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This paper deals with the description of basic characteristics of inflation targeting in the Czech Republic. The first part of the paper starts by briefly indicating some general macro-economic conditions of inflation targeting in the Czech Republic, including the identification of the main shocks

; and "false positive frac-t ion, " are more meaningful than "'accuracy, " yet do not provide a unique description of diagnostic perfor-mance because they depend on the arbitrary selection of a decision threshold. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is shown to be a

Multiple, often conflicting objectives arise naturally in most real-world optimization scenarios. As evolutionary algorithms possess several characteristics due to which they are well suited to this type of problem, evolution-based methods have been used for multiobjective optimization for more

This paper focuses on configuration as a process that iteratively applies commonly known reasoning techniques and creates an incrementally growing configuration description. This approach emphasizes the synthesis aspect of configuration, which continuously acquires requirements and computes their effects on a configuration in a cyclic way. We provide the definitions of needed ingredients as there are partial configuration, configuration decision, and reasoning for computing entailments of made configuration decisions. These ingredients are the basis for implementations of configuration systems that follow these approach. 1

Macedonia is a country exceptionally rich in diverse and in some regions still surviving musi-cal folklore. Located in the center of the Balkan Peninsula (fig. 1), the region has been a crossroad of many historical events, which have left traces on Macedonian cultural heritage in many aspects. Although influenced by many different cultures, Macedonian people created unique oral tradition of centuries-old beliefs which aesthetically shaped, transmitted and still performed in preserved forms, reveals many anthropological and sociological elements of Macedonian traditional culture. Studying Macedonian traditional folk singing through the elements driven primarily by aesthet-ics and functionality elevates folk song to a higher scientific level offering a clear discern of inner mythical and traditional images, constructed and inwrought to the humans ’ work inspired primarily by the their intimate and natural environment. Studying these processes through the multi-part char-acter of folk singing in Macedonia offers an analytical exposure of all layers of Macedonian folk song formation. The layers that provide for almost precise study of the development of folk songs ’ vertical structure- created strictly functionally and ritually. Multi-part singing is present in the largest part of ethnic Macedonia. We refer to the term “ethnic Macedonia ” because its large parts are now in Greece and Bulgaria. Мost ethnic Macedonians who

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; Wiesel 1968, DeValois et al. 1982a, DeAngelis et al. 1993): they are localised in space and time, have band-pass characteristics in the spatial and temporal frequency domains, are oriented, and are often sensitive to the direction of motion of a stimulus. Here we will concentrate on the spatial

The ribosome recycling factor (RRF) has been slowly recognized as an essential factor for prokaryotic protein synthesis, but it is one of the least-known soluble factors involved in bacterial protein synthesis. Therefore, in this section, we briefly describe the historical background and summarize the general information about this factor. For details, readers are referred to recent reviews written on this subject (Janosi et al. 1996b; Kaji et al. 1998; Kaji and Hirokawa 2000). Polypeptide synthesis is generally known as consisting of three steps: initiation, elongation, and termination (Gualerzi et al. 2000; Nierhaus et al. 2000; Rodnina et al. 2000; Wilson et al. 2000). Much less known is the fourth step: disassembly of the posttermination ribosomal com-plex and recycling of the machinery necessary for the