Target price forecasts: The roles of the 52-week high price and recent investor sentiment

This paper reveals that in addition to fundamental factors, the 52-week high price and recent investor sentiment play an important role in analysts’ target price formation. Analysts’ forecasts of short-term earnings and long-term earnings growth are shown to be important explanatory variables for target prices; equally, the 52-week high price and recent investor sentiment are also shown to explain target price levels and especially target price biases. Our analysis additionally reveals that analysts place greater weight on these two non-fundamental factors in settings with greater task complexity and to some extent in those with greater resource constraints. Conversely, on balance, the results suggest that this increased reliance does not translate into an increased impact per unit of each non-fundamental factor on forecast bias. Finally, our results show that target prices are useful in predicting future stock returns beyond earnings forecasts and commonly used risk proxies. However, in an internally consistent fashion, the informativeness of target prices for future returns is significantly reduced when greater weight is placed on either the 52-week high or recent investor sentiment in the target price formation process.     

Effectiveness of harvest strategies in achieving multiple management objectives in a multispecies fishery

Fisheries management is characterised by multiple objectives, some of which may be complementary, while others may require trade‐offs between outcomes. Balancing these objectives is made more complex in the case of multispecies and multigear fisheries. In this paper, we develop a bioeconomic model that captures the key elements of such a fishery to test a range of potential harvest strategies to provide insights into how economic target reference points could lead to both desirable and undesirable management outcomes (e.g. discards). The model is developed as a long‐run optimisation model to identify target reference points to achieve multispecies maximum economic yield, and a dynamic recursive optimisation model, which includes more realistic representation of fishers’ behaviour, such as discards and trading of under‐caught species quotas. The potential economic, social and ecological impacts are evaluated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The results suggest that the use of proxy target reference points can result in short‐term economic benefits at the cost of slower stock recovery and higher discarding. Limiting the number of species subject to quota controls may also prove beneficial in multispecies fisheries, while ensuring quota markets are efficient is likely to produce benefits irrespective of the harvest strategy adopted.     

Valuation of VIX and target volatility options with affine GARCH models

In this paper we propose semiclosed-form solutions, subject to an inversion of the Fourier transform, for the price of VIX options and target volatility options under affine GARCH models based on Gaussian and Inverse Gaussian distributions. We illustrate the advantage of the proposed analytic expressions by comparing them with those obtained from benchmark Monte–Carlo simulations. The empirical performance of the two affine GARCH models is tested using different calibration exercises based on historical returns and market quotes on VIX and SPX options.     

基于星载极化SAR数据的农作物分类识别进展评述

［目的］农作物播种面积信息不仅可为农情监测和作物估产提供重要的数据保障，还是国家制定粮食政策和经济计划的重要依据。快速、准确地获取农作物播种面积信息能为农业生产管理提供决策支持。极化SAR不受云雨天气的影响，在农作物遥感监测方面具有巨大的应用潜力，有效利用极化SAR数据进行农作物识别研究对促进雷达技术在国家农业遥感监测和农业供给侧结构性改革中发挥更大作用具有重要意义。［方法］以星载极化SAR技术的发展过程为论述主线，从单、双极化SAR数据，单、双极化SAR数据结合光学影像，全极化SAR数据三个发展阶段，对极化SAR数据在农作物分类识别中的研究与应用进行总结，并对比分析不同的识别特征、融合算法以及分类算法的优缺点。［结果］以往研究存在以下不足：当前研究多以识别水稻为主，对于难以识别的旱地作物研究较少；目前对旱地作物识别精度不高，平均识别精度不足85%；缺乏对不同作物散射机制及其随时相变化的研究，导致分类算法机理性不足，普适性较差。［结论］在今后的研究中，旱地作物散射机制的定量确定，如何利用散射机制及其变化来提高旱地作物遥感识别精度和普适性；目前分类算法大都是基于光学影像设计，如何利用SAR特殊的成像方式优化设计适用于极化SAR数据的分类算法，得到更高的分类精度；如何更好的跟光学遥感等多源数据（光学数据、GIS数据等）结合来提高精度，将成为未来极化SAR农作物识别中三个亟需重点解决的问题。     

基于PRI信息的雷达脉冲信号分选技术研究综述

基于脉冲重复间隔（Pulse Repetition Interval，PRI）信息的雷达脉冲信号分选是电子侦察信号处理中的核心关键技术之一。以公开文献资料为来源，从直接搜索判定分选、直方图统计分选、PRI变换分选、平面变换分选、多方法综合应用等多个方面对该技术方向上的各种方法的原理、流程、特点、适用条件等进行了分类对比与归纳总结，指出了其所面临的巨大挑战，展现了其未来的发展趋势，为该方向上技术研究的深入推进与工程应用的优化推广提供了重要参考。     

基于车辆数据的k近邻联合概率数据关联算法

在交通场景中采用一些预警措施能够有效地减少交通事故发生。例如，对车辆轨迹进行跟踪并预测车辆的驾驶行为，就是一个常用的预警方法。在对车辆进行跟踪的过程中，数据关联是很重要的部分，它可以对车辆的观测点和轨迹进行关联，从而更新车辆的轨迹，完成跟踪过程。在此背景下，提出了一种新的数据关联算法，即k近邻联合概率数据关联算法(k Nearest Neighbor-Joint Probability Data Association,kNN-JPDA)。实验结果表明，该算法能够较好地解决在交通场景下车辆数据的数据关联问题，在精度以及运行效率方面都有所提高。     

一种基于微波雷达回波信号的车型分类方法

车辆类型识别方法是智能交通系统的关键技术之一。利用深度学习的高维特征泛化学习能力，将改进的LeNet-5卷积神经网络用于基于交通微波雷达的大小车型分类识别。首先，以雷达触发前的N帧信号为基础，对雷达的回波信号进行分析并构建数据集；然后，分析LeNet-5卷积神经网络的特点；最后提出一种改进的LeNet-5卷积神经网络。实验结果表明，与传统的支持向量机方法相比，所提方法能够智能学习大小车的雷达时频信号特征，大小车型识别准确率达到97%以上，可为交通场景下的车型识别研究提供新的技术途径。     

一种一维距离像的识别算法

随着高分辨率雷达的发展,一维距离像识别已成为雷达目标识别的重要方法之一.为了消除一维距离像的平移,将一维距离像变换到频域,提取其频谱信息作为识别特征,并依据Fisher判据,将高维特征空间数据降到一维空间,提高了算法的实时性.仿真结果表明这是一种方便有效的识别方法.     

员工忠诚度评估的模糊综合评判模型

员工忠诚度的定量评估是一个比较复杂的问题 ,运用多级模糊综合评判模型进行评估 ,通过分级评估和权重选择 ,考虑了各类因素的相互作用和整体组合效应 ,实现了对员工忠诚度的科学评价与判断。     

哈尔滨发展绿色食品产业集群的目标与措施

中国绿色食品产业经过10多年的发展已进入快速成长期。文章通过对哈尔滨市发展绿色食品产业集群条件和优势的分析,进一步确定了未来发展目标,并提出了相应的发展措施以提高绿色食品产业的综合竞争力。