Much current research is undertaken into combining classifiers to increase the classification accuracy. We show, by means of an enumerative example, how combining classifiers can lead to much greater or lesser accuracy than each individual classifier. Measures of diversity among the classifiers taken from the literature are shown to only exhibit a weak relationship with majority vote accuracy. ...

The sandy coasts of the south–eastern Baltic Sea are the unique landscape along the shores of Poland, Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), Lithuania and Latvia. Flat sandy beaches, protective dune ridges and near shore sandy spits are very valuable and attractive resources for human recreation and valuable habitat for wildlife. Intensifying shipping, operation of oil terminals and offshore platforms po...

Departing from prior work that demonstrates the stickiness and stability of alliance networks resulting from embeddedness, we extend matching theory to study firms‟ withdrawal from alliances. Viewing alliance withdrawal as a result of firms‟ pursuit of more promising alternative partners – outside options – rather than failures in collaboration, we predict that a firm is more likely to withdraw...

This paper by Eugenio Gaiotti is a refutation paper: it tests and rejects the idea popularized by Borio and Filardo (2007) that globalization explains the flattening of the Phillips curve. While several papers have already been devoted to assessing the Borio and Filardo theory, the distinctive feature of the present article is that it uses microeconomic data. Microeconomic data can be helpful i...

This article investigates the relationship between exports and FDI in the Mediterranean area using gravity analysis. Due to the controversial literature, the theory strongly supports the substitutional hypothesis, meanwhile, the complementary case supported empirically, others doubt that the later relationship is spurious statistical complementarity relationship. Discovering the relationship na...

Students may extend their Graduate UC Student Health Insurance Plan for up to two quarters if on an approved leave of absence. You must have been covered by UC SHIP in the term immediately preceding the term for which you want to purchase coverage or, if you waived enrollment in the prior coverage period, show proof of loss of the plan used to waive. Proof of loss means an official letter of te...

The European ::union:: (EU) along with the Security Council (SC) has imposed sanctions on Iran over the controversies around Iranian nuclear program. A review of the literature on the implementation of international sanctions against I.R. Iran shows that with passing time and disagreement between negotiating parties, the toughening and broadening of scope and focus of sanction has taken plac...

We will gives an overview of several decision problem encountered in liner shipping. We will cover problems on the strategic, tactical and operational planning levels as well as problems that can be considered at two planning levels simultaneously. Furthermore, we will shortly discuss some related problems in terminals, geographical bottlenecks for container ships and provide an overview of ope...