In this paper we propose, develop, and test a new single-feature evaluator called Significant Proportion of Target Instances (SPTI) to handle the direct-marketing data with the class imbalance problem. The SPTI feature evaluator demonstrates its stability and outstanding performance through empirical experiments in which the real-world customer data of an e-recruitment firm are used. This resea...

Abstract We develop a novel measure of volatility pass-through to assess international propagation output shocks macroeconomic aggregates, equity prices, and currencies. An increase in country's is associated with decrease its output, consumption, net exports. The average consumption 50% (a 1% increases by 0.5%) it 70% for originating smaller countries. larger the order 90%. A channel risk shar...

The point contact Andreev reflection employing niobium tips was used to determine the degree of transport current spin polarization sPtd at the free surface of bulk NiMnSb at 4.2 K. The data was analyzed within the framework of a modified version of the Blonder, Tinkham, and Klapwijk formulism taking into account the two spin polarized channels in the ferromagnet and treating the interface as a...

Recent approaches in evolutionary robotics (ER) propose to generate behavioral diversity in order to evolve desired behaviors more easily. These approaches require the definition of a behavioral distance which often includes task-specific features and hence a priori knowledge. Alternative methods, that do not explicitly force selective pressure towards diversity (SPTD) but still generate it, ar...

t he investigation of exchange rate pass-through is an important issue in international finance. the relationship between exchange rate pass-through and exchange rate arrangements such as the dollarization regime has been examined in recent decades. for this purpose, the main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of exchange rate pass-through on the domestic inflation in selecte...