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Flow-Sensitive Type Qualifiers

by Jeffrey S. Foster, Tachio Terauchi, Alex Aiken , 2002
"... We present a system for extending standard type systems with flow-sensitive type qualifiers. Users annotate their programs with type qualifiers, and inference checks that the annotations are correct. In our system only the type qualifiers are modeled flow-sensitively - the underlying standard types ..."
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are unchanged, which allows us to obtain an efficient constraint-based inference algorithm that integrates flow-insensitive alias analysis, effect inference, and ideas from linear type systems to support strong updates. We demonstrate the usefulness of flow-sensitive type qualifiers by finding a number of new

The Determinants of Credit Spread Changes.

by Pierre Collin-Dufresne , Robert S Goldstein , J Spencer Martin , Gurdip Bakshi , Greg Bauer , Dave Brown , Francesca Carrieri , Peter Christoffersen , Susan Christoffersen , Greg Duffee , Darrell Duffie , Vihang Errunza , Gifford Fong , Mike Gallmeyer , Laurent Gauthier , Rick Green , John Griffin , Jean Helwege , Kris Jacobs , Chris Jones , Andrew Karolyi , Dilip Madan , David Mauer , Erwan Morellec , Federico Nardari , N R Prabhala , Tony Sanders , Sergei Sarkissian , Bill Schwert , Ken Singleton , Chester Spatt , René Stulz - Journal of Finance , 2001
"... ABSTRACT Using dealer's quotes and transactions prices on straight industrial bonds, we investigate the determinants of credit spread changes. Variables that should in theory determine credit spread changes have rather limited explanatory power. Further, the residuals from this regression are ..."
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like Treasury bonds, and (2) low-grade bonds are more sensitive to stock returns. The implications of these studies may be limited in many situations of interest, however. For example, hedge funds often take highly levered positions in corporate bonds while hedging away interest rate risk by shorting

Cloning-based context-sensitive pointer alias analysis using binary decision diagrams

by John Whaley, Monica S. Lam - In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2004 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation , 2004
"... This paper presents the first scalable context-sensitive, inclusionbased pointer alias analysis for Java programs. Our approach to context sensitivity is to create a clone of a method for every context of interest, and run a context-insensitive algorithm over the expanded call graph to get context-s ..."
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This paper presents the first scalable context-sensitive, inclusionbased pointer alias analysis for Java programs. Our approach to context sensitivity is to create a clone of a method for every context of interest, and run a context-insensitive algorithm over the expanded call graph to get context-sensitive

Scale-sensitive Dimensions, Uniform Convergence, and Learnability

by Noga Alon, Shai Ben-David, Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, David Haussler , 1997
"... Learnability in Valiant's PAC learning model has been shown to be strongly related to the existence of uniform laws of large numbers. These laws define a distribution-free convergence property of means to expectations uniformly over classes of random variables. Classes of real-valued functions ..."
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Learnability in Valiant's PAC learning model has been shown to be strongly related to the existence of uniform laws of large numbers. These laws define a distribution-free convergence property of means to expectations uniformly over classes of random variables. Classes of real-valued functions

Towards a modern theory of adaptive networks: expectation and prediction

by Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto - Psychol. Rev , 1981
"... Many adaptive neural network theories are based on neuronlike adaptive elements that can behave as single unit analogs of associative conditioning. In this article we develop a similar adaptive element, but one which is more closely in accord with the facts of animal learning theory than elements co ..."
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stimulation, producing a conditioned response before the occurrence of the unconditioned stimulus. The element also is in strong agreement with the behavioral data regarding the effects of stimulus context, since it is a temporally refined extension of the Rescorla-Wagner model. We show by computer simulation

Identification of protein coding regions by database similarity search

by Warren Gish, David J. States - Nature Genetics , 1993
"... Correspondence should be addressed to W.G. page 1 Summary Sequence similarity between a translated nucleotide sequence and a known biological protein can provide strong evidence for the presence of a homologous coding region, and such similarities can often be identified even between distantly relat ..."
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Correspondence should be addressed to W.G. page 1 Summary Sequence similarity between a translated nucleotide sequence and a known biological protein can provide strong evidence for the presence of a homologous coding region, and such similarities can often be identified even between distantly

Coil sensitivity encoding for fast MRI. In:

by Klaas P Pruessmann , Markus Weiger , Markus B Scheidegger , Peter Boesiger - Proceedings of the ISMRM 6th Annual Meeting, , 1998
"... New theoretical and practical concepts are presented for considerably enhancing the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by means of arrays of multiple receiver coils. Sensitivity encoding (SENSE) is based on the fact that receiver sensitivity generally has an encoding effect complementa ..."
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and sensitivity encoding. That is, no restrictions are made as to the coil configuration and the sampling pattern in k-space. Two reconstruction strategies are discussed. The first approach strictly aims at optimal voxel shape and is called strong reconstruction for convenience. In weak reconstruction, the voxel

Infants' preference for the predominant stress patterns of English words

by Peter W. Jusczyk, Anne Cutler, Nancy J. Redanz - Child Development , 1993
"... aspect of language acquisition is the development of a lexicon that associates sounds and mean-ings; but developing a lexicon first requires that the infant segment utterances into individual words. How might the infant begin this process? The present study was designed to examine the potential role ..."
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role that sensitivity to predominant stress patterns of words might play in lexical development. In English, by far the majority of words have stressed (strong) initial syllables. Experiment 1 of our study demonstrated that by 9 months of age American infants listen signifi-cantly longer to words

CEO overconfidence and corporate investment

by Ulrike Malmendier, Geoffrey Tate - Journal of Finance , 2005
"... We explore behavioral explanations for sub-optimal corporate investment decisions. Focusing on the sensitivity of investment to cash flow, we argue that personal characteristics of chief executive officers, in particular overconfidence, can account for this widespread and persistent investment disto ..."
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We explore behavioral explanations for sub-optimal corporate investment decisions. Focusing on the sensitivity of investment to cash flow, we argue that personal characteristics of chief executive officers, in particular overconfidence, can account for this widespread and persistent investment

Financial Development and Financing Constraints: International Evidence from the Structural Investment Model.

by Inessa Love, Laarni Bulan, Charles Calomiris, Raymond Fisman, Ann Harrison, Charles Himmelberg, Robert Hodrick, Glenn Hubbard, Margaret Mcmillan, Xavier Sala-i-martin, Toni Whited, Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation , 2001
"... This paper provides a micro-level evidence that financial development impacts growth by reducing financing constraints that would otherwise restrict efficient firm investment. I estimate a structural model based on the Euler equation for investment using firm-level data from 40 countries. I find a s ..."
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strong negative relationship between the extent of financial market development, and the sensitivity of investment to availability of internal funds (a proxy for financing constraints). I also consider size effect, business cycles and legal environment as plausible alternative explanations and find
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