«The climate has really shifted since last November, which is when retailers saw their world start to collapse,» says Ivan Friedman, president and CEO of New York -
based RCS Real Estate Advisors, a retail consultant that buys leasehold interests from bankrupt retailers.
This post will help you understand that
basing an RCS chronology on a fit to a subset of the data is fundamentally contrary to the what RCS is trying to achieve.
Not exact matches
@tonysdg Then he should remove the incorrect assertion about
RCS being lined -
based (which is nonsensical) and VCS being too recent in general.
RCS is a GSM Association program which was created by GSM Association in order to create an inter-operator communication services
based on IP Multimedia Subsystem.
But keep in mind that your conclusions were
based entirely on a particular
RCS tree - ring data set.
The reconstruction was
based on a composite of tree ring annual ring width series from boreal and alpine treeline sites across the northern hemisphere, and made use of a very conservative («
RCS») tree - ring standardization procedure designed to preserve as much low - frequency climatic information as possible.
Curiously, in this case, the purported justification appears incorrect
based on the appearance of the
RCS and STD chronologies in Figure 1, in which the
RCS chronologies appear to have more low - frequency variability than the STD chronologies (though this could arise from site inhomogeneity as well.)
So you KNOW that
RCS can use a number of functions to fit the average growth curve, but you chose in your post to criticise it on the
basis of just one?
As for an example of a documented
RCS method not
based on an exponential fit, I refer you to the article mentioned by Hu McCulloch earlier:
MRCS and SARCS, both
based on the concept of
RCS but both using diameter and ring age to produce more relevant and generally applicable expected growth values.
As for an example of a documented
RCS method not
based on an exponential fit, I refer you to the article mentioned by Hu McCulloch earlier: Melvin, Briffa, Nicolusi, Grabner, «Time - varying - response smoothing» Dendrochronologia, 25 (2007) pp 65 - 6
It would make sense to understand the physical
basis for the
RCS formula (and alternatives) before abandoning them for mathematics that is merely statistically convenient.
Romanm, after reading through your introduction to this thread a second time, I appreciate even more the effort you put into explaining how the
RCS algorithm works and the
basis for it.
But this post was criticising
RCS partially on the
basis of its dependence on an exponential fit for the average curve.
An
RCS curve
based on size rather than age would enable many more earlier trees to be used in the determination of the common growth signal for the modern trees.
The reconstruction from Grudd et al. (2002) was
based on
RCS standardized TRW and, hence, the large difference prior to ad 1800 can be explained by the «divergence problem» in TRW.
In November and December 2014, several Washington DC -
based journalists with the Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT) were targeted, unsuccessfully, with what appear to be two new versions of Hacking Team's
RCS spyware.5 This report details these attempts to infect the journalists» computers with
RCS and monitor their activity.
Notably, the attacker appears to be the same entity as that involved in a December 2013 attack — also incorporating
RCS — against ESAT journalists
based in Belgium and the US, on which Citizen Lab previously reported.6
See, like any modern messaging app,
RCS really needs to be supported by a cloud -
based infrastructure to work.
The Verge reports that Google has rolled out a new platform
based on Rich Communications Services (
RCS) tech to allow businesses to «brand text messages, alerts and other communications, in addition to giving them access to features not available through SMS, such as group texting, high - resolution photos, and read receipts.»
And the number of landlords who can provide current traffic counts has dropped dramatically, says Eileen F. Mitchell, executive vice president with
RCS Real Estate Advisors, a New York City -
based real estate advisory firm.
A Boston -
based unit of
RCS, Realty Capital Securities, also received a subpoena on Nov. 7 from the Securities Division of the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth asking for «certain documents and other materials» from the beginning of the year to the present related to sales of some nontraded REITs and similar products affiliated with AR Capital LLC.
«As we informed
RCS orally and in writing over the weekend,
RCS has no right and there is absolutely no
basis for
RCS to terminate the agreement,» ARCP said, in a statement.