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Business Definition for: Abnormal Shrinkage

  • the unexpectedly high level of shrinkage that has contributed to an abnormal loss

Additional Resources

Abnormal Laboratory Results
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...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, McGraw-Hill Companies
Research articles 2006-12-01
Microporosity prediction in aluminum alloycastings
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...
Tags: Engineering, modeling, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sanmina-SCI Corp.
Research articles 2002-04-01
Influences of Fibers on Drying Shrinkage of Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composite
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...
Tags: Matrix, Fiber, American Society Of Civil Engineer, Network Technology, Networking
White papers 2001-01-01
Long-term headache
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." ...
Tags: bank, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Government, Regulations
Research articles 1998-11-01
Retailers Cutting Inventory Shrink With SPSS Predictive Analytics Software; Retail Shrinkage Spikes at Christmas Season
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.
Tags: software, SPSS Inc.
Research articles 2004-12-15
Abnormal Returns In Equity Markets: Evidence From A Dynamic Indexing Strategy
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...
Tags: Regime, Stock, Equity, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2003-04-01
A Shrinkage Approach to Model Uncertainty and Asset Allocation
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...
Tags: Asset, Shrinkage, Asset Allocation, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2002-10-05
Cycling: Coni requests two-year ban for Di Luca
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...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, MARKETING
Research articles 2008-02-27
Investment Value of the Wall Street Journal's Smart Money Stock Screen, The
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%...
Tags: Cowan, FINANCE, financial, Investment, stock, Wall Street Journal, window
Research articles 2008-04-01
Study finds retail shrink on the rise
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...
Tags: Litigation, researcher, Retail, SALES, shrinkage, University of Florida
Research articles 2006-12-11
Japan's 1998 GDP to shrink 2.5 pc, IMF says
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...
Tags: banking, gross domestic product, IMF, PC
Research articles 1998-10-05
Japan's 1998 GDP to shrink 2.5 pc, IMF says
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...
Tags: banking, gross domestic product, IMF, PC
Research articles 1998-10-05
Financial Advisors Can Stop Their Asset Shrinkage With Hedge Funds: Hedge Fund Information Available Specifically for Financial Advisors
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...
Tags: Asset, Financial, Hedge Fund, Advisor, Van Hedge Fund Advisors, Investment, Asset Management, Financial Services, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2002-10-29
Gensym joins petrochemical leaders in developing Abnormal Situation Management technology - ASM
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.
Tags: Gensym Corp., leader
Research articles 1995-02-09
Deterministic/Stochastic Wavelet Decomposition for Recovery of Signal From Noisy Data.
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 ...
Tags: algorithm, Bayesian, coefficient, Engineering, G., recovery, Sec, shrinkage
Research articles 2000-08-01
Low-cost anti-shrinkage additive is claimed.
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...
Tags: NIST
Research articles 1997-08-01
Year-end inventory shrinkage estimates.(taxation)
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...
Tags: accounting, FINANCE, GAAP, income, Sec, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Research articles 1999-04-01
A Multiple-Metric Study Of The Returns To Shareholders: The Case Of Bank Holding Company
"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...
Tags: Bank Holding Company, Bank, Shareholder, Financial Accounting, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Prions Come Under Closer Scrutiny
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...
Tags: Food, Pharmaceutical Company, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
White papers
Alloy Shrinkage Factors for the Investment Casting Process
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...
Tags: Alloy
Research articles 2006-02-01
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