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The Efficient Market Hypothesis: Is It Applicable to the Foreign Exchange Market?
The study analyses the applicability of the efficient market hypothesis to the foreign exchange market by testing the profitability of the filter rule on the spot market. The significance of the returns was validated by comparing them to the returns from randomly generated shuffled series via bootstrap methods. The results were surprising. For the total period (1984-2003) small filter rules could deliver significant returns indicating an inefficient foreign exchange market. However, once the data was separated into four sub-periods of five years to test the stability of the returns, the results indicate that only the first sub period delivered significant returns. In the last two sub periods or ten years, the returns from employing filter rules were negative. This supports the conclusion that the efficient market hypothesis is valid in the foreign exchange market.Efficient market hypothesis, foreign exchange market, filter rules
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Lipid droplets and lipotoxicity during autophagy.
Lipid droplets (LDs) are neutral lipid storage organelles that provide a rapidly accessible source of fatty acids (FAs) for energy during periods of nutrient deprivation. Surprisingly, lipids released by the macroautophagic/autophagic breakdown of membranous organelles are packaged and stored in new LDs during periods of prolonged starvation. Why cells would store FAs during an energy crisis was unknown. In our recent study, we demonstrated that FAs released during MTORC1-regulated autophagy are selectively channeled by DGAT1 (diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1) into triacylglycerol (TAG)-rich LDs. These DGAT1-dependent LDs sequester FAs and prevent the accumulation of acylcarnitines, which otherwise directly disrupt mitochondrial integrity. Our findings establish LD biogenesis as a general cellular response to periods of high autophagic flux that provide a lipid buffering system to mitigate lipotoxic cellular damage
Time-Shared Execution of Realtime Computer Vision Pipelines by Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration
This paper presents an FPGA runtime framework that demonstrates the
feasibility of using dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) for time-sharing an
FPGA by multiple realtime computer vision pipelines. The presented time-sharing
runtime framework manages an FPGA fabric that can be round-robin time-shared by
different pipelines at the time scale of individual frames. In this new
use-case, the challenge is to achieve useful performance despite high
reconfiguration time. The paper describes the basic runtime support as well as
four optimizations necessary to achieve realtime performance given the
limitations of DPR on today's FPGAs. The paper provides a characterization of a
working runtime framework prototype on a Xilinx ZC706 development board. The
paper also reports the performance of realtime computer vision pipelines when
time-shared
Controlling composition factors of a finite group by its character degree ratio
For a finite nonabelian group let \rat(G) be the largest ratio of
degrees of two nonlinear irreducible characters of . We show that nonabelian
composition factors of are controlled by \rat(G) in some sense.
Specifically, if different from the simple linear groups \PSL_2(q) is a
nonabelian composition factor of , then the order of and the number of
composition factors of isomorphic to are both bounded in terms of
\rat(G). Furthermore, when the groups \PSL_2(q) are not composition factors
of , we prove that |G:\Oinfty(G)|\leq \rat(G)^{21} where \Oinfty(G)
denotes the solvable radical of .Comment: 16 pages, 1 tabl
Transactions Costs and Point-Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Trading
The implications of transactions costs for the performance of water pollution trading involving point and nonpoint sources are examined. The analysis focuses on the impacts of transaction costs on different classes of trading partners and its consequence on the trading equilibrium. The model of point-nonpoint water pollution trading in the context of the total maximum daily loads explicitly incorporates transactions costs for both buying and selling exchanges of nonpoint source and point source permits. Transactions costs unarguably reduce the optimal level of trades in both types of permits compared to the costless trade case.Environmental Economics and Policy,
Asian Americans on the Streets: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Notably lacking in the literature on Vietnamese and Cambodian youth gangs in the United States and particularly Southern California have been solutions that address the underlying causative factors of gang involvement. Relying on life histories collected over a span of fifteen years, the authors propose a multi-faceted prevention and intervention strategy that includes the community and schools to heighten cultural awareness for children and parents. It is also recommended that policies take into account nuanced differences between Asian communities and bring together multiple stakeholders including officials and hard-core gang members to improve communicative problems that have resulted in gang-policy failures
A Framework to Adjust Dependency Measure Estimates for Chance
Estimating the strength of dependency between two variables is fundamental
for exploratory analysis and many other applications in data mining. For
example: non-linear dependencies between two continuous variables can be
explored with the Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC); and categorical
variables that are dependent to the target class are selected using Gini gain
in random forests. Nonetheless, because dependency measures are estimated on
finite samples, the interpretability of their quantification and the accuracy
when ranking dependencies become challenging. Dependency estimates are not
equal to 0 when variables are independent, cannot be compared if computed on
different sample size, and they are inflated by chance on variables with more
categories. In this paper, we propose a framework to adjust dependency measure
estimates on finite samples. Our adjustments, which are simple and applicable
to any dependency measure, are helpful in improving interpretability when
quantifying dependency and in improving accuracy on the task of ranking
dependencies. In particular, we demonstrate that our approach enhances the
interpretability of MIC when used as a proxy for the amount of noise between
variables, and to gain accuracy when ranking variables during the splitting
procedure in random forests.Comment: In Proceedings of the 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data
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