this paper measures event risk which is introducing by the ball committee to measure the effect of sudden news. this study calculates event risk by using the data of registered firms in tehran stock market between 1993 and 1994. for computing event risk, we use daily market capitalization for 80 firms during 1993-2009, then dividing these firms to three baskets; big, medium and small. the model...

Proceedings of the 8 International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2006), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, pp. 176-181, July 2006. Abstract—The introduction of distributed systems to the automation area not only brought new design methods but also new analysis problems. This paper is an attempt to survey current approaches in modeling systems based on the recent standard IEC 61499 and to poi...

There have been conflicting arguments as to what happened in the human-chimpanzee speciation event. Patterson et al. (2006, Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees. Nature 441:1103-1108) proposed a hypothesis that the human-chimpanzee speciation event involved a complicated demographic process: that is, the ancestral lineages of humans and chimpanzees experienced tempo...

The Fifteenth Annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition was held in conjunction with the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) July 17–20, 2006, in Boston, Massachusetts. The robot competition and exhibition has a long tradition of demonstrating innovative research in robotics (Rybski et al. 2006, Smart et al. 2005, Balch and Yanco 2005). From new approaches to cano...

Interest in the presence and nature of trend arises frequently in science, public health, technology, and many other areas. In this ar- ticle we discuss the notion of trend in the context of recurrent event processes. We discuss different frameworks within which one can inves- tigate trend and consider various ways in which trends may be manifest. Tests for trend are discussed in detail and t...

Background. Many countries worldwide use sports events as a tool to stimulate both their national and local economies. To gain a competitive advantage, knowledge of sports event success is essential for stakeholders and hosting countries. However, due to the diverse conceptualizations of event success, the knowledge of the issue is fragmented, and there is a lack of comprehensive studies for sc...

In recent years, disaster management has been the focus of attention since disasters have been associated with huge destructions and consequences. Basically, disaster management techniques aim at the prevention and mitigation works as well as promotion of resilience. Haddon’s matrix was proposed as a conceptual model to understand the event and provide preventive measures in the field of injur...

In 2006, a marked increase in harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena strandings were reported in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, resulting in the declaration of an unusual mortality event (UME) for Washington and Oregon to facilitate investigation into potential causes. The UME was in place during all of 2006 and 2007, and a total of 114 porpoises stranded during this period. Responders examined 9...

Devices/Applications/Reliability 6111 Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS V (Tanner/Ramesham) 6112 Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems IV (Papautsky/Wang/Vauchier) 6113 MEMS/MOEMS Components and Their Applications III (Olivier/Tadigadapa/Henning) 6114 MOEMS, Display, Imaging, and Miniaturized Microsystems IV (Ürey/Dickensheets/Gogoi) Founding Chair M...