This paper describes the current state of government bond market and predicts future development yields using yield curve to maturity, spot curve, credit rating simple prediction. The ongoing economic crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic is changing lives many people. In order for each individual country help its households, prevent mass job lay-offs high mortality, their fiscal budget deficits a...

WE REPORT THREE EXPERIMENTS EXAMINING the perception of tempo in expressively performed classical piano music. Each experiment investigates beat and tempo perception in a different way: rating the correspondence of a click track to a musical excerpt with which it was simultaneously presented; graphically marking the positions of the beats using an interactive computer program; and tapping in ti...

A representation and interpretation of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve obtained by the "rating" method, or by mathematical predictions based on patient characteristics, is presented. It is shown that in such a setting the area represents the probability that a randomly chosen diseased subject is (correctly) rated or ranked with greater suspicion than a randomly ch...

We describe and test an algorithm to rapidly learn a listener’s desired equalization curve. First, a sound is modified by a series of equalization curves. After each modification, the listener indicates how well the current sound exemplifies a target sound descriptor (e.g., “warm”). After rating, a weighting function is computed where the weight of each channel (frequency band) is proportional ...

The adequacy of similarity to prototype as an account of categorization in natural concepts was assessed by analyzing the monotonicity of the relation between typicality of an item in a category and the probability of a positive categorization response using data from McCloskey and Glucksberg (1978). The analysis revealed a strong underlying similarity-based threshold curve, with systematic dev...

A representation and interpretation of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve obtained by the “rating” method, or by mathematical predictions based on patient characteristics, is presented. It is shown that in such a setting the area represents the probability that a randomly chosen diseased subject is (correctly) rated or ranked with greater suspicion than a randomly ch...

The adequacy of similarity to prototype as an account of categorization in natural concepts was assessed by analyzing the monotonicity of the relation between typicality of an item in a category and the probability of a positive categorization response using data from McCloskey & Glucksberg (1978). The analysis revealed a strong underlying similarity-based threshold curve, with systematic devia...

Climate change is expected to have stronger effects on water resources in higher latitude regions. Despite intensive research on possible hydrological responses in those regions to a warmer environment, our knowledge on erosion and sediment yield induced by the climate change in high-latitude headwaters is still limited. In this study, we estimated suspended sediment yields from 2021 to 2050 in...