... a high smoking prevalence, few smoking restrictions, and a generally low public awareness of the dangers of smoking, is not supportive of quit attempts among smokers who want to stop smoking ... are only a fraction of those caused by smoking [5-7] Use of nicotine replacement may promote smokingcessation as evidenced by numerous controlled clinical trials on the role of pharmaceutical ... available products None of the study centers had previous experience with smokingcessation interventions (as quit smoking Page of 11 programs were non-existent in Serbia at the time of the trial) or...
... Performance Evaluationof Active Suspension for Passenger Cars Using MATLAB suspension can gave better performance of suspension by having force actuator, which is a close ... College of Engineering, Pune, India | Page Performance Evaluationof Active Suspension for Passenger Cars Using MATLAB model The main focus is to provide background for mathematical modeling of a ... M.E.Society's College of Engineering, Pune, India 12 | Page Performance Evaluationof Active Suspension for Passenger Cars Using MATLAB The potential for improved ride comfort and better road...
... health, saying no to drugs, healthy cooking food demonstrations, smokingcessation and early prevention and screening for cancer Evaluationof program effectiveness was measured The most common qualitative ... teleconferencing both are a form approved for exemption by the UH Committee good,” “Lots of good and pertinent information,” on Human Subjects Survey questions pertained to “Good information and resource,” ... the educational experience had an average rating of 1.5 for the 149 participant respondents The location of all 28 HUT sites are listed in Table Of the sites connected to the network, seven sites...
... Critical evaluationof diagnostic aids for the , Oral Oncol (2007), doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.06.011 ARTICLE IN PRESS Critical evaluationof diagnostic aids for the detection of oral cancer ... Critical evaluationof diagnostic aids for the , Oral Oncol (2007), doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.06.011 ARTICLE IN PRESS Critical evaluationof diagnostic aids for the detection of oral cancer ... Critical evaluationof diagnostic aids for the , Oral Oncol (2007), doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.06.011 ARTICLE IN PRESS Critical evaluationof diagnostic aids for the detection of oral cancer...
... give a more formal treatment of bias and consistency in the context of DOP (7) f P6 i for i = for i = j=1 fj (8) Throughout this paper I take frequencies fi to be relative to the size of the corpus ... again simple combinations of the frequencies f1 f4 Observations of these frequencies therefore not add any extra information, and the problem of finding the weights of the target grammar is ... 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...
... Brigitte Krenn 2001 Methods for the qualitative evaluationof lexical association measures In ACL’01/EACL’01 – Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ... degree for collocation extraction The two linguistically rooted measures, LSM for CE and LPM for ATR, offer quite a different picture regarding this criterion With LSM, almost one third (32%) of ... employed in the literature for grading the termhood / collocativity of collected candidates Among the most widespread ones, both for ATR and CE, are statistical and information-theoretic measures,...
... have presented a quantitative analysis of the performance of measurable linguistic tests for the selection of the semantically unmarked term out of a pair of antonymous adjectives The analysis ... index of morphological complexity, for tests (2) and (3) This indicator is exact for the case of test (2), since the formally marked word is derived from the unmarked one through the addition of ... task of modeling semantic markedness in terms of them, we combined several of them, keeping 14 variables for the statistical analysis Data Collection In order to measure the performance of the...
... is possible for the estimated ICC to be negative due to use of method -of- moments estimation, especially when the number of technical replicates is small The advantage of the method -of- moments ... observed for cell line Zhao et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:69 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/69 Page of Table Summary statistics for performance of different ... indicators of labeling efficiency, optimization of intensity saturation, and intensity balance of test vs reference sample A single large labeling reaction of the EBV reference samples was used for...
... Journal of Forest Research, 33: 1340–1347 ZHOU BAILIN, McTAGUE J.P., 1996 Comparison and evaluationof five method of estimation of the Johnson system parameters Canadian Journal of Forest Research, ... 1985 An evaluationof percentile and maximum likelihood estimators of Weibull parameters Forest Science, 31: 260–268 ZHANG L., PACKARD K.C., LIU C., 2003 A comparison of estimation methods for fitting ... distribution because more information is used than in the MOM CONCLUSION In this study, the good results of the MOM in terms of the number of times for the lowest values of MSE indicated that the...
... realistic evaluationof the mechanisms and impact of protocolbased care within the NHS There are growing numbers of researchers engaged in realistic evaluation research (for example [67-69]), this evaluation ... research of this nature, there is always scope for exposing issues of concern, for example, poor quality of practice or service failings Should issues of this nature occur in the course of data ... lifespan of the evaluation and beyond the initial funding period of the CLAHRCs (2008 to 2013) The outputs of the study will be both theoretical and practical, and therefore opportunities for formative...
... findings of high reliability for all categorical items, use of these items from the tool to assist clinical footwear assessment can be recommended for a range of populations Qualitative evaluationof ... 81% of older people [23,25,27], 88% of females aged 20 to 60 years of age [24], and 80% of patients attending a general diabetic clinic [53] However, the reliability of previous methods of assessing ... suitability of footwear for diabetic patients and children respectively Unfortunately, none of these three assessment tools were published with accompanying reliability evaluationfor the items...
... a resource for primer design for other cpDNA sequencing by PCR [6] This approach has been used for the sequencing of two bamboo cpDNA genomes [7] As chloroplast genome of one member of the Orchidaceae ... varieties of orchids are generally hybrids of other hybrids and some of the parental information has been lost To further complicate matters, changes in the names of genera and taxonomy of the Oncidiinae ... sequencing The size of the Onc Gower Ramsey chloroplast genome is 146,484 bp (Figure 3) The genome includes a pair of IRs of 25,755 bp each, a SSC region of 12,650 bp, and a LSC region of 82,324 bp...
... measurement of ScvO2 Whether measurements of ScvO2 are a reasonable surrogate for measurements of SvO2 is controversial Although the absolute values of ScvO2 are almost always higher than values for ... consequence of the stoichiometry of the reactions responsible for the substrate level phosphorylation of ADP to form ATP, anaerobiosis is inevitably associated with the net accumulation of protons ... critically ill patients Unfortunately, the notion of using tonometric estimates of gastrointestinal mucosal pH for monitoring perfusion is predicated on a number of assumptions, some of which may be partially...
... 2.10: Evaluationof each marketing tool 64 Figure 2.11: Evaluationof OSC by tool 65 Figure 2.12: Evaluationof OSC by tools 2, 6, 7, 8, 11 .66 Figure 2.13: Evaluationof OSC ... .67 Figure 2.14: Evaluationof OSC by Tool .67 Figure 2.15: Evaluationof OSC by Tool .68 Figure 2.16: Evaluationof OSC by Tool .69 Figure 2.17: Evaluationof OSC by Tool ... Investment is only in charge of calculating the number of OSC Information of OSC can only be found in newspapers, forums or data bases of international education institutions For all the reasons mentioned...
... a set of experiments for speech quality evaluations • Second, we studied the characteristics of the Speex and SILK codecs We compared the performance of two codecs under different sets of parameters ... lot of technologies which can be used for the measurement for audio quality • PSQM (Perceptual Speech Quality Measure) is the predecessor technology of PESQ • PEAQ (Perceptual Evaluationof Audio ... to the transmission of MPEG video streams For each group of pictures, the I-frames are protected with a higher amount of redundancy than P-frames and B-frames The advantage of FEC is that all...
... Tool Nose Wear 59 Performance Evaluationof Diamond Tools for Micro-Grooving v Table of Contents 5.3.2.2 Effect of Cutting Speed on Cutting Force 60 5.3.3 Effect of Lubricant Material ... Matrix for Investigation of the Effect of Tool Point Angle on Tool Life 38 Table-5.1: Summary of the Experimental Results 44 Performance Evaluationof Diamond Tools for Micro-Grooving ... Effect of Infeed Rate on Cutting Force (Fc) for 450 Tools 54 Figure-5.12(b): Effect of Infeed Rate on Cutting Force (Fc) for 600 Tools 554 Figure-5.13(a): Effect of Infeed Rate on Thrust Force...
... informed consent keep them The personal data of controls are not recorded in the HCCSCA The fourth step was the evaluationof maternal infusion in five different aspects 1) The source of information ... in 88.4% of cases and in 93.8% of controls The informed consent document was signed by 98.4% of case mothers Personal identifiers (i.e name and address) were deleted from the record of cases ... were asked to read the enclosed lists of drugs and diseases before they replied In addition, mothers of cases were asked to give a signature for the enclosed informed consent which authorised us...
... materials evaluation including definitions of materials evaluation, purposes for materials evaluation, types of materials evaluation, materials evaluators, models for materials evaluation, criteria for ... use evaluation often takes place before the course starts with the aim to select the appropriate materials most appropriate for the particular group of learners and for the aims of the course Formative ... evaluation, purposes of materials evaluation, types of materials evaluation, materials evaluators, models for materials 16 evaluation and criteria for materials evaluation The last section also...