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1. The paper presents the results of a survey of the institutional arrangements for producing official macroeconomic statistics. The survey covers 41 countries subscribing to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)—with well-developed national statistical systems. It demonstrates

This paper examines properties of daily stock returns and how the particular characteristics of these data affect event study methodologies. Daily data generally present few difficulties for event studies. Standard procedures are typically well-specified even when special daily data characteris

algorithms and standard methods including Support Vector Machines and Regularized Least Squares can be obtained as special cases. We utilize properties of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert spaces to prove new Representer theorems that provide theoretical basis for the algorithms. As a result (in contrast to purely

, and a practical design for location-hidden services via rendezvous points. Tor works on the real-world Internet, requires no special privileges or kernel modifications, requires little synchronization or coordination between nodes, and provides a reasonable tradeoff between anonymity, usability

diffusion process, but leakage and mutual inhibition work together to address several challenges to existing diffusion, random-walk, and accumulator models. The model provides a good account of data from choice tasks using both time-controlled (e.g., deadline or response signal) and standard reaction time

with unnecessaryinformation. Existing mechanisms for selective dissemination typically rely on simple keyword matching or "bag of words" information retrieval techniques. The advent of XML as a standard for information exchangeand the development of query languages for XML data enables the development of more

We define ordered subset processing for standard algorithms (such as Expectation Maximization, EM) for image restoration from projections. Ordered subsets methods group projection data into an ordered sequence of subsets (or blocks). An iteration of ordered subsets EM is defined as a single pass