... that early learning activated the right striatum and right parietal area, as well as the left parietal and primary sensory area, and that there was a deactivation of the left premotor area As ... indicate that a motor learning and not a motor adaptation model is more appropriate as the limb motor control became more exacting for an untrained task and that motor recovery includes features ... after-effects of adaptation to novel mechanical environments so as to induce beneficial changes in patients' motor behavior [15] However, the practicality of this theoretical approach remains unclear In...
... multiplied by a discount factor ranges between and and discounts the value of past states The policy iteration algorithm (Sutton and Barto, 1998) iteratively updates the value of each state V(s) based ... Instead, the next best tactic is to train the MDP (that is, calculate transition probabilities for getting from one state to another, and the reward for each state) on already collected data Of ... user’s last dialogue act, which was found to produce a 52% increase in average reward Williams et al (2003) used Supervised Learning to select good state and action features as an initial policy to...
... Baden-Wurttemberg (to JW and GUN), the ¨ ARC ⁄ NHMRC Network FABLS Australia (collaborative grant to AS et al.), and IDP Education Australia (Australia–Europe Scholarship to AL) The authors acknowledge ... Varian Cary Eclipse fluorometer (Varian, Palo Alto, CA), equipped with a fiber-optic probe A constant spacing between the head of the optical fiber and the tissue was ensured by means ofa mm spacer ... metal halide lamp (Osram, Danvers, MA) equipped with a 530 nm bandpass filter glass (Schott, Mainz, Germany), and photographs were taken with a Camedia C-730 Ultra Zoom Digital Compact Camera (Olympus,...
... class Application of the whole set of equations to each state of the standard stands over time allowed to estimate the stand table before and after thinning, and also the temporal dynamics of ... removal can be avoided by using compensatory fertilization, especially applying ashes, which are a by-product of the chipboard industries The amount of ashes tobe applied can be easily calculated ... study was to calculate the accumulation and the export of nutrients over time in Pinus pinaster (maritime pine) and Pinus radiata (radiata pine) stands under a range of silvicultural alternatives,...
... 21 days after intraperitoneal cell inoculation Laparotomy was performed in anaesthetized rats (isoflurane inhalation as induction and then 100 mg/kg of intramuscular ketamine and 15 mg xylazine ... groups and should assess the effect of adrenaline; and that of groups and should assess the effect of the duration of IPC A 2- Page of hour HIPEC was impossible due to intolerance of the animals Atomic ... uptake between an abdominal muscle and a distant thoracic muscle This reflects the pharmacological advantage of IPC to obtain high local drug concentrations in the abdominal wall, peritoneum and...
... were analyzed considering the area under the curve for each subject as a summary measure; these measures were then analyzed as raw data [19] According to data distribution and number of groups, a ... score ranging from to 12 The mean arthritis score on each clinical observation day was calculated for each treatment group For histological assessment of arthritis, all animals were sacrificed after ... the statistical analysis DZ shared responsibility for manuscript preparation EA helped to perform the animal experiments ML performed the ELISA and L929 cytotoxic assay All authors read and approved...
... a priory, mechanistic models in simulations of disease spread and combining them with an a posteriori, statistical approach: Often data is available that allows fitting a simulation model that ... Theoretically, a short interaction between a susceptible and an infectious person could lead toa comparable amount of ingested infectious material as that ofa long interaction assuming that the ... that contact can be any kind of interaction between two individuals that is sufficient to exchange body fluids that can carry infectious particles However, for reasons of manageability and measurability,...
... normally lead to cellular apoptosis The total number of states that a cell can access is determined by the number of end-differentiated states and by the number of new "environments" that a transformed ... nonreceptor tyrosine kinase that is constitutively active and activates a number of signal transduction pathways involved with cell proliferation and apoptosis Bcr-Abl can inhibit apoptosis and decrease ... mathematical relations that we have formulated can quantitatively determine how ablation of an oncogene's protein activity can result in apoptosis and/or a decrease in proliferation within a population...
... sequence of rat TLR4 (GenBank accession NM_019178) were: 5’-CUACCAACAGAGAGGAUAU-3” (siRNA1), 5’-GUCUCAGAUAUCUAGAUCU-3’ (siRNA2), 5’-GAGCCGGAAAGUUAUUGUG-3’ (siRNA3) All siRNAs were chemically synthesized ... withdrawal latency (PWL) to radiant heat and paw withdrawal threshold (PWT) were used to evaluate thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia respectively as previously described (23-24) To measure ... receptor and NMDA receptor has been explored as potential means to manage pain (31-33) RNAi primarily acts within the cytoplasmic compartment, which is easier to access using nonviral methods than...
... Complex Change in pattern Change in pattern a Theoretical values b F and P refer to ANOVA c Identified from SWISS 2D-PAGE database dehydrogenase and to mitochondrial ATP synthase a subunit by comparison ... Authors Journal compilation ª 2010 FEBS 4913 Proteomics ofa PD model T Alberio et al A Fig Induction of apoptosis Apoptotic b-gal and a- syn cells are measured as a percentage of annexin V positive ... presence of 700 UÆmL)1 catalase to eliminate aspecific effects as a result of H2O2 arising from dopamine auto-oxidation [45] A5 70 was monitored with a Universal Microplate reader Model 550 (Bio-Rad,...
... expressing antisense cystathionine gamma-synthase cDNA C R Acad Sci III 323, 841851 24 Bartlem, D., Lambein, I., Okamoto, T., Itaya, A. , Uda, Y., Kijima, F., Tamaki, Y., Nambara, E & Naito, S (2000) ... with KALEIDAGRAPH (Abelbeck Software, Reading, PA, USA) A series of constant or changing values were generated for the dierent input variables and the calculations were done using the appropriate ... Systems Modelling Database and can be accessed at http://jjj.biochem.sun.ac.za/ database/curien/index.html free of charge Fig Phser branch-point in the aspartate-derived amino acid biosynthetic pathway...
... out a human evaluation of these models it would be hard to decide between a Three Trigram model with a pause threshold of 600ms and a Ten Trigram model with a threshold of 900ms Evaluation The best ... the language model; after a backchannel backing-off was applied, forcing the language modelto count the pause as a unigram However, after missing this location, the model might well place a backchannel ... placing a backchannel continuer they actually realize Our model could potentially be improved by adding words to parts -of- speech in the language model; Ward and Tsukahara (2000) suggest that about...
... a χ2 estimator over labeled data to decide as to the allocation ofa word toa topic Here, the sub-categories ofa node correspond to the topics However, since the hierarchy is naturally organized ... Computational linguistics, pages 495–501 Daniel Ramage, David Hall, Ramesh Nallapati, and Christopher D Manning 200 9a Labeled lda: A supervised topic model for credit attribution in multilabeled ... Lafferty 2009 Topic models In A Srivastava and M Sahami, editors, Text Mining: Theory and Applications Taylor and Francis David M Blei, Andrew Ng, and Michael Jordan 2003 Latent dirichlet allocation...
... Miyake, H Akama, M Sato, M Nakagawa and N Makoshi 2004 Tele-Synopsis for Biblical Research: Development of NLP based Synoptic Software for Text Analysis as a Mediator of Educational Technology and Knowledge ... can be viewed as alternating between Mark and non-Markan material, and he “prefers to pick up alternatively entire blocks rather than isolated units.” (Bovon, 2002) We will use the term Markan ... This model is both a simplification of and an extension to the one advocated in (Barzilay and Elhadad, 2003) On the one hand, we perform no paragraph clustering or mapping before sentence alignment...
... the act's text template 4.3 An Alternative To Planning This approach can be viewed as a form of reactive planning LetterGen can be viewed as having a simple goal (communicate a particular belief ... information it could take advantage of The reason is that too many queries makes the program loses its appeal as a work-saving device A related limitation is that its modelof the speaker's goals ... speech act order and they realize each speech act as a single sentence) One way to address this problem is to take the set of speech acts that LetterGen wants to generate as a goal and to plan exactly...
... The Tone Pattern of Japanese: An Autosegmental Theory of Tonology Kaitakusha, Tokyo Kaplan, Ronald and Joan Bresnan (1982) Lexical Functional Grammar: A Formal System for Grammatical Representation ... L tones, L%, are also shown P&B clearly demonstrate that their sparse tone model, built from pitch accents, phrasal H tones and boundary L tones, is superior to the standard Autosegmental account ... (laugh-and), amaku (sweetly) verbal - adnominal warau (that laughs), amakatta (that was sweet) The syntactic rules define three ways of building signs (3) shows rule A (essentially function application)...
... from Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe which showed that tetanus immunization of pregnant mothers improves survival chances of infants by inducing health care behaviours of mothers that raise ... indicators of the quality of antenatal care at local clinics In light of this, the coefficient on the tetanus variable (.769) cannot be given a causal interpretation because it also contains ... demographics Focusing on the IV estimates, it can be seen that the birth weight of babies in rural areas is lower than that of urban babies, and that male infants are heavier than female infants.5...
... step was chosen tobe fs, and the relaxed steps was set to 1000 Atomic forces are calculated using the Hellmann–Feymann the- Fig HOMO–LUMO gaps of the silica molecular chains as a function of n ... chains It is proposed tobea more appropriate growth modelof 1D silica nanowires because of their higher energetic and thermal stabilities and chemical reactivity than those of ES-2MR chains ... smaller gaps of SU-2MR chains indicate higher chemical reactivities, facilitating the continuous growth of the chains Hence, the SU-2MR chain may bea more reasonable growth modelof 1D silica...
... 3: Mean number of timesteps taken to read a sentence and (natural) log probability of the true identity of the sentence ‘Accuracy’ for a range of values of α and β Values of α are not labeled, ... Optimization of policy parameters Searching directly for optimal values of α and β for our stochastic reading model is difficult because each evaluation of the model with a particular set of parameters ... 26-dimensional Gaussian with a For white space, the model is already certain of the identity because of peripheral input 1172 mean equal to the letter’s true identity and a diagonal covariance matrix Σ(ε)...
... upon a reconciled version of the data, which was used to produce the results reported in Section Annotator accuracy as measured against the reconciled data over all categories ranged from 80% to ... selected according to the annotator's intuition of what the utterance is 'about' It must be explicitly referred to in the utterance and can be an entity referred to using a I/2PP After the three models ... one dialog was used to train the annotators (the authors) 7, then the other three were independently annotated according to the rules outlined above The annotators compared their results and agreed...