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Free Ebooks PDF Microsoft Access “Northwind Traders” Migration to Oracle Application Express

... Microsoft Access sample application, Northwind Traders, to Oracle Application Express. This is a multi-step process that utilizes several ... Project. 6.0 Review Your Retrieved Objects Tables Queries Forms Reports Databases, Modules, and Pages Information Updated ...

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PDF Ebook Oracle/SQL Tutorial

... are alphanumeric data (strings), numbers and date formats. Oracle offers the following basic data types: char(n): Fixed-length ... SQL – Structured Query Language 1.1. Tables 1.2. Queries (Part I) 1.3. Data Definition in SQL 1.4. Data Modifications in SQL ...

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PDF Ebook A Quick Microsoft Access 2007 Tutorial

... you how to issue complex SQL (Structured Query Language) queries. You will open the Northwind Microsoft sample database and query it in ... database, you should move up to Microsoft's SQL Server, an Oracle database above the level of Oracle Personal Edition, or the wonderful, ...

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Ebook Neural Network Survival Analysis for Personal Loan Data

Submitted by wulan on Sat, 10/31/2009 - 06:59

Traditionally, the primary goal of credit scoring was to distinguish good customers from bad customers without taking into account when customers tend to default. The latter issue is however becoming more and more a key research question since the whole process of credit granting and repayment is being more and more conceived as dynamic instead of static. The advantages of having models that estimate when customers default are

  • the ability to compute the profitability over a customer’s lifetime and perform profit scoring;
  • these models may provide the bank with an estimate of the default levels over time which is useful for debt provisioning;
  • the estimates may help to decide upon the term of the loan;
  • changes in economic conditions can be easier incorporated.


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Ebook An experimental study of tympanic-membrane and manubrium vibrations in rats

Submitted by wulan on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 08:04

It was suggested by Hellström et al. [1982] that the rat is of value in otological research because the middle-ear structures are easily approachable and because rats are less expensive than other species used in middle-ear research.

Since almost all human genes known to be associated with disease have orthologues in the rat genome, and since rats have recently been added to the list of species whose genomes have been mapped [Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium, 2004], the rat could become an even more valuable tool in middle-ear research.


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Ebook Ebook Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Submitted by puput on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 03:00

Two core issues in international trade are the allocation of resources across economic activities and the distribution of incomes across factors of production. Recent research has emphasized the allocation of resources across heterogeneous firms, but has largely concentrated on heterogeneity in the product market (productivity and size) rather than the labor market (workforce composition and wages). Developing trade models that incorporate both product and labor market heterogeneity is therefore important for explaining firm data and understanding the consequences of trade liberalization. To the extent that wages vary across firms within sectors, reallocations of resources across firms provide an additional channel for international trade to influence income distribution.

In this paper, we develop a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade that incorporates this channel and captures three plausible features of product and labor markets. First, there is heterogeneity in firm productivity, which generates differences in firm profitability. Second, search and matching frictions in the labor market imply that workers outside a firm are imperfect substitutes for those inside the firm, which gives rise to multilateral bargaining between each firm and its workers. Third, workers are heterogeneous in terms of match-specific ability, which can be imperfectly observed by firms. Together these three components of the model generate variation in wages across firms within industries and imply that trade liberalization affects income distribution.


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