Inflation Targeting, Transparency and Interest Rate Volatility: Ditching 'Monetary Mystique' in the UK [PDF]
, 2004 Monetary authorities often seem reluctant to discuss the conduct of monetary policy. There is a concern that greater openness in monetary policy-making may lead to volatility in financial markets, and specifically in interest rates.
Chadha, Jagjit S., Nolan, Charles
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Cultural issues, organisational hierarchy and information fulfilment: an exploration of relationships [PDF]
, 2007 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the cultural results of a three year study into the concept of information fulfilment and considers the impact of culture on levels of information fulfilment.
Burke, ME
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Evaluation of MMP‑2, MMP‑9, TIMP‑1, TIMP‑2, NGAL and MMP‑9/NGAL complex in urine and sera from patients with bladder cancer [PDF]
, 2015 The identification of biomarkers in urine or serum samples from patients with bladder cancer is urgently required for the development of non-invasive methods for the diagnosis of bladder carcinoma and to facilitate follow-up surveillance, to combat the ...
Bruzzese, Dario +2 more
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Direct combination: a new user interaction principle for mobile and ubiquitous HCI [PDF]
, 2002 Direct Combination (DC) is a recently introduced user interaction principle. The principle (previously applied to desktop computing) can greatly reduce the degree of search, time, and attention required to operate user interfaces.
B. Ullmer +5 more
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Back to the future in NHS reform [PDF]
, 2005 PURPOSE - In the mid 1990s the NHS ‘did’ competition, in the mid 2000s the NHS is ‘doing’ choice. This paper aims to cut through the rhetoric, highlight the differences and parallels between then and now and identify if these differences will have a ...
Warwick, P.
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A Novel And Fast Feature Based Motion estimation ALgorithm Through extraction Of Background And Object [PDF]
, 1998 This paper presents a novel and fast Feature Based Motion Estimation algorithm which is developed for typical video-phone scenario. In essence it combines the technique of object extraction with traditional block based motion estimation methods by ...
Mok, WH, Yung, NHC
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Elemzések időben változó paraméterű modellekkel = Essays on Time Varying Parameter Models [PDF]
, 2015 Az értekezés négy önálló tanulmányból áll négy fő fejezetben, amelyek témáját összeköti az időben változó paraméterű ökonometriai modellek alkalmazása. Elsőként áttekintést adunk az időben változó paraméterű regressziók lehetséges becslési módszereiről ...
Varga, Balázs
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The simplification of complex interactions for more inclusive social communication technologies (position paper) [PDF]
, 2005 New technologies, especially smart homes and mobile and ubiquitous technologies have the potential to foster improved quality of life in the older population. Some anticipated benefits are linked to specific applications in areas such as home automation,
Holland, Caroline, Holland, Simon
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ICT-DCU question answering task at NTCIR-6 [PDF]
, 2007 This paper describes details of our participation in the NTCIR-6 Chinese-to-Chinese Question Answering task. We use the “retrieval plus extraction approach” to get answers for questions.
Jones, Gareth J.F. +2 more
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Managing international branch campuses: what do we know? [forthcoming] [PDF]
, 2015 peer-reviewedOver the last decade, the growth of the international branch campus (IBC) has been one of the most striking developments in the internationalisation of higher education. There are now over 200 IBCs across the world, mostly in the Middle East
Agarwal +122 more
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