This paper uses Markov-switching specifications to create a hybrid model with time-varying loading on each of chartist and fundamentalist approaches. The empirical data include the U.S. dollar exchange rates of four Asian tiger countries’ currencies including NTD, SGD, HKD and KOW from 1980 to 2000. Our empirical findings are consistent with the following notions. First, the forecasting perform...

The United States, uniquely among all countries, elects its head of state using a two-tiered system called the Electoral College. If we view the states that make up the Electoral College as voters and make some simplifying assumptions, it is possible to use the theory of voting and voting power to measure the power of the individual states in a presidential election. Modeling the Electoral Coll...

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In practical applications of pattern recognition, there are often different features extracted from raw data which needs recognizing. Methods of combining multiple classifiers with different features are viewed as a general problem in various application areas of pattern recognition. In this paper, a systematic investigation has been made and possible solutions are classified into three framewo...

Development Progress is an ODI project that aims to measure, understand and communicate where and how progress has been made in development. ODI is the UK's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Further ODI materials are available at odi.org.uk • Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have a direct impact on the achievement of the Millennium Developmen...

Karp and Lipton introduced advice-taking Turing machines to capture nonuniform complexity classes. We study this concept for automata-like models and compare it to other nonuniform models studied in connection with formal languages in the literature. Based on this we obtain complete separations of the classes of the Chomsky hierarchy relative to advices.

I will give an overview of the preparations of the EGP including all aspects of the project and current satus of the pilot phase, describe the informatics part of the project together with other aspects (legal, ethical, logistics, financial etc.) and where we stand in terms of population genetics and genotyping technology in order to start using the sample collection for case--control studies f...

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