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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"functional form"”.
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Studying the Elasticity of Taxable Income and Its Functional Form from the Taxpayer Compliance Perspective
… Secondly, there is a lack of inquiry into the functional form of the ETI. This dissertation seeks to fill these gaps in the ETI literature. It constructs a theoretical framework for behavioral responses of taxable income to taxation, based on a review of the literature on taxpayer compliance …
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Model Uncertainty & Model Averaging Techniques
… or happiness are identical across countries; and functional form uncertainty, relating to which growth and well-being regressors enter the model linearly and which ones enter nonlinearly. Model averaging methods including Bayesian model averaging and Frequentist model averaging are the main …
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Investigations of the water oxidation complex in PS II
… a controlled way and to reconstitute it to its functional form.
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Structural Studies of Protein-Small Molecule Interactions: Bombyx Mori Pheromone Binding Protein Specificity for Bombykol, and the Substrate Specificity of Pantocin A Biosynthetic Proteins
… second part of this thesis aimed to discover the functional form of a peptide substrate that interacts with biosynthetic enzymes to make pantocin A. This antibiotic is effective against Erwinia amylovora, the pathogen that causes fire blight disease. The functional form of the substrate was …
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Time and the age
Form is the manifestation of a process. Since our senses are our only means of perception, then a process to be manifest must necessarily assume a state that our senses can perceive. This state or expression which we can perceive is its form. “Every process has its necessary form which always …
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Extracellular Matrix Metalloproteinase Inducer (Emmprin) Regulates Matrix Metalloproteinases in Human and Baboon Uterine Endometrium
… endometrial cells secreted a full-length functional form of EMMPRIN that stimulated stromal expression of MMP-1,-2 and -3 but not EMMPRIN. We also found that endogenous stromal cell expression of EMMPRIN was important but not required for MMP stimulation.
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Visualising Boolean set operations: Real and virtual boundaries in contemporary site-specific art
… for visualising how the contrast between the functional form of that built space and its model occurs while analytically delineating that space. A new mode of using computer 3D modelling is thus developed for exploring the processes and inherent inconsistencies that arise in delineating a …
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Functional observations: a biostatistical study of growth
A formulation is presented which describes a new method of handling responses which are characteristically a function relating measurable random variables to mathematical variables. The formulation considers each response a random function which is called a functional observation. This statistical …
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A time domain phonon pulse fitting analysis for the cryogenic dark matter search experiment
… and ionization. The phonon signal contains information about the event such as its type, energy, and position, and has a much better resolution for lower energy events than does the ionization, especially for nuclear recoils from WIMPs. Because of this, there is a strong motivation for …
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Nanomechanical properties of hydrated organic thin films
… thin coatings which impart a particular functionality to an underlying substrate and which have discrete water molecules associated with them. Such films exist in biology (e.g. cell membrane lipid bilayers) and have a broad array of potential engineering applications (e.g. biological …
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Investigation of over-fitting and optimism in prognostic models
… data and imputation, specification of the functional form of the model, and validation are examined in relation to the prognostic model for the CARE-HF data. Material is presented covering survival analysis, maximum likelihood methods, model selection criteria (AIC, BIC), specification of …
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Automatic generation of sound synthesis techniques
… processes. A SST is determined by its "functional form" and "internal parameters". Design of SSTs is usually done by selecting a fixed functional form from a handful of commonly used SSTs, and performing a parameter estimation technique to find a set of internal parameters that will best …
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Pricing Large-Ticket Capital Assets: The Case of Residential Income-Producing Real Property
… multifamily properties. Using a multiplicative functional form and multiple regression analysis, this study produced significant results. However, the results indicate that selling price decreases as time on the market increases. Since an offer is observable only if it is accepted by the seller …
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Specification tests and a reformulation of frontier models: An alternative approach to efficiency estimation
… technical and allocative efficiencies and the formulation of composite error stochastic frontier model by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977), a substantial amount of research work has been performed measuring firm's technical inefficiency using this model with various distributional assumptions …
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Propagation of gravitons in the shock wave geometry
… in an anti-deSitter (AdS) space, I find that the functional form of the shock wave metric does not receive a' correction, but the wave profile does. Then I study the propagation of gravitons in the shock wave geometry and show that the wave function has a finite jump at the shock wave frontier, …
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Quantile regression and the duration of unemployment
… of equivariance of quantiles to monotone transformations. In this thesis, censored quantile regression models are generalized using two-parameter Box-Cox transformation to relax the conventional linear specification of functional form, and the quantile regression estimator of the parameters of …
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Quantum Monte Carlo Developments For Discrete And Continuous Spaces
… exact wavefunction. It is demonstrated that this form of basis function produces superior accuracy and efficiency when compared to the basis sets typically employed in quantum Monte Carlo. Although the basis functions introduced in Chapter 2 are capable of producing superior results, it is …
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Estimation of land surface water and energy balance flux components and closure relation using conditional sampling
… are linked only at a few critical points. The performance and sensitivity of models are highly dependent on the nature of these linkages that are expressed as the closure function between heat and moisture dynamics. Land response to radiative forcing and partitioning of available energy into …
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Theory of High Temperature Spin Dynamics
… which reveals that that behavior has a universal functional form; (II) model for approximate calculations of the correlation functions of interest; (III) extensive simulations of the classical spin systems performed in order to test the long-time analysis and the approximation technique.
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Machine learning transferable physics-based force fields using graph convolutional neural networks
… be approximated using a computationally cheaper functional form. Classical force field (CFF) approaches simply define the PES as a sum over independent energy contributions. Commonly included terms include bonded (pair, angle, dihedral, etc.) and non bonded (van der Waals, Coulomb, etc.) …
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