« 3 Date Recipient Address 1 Recipient Address 2 Recipient Address 3 Dear Mr. Recipient, I am writing to confirm that my CV and covering letter were received. ...» Document abstract
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human resources
cover letters
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SummaryI am writing to confirm that my CV and covering letter were received. They were emailed via JobTrack on 12 October.
I am very much interested in the position of Pre-Production Administrator. I recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from University with a bachelors degree in English, a writing certificate, an honors certificate, and a minor in management information systems. I also have office management and clerk experience as well as experience in editing and publishing.
I am very much interested in the position of Pre-Production Administrator. I recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from University with a bachelors degree in English, a writing certificate, an honors certificate, and a minor in management information systems. I also have office management and clerk experience as well as experience in editing and publishing.
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« of typos and has shown that typos follow Zipf 's to support the idea of an optimum sample size for a The second division, representing the ranks up to 2000-3000 ...» Document abstract
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linguistics
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SummaryThe hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifesting itself in Zipf ’s law and modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e in a signal-object reference matrix, gave rise to the idea that maybe the elements
in music that elicit our emotional responses can be identified. The unde- niable relation between music and emotion was the reason to consider a possible signal-emotion reference system analogous to the signal-object ref- erence in natural human language. Following Zipf ’s line of reasoning, music
as an exponent of human behaviour is subject to the Principle of Least Effort and is consequently structured in such a way that the distribution pattern
of the signals that “communicate the musical message” follows a power law.
In this thesis the possibility to deploy the characteristics of the Zipf curve to gain more insight into the relation between music and emotion was investi- gated. From the elements that, viewed in the framework of a signal-emotion reference could qualify as the signals that elicit emotion, two were investi- gated, viz. notes and intervals. Experiments were performed on 18 single classical music pieces from 18 different composers and on a larger classical music corpus. Results indicate that intervals have a distribution pattern that comes closest to a Zipf curve, but neither data type exhibits a gen- uine Zipf distribution. Further research will be needed to decide whether the method that was applied could be a useful tool in the search for the elements that elicit emotion.
in music that elicit our emotional responses can be identified. The unde- niable relation between music and emotion was the reason to consider a possible signal-emotion reference system analogous to the signal-object ref- erence in natural human language. Following Zipf ’s line of reasoning, music
as an exponent of human behaviour is subject to the Principle of Least Effort and is consequently structured in such a way that the distribution pattern
of the signals that “communicate the musical message” follows a power law.
In this thesis the possibility to deploy the characteristics of the Zipf curve to gain more insight into the relation between music and emotion was investi- gated. From the elements that, viewed in the framework of a signal-emotion reference could qualify as the signals that elicit emotion, two were investi- gated, viz. notes and intervals. Experiments were performed on 18 single classical music pieces from 18 different composers and on a larger classical music corpus. Results indicate that intervals have a distribution pattern that comes closest to a Zipf curve, but neither data type exhibits a gen- uine Zipf distribution. Further research will be needed to decide whether the method that was applied could be a useful tool in the search for the elements that elicit emotion.
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- Quantitative linguistics
- Frequency distributions
- Entropy
- Previous research
- Balancing effort
- Data types
- Corpus size
- Music and Zipf 's law
- Music and communication
- Music and emotion
- Research question
- Experimental setup
- Results
- The rank-frequency distribution of notes and intervals
« method pension funds have to follow when determining the annual pension rights build-up, premium reserves which do focus on out-of-sample forecasting performed ...» Document abstract
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finance
presentation
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SummaryPension funds serve to collect and manage an amount of capital, sufficient to make all payments to which participants of the fund are entitled based on the pension plan. The Akzo Nobel Pension Fund
(APF) is responsible for the provision of pensions for all employees of Akzo Nobel in the
Netherlands. It is the task of the Pensions and Insurance Supervisory Authority (PVK) to provide
rules and regulations which guarantee that pension funds are able to fulfill their pension promises. In response to economic and demographic changes in the environment in which pension funds operate,
the PVK drafted a new Financial Assessment Framework (FTK) that is meant to become effective as
of January 1st 2006.
Essential in the new FTK is the fact that the pension liability resulting from a defined benefit pension plan has to be calculated using market value interest yields as discount rates as opposed to the
current practice which uses a fixed rate for discounting pension liabilities. The new FTK increases
the risk exposure of pension funds, since the value of the liabilities will depend on volatile interest rates. As a result, the volatility of the funding ratio of the pension fund will also increase compared
to the current situation in which the liability value is not influenced by changes in market interest rates. This thesis aims to analyze the impact of the new valuation method of liabilities on the asset allocation of the APF.
(APF) is responsible for the provision of pensions for all employees of Akzo Nobel in the
Netherlands. It is the task of the Pensions and Insurance Supervisory Authority (PVK) to provide
rules and regulations which guarantee that pension funds are able to fulfill their pension promises. In response to economic and demographic changes in the environment in which pension funds operate,
the PVK drafted a new Financial Assessment Framework (FTK) that is meant to become effective as
of January 1st 2006.
Essential in the new FTK is the fact that the pension liability resulting from a defined benefit pension plan has to be calculated using market value interest yields as discount rates as opposed to the
current practice which uses a fixed rate for discounting pension liabilities. The new FTK increases
the risk exposure of pension funds, since the value of the liabilities will depend on volatile interest rates. As a result, the volatility of the funding ratio of the pension fund will also increase compared
to the current situation in which the liability value is not influenced by changes in market interest rates. This thesis aims to analyze the impact of the new valuation method of liabilities on the asset allocation of the APF.
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- A pension fund in relation with akzo nobel
- Akzo Nobel
- Pension Plans
- Akzo Nobel Pension Fund
- Changing the valuation of pension plans
- The Pensions and Insurance Supervisory Authority
- Driving factors for reform in pension supervision
- New Financial Assessment Framework (FTK)
- Estimating the liabilities of the akzo nobel pension fund
- Considerations in estimating the present value of pension fund liabilities
- Estimating liabilities in practice
- The market value of pension liabilities
- Implications of market valuation on the asset mix
- Development of the funding ratio
- Simulation results
- Fair value compared to actuarial valuation
- Approaches to a stable funding ratio
- Increasing the level of fixed income securities in asset allocation
- Increasing the duration of the fixed income portfolio
- Cash flow matching
- Conditional indexation
- Portfolio composition
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