~)IJAND Cost Economies in EU Banking Systems Yener Altunbas and Philip Molyneux This paper examines the cost structure of four EU banking systems using the translog cost function methodology. The results indicate strong evidence of economies of scale across all output sizes for the French‚ German and Spanish systems. In contrast‚ the Italian system appears to exhibit constant and diseconomies of scale. Costs also appear to be subadditive across all output ranges apart from the Italian system. These
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1/9/2013 Mass and Haul Diagram HAUL : product of earth excavated and the distance it was transported to form an embankment or to be disposed as waste. unit: meter – station (metric) = 1 m3 to be transported FREE HAUL DISTANCE (FHD) : fixed distance within which the hauling of material is not paid for but it is assumed to be included in the cost of excavation. OVERHAUL (OH) : product of volume in excess of the free haul mass and the length of overhaul in which payment is already required. LENGTH
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mywbut.com Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) 1 mywbut.com Specific Instructional Objectives At the end of this lesson the student will be able to: • • • Identify the activities carried out during the structured analysis phase. Explain what a DFD is. Explain why constructing DFDs are important in arriving at a good software design. • Explain what a data dictionary is. • Explain the importance of data dictionary. • Identify whether a DFD is balanced. Structured Analysis Structured analysis
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Question 1 Given the following business rules‚ create the appropriate Crow’s Foot ERD. a. A company operates many departments. b. Each department employs one or more employees. c. Each of the employees may or may not have one or more dependents. d. Each employee may or may not have an employment history. Question 2 The Hudson Engineering Group (HEG) has contacted you to create a conceptual model whose application will meet the expected database requirements for the company’s
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Each area of weakness involves many students. The SIP covers a range of school information for a grade span of 3rd through 5th grade. Also included in the data and analysis is information about student performance percentages meeting or exceeding the standards in reading on their ISAT. The report card data clearly reflects percentage comparisons among grades 3 through 5. Moreover‚ data shows areas of weakness at Schafer where approximately one-third of its students performing below average in
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30 CHAPTER 5 TURBINES 5.1 Introduction Hydraulic turbines are the machines which use the energy of water and convert it to mechanical energy. The mechanical energy developed by a turbine is used in running an electric generator which is directly coupled to the shaft of the turbine. The electric generator thus develops electric power‚ which is known as hydro-electric power. 5.2 Elements of Hydraulic Power Plants Fig.5.1 General Layout of a Hydraulic Power Plant 31
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Generalization is the ability of a machine learning algorithm to perform accurately on new‚ unseen examples after training on a finite data set. The core objective of a learner is to generalize from its experience.[2] The training examples from its experience come from some generally unknown probability distribution and the learner has to extract from them something more general‚ something about that distribution‚ that allows it to produce useful answers in new cases. Machine learning‚ knowledge discovery
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Assess the strengths and weaknesses of using unstructured interviews to investigate violent crime. (15 marks) Violent crime is difficult to study in the context where it occurs; this is because by their nature‚ violent crimes are often swift and unexpected. It is very difficult‚ if not impossible‚ for a researcher to know when and where a violent crime is likely to be committed. Unstructured interviews are a research method which entails a sociologist asking participants a series of open-ended
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Weaknesses of modern democracy Political science 202 01/01/2013 “Democracy is the worst form of government‚ except for all those others that have been tried from time to time.” These are the words used by Sir Winston Churchill while he was expressing his resolve with democracy. Democracy is the dominant form of government in the world with the exception of a few countries. In Sir Winston’s statement‚ the phrase‚ “except all those others that have been tried from time to
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FLOW DIAGRAM Group#7 Nugao Oserin Obongen The Data Flow Diagram (DFD) • a graphical representation of the flow of data through an information system. It enables you to represent the processes in your information system from the viewpoint of data. The DFD lets you visualize how the system operates‚ what the system accomplishes and how it will be implemented‚ when it is refined with further specification. • Data flow diagrams are used by systems analysts to design information-processing systems but
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