In areas of the developing world that lack an established electrical grid, L.E.D.'s could find favor, running household lighting powered by solar sources, said Robert Wilder, who created an index of alternative energy companies that is licensed by PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy, an exchange-traded fund.
We obtained this comparable index of alternative splicing for 8,772 human genes and 69 Ectocarpus genes.
Or maybe one of my neighbors was still up and would let me borrow their car... Running through this index of alternatives seemed completely normal to both of us.
We also used the Splicing Index [ 12, 13] as an indicator of alternative splicing events.
We compared variations in vibration using impulse responses of machine cushions as a performance index, of four alternative machine cushion designs: One was an ARM with absorber design; the second was the same machine cushion but without an absorber; the third and fourth were simple passive machine cushions with and without an absorber.
The MULTIMOORA method begins with a decision matrix X in which x ij presents the performance index of ith alternative respecting jth attribute, i = 1, 2, …, m and i = 1, 2, …, n: {mathbf{X}} = [{x_{ij} }]_{m times n}.
In the MULTIMOORA method, the dominator is selected as the square root of the sum of squares of performance indices per attribute as shown in the following: x_{ij}^* = frac{{x_{ij} }}{{[{sum_{i = 1}^m {x_{ij}^2 } }]^{1/2} }}, (2)in which ( x_{ij}^* ) denotes the normalized performance index of ith alternative respecting jth attribute.
In the analyses, the specialities were ranked in accordance with their prestige index [ 37], from which the mean index of the alternatives indicated was calculated.
Such an approach tends to reduce the weighting in banking and utilities compared with a liability-weighted benchmark.The idea of alternative weightings for indices has been around for a while in the equity market, and is known in the jargon as "smart beta".
That plan avoids considering the consequences of locking in the current tax cuts, fails to address the needed indexing of the alternative minimum tax and does not even reflect the continuing costs of the war in Iraq.
The numerator of Eq. (8) indicates the product of performance indices of ith alternative relating to beneficial attributes.
