Molecular descriptors have been explored extensively. From these studies, it is known that a large number of descriptors are strongly correlated and capture similar characteristics of molecules. In this paper, we evaluate 919 Dragon-descriptors of 6 different categories by means of clustering. Also, we analyze these different categories of descriptors also find a subset of descriptors which are...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972 5.5 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945 5.3 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,059 6.0 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,049 5.9 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Ising and Potts models are discrete Gibbs random field models originating in statistical physics, which are now widely used in statistics for applications in spatial modeling, image processing, computational biology, and computational neuroscience. However, parameter estimation in these models remains challenging due to the appearance of intractable normalizing constants in the likelihood. Here...

The disposition effect is a longstanding puzzle in financial economics. This paper demonstrates that it is not intrinsically at odds with rational behavior. In a rational expectations model with asymmetrically informed investors, trading strategies as predicted by the disposition effect can arise as an optimal response to dynamic changes in the information structure. The model generates several...

An increasing number of reports of online auction fraud are of growing concern to auction operators and participants. In this research, we discuss reserve price shilling, where a bidder shills in order to avoid paying auction house fees, rather than to drive up the price of the final bid. We examine the effect that premium bids have upon the final selling price, since they are linked with reser...

This paper provides a global asset pricing perspective on the debate over the relation between predetermined attributes of common stocks, such as ratios of price-to-bookvalue, cash̄ow, earnings, and other variables to the future returns. Some argue that such variables may be used to ®nd securities that are systematically undervalued by the market, while others argue that the measures are proxies...

We construct and analyze a model of delegated portfolio management in which money managers signal their investment skills via their choice of transparency for their fund. We show that a natural equilibrium is one in which highand low-skill managers pool in opaque funds, while medium-skill managers separate in transparent funds. In this equilibrium, high-skill managers rely on their eventual per...

This paper puts forth a model of supply chain complexity and empirically tests it using plant-level data from 209 plants across seven countries. The results show that upstream complexity, internal manufacturing complexity, and downstream complexity all have a negative impact on manufacturing plant performance. Furthermore, supply chain characteristics that drive dynamic complexity are shown to ...