Capital allocation decisions are made on the basis of an assessment of creditworthiness. Default is a rare event for most segments of a bank’s portfolio and data information can be minimal. Inference about default rates is essential for efficient capital allocation, for risk management and for compliance with the requirements of the Basel II rules on capital standards for banks. Expert informat...

We have suggested [14] using the aspect-oriented paradigm to support the software development process by composing (weaving) aspects into the software development environment. In the first part of our research we have defined aspects to support the Extreme Programming (XP) development methodology and then wove them into the Eclipse platform. Several directions for future research have been iden...

In the present study, nine species of Aspergillus, viz., A. alliaceus, A. ochraceus, A. persii, A. leproris, A. parasiticus, A. fumigatiaffinis, A. sydowii, A. niger, A. tubingensis and Eurotium amstelodami were obtained and identified from soils of the National Park of Urmia Lake, based on cultural and morphological characteristics. All of the species are newly recorded from hypersaline soils ...

In this paper, weak defining hyperplanes and the anchor points in DEA, as an important subset of the set of extreme efficient points of the Production Possibility Set (PPS), are used to construct unobserved DMUs and in the long run to improve the envelopment of all observed DMUs. There has been a surge of articles on improving envelopment in recent years. What has been done first is in Constant...

The estimation of quality of service through the simulation of traac passing an ATM network requires considerable computational resources due to the rare event nature of the phenomena in question. By training a neural network to mimic the output of the simulator, i.e. to capture the functional relationship between diierent conngurations and loads and their corresponding quality of service, esti...

During the past few years, patients with an unidentified acute febrile illness have appeared on the wards of the New Haven Hospital. They present similar signs and symptoms. We have been unable to recognize this syndrome as that of any of the known infectious diseases. We believe that it may be a new disease and we are taking this opportunity to report eleven cases seen in the past five years, ...

The dominance of traditional heavyweight software development methodologies is being challenged by the advent of lightweight or agile methodologies that stress the need to be nimble and adaptive in a world where change is inevitable. A singularly distinctive feature of these new methodologies is their emphasis on people and their interactions. In a development environment that relies heavily on...