Psd Definition and 25 Threads

The PSD Bankengruppe is a German cooperative banking group consisting of 14 autonomous and independent financial institutions. The business model of the PSD banks is a combination of regional direct and affiliated bank. It provides retail banking services via internet, telephone, e-mail, mail and fax or at local branches, it only provides services to retail clients and does not offer banking to self-employed and businesses.
The name PSD originated from the former name Post-Spar- und Darlehnsverein (post-, saving- and loan association). The Post-Spar- und Darlehnsverein banks originally provided financial services by postal clerks only and were assigned to the areas by the post office. They are particularly connected to their area and predominantly operate at a local level.
All PSD banks have a legal structure of a listed cooperative and are therefore cooperative banks. PSD banks are purely private customer banks. Today, with one exception, all 14 PSD banks are in the universal bank business. The PSD banks are part of the Verband der PSD Banken e. V. (union of PSD banks) which is located in Bonn. Besides other services the union acts as auditing association for the banks. All PSD banks are affiliated to the protection scheme of the Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (National Association of German Cooperative Banks) (BVR).

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  1. M

    Why is this method valid to show function is PSD?

    Hi, I was looking at the following example, and I cannot really understand the justification for why this function is positive semi-definite. Example Problem: We are looking at the function: ## f(x, y) = \frac{x^2}{y}, x \in \mathbb{R} , y > 0 ##. Is this function positive semi-definite...
  2. Schwann

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  3. person123

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  4. Saumya Kar

    Automotive Random Vibration and PSD spectrum profiles

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  5. C

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    I have a question regarding transient vibration data I received that was processed into a peak-hold equivalent amplitude (units = g). I have come across peak-hold before which is a type of "averaging" that retains the highest values from each estimate in random vibration overlap processing and...
  6. Y

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  7. A

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  8. S

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  9. J

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  10. salwacheg

    How Does Fe-Safe Compute Life Fatigue in Harmonic Analysis?

    Hello everybody , I am student in mechanical enginnering. I have to evaluate the solution Fe-Safe. i am working on two subjects: Harmonic and PSD Vibrations. The modal analysis are done in Abaqus. I would like to understand how Fe-Safe computes Life Fatigue in case of harmonic analysis. What...
  11. F

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  12. E

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  13. S

    ISO 8608: get the time history from PSD of road roughness?

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  14. xaratustra

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  15. F

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    This might not be in the right place but here it goes: Homework Statement A given periodic function in time is given u(t). I must compute the probability density function that describes u. u(t) = A sin (2π / T t + ψ) A and ψ are constants. T is the period. t is time. Homework EquationsThe...
  16. I

    MHB More questions on psd and pd of matrices

    First question: If A is pd, then A^-1 is pd. Outline of answer: If A is pd, then there exists a nonsingular matrix P st A=P'P Then A^-1 = (P'P)^-1 = (P^-1) * (P^-1)' = (P^-1)' * (P^-1) 3. If (P^-1)' * (P^-1), then there exists a A^-1 that is positive definite Second question: If...
  17. J

    MATLAB Matlab: How to get the PSD of a signal?

    I'm trying to plot the PSD of a signal, I did it using the fft function but I was wondering if there is another direct method?
  18. S

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  19. M

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  20. P

    Can a PSD Matrix Be Expressed as a Sum of Structurally Similar Matrices?

    Is it possible to express a n-by-n positive semi-definite matrix (A) in terms of a sum of n terms of something, i.e. A = B1+B2+...+Bn, where each Bi has similar structure? Thanks!
  21. N

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  22. N

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  23. S

    Accelerometer Noise PSD to Velocity Random Walk

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  24. S

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  25. N

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