with and without feature selection. PNN outperformed all the techniques without feature selection, and GP and PNN outperformed others with feature selection and with marginally equal accuracies. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 20 November 2009 Received in revised form 14 June 2010 Accepted 3 November 2010 Available online 12 November 2010 Keywords: Data mining Financial fraud detection Feature selection t-statistic Neural networks SVM GP 1. Introduction Financial
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TRACING THE ORIGIN OF THE CHARACTERISTIC BAD ODOUR OF DRIED STOCK FISH PROJECT BY ADESINA ADEBOWALE T. (2011) 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Information With the ever growing population and the need to store and transport food from one place to another where it is needed, food preservation becomes necessary in order to increase its shelf life and maintain its nutritional value, texture and flavor. Therefore good food preservation techniques must prevent microbial spoilage of food without affecting
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1 CHAPTER #1: INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 2 1.1: INTRODUCTION........................................................................................3 1.2: HISTORY/ BACKGROUND......................................................................3 1.3: MAJOR PLAYERS......................................................................................4 1.4: PEST ANALYSIS.........................................................................................5 1.4.1: POLITICAL FACTOR.................
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The Walt Disney Company Danjel Lessard & Lauren Northcutt Business 308: Principles of Marketing Professor Simpson The Walt Disney Company Description What started out to be nothing more than a dream of Walter Elias Disney, with the release of Alice in Wonderland, a series of short film comedies, the beginning of a world renowned global corporation Walt Disney had evolved. Walter and his brother Roy were equal partners in what was originally the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in
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AutoZone Inc. (AZO) I. Investment Highlights AutoZone’s Pledge AutoZoners always put customers first! We know our parts and products. Our stores look great! We've got the best merchandise at the right price. Company Profile AutoZone, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate as a specialty retailer of automotive parts and accessories in the United States. As of August 28, 2004, the company operated 3,420 auto parts stores in 48 states and the District of Columbia; and 63 auto
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to many different people, such as the principle of self-actualization or the trait of extraversion. Idiographic psychology is an attempt to understand the unique aspects of a particular individual. The study of personality has a broad and varied history in psychology with an abundance of theoretical traditions. The major theories include
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Regards, Robert Bast - Melbourne, Australia, 2010 The Long Count Calendar The ancient Mayans had roughly 20 calendars, all of which were short in duration, with the cycles equating to astronomical phenomena, or were intended to relate to history repeating over and over again via prophecy. Except for the Long Count calendar. The Long Count is the Mayan equivalent of our calendar, in that it assigns unique dates over a long period of time. A short numerical description (like 12/6/1976 in
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poorly conceptualized or written literature review often indicated for them that the rest of the dissertation might have problems. On encountering an inadequate literature review, examiners would proceed to look at the methods of data collection, the analysis, and the conclusions more carefully. (Boote & Beile, 2005, p. 6) Given the importance of
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Harvard Business School 9-898-171 Rev. December 11, 2000 Nantucket Nectars Well, we knew we were in an interesting position. We had five companies express interest in acquiring a portion of the company. Sometimes you have to laugh about how things occur. Tropicana (Seagram) and Ocean Spray became interested in us after reading an article in Brandweek magazine that erroneously reported that Triarc was in negotiations to buy us. (See Exhibit 1 for a copy of this article.) At the time, we
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