... components that are key to success ● HAZOP and FMEA approaches Hazard and Operability studies and Failure Modes EffectsAnalysis are quantitative technical failure analysis techniques ● SWOT and PESTLE ... assurance available to theBoard and the audit committee. An evaluation ofthe level of assurance that has been obtained isalso necessary. Often, a major source of riskassurance for the Board ... this may need to be developedinto a set of targets for health and safetyperformance. There is a danger that risk appetitestatements fail to be dynamic, and they canconstrain behaviour and rapid...
... Approachto Water Conservation Water quality is also decreasing and so far has not made the headlines. This alone could bring about a water crisis according to the 2006 Stockholm Water Laureate ... the capital and operating costs as well as the associated financial costs and dividends to share-holders. Only recently have governments started using the pricing mechanism as a demand management ... 2.3.3.2 Hardness, Calcium and Magnesium Calcium Ca2+ and magnesium Mg2+ give water its hardness. Hard water is difficult to lather and therefore hardness is a measure of Ca2+ and Mg2+...
... have beenmade on the mold cooling analysis. There are mainly twoapproaches considered for the mold cooling analysis: cycle-averaged approachand transient approach. In cycle-averaged approach, ... morepowerful tool integrating the cooling analysis and optimizationprograms into the design process. Using such a tool, a design can be improved systematically, automatically and efficiently.The analysis ... system design analyze d via boundary element models. In thispaper, a fast quasi-global optimization approach based on a hybrid combining the simulated annealing and the DFPmethod, namely SA–DFP,...
... Roberto Navigli, and Paola Velardi.2002. Integrated approachto web ontology learning and engineering. In IEEE Computer - November.Ian Niles and Adam Pease. 2001. Towards a standardupper ontology. ... Loos, and Rainer Malaka. 2006. Towards a separation of prag-matic knowledge and contextual information. InProceedings of ECAI-06 Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies, Lago di Garda, Italy.Klaus ... Cam-bridge, MA.Alexander Maedche and Steffen Staab. 2004. Ontol-ogy learning. In Steffen Staab and Rudi Studer, ed-itors, Handbook on Ontologies, International Hand-books on Information Systems. ...
... Powerful Language Models from Small and Large Corpora." IEEE ICASSP, 33-36. Price, P. " ;Evaluation of Spoken Language Systems: the ATIS Domain." Speech and Natural Language Workshop, ... techniques, andto extend the statistical models to additional linguistic phenomena such as quantification and anaphora resolution. 8. Acknowledgments We wish to thank Robert Ingria for his ... model must span is large. A common approach in non -statistical natural language systems is to bridge this gap by introducing intermediate representations such as parse structure and pre-discourse...
... Corpus-Centered ApproachtoSpoken Language TranslationEiichiro SUMITA, Yasuhiro AKIBA, Takao DO!, Andrew FINCH, Kenji IMAMURA,Michael PAUL, Mitsuo SHIMOHATA, and Taro WATANABEATR Spoken Language Translation ... word-error-rate(Watanabe et al., 200 2a) .Imamura et al. (2003) proposed a calculationthat measures the literalness of a translation pair and called it TCR. After the word alignment of a translation pair, ... Ranks2:HUMAN rank: In our evaluation, 9 translatorswho are native speakers of the target languageranked the MT translations into 4 ranks: A, B, C, and D, from good to bad (Sumita et al.,...
... Conclusions MDA supports a formal, iterative approachtodesignand tuning. It allows us to reason explicitly about particular design goals, andto anticipate how changes will impact each aspect ... A DesignerPlayerThe designer and player each have a different perspective. 1. Sensation Game as sense-pleasure 2. Fantasy Game as make-believe 3. Narrative Game as drama 4. Challenge ... content and play experience, and back. We propose the MDA framework as a tool to help designers, researchers and scholars perform this translation. MDA Games are created by designers/teams...
... phrase-based approach has been considered thedefault strategy toStatistical Machine Translation(SMT) in recent years. It is widely known that thephrase-based approach is powerful in local lexicalchoice ... decoderThe data needed by our Pharaoh-like decoder aretranslation table and language model. Our 5-gramlanguage model is trained by the SRI language mod-eling toolkit (Stolcke, 2002). The translation ... Interna-tional Conference on Spoken Language Understand-ing 2002.Christoph Tillmann. 2004. A Unigram OrientationModel for Statistical Machine Translation. Proceed-ings for ACL 2004.Fei Xia, and...
... into potential errors (bias and random error) related to data based on clinical examina- Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/51/1/36Page 8 of 10(page ... of variation and bias inrelation to monitoring of animal disease incidence onherd and national level, causal analysis on national level,as well as estimation of validated treatment criteria.Monitoring ... metritis' that relate to the quality of thedata that are produced. We analyse and build &apos ;a model ofunderstanding' based on DBL's observations and the indi-vidual veterinarians'...
... international normalized ratio (INR), anda liver panel. Although the serum aminotransferase level correlates poorly with liver histology, the ratio of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine ... HCC, and mortality. In addition, HCV infection has been linked toa variety of extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and cryoglobulinemia. ... International Publisher. All rights reserved Review A Practical Approachto Managing Patients with HCV Infection Richard H. Huang, and Ke-Qin Hu Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,...