MY FIRST PLANE RIDE ALONE My internal organs thumped against my chest as I dragged my bag along the floor and into the corridor. As I walked into the hall‚ I glanced up and notice the sign I could get on. My entire body could barely hold itself together with the anticipation of the dream come-true event about to take place. I said to myself‚ “I’ll soon be in the air alone without my family”. I slowed my pace to further enjoy what was happening. Swarms of people walked around me knowing that one
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I’ve decided to base my Oral Presentation on “The Taxi Ride” (by P.E.R.) on the main character and on some of her characteristics. My presentation will try to focus on a sort of recapitulation of the reasons Helen Jones’ life appears to be significantly praiseworthy. Having so much to grief about‚ Helen’s behaviour was commendable since she was loving in all her roles (as a mother‚ as a wife‚ as a grandmother‚ as a housewife) and‚ despite her routinary life‚ she would not complain but keep her pains
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This letter is to serve as my formal recommendation for Andrew Fuller. Andrew has been my direct assistant for several years. I have known Hongbin for more than one and a half years. I hired him to work for me as a Research Analyst at SRR in July of 1996. SRR is a full-service marketing research firm whose clients are primarily large radio stations and other music oriented media companies such as Capital Records‚ and MTV Networks. My roles at SRR include manager of new product development (research
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system may provide many benefits to the residents and tourist to Hawaii. The route for the rail system will start in East Kapolei and end in the Ala Moana Center‚ running twenty miles with twenty one stops‚ taking approximately forty two minutes to ride from the beginning to the end. The benefits to the Honolulu Rail System are that the rail will reduce traffic congestion‚ enhance the economy‚ and have many of environmental and health advantages. According to "Forbes" (2012)‚ “While it ranks
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RISK THEORY - LECTURE NOTES 1. INTRODUCTION The primary subject of Risk Theory is the development and study of mathematical and statistical models to describe and predict the behaviour of insurance portfolios‚ which are simply financial instruments composed of a (possibly quite large) number of individual policies. For the purposes of this course‚ we will define a policy as a random (or stochastic) process generating a deterministic income in the form of periodic premiums‚ and incurring financial
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continuous measurements or features in a biometric system‚ such as vocal-tract related spectral features in a speaker recognition system. GMM parameters are estimated from training data using the iterative Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm or Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimation from a well-trained prior model. Main Body Text Introduction A Gaussian mixture model is a weighted sum of M component Gaussian densities as given by the equation‚ M wi g(x|µi ‚ Σi )‚ p(x|λ) = (1) i=1
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θ‚ 3 1 P(X = 3) = (1 − θ). 3 P(X = 1) = where 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1 is a parameter. The following 10 independent observations were taken from such a distribution: (3‚ 0‚ 2‚ 1‚ 3‚ 2‚ 1‚ 0‚ 2‚ 1). (a) Find the method of moments estimate of θ. (b) What is the maximum likelihood estimate of θ? (a) In general‚ let X1 ‚ X2 ‚ . . . ‚ Xn be a random sample drawn from this distribution. Since 2 1 2 1 7 µ1 = E[X] = 0 · θ + 1 · θ + 2 · (1 − θ) + 3 · (1 − θ) = − 2θ. 3 3 3 3 3 we have θ= and the MME for θ is 7 1 − µ1
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The author may accomplish this by using imaginative language‚ interesting comparisons‚ and images that appeal to the senses. Read this sample descriptive essay‚ and then read the notes below. The subject of the sample essay is fairly ordinary—a ride on a Ferris wheel. The author makes it interesting‚ however‚ by comparing the Ferris wheel to a monstrous creature. The author makes good use of fresh and varied vocabulary. For example‚ in the first paragraph alone‚ she uses verbs that create
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Luc Bauwens . Winfried Pohlmeier David Veredas (Eds.) High Frequency Financial Econometrics Recent Developments With 57 Figures and 64 Tables Physica-Verlag A Springer Company High Frequency Financial Econometrics Recent Developments Prof. Winfried Pohlmeier Department of Economics University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany winfried.pohlmeier@uni-konstanz.de Prof. Luc Bauwens CORE Voie du Roman Pays 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium bauwens@ucl.ac.be Prof. David
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strapdown magnetometers. The proposed calibration method is written in the sensor frame‚ and compensates for the combined effect of all linear time-invariant distortions‚ namely soft iron‚ hard iron‚ sensor non-orthogonality‚ bias‚ among others. A Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) is formulated to iteratively find the optimal calibration parameters that best fit to the onboard sensor readings‚ without requiring external attitude references. It is shown that the proposed calibration technique is equivalent
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