... part ofthe study were the same as forthe first part ofthe investigation [18] The diagnostic criteria for inclusion ofthe cases were positive endoscopy and biopsy; those of exclusion were the ... collaborators The fruit of that qualitative examination was the rejection of a total of controls and cases at the defining moment ofthe construction ofthe data package The fundamental cause was the lack ... piece of evidence forthe control ofthe classification bias of this article (with regard to the selection ofthe controls) has been shown in the work Varol et al [27], where the normality of CA...
... Synthesis of LPG There are three methods for synthesis of LPG First, LPG is synthesis from syngas The second method is indirect synthesis of LPG from syngas, synthesis of methanol or dimethyl ether ... Table of number of NOx for sample LPG tank 24 5.3 Table of number of NOx for sample LPG tank 26 5.4 Table of number of NOx for sample LPG tank 28 5.5 Table of Comparison number of NOx for each ... can give different combustion characteristics ofthe LPG The objective of this work is to study and analyze the combustion characteristic fordifferent composition of LPG The scope of this work...
... Å.40 The interatomic potential in the form of Eq (4) consists of potential for backbone chain stretching and the potential for native contacts Go potential is a versatile modelfor protein modeling ... event of a bond has the weak, logarithmic dependence on number of serial bonds On the other hand, forthe case (ii) where parallel bonds reside in the polymer chain, the force exerted for each ... established the continuum model (tube model) for microtubules based on their AFM experimental results These continuum models and/or hierarchical model mentioned above are phenomenological models for...
... specifies the set of DRSs corresponding to thedifferent readings ofthe utterance 1404 Formally, a VIT is a nine-place PROLOG term There are slots for an identifier forthe input segment to which the ... coverage of an analysis is the sum ofthe lengths ofthe component analyses it consists of Note that the coverage of an analysis will be less than its length iff some material inside the interval the ... temporal order ofthe analyses When these conditions are met, the rule fires and the operations Op etc are performed on the input VITs One VIT, R e s u l t , is designated as the result ofthe rule...
... roles Also, the number of iterations ofthemodel used for testing was selected based on the performance on the development data Table shows the features used forthe structured modelThe global ... and the number of N-bests was set to N = 64 For learning ofthe joint model, the loss function ρ(yt , y ) ofthe Passive-Aggressive Algorithm was set to the number of incorrect assignments of ... the results ofthe experiments, and also shows the results ofthe top systems in the CoNLL-2009 Shared Task participants ofthe SRLonly system By incorporating FP A , we achieved performance improvement...
... ofthe website ofthe parliament ofthe Republic of Uganda Figure 10: An illustration ofthe strategic plan ofthe South African parliament towards e-democracy Figure 11: An illustration ofthe ... real time.” The approach of Congress straddles both the needs ofthe public and the needs of those that represent the public It is an interesting example of how the imagination ofthe 74 United ... e-Parliament enables automation of parliamentary information and the tracking of decisions and documents, for example the stages ofthe development of legislation, and sharing of information with limitless...
... describe themodelforthe pdf pbl of Rbl for a mixed pixel The approach is similar for open-sea and wake pixels Finding a modelfor pm,bl (Rbl ) implies to include the effect ofthe PSF We can m either ... (31) where α is the portion of wake signal in the pixel We then have to find a modelforthe pdf pm,b of Rb Computing the m analytical expression ofthe pdf of a linear combination of different beta ... compute the convolution ofthe PSF with the image pixels or perform the FT ofthe image and multiply the resulting image by the MTF Both methods are computationally intensive: they require the computation...
... capabilities ofthe proposed algorithms for indoor localization The parameters ofthe Markov model are analytically derived from the results ofthe UWB measurement conducted on the third floor ofthe Atwater ... summarize the statistics of ranging error for different states ofthe presented Markov modelfor a bandwidth of GHz obtained from the analysis of CIRs ofthe same 14000 receiver locations on the third ... represents the velocity ofthe mobile client Furthermore, let αc represent the crossing rate ofthesystem which depends on the spatial pattern of movements In our discrete modelfor indoor movements,...
... input to the next stage In the comparison in each of these stages, the allowance forthe shift in pattern's position is increased little by little The size ofthe visual field (or the size ofthe ... in the conventional cognitron (Fukushima, 1975), the procedures of reinforcement in the both systems are analogous to each other Rough Sketches ofthe Working ofthe Network In order to help the ... understanding ofthe principles with which the neocognitron performs pattern recognition, we will make rough sketches ofthe working ofthe network in the state after completion of selforganization The...
... Registry ofthe German Network for Systemic Scleroderma The registry ofthe German Network for Systemic Scleroderma: frequency of disease subsets and patterns of organ involvement Rheumatology (Oxford) ... healthy blood donors exhibited either of these antibodies Therefore, anti-PM/Scl antibody detection revealed an overall specificity for SSc of 96.9% The specificities of anti-PM/Scl-75 and antiPM/Scl-100 ... analyzed for their subspecificities (anti-PM/Scl-75 and anti-PM/Scl-100) and for further Figure The presence ofdifferent anti-PM/Scl antibodies depends on the underlying disease subset in systemic...
... (A) Diagram ofthe biological elements ofthe protein synthesis cascade for a circadian rhythm generator Figure (A) Diagram ofthe biological elements ofthe protein synthesis cascade for a circadian ... delay in the system, and {rM, rP, qM, qP}, determining the phase-response curves The null hypotheses regarding the genetic control ofthesystem' s oscillatory behavior and the shape ofthe rhythmic ... measures), the genetic properties ofthe circadian rhythm (heritability ofthe curves, population genetic parameters ofthe underlying QTL), and the analytical approach to modeling the structure of the...
... tract, the midpoint ofthe values of bi is 0.71 The midpoint ofthe values of ki is -0.14, the midpoint ofthe values of scaling exponents forthe SMR of tissues reviewed in the introduction Therefore, ... as the midpoint ofthe values of ki plus the midpoint ofthe values of bi because values of ki are not available for certain tissues For scaling ofthe brain and the epithelial tissues ofthe ... 0.66 [39], give the estimate 0.75 forthe scaling exponent ofthe mass of cells in the stratum Malpighi The scaling exponent forthe dermis, which accounts for nearly all ofthe mass of skin, is...
... methods, the unclear and qualitative nature of most ofthe social criteria used makes an unbiased selection of these indicators difficult Therefore, forthe purpose of limiting the work within the ... Decision-Support Modelfor Product End -of- Life Planning ofsystem performance as they delve into the actual product EoL planning process with the aim of closing the resource loops at the various subsystems ... evaluations of EoL 26 Decision-Support Modelfor Product End -of- Life Planning options that close the loop at thedifferent subsystem parts of a production system? Oftentimes, the low adoption of a method...
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... distribution) of human resources of public health relative to the needs ofthesystem under health care reforms To the best of our knowledge, it is the first study in Georgia which has assessed the current ... highlighted these needs, thus the Government of Georgia has to make further efforts to tackle the health workforce problems for public health 10 Conclusion After ten years of health system reforms ... leave their current jobs " (Policy maker at central level) "There is often duplication in training programs offered within the framework ofdifferent programs In other words, they focus on the...
... vector of records; b is the vector of fixed effects; a is the random b vector of breeding values of base animals; a is the random vector of breeding r values of non-base animals; e is the random ... by the higher proportionate contribution ofthe group of females to the records made in the second time period Forthe usual genetic group model, assuming that additive genetic variance is the ... write the variance of s as: R To complete the definition ofthe model, We will denote that V(e) need only to specify the expectation and dispersion matrices for a This b will serve to develop different...
... culture that determines the structure ofthe legal systemof that document as well as the legal language of that systemThe language ofthe law of any legal system is typically formulaic, archaic, ... 247), or forthe discovery of ‘mismatches’ between the TT and the ST on the same three levels 2.1.2 Operation ofthemodel A key concept in the operation of House’s model is the context of situation ... Translation of legal documents 24 CHAPTER APPLICATION OF HOUSE’S MODELFOR TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT 2.1 Presentation ofthemodel 27 27 2.1.1 An overview ofthemodel 27 2.1.2 Operation ofthe model...