This report describes the work performed to prepare two reference materials containing sugars, starch and starch degradation products, and certify them by two methods of analysis. The first method consists in the determination of free sugars (sucrose, fructose and lactose) in food by liquid...

The goals of this paper are twofold: we describe common features in data sets from motor vehicle insurance companies and we investigate a general strategy which exploits the knowledge of such features. The results of the strategy are a basis to develop insurance tariffs. The strategy is applied...

In this paper we investigate the most recent techniques that support the auditor in his audit activity. The review and evaluation process of internal accounting and financial control systems represents a major task to auditors and management due to the professional, legal, and economic concerns....

In this work we introduce the forecasting model with which we participated in the NN5 forecasting competition (the forecasting of 111 time series representing daily cash withdrawal amounts at ATM machines). The main idea of this model is to utilize the concept of forecast combination, which has...

In this paper, we demonstrate how the US health care system can provide increased benefits per unit of spend, and earlier identification of and intervention in chronic diseases through better predictive data-based analytics applied to the increasingly available troves of health care claims data....

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We examine intraday market reactions to stock-specific news. Using pre-processed data from an automated news analytics tool based on linguistic pattern recognition we exploit information on the relevance and the direction of company-specific news. Concise news-implied reactions in returns,...