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extent of over- or underprediction is model validation, a procedure that requires testing over the range of the intended … developed for assessment applications. Furthermore, increased model complexity does not necessarily guarantee increased accuracy … according to their relative contribution to the overall predicted uncertainty. Although confidence in model predictions can be …
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The measurement control program includes control of the analytical procedures, analyst training and qualification, and … measurement system prior to analyzing production samples. Balances must be tested and check-weighed and the analytical procedure … the analysts. These parameters are applied to the sample results to bias correct the results and calculate the measurement …
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This paper studies the incentives for transparency under different forms of corporate governance in a context of … decision on the degree of transparency in a context of product market competition. When firms seeking outside finance resort to … transparency. More transparency about a firmms competitive position has both strategic advantages and disadvantages: in general …
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This Paper studies the incentives for transparency under different forms of corporate governance in a context of … decision on the degree of transparency in a context of product market competition. When firms seeking outside finance resort to … transparency. More transparency about a firm's competitive position has both strategic advantages and disadvantages: in general …
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philosophy (which is largely family control) generally does not lend itself to transparency and disclosure. The situation is ….CG became prominent as a result of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. The multitude of corporate failures and the scale of its …
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Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...
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, however, performance measurement systems ofworld-class organisations are tailored to drive manufacturing and service …
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approximate confidence intervals. Estimation based on cubic splines fitted by maximum penalized likelihood is developed in some …
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The accurate fitting of a circle to noisy measurements of points on its circumference is an important and much-studied problem in statistics. Atherton & Kerbyson (Image and Vision Computing 17, 1999, 795-803) have proposed a complex convolutional circle parameter estimator. One of the estimators...
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This paper analyses the branding strategy of a leading French food producer in the fast growing Chinese market. The company, Danone Group (DG), has long been operating internationally with success. However, like several multinational enterprises, its initial entry into China was a failure....
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