysis
… '.This thesis investigates the existence and exploitability of style anomalies for the shares comprising the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) for the period 31 January 1989 to 31 July 2005. The investigation is divided into four areas of research. First, a methodology similar to Fama and Macbeth …
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Hydrothermal carbonization of waste biomass
… by Contarina S.p.A. and preliminary tests on the exploitability of the hydrochar for energy production are reported in Chapter 6, together with analyses on both the liquid and gaseous phases. A rigorous energy balance has been proposed in Chapter 8, based on the experimental data obtained for …
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Critical Substation Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Substations are joints in the power system that represent nodes that are vital to stable and reliable operation of the power system. They contrast the rest of the power system in that they are a dense combination of critical components causing all of them to be simultaneously vulnerable to one …