Abnormal Laboratory Results (2nd edition) edited Geoffrey Kellerman, McGraw Hill Professional, RRP $44.95 : ISBN 0-074-71586-0 Abnormal Laboratory Results is a comprehensive collection of common abnormal test results and examines the dilemmas of abnormal tests and outlines how to approach them. Each test is analysed and interpreted in a...
A comprehensive methodology that takes into account solidification, shrinkage-driven interdendritic fluid flow, hydrogen precipitation, and porosity evolution has been developed for the prediction of the microporosity fraction and distribution in aluminum alloy castings. The approach may be used to determine the extent of gas and shrinkage porosity, i.e., the resultant...
An analytical model has been formulated for the drying shrinkage performance of a fiber-reinforced cementitious composite. The model is based on the assumption that shear stress is produced between the fiber and surrounding matrix as the matrix shrinks. This shear stress in turn influences the matrix deformation behavior resulting in...
This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they had built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract an abnormal return from financial markets.... [But] no matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk." ...
CHICAGO -- Major retailers are harnessing SPSS predictive analytics software to reduce inventory shrinkage through stocking, placement and monitoring of those retail items most likely to disappear. Retail shrinkage -- a reduction in inventory primarily due to shoplifting and employee theft - spikes dramatically during the Christmas season.
This article investigates the abnormal return generated through a dynamic equity indexing strategy and the extent to which this can be considered evidence against the efficient markets hypothesis. It introduces a measure of stock prices dispersion and show that it is a leading indicator for the abnormal return, where their...
For asset allocations associated with the models and data that attracted a large part of attention in the empirical finance literature, this paper takes a shrinkage approach to examine the empirical implications of uncertainty-aversion. The shrinkage approach explicitly shows how predictive distributions incorporate data and prior beliefs. It enables us...
ROME AFP — Anti-doping officials at the Italian Olympic Committee Coni requested Wednesday that Tour of Italy champion Danilo Di Luca be banned for two years after an abnormal doping test. The abnormal result was returned after the 17th stage of the Giro from Linz in Austria to Monte...
ABSTRACT We document positive negative abnormal returns and volume associated with long short recommendations published in The Wall Street Journal's Smart Money Stock Screen. Even though the recommendations are free, long positions have a cumulative abnormal return of 1.17% and the short recommendations have a cumulative abnormal return of -5.85%...
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- For the first time in four years the rate of retail shrinkage has increased last year, a new study from researchers at the University of Florida shows. Shrinkage, which the report defines as a combination of employee theft, shoplifting, vendor fraud and administrative error, accounted...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 Kyodo Japan's real economy is projected to contract by 2.5% in calendar 1998, affected partly by increasing financial strains, particularly in the banking sector, the International Monetary Fund IMF said in a report Wednesday. The projected shrinkage in gross domestic product GDP...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 Kyodo Japan's real economy is projected to contract by 2.5% in calendar 1998, affected partly by increasing financial strains, particularly in the banking sector, the International Monetary Fund IMF said in a report Wednesday. The projected shrinkage in gross domestic product GDP...
The paper provides an easy and painless way for financial advisors to understand hedge funds and their potential use by advisors. It also outlines research showing that clients of advisors currently desire investments with the characteristics of hedge funds. Many financial advisors are experiencing significant asset shrinkage during this bear...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 9, 1995--Gensym Corp., leading provider of software for creating intelligent real-time systems, today formally announced that they have joined the Abnormal Situation Management ASM Consortium.
In a series of recent articles on nonparametric regression, Donoho and Johnstone developed wavelet-shrinkage methods for recovering unknown piecewise-smooth deterministic signals from noisy data. Wavelet shrinkage based on the Bayesian approach involves specifying a prior distribution on the wavelet coefficients, which is usually assumed to ...
An inexpensive 'one oft' process for making a chemical additive which helps prevent shrinkage of hard polymers is claimed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST. It is a special monomer (described as a 'spiro orthocarbonate') An inexpensive 'one oft' process for making...
Sec. 471 a states that, when inventories are necessary, they must be taken in a manner conforming "as nearly as may be to [1] the best accounting practice in the trade or business and [2] clearly reflecting the income." In 1997, Congress enacted Sec. 471b, which...
"The initial thrust of this research was an event study that dealt with shareholder reaction to the announcement of a merger of two bank holding companies BHC. It was found that positive abnormal returns accrue to the shareholders of the acquired firm. The abnormal returns to the shareholders of the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final interim rule limiting the types of animal-derived materials that can be used to manufacture animal feed, cosmetics, and food supplements. This paper focuses on those rule which aims to protect humans and livestock from abnormal prions Graphics, proteins that are found...
This study deals with the experimental measurements and numerical predictions of alloy shrinkage factors SFs related to the investment casting process. The dimensions of the A356 aluminum alloy casting were determined from the numerical simulation results of solidification, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and deformation phenomena. The investment casting process was...
