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The psychology of trading: the role of affect on trading decisions on the global currencies markets.
Get PDFby Chan Cheuk Tung.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-90).Abstract also in Chinese.ABSTRACT (IN ENGLISH) --- p.iiABSTRACT (IN CHINESE) --- p.ivTABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.viLIST OF TABLES --- p.ixLIST OF FIGURES --- p.xCHAPTERChapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Overview: Neglected Role of Investors' Emotion --- p.1Inadequacies in Existing Theory and Research --- p.3Significance of Present Study --- p.5Chapter II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.6Demographic Studies of Investors --- p.6Decision Research on Choice Behavior --- p.7Personality Trait / Cognitive Style Approach --- p.7Situationist Approach --- p.8Interactionist Approach --- p.9Summary --- p.10Findings in choice behavior research --- p.10"Notion of ""Bounded Rationality""" --- p.10Frameworks for task and context effects --- p.12Decision-making as a Conflict Resolution Process --- p.13Generalized Cost/Benefit Analysis - the Emotional Dimension --- p.14Summary --- p.16Chapter III. --- HYPOTHESES --- p.18Information Acquisition --- p.18Negative Information --- p.20Positive and Irrelevant Information --- p.23Evaluation and Judgment --- p.25Strategies Formulation --- p.28Trading Performance --- p.30Chapter VI. --- METHODS --- p.32Overview --- p.32Material and Apparatus Selection --- p.33Selection of Music --- p.33Selection of Currency Pair --- p.35System for Trading Simulation --- p.36Selection of News Items --- p.37Pretest of Treatments --- p.39Subjects --- p.40Procedure --- p.41Manipulation Check - Pretest --- p.42Likert scale Measure --- p.43Affect Grid Measure --- p.44Convergent Validity of Measures --- p.45Summary --- p.46Estimation of Power and Optimal Sample Size for the Main Experiment --- p.46Main Experiment --- p.46Subjects --- p.47Procedure --- p.47Measures of Studied Variables --- p.48Control Variables --- p.49Chapter V. --- RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS --- p.51Manipulation Checks --- p.51Reliability of Mood Measures --- p.51Effect of Manipulations --- p.52Effects of Control variables --- p.54Trading Performance --- p.55Information Acquisition --- p.59Negative Information --- p.59Positive and Irrelevant Information --- p.62Time Allocation --- p.64Summary --- p.66Evaluation and Judgment --- p.66Decision Time --- p.66Decision Complexity --- p.68Decision Accuracy --- p.70Summary --- p.71Strategy Formulation --- p.72Use of Cut-loss Order --- p.72Use of Limit-profit Order --- p.73Investment Size --- p.73Summary --- p.75Discussion --- p.75Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.78Discussion --- p.78Limitations and Suggestions for Future Studies --- p.80Suggestions to Investors --- p.76Individual Investors --- p.82Institutional Investors --- p.84BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.86APPENDICES --- p.91Appendix 1 News Selection Phase One: Judges' Rating --- p.91Appendix 2 Screen Layouts of the Internet Trading System --- p.92Appendix 3 Coding Scheme -Complexity of Reasoning --- p.93Appendix 4 Questionnaire --- p.9
The role of government in the restructuring of the Hong Kong economy, 1945-1970.
Get PDFby Chan, Cheuk-Wah.Thesis submitted in: August 1997.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.Includes bibliographical references.Abstract also in Chinese.Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- p.1.Chapter 1.1.-- --- The main themeChapter 1.2. -- --- Theoretical backgroundChapter 1.2.1. -- --- The proper role of the state in the economyChapter 1.2.2. -- --- Conception of the development stateChapter 1.2.3. -- --- Politics of defining the role of the stateChapter 1.2.4. -- --- The relative autonomy of the stateChapter 1.2.5. -- --- "The ISH Model-- Institutions, Strategic actions of agents, Historical contingencies"Chapter 1.2.6. -- --- The ISH Model and the economic dynamics in Hong KongChapter CHAPTER TWO --- p.22.Chapter 2 -- --- "Historical Background, Contingency and International Hurricane (from the mid of 1940s to the mid 1950s)"Chapter 2.1. -- --- IntroductionChapter 2.2. -- --- Historical backgroundChapter 2.3. -- --- Conflicts between China and the West (Korean War and Cold War)Chapter 2.4. -- --- Hong Kong's fluctuating economy and the colonial minimal governmentChapter CHAPTER THREE --- p.44.Chapter 3. --- The Dynamics of the Process of Economic Restructuring and the Strategies of the Industrialists (1950s-60s)Chapter 3.1. -- --- IntroductionChapter 3.2. -- --- The path of economic restructuringChapter 3.2.1. -- --- Profile of textiles industryChapter 3.2.2.-- --- rofile of clothing industryChapter 3.2.3. -- --- Profile of toys and plastic industryChapter 3.3.-- --- Strategies of the Chinese industrialistsChapter CHAPTER FOUR --- p.62.Chapter 4. --- Hong Kong Government's Role and Selective Interventions in the EconomyChapter 4.1. -- --- IntroductionChapter 4.2. -- --- Monetary/fiscal policy with colonial biasChapter 4.3. -- --- Housing policyChapter 4.4. -- --- Investment and trade promotionChapter 4.5. -- --- Land and infrastructure developmentChapter 4.6. -- --- Influences on the prices and supplies of foodstuffsChapter 4.7. -- --- Productivity and quality support servicesChapter 4.8. -- --- Inadequate research and development policyChapter 4.9. -- --- Absence of industrial bank and few financial incentives for IndustriesChapter 4.10. -- --- Deficiency in manpower training for manufacturingChapter CHAPTER FIVE --- p.83.Chapter 5. --- The Dominance of British Hongs' in Hong KongChapter 5.1. -- --- IntroductionChapter 5.2. -- --- The historical foundation of the British Hongs in Hong Kong and its political implicationChapter 5.3. -- --- Dominance of the British hongs in Hong Kong in the period of1950-70Chapter 5.4. -- --- "The business activities of the Jardines, Matheson and Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong"Chapter CHAPTER SIX -- --- CONCLUSION --- p.102
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A convex optimization algorithm for gradient histogram specification
No full textM.Phil.The goal of gradient-histogram specification is to find an image whose edge image has a histogram that matches a given gradient-histogram as much as possible. Mignotte has proposed a non-convex model for the problem [M. Mignotte. An energy-based model for the image edge-histogram specification problem. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 21(1):379–386, 2012]. In his work, gradient magnitudes of an input image are first modified by histogram specification to match the given gradient-histogram. Then, a non-convex model is minimized to find an output image whose gradient histogram matches the modified gradient-histogram. The non-convexity of the model hinders the computations and the inclusion of useful constraints such as the dynamic range constraint. In this thesis, instead of considering gradient magnitudes, we directly consider the image gradients and propose a convex model based on them. Furthermore, we include additional constraints in our model based on different applications. The convexity of our model allows us to compute the output image efficiently using either Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers or Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm. We consider several applications in edge-preserving smoothing including image abstraction, edge extraction, details exaggeration, and documents scan-through removal. Numerical results are given to illustrate that our method successfully produces decent results efficiently.梯度直方圖規範的目標是盡可能找到邊緣圖像具有與預定義的梯度直方圖匹配的直方圖的圖像。 Mignotte提出了梯度直方圖規範的非凸 模型[M. Mignotte. An energy-based model for the image edge-histogram specification problem. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 21(1):379– 386, 2012]。在他的工作中，輸入圖像的梯度絕對值通過預定義的梯度直方圖通過直方圖規範來修改。然後，非凸目標函數被最小化以獲得輸出圖像。目標函數的非凸性阻礙了計算和包含附加約束。我們直接考慮梯度並提出基於梯度的凸模型，而不是考慮梯度絕對值。此外，我們在基於不同應用的模型中增加了其他約束。我們的模型的凸性允許我們使用交替方向乘法器或快速迭代收縮閾值算法來有效地計算輸出圖像。我們考慮了邊緣保留平滑的幾個應用，包括細節誇張，邊緣提取，圖像抽象和文檔干擾去除。數值結果表明，我們的方法可以成功地產生體面的結果。Chan, Cheuk Kit Kelvin.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2018.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-65).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on …)
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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