Search results for "Methodology"

The Role of Covariance Matrix Forecasting Method in the Performance of Minimum-Variance Portfolios

2014

Providing a more accurate covariance matrix forecast can substantially improve the performance of optimized portfolios. Using out-of-sample tests, in this paper, we evaluate alternative covariance matrix forecasting methods by looking at (1) their forecast accuracy, (2) their ability to track the volatility of the minimum-variance portfolio, and (3) their ability to keep the volatility of the minimum-variance portfolio at a target level. We find large differences between the methods. Our results suggest that shrinkage of the sample covariance matrix improves neither the forecast accuracy nor the performance of minimum-variance portfolios. In contrast, switching from the sample covariance ma…

An Introduction: "to train and to be trained"

2020

The chapter describes the training model of "Experts in proximity violence and its two main features: 1. the identification of training goals capable of providing specific tools, methods and skills; 2. the creation of a training-course prototype capable of integrating the proposed objectives and the relevant contents in terms of professional spendability.

The Provide Training Course. Contents, Methodology, Evaluation

2020

This volume describes the ideational effort required to design and implement a training-course model for "Experts in proximity violence”. Proximity violence concerns multiple forms of gender-based violence which conceal, in turn, more subtle, intimate and viscous forms of dependence. The course was based on modules and availed itself of a "mixed" methodology, where theoretical lectures were interwoven with experiential workshops. During the first six months of 2019, over 800 Italian, French and Spanish operators engaged on the migratory front, attended the courses. The model presented in the first two chapters of the present volume was accompanied and corroborated by a set of ex-ante and ex…

Humour as a symptom of research trends in translation studies

2017

This article is an overview of translation studies applied to the case of humour, divided into four parts, plus an extensive bibliography. The first part goes over humour translation as a relevant object of research and why it is worthy of more academic attention. Humour translation should not be dealt with or looked upon as a strange body within translation studies. Part two is an overview of key contributions to the field, from Spain and elsewhere, covering a considerable number of authors and theories. Part three focuses on promising areas of interest for researchers and illustrates how audiovisual translation is a good instance of dynamism within the field, connecting all this to the ri…

A Notation for Modeling Jason-Like BDI Agents

2012

The design and development of a large Multi Agent System (MAS) is a complex and difficult activity where a proper modeling notation may offer a significant contribution to the formulation of the best solution. The support provided by a specific CASE tool can significantly contribute to make the chosen approach technically valid and it is also a fundamental element of a feasible development strategy. The present work reports a UML profile and the related graphical notation for describing a MAS based on the Jason meta model. Moreover a specific CASE tool has been developed for supporting MASs design and automatic code generation. The proposed notation is shown in details using a classical exa…

The history of translation and of the theory of translation in the context of translation studies

2013

In the present contribution to the History of Translation we consider critically the emergence and integration of Translation Studies as an academic discipline and the role of both Translation History and Translation Historiography. An analysis of what this discipline was before its acceptance into academia and proposals for what its role should be within a humanistic oriented curriculum for future professionals derives from the reception, clearly unsatisfactory, of its status as academic knowledge. Given the specificity of the Latin American situation (in no other region of the world translation has played a greater identitary role), we have added an appendix on the History of Translation …

Award Winning Teaching Practice - Part I

2009

Is It Possible to Predict an Athlete’s Behavior? The Use of Polar Coordinates to Identify Key Patterns in Taekwondo

2019

Elite sport psychologists help athletes develop planned competition strategies from a technical-tactical perspective, through the observation and analysis of previous performances. The aim of this study was to analyze the behavioral patterns used to score points in the 2012 London Olympic Games, by using a mixed observational methodology through a polar coordinate analysis. This analysis is a representation made into four quadrants of the relationships found between focal behavior [i.e., giving score points, (SC)] and conditioned behaviors considered as key factors in taekwondo, occurring before and after the focal behavior (i.e., retrospective/prospective behavior as indicated for each qua…

Pašpārvaldes komandas un organizācijas kultūras savstarpējā ietekme globālā informāciju tehnoloģiju ārpakalpojumu uzņēmumā.

2018

Maģistra darbā autors noskaidro un apraksta, kāda ir organizācijas kultūras un pašpārvaldes darba komandu savstarpējā ietekme globālā ārpakalpojumu informācijas tehnoloģiju uzņēmumā. Lai sasniegtu darba mērķi, ir izvirzīti šādi uzdevumi: teorētiski aprakstīt pašpārvaldes darba komandas, raksturot spējās pārvaldības metodes informāciju tehnoloģiju jomā, aprakstīt organizācijas kultūras pēc konkurējošo vērtību modeļa, veikt pētījumu, analizēt rezultātus, izstrādāt priekšlikumus. Maģistra darbs sastāv no divām teorētiskajām nodaļām – Pašpārvaldes darba komandas un Organizācijas kultūras paveidi pēc konkurējošo vērtību modeļa un pētījuma apraksta. Teorētiskajās nodaļās ir izpētītas teorētiskās …

Ciešamās kārtas lietojums zinātnisko rakstu un bakalaura darbu anotācijās

2019

Pētījuma tēma ir ciešamās kārtas lietojums anotācijās. Ciešamā kārta dzimtās un svešvalodas akadēmiskajos rakstos ir pētīta pirms (Hinkele, 2004); taču to lietojums anotācijās netiek pētīts. Šis pētījums attiecas uz ciešamās kārtas analīzi angļu kā svešvalodas studentu bakalaura darbu anotācijās un pētnieku zinātnisko rakstu anotācijās. Teorētiskais pamatojums ir balstīts uz Kvirka (Quirk et al., 1985), Baibera (Biber et al.,1999), Hadlestona un Pulluma (Huddleston un Pullum 2005), Kollinas un Hollo (Collins un Hollo 2010) un citu autoru darbiem. Pētījums ietver aprakstošās un secinošās statistikas rīkus un specializētā korpusa piemēru kvalitatīvās analīzes aspektus. Rezultātu aprakstā ir a…