contexts of body image and social interactions among frail elders

Báo cáo khoa học: "Differences in vegetation cover resulting from various methods of site preparation for pine plantations in South Africa" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 19:21

... planting, augering and standard weed control produced -1 641 kg of vegetation, that is, 47 times more than the combination of disking and total weed control The standard method of site preparation ... study was funded by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and conducted by the Division of Forest Science and Technology of CSIR in South Africa Messrs J Vlok and M Viviers are thanked for ... the standard method (slashing of weeds at planting and year later to prevent overtopping of the planted trees) or with intensive ("total") weed control which involved hoeing and pulling of the...

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Báo cáo y học: "Reproducibility and sensitivity to change of various methods to measure joint space width in osteoarthritis of the hip: a double reading of three different radiographic views taken with a three-year interval" pot

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 07:20

... radiograph of the pelvis, and target hip AP view and oblique view (Lequesne's false profile) Radiographs performed at baseline and at month 36 (M36 ± months) were selected The number of sets of radiographs ... observer x x x Mean of values from observers and x x x Reading and reading of M0 for each observer Difference between M0 and M36 for readings and for each observer Data rotation of the foot was also ... results of radiographic measurements of joint space width (JSW) at baseline (M0) and 36 months (M36), and the joint space change for the three views and two observers (and their mean and SD)...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 02:21

... 𝑦 Performance of the application is measured in terms of character error The result of ME/L2 is better than that reported in Andrew and Gao (2007) due to the use of the variant of L2-regularized ... which is a modification of L-BFGS that allows it to effectively handle the discontinuity of the gradient (Andrew and Gao 2007) We provide here a high-level description of the algorithm A quasi-Newton ... next word, and features of the previous two tags In addition to lexical identity of the words, we used features of word suffixes, capitalization, and number/special character signatures of the words...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Theoretical Evaluation of Estimation Methods for Data-Oriented Parsing" pot

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 22:20

... weights of all trees of the target grammar G are 0, except for w7 , which is necessarily 1, and w4 and w6 which are w4 = p and w6 = − p He ﬁnds that the expected values of the weights w4 and w6 of ... recover the true weights of the given STSG, and hence the inconsistency of the estimator with respect to the class of STSGs Although usually cited as showing the inadequacy of DOP1, Johnson’s example ... clear that, regardless of the amount of training data, the problem is simply underdetermined The values of weights w1 w6 (w7 = 1) given only frequencies f1 and f5 (and the constraint that...

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Software Cost Estimation and Sizing Methods - Issues and Guidelines pptx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 18:20

... lines of code or number of requirements Advantages include ease of counting (and ease of counting automation), independence of programming language, ease of storage in a historical database, and ... time-consuming, and sometimes infeasible Symptoms of diseconomies of scale include inability to judge the effects of the candidate technology on the size of development and inability to decide which parts of ... divisions use a host of estimation tables and tools to generate cost and schedule estimates for hardware Software Cost Estimation and Sizing Methods: Issues and Guidelines and software All divisions...

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inverse problem theory and methods for model parameter estimation - a. tarantola

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 15:24

... of samples of fU (u) and (independently) a set v1 , v2 , of samples of fV (v) , and then building the sequence w1 = {u1 , v1 } , w2 = {u2 , v2 } , , does not provide a set of samples of ... study is a random realization of a Gaussian random ﬁeld, with given mean mprior and given covariance CM (examples of realizations of such random ﬁelds are displayed in chapter (Figure 2.4) and chapter ... a problem of ‘combining’ all of this information Using the point of view developed here, the solution of inverse problems, and the analysis of uncertainty (sometimes called ‘error and resolution...

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báo cáo hóa học: " The role of interleukin-12 in the heavy metal-elicited immunomodulation: relevance of various evaluation methods" potx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 00:20

... mean values of IFN-γ and IL-12p70 of all investigated donors Serum cytokine profiles of Cd- and Hg-exposed mice Figure shows serum profiles of IL-12p70 and IFN-γ analyzed by CBA in sera of mice exposed ... Cytokine gene expression of Cd- and Hg-exposed mice Results of RT-PCR revealed that following exposure of BALB/c mice to salts of Cd or Hg, mRNA expression of IL12p40, IL-4 and IFN-γ has been significantly ... the levels of IL-12p40 in both metals and during both time lapses have been indicated As an indicator for both of Th1 and Th2 responses, expression of IFN-γ and IL-4 mRNA was assessed and compared...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Efficient methods for joint estimation of multiple fundamental frequencies in music signals" docx

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 17:20

... Selection of F candidates Once the hypothetical partials for all possible candidates are searched, candidates are ordered decreasingly by the sum of their amplitudes and, at most, only the first F candidates ... combination of fundamental frequencies at each instant For this purpose, a set of f0 candidates are first identified from the spectral peaks Then, a set of possible combinations, C(t), of candidates ... combinations of the F selected candidates are calculated and evaluated, and the combination with highest score is yielded at the target frame The combinations consist of different number of fundamental...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Computational Methods for Estimation of Cell Cycle Phase Distributions of Yeast Cells" docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 19:20

... analysis of the amounts of DNA in the individual cells of a cell population and on counting the number of buds of a predeﬁned size in microscopic images The method for analyzing the amounts of DNA ... focus, it has sharp edges, and the variance of the cell neighborhood is higher than the variance of the background of the image The result of clustering is a binary image in which the cell membranes ... touch the edges of the image are removed Antti Niemist¨ et al o Figure 5: The segmentation result of the image in Figure The inner and outer boundaries of the cell membranes of the cells are...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Contour Estimation by Array Processing Methods" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 23:20

... and the two sides of the road are retrieved (a) Initial image (b) First estimation of the borders of the road (c) Estimation of the sides of the vehicle (d) Refined estimation of the borders of ... presence of noise in the image For an image with more noisy pixels, a bias on the values of angle and offset can appear It is difficult to obtain a valuable result from images with more than 20% of randomly ... values of these parameters and of the image size parameter N, the order of magnitude of √ complexity of the angle estimation the method is N p + N · ( N + d) [9, 14] Concerning the algorithm of offset...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Training Methods for Image Noise Level Estimation on Wavelet Components" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 23/06/2014, 01:20

... distribution (column 6); and standard deviation of the image component (column 7) Image MAD Moment matching Trained moments cdf MSE (IC − IL ) Image A Image B Image C Image D Image E Overall mean ... plane regions in the image Consider a plane area of the image; the standard deviation of the image computed over that area is a direct estimate of the standard deviation of the noise It should ... particular value of x = x0 Mean values of c(x0 ) are computed across the training set of images and are stored for a range of noise variances This forms a lookup table of values of c(x0 ) against...

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flat bed drying including survey results on the drying costs of various drying methods practiced in mekong delta ''''

Ngày tải lên : 29/06/2014, 20:32

... method on the use of flat-bed dryer in the Mekong Delta and the cost of drying; and the writing of extension materials for future training courses, based on the outcome of the survey and experiments ... Losses of HRY = FD% f + SD% s Where, f and m are the days of field and sun drying; FD = 8% is the losses of HRY due to field drying (as reported by Cuong, 2003) and SD% is the losses of HRY due ... temperature of 27- 28 oC, with the average maximum of 29 oC in April and minimum of 25 oC in January But the temperature difference between daytime and night time is more pronounced, say between 25 and...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " Comparison of two sap flow methods for the estimation of tree transpiration" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 23:22

... Valancogne and Nasr [12] and van Bavel and van Bavel [3] This method has been tested and validated G sepium trees [9] The apparatus consists of a flexible heater encircling the stem and providing ... density was about and was similar to those previously measured in Guadeloupe [9] and French Guyana [5] This density represented about 0.5 mm.dayof transpira-1 tion for a LAI of 0.5 and was comparable ... easy control of the sensors, the low energy needs and the low number of datalogger connections The transpiration was calculated on the basis of sapwood area which represented 90 % of the crosssectional...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Analysis of limb function after various reconstruction methods according to tumor location following resection of pediatric malignant bone tumors" doc

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 03:21

... into types (Figure 1) The extension of the tumor was evaluated on T1-weighted, T2-weighted, and Gd- Page of enhanced T1-weighted MRI images in coronal, sagittal, and axial planes [23-27] (Figure ... resection of the tumor Partial skin necrosis occurred postoperatively at the insertion site of one of the pins In Case 8, the Page of skin became partially necrotic at the frontal aspect of the ... surgical procedure must be designed carefully Methods of assessing the effects of preoperative chemotherapy and the extent of tumor invasion are also of critical importance, but have yet to be established...

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Báo cáo sinh học: "Use of sib-pair linkage methods for the estimation of the genetic variance at a quantitative trait locus" pps

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 18:21

... analysis of these types of data’ The method is similar to that of Fulker and Cardon (1994) since both methods are based on the idea of interval mapping (Lander and Botstein, Haley regression and Knott ... case of a 20 cM marker map and informative ) 55% of the sib-pairs would be selected, and if the markers were at distances matings, = of cM that fraction would increase to 86% The expectation of ... estimator of the QTL variance Whether the bias on the size of the biasing factor not, it depends in the range of realistic values for O t shows the value ofk as a function of for different values of...

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báo cáo khoa học: "Estimation of realized heritability in a selected population using mixed model methods" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 22:22

... p) o 30 and h, z 0,1 then E (b 0.094, 0.291 and 0.493 when h= 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 p) o and when n 30 and h, 0.5 then E (b p) o 0.088, 0.280 and 0.483 Again showing Z the crucial dependence of b on ... grounds for recommending the use of such designs Of course there are other methods of estimating heritability and some of these are related to equating sums of squares of predicted values to their ... various values of n and h’ showing that q&dquo; q q increase as , h’ increases and that q, and q decrease and q increases as n increases The cumulative selection differentials in this and case )...

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Báo cáo y học: "Methods of estimation of mitral valve regurgitation for the cardiac surgeo" pot

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 10:20

... accuracy of measurements of cardiac output [6], and second, in the case of coexistence aortic and mitral regurgitation, only a rough estimation of the portion of regurgitant fraction of each valve ... area, and pertains to the holosystolic regurgitation [15] The criteria of characterization of severity of mitral regurgitation are included in the table Criteria of characterization of severity of ... scoring system of severity, with included most of parameters of table 3, and scored each of them between and [17,19] According to this system, the total score is divided through the number of evaluated...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " Estimation of pulmonary capillary pressure: different methods for different pathophysiological processes" docx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 22:21

... every stage of disease and/ or that the methods needed to estimate PCP may need to vary according to the changing patophysiological characteristics of the pulmonary vascular tree Estimation of the ... overestimation of PCP [9,11] Although the start of occlusion can easily be identified during systole, the inflation of the pulmonary arterial catheter balloon is always relatively slow, and accuracy ... point of balloon inflation) could still be enhanced by the use of a superimposed nonoccluded pulmonary arterial pressure curve [9] It is clear from the issues discussed above that estimation of...

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Báo cáo sinh học: "Estimation of prediction error variances via Monte Carlo sampling methods using different formulations of the prediction error variance" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 13:21

... expectation of Xb does not affect the distribution of random variables [15,16] thus the samples of y can be simulated using random normal deviates from N(0, ZGZ' + R) instead of N(Xb, ZGZ' + R) Set up and ... have a σ g of 1.0 and residual variance σ r of 3.0 Fixed effects were contemporary group, technician who scored the animal, parity of dam, age of animal at scoring and sex Calculation of exact ... up and solving the MME, with fixed effects of contemporary group, technician who scored the animal, parity of dam, and a second order polynomial of age of animal at scoring nested within sex, and...

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Tài liệu RF MEMS And Their Applications P2 docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/12/2013, 20:18

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