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... region, thus, providing new insights into the description and prediction of the diffusion behavior in the region of complex fiber structure 107 GEODESIC REGRESSION OF ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS ... be directly computed according to the analytical form of the exponential map given in Eq (2.4) and the first order approximation of exp(ψ, εμ) basedon the Taylor expansion of the exponential map ... space of ψt to the tangent space of ψ through parallel transportation Figure 5.5 shows the plots of the resulting 97 GEODESIC REGRESSION OF ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS WITH ITS APPLICATION...
... incorporated the monomer, alkylthiophene and MMA The conductivity and processibility of polythiophene and PMMA graft copolymers were also found to be improved compared to polystyrene and polythiophene ... most conducting graft copolymer achieved a conductivity of 3.3 S/cm In conclusion, graft copolymers of polythiophene and two commodity polymers, polystyrene and PMMA were formed Through trial and ... morphology of the conducting backbone still plays an important role in determining the conductivity of these types of copolymers In summary, comparisons between the two series of copolymers demonstrated...
... Martin 1993: 25) Levels of Context The interpretation of social context includes two levels of communication: genre (context of culture) and register (context of situation) (Martin 1992: 4 95) An investigation ... Thing Preposition-noun With - accompaniment Thing Conjunction-noun So- cause, proof nce Relator If- conditions 5i Process Event of process Quality Verb-noun Aspect of phase of Tense/phase process ... developed by Lakoff, Johnson and Turner (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Lakoff 1987, Lakoff and Turner 1989, Lakoff 1993), and elaborated as a more general model of 'blending' by Turner and Fauconnier can...
... -3 ] One example that shows the Water effectiveness of such lake model for the D:non-predatory Death P:Predation E&D Pikeperch E:Excretion R:Resuspens ion prediction of the long-term effect of ... Marine Pollution Bulletin 29(6 -12) , 4 35- 438 Burns, C.W., and Hegarty, B (1994) Diet selection by copepods in the presence of cyanobacteria Journal of Plankton Research 16 (12) , 167 1 -169 0 DeMott, ... Phormidium Merismopedia 750 50 0 50 0 250 Cryptomonas Euglena 250 3.0 0 2 .5 -3 ] 20 I-N Loading 750 Zooplankton biomass [ gC·m 10 10 10 20 20 30 40 30 40 50 50 60 60 0 P ond with fish I-N Loading...
... aromatic ring of Tyr587 at the C-terminal end of H23 and the hydrophobic side chains of Ile517 of H19 and Pro591, Val592 and Leu593 of the loop between H23 and H24 (Fig 5C) N4H2 and O2 of C 35 are found ... interaction with the protein The base of U36 is surrounded by the side chains of Tyr509, Ala 51 2 and Ser 516 on H19, and the C-terminal carboxyl group of Met629 in the C-terminal end; and O4 of U36 ... hydrophobic side chains of Leu 451 , Lys 455 and Val471 in the ‘stem contact fold’ domain and the side chains of Pro5 05and Met629 In S cerevisiae ArgRS, the base of C 35 of tRNAArgICG is also located...
... BNC AP Comb P 0.2 257 62 (20) 0. 359 408 (5) Weight LA 0.4201 75 ( 15) 0 .51 168 3 (5) Dist P 0.2223 35 (20) 0. 351 3 45 (5) Weight LA 0.3846 95 ( 15) 0.4892 25 (5) Table The comparison of the combined and the ... (5) P 0. 316 951 ( 15) 0.406649 (7) LA Dist 0.2223 35 (20) 0. 351 3 45 (5) P Weight 0.3846 95 ( 15) 0.4892 25 (5) LA Sem 0.2078 15 (7) 0.3131 85 (5) P Weight 0.389333 (30) 0. 455 253 ( 15) LA Table Comparison ... Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources The combined weighting schema thus showed relative improvement on the distributional one: 1 .5% (BNC) and 2.3% (AP) in terms of precision and 9.2%...
... 'confidence' values correspond to a binomial distribution and are given only as a references confidence 50 % 70% 80% 85% 90% t coverage precision success 00 52 84 95 1.28 100% 82% 75% 65% 57 % 50 % ... 55 93 2138 664 83 24 f(vn) 100 69 35 19 t-score -4.6 0.83 1.91 2.86 0. 25 - Estimation of (produce telephone) The lowest class co-occurrence (produce, communication machine) has a low t-score and ... modifiermodificand relation Experiment Disambiguation of dependency relations was done using 75 anlbiguous constructions from Fukumoto (1992) Solving the ambiguity in the constructions involves choosing among...
... effect, and when Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6 :51 http: //www.hqlo .com/ content/6/1 /51 Figure Comparison of the actual EQ-5D scores and ... the prediction errors of Model E Comparison of the actual EQ-5D scores and the prediction errors of Model E Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... Model C: Predicted EQ-5D score = 0.746 652 555 353 163 + (0.0008102 153 21934668* total WOMAC) + (0.0001196643234244 35* total WOMAC2) 11 12 Model E: Predicted EQ-5D score = -0.3474 0127 85 + (0.00 059 77709*...
... Angular partitioning 98 Angular and radial partitioning 98. 75 Farzin et al [12] 99 The proposed method 99. 75 Conclusion and future works We have proposed an identification system basedon retina image ... identification basedon the sketch of vessels using angular partitioning, in Proceedings International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT’09), Mragowo, Poland, 3–6 (2009) ... Personal identification technique basedon human Iris recognition with wavelet transform, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP ‘ 05) ,...
... principle of IHMPT is presented, and the ISAR imaging algorithm of ship target basedon the IHMPT is discussed in Section 4; the results for simulated and measured data are given in Section 5; ... three-dimensional (3D) image of the target is shown in Figure We choose the received signal of the 122 0th and 1 25 1th range bins, and compute the smoothed pseudo-Wigner-Ville distribution (SPWVD) of them, ... National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant no 6100 1166 , the National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China under Grants nos 200804401 35 and 20090 2413, the Heilongjiang...
... cancellation for CDMA systems,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol 49, no 7, pp 1 25 0– 1 25 8, 2001 [9] W T Sang, K B Letaief, and R S Cheng, “Combined coding and successive interference cancellation ... Average BER of quasi-synchronous BS-CDMA with two iteration of SIC for random uniformly distributed i.i.d delays compared with that of a system using only one iteration, and the performance of a system ... users is proposed in Section Simulation results are shown in Section 5, and Section concludes the paper System Model Figure shows the block diagram of the quasi-synchronous BS-CDMA system Consider...
... = simulation Figure 4: Comparison of theoretical and simulated outage probability as a function of γ0 for the user i = (exponential correlation model) 10−1 5. 1 Exponential Correlation Model In ... Transactions on Communications, vol 46, no 4, pp 473–479, 1998 [14] A Shah and A M Haimovich, “Performance analysis of maximal ratio combining and comparison with optimum combining for mobile radio communications ... with outageprobability specifications,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol 1, no 1, pp 46 55 , 2002 [16] J Papandriopoulos, J Evans, and S Dey, “Outage -based optimal power control for...
... control the propagation of the ‘signal’ photon traveling along the nanowire 123 364 Combining the techniques of state-dependent conditional reflection and single-photon storage, a single-photon ... surface plasmons [22] In the stage of photon storage, the ‘gate’ photon propagating along the nanotip is on resonant with the transition jgi ! je1 i and the frequency xL of the control field X(t) ... during the storage process Then, this conditional flip can control the propagation of subsequent ‘signal’ photons with frequency x2 propagating along the nanowire Thus, the interaction of subsequent...
... the case of In, we find that incorporation of NH4Cl leads to the complete transfer of the solids of In and NH4Cl into the gas stream of N2 Indium has a low melting point of 156 °C and once molten ... diameter of 300 nm The low temperature growth of InN and In2O3 NCs directly on Si(111) using a common type of reaction 123 Nanoscale Res Lett (2009) 4:491–497 could be exploited for the synthesis of ... sphere whose size depends on the initial amount of powder The complete elimination of the In and NH4Cl is a direct consequence of the sublimation of the NH4Cl into NH3 and HCl which occurs at 338...
... non-binding area One attendant problem might be immobilization of biomolecules on the CNT-FET For immobilization of biomolecules on the device surface, ODT might be a problem for immobilization ... photoresist (OFPR-800) was purchased from Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Japan CNT immobilization on glass Fabrication of a sol-gel layer of APS on the cover glass A schematic model of the fabrication process ... was improved over that of using a single layer of APS After deposition of the source and drain electrodes, the top gate was fabricated on a 50 0-nm-thick APS layer on nanotubes and source and drain...