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Can recessions be predicted?
(Elsevier Ltd, 1977-04)Can recessions, or serious turning points in general, be predicted? Or do forecasters tend to assume that the future will continue as an extension of the near past. Theoretical evidence and practical observations tend to ...
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Capturing Provenance, Evolution and Modification of Clinical Protocols via a Heterogeneous, Semantic Social Network
(IOS Press, 2016)Healthcare delivery is largely based on medical best practices as in clinical protocols. Research so far has addressed the computerized execution of clinical protocols by developing a number of related representation ...
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Caracteres specifiques des incitations financieres au developpement regional en Grece (1982-1986)
(Armand Colin, 1987)Les lois de développement qui ont été périodiquement mises en oeu v re en Grèce n'ont pas toujours comporté d'incitations fin a ncières. Cette absence pouvait s'expliquer de plusieurs manl eres, soi t que l'on ait préféré ...
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Case C-507/18 NH v ACase C-507/18 NH v Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI – Rete Lenford: Homophobic speech and EU anti-discrimination lawssociazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI – Rete Lenford: Homophobic speech and EU anti-discrimination law
(Sage, 2020)In the NH case – which can be characterised as a sequel to the Asociat¸ia Accept ruling delivered in 2013 – the Court of Justice of the European Union was confronted, once more, with an incident of homophobic speech. In ...
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A case of insufficient safeguards or state-enabled money laundering? ‘Golden Passport’ and ‘Golden Visa’ investment schemes in Europe
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021)Purpose – To critically examine recent developments and proposals for the regulation and supervision of ‘golden passport’ and ‘golden visa’ investment schemes in Europe. We argue that FATF standards constitute an appropriate ...
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CEDD: Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor: A Compact Descriptor for Image Indexing and Retrieval
(Springer-Verlag, 2008)This paper deals with a new low level feature that is extracted from the images and can be used for indexing and retrieval. This feature is called “Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor” and incorporates color and texture ...
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Cellular Automata Ants
(Springer, 2017)During the last decades much attention was given to bio-inspired techniques able to successfully handle really complex algorithmic problems. As such Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms have been introduced as a ...
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Change Process, Supports and Barriers in Residential Treatment Program: A Qualitative Approach
(Open Access Library Journal, 2014)Various studies have employed quantitative and qualitative methods in order to explore the process of behavioral change emerging during a drug addiction treatment, i.e. the factors both encouraging and discouraging such ...
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Chapter 7: Establishing the Rule of Law in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Contribution of the EU Civilian Missions
(Springer International Publishing AG, 2017)The chapter examines the efforts of the EU civilian missions deployed in BiH (EUPM) and Kosovo (EULEX) to advance the consolidation of state-building and the establishment of the rule of law. It tries to map out and assess ...
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Childhood ADHD and Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder Comorbidity: A Case Report
(2020-11)Introduction: Recent research has highlighted an increased rate of co-morbidity between the neurodevelopmental-behavioral disorder of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and a variety of psychiatric disorders, ...
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Chronology of the Last Six Recessions
(Pergamon press ltd, 1982)How successful have economists and other business forecasters been in predicting recessions? This question is of considerable practical value since the level of economic activity greatly influences budgets and other plans ...
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The Classification of Urban Uses
(MDPI, 2017)The classification of uses is one of the central issues of urban planning, since it is only by referring to groups of uses that we can achieve the simplification and, ultimately, the understanding of urban space. However, ...
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Clinical Profiles and Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Adults with Specific Learning Disorder in Northern Greece
(2021-05)The manifestation of Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) during adulthood is one of the least examined research areas among the relevant literature. Therefore, the adult population with SLD is considered a "rare" and "unique" ...
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CLT: An Interactive Approach for Illustrating the Central Limit Theorem
(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1979-05)In classical statistics, inferences about the popula- tion mean, confidence intervals, or testing of hypoth- eses are based on the sampling distribution of X. For the statistician or the mathematically sophisticated, there ...
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Co.Vi.Wo.: Color Visual Words Based on Non-Predefined Size Codebooks
(IEEE, 2012)Due to the rapid development of information technology and the continuously increasing number of available multimedia data, the task of retrieving information based on visual content has become a popular subject of scientific ...
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Coherent risk measures under filtered historical simulation
(Elsevier, 2005-04)Recent studies have strongly criticised conventional VaR models for not providing a coherent risk measure. Acerbi provides the intuition for an entire family of coherent measures of risk known as “spectral risk measures” ...
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Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor on GPGPU
(IEEE (Computer Society), 2015)Image indexing refers to describing the visual multimedia content of a medium, using high level textual information or/and low level descriptors. In most cases, images and videos are associated with noisy and incomplete ...
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The Combination of Forecasts
(Wiley, 1983)Aggregating information by combining forecasts from two or more forecasting methods is an alternative to using just a single method. In this paper we provide extensive empirical results showing that combined forecasts ...
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Combining Color and Spatial Color Distribution Information in a Fuzzy Rule Based Compact Composite Descriptor
(Springer, 2011)In this paper, a novel low level feature for content based image retrieval is presented. The proposed feature structure combines color and spatial color distribution information. The combination of these two features in ...
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Combining Syntactic and Semantic Evidence for Improving Matching over Linked Data Sources
(Springer Link, 2015-11)In the context of Linked Data (LD) sources, the ability to traverse links and retrieve further information can be exploited to harvest semantic annotations. Such annotations can, in turn, underpin the inference of semantic ...