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... and the initial investment The yearly average profit ofthe project during its life is the arithmetic average ofthe profits from the beginning until the end ofthe project Among projects, the ... management officers report the appraisal results according to form no MS09/BCRR, Vietinbank’s instructions for institution lending, and send for approval from managers ofthe department Managers ofthe ... analyze the project by comparing with the discount rate orthe interest rate ofthe bank If the IRR< the cost of capital, the project is rejected If the IRR = the cost of capital, the investor can...
... art of SP coaching, the dramatic arts, and the authenticity of our SPs’ performances inthe service of training future generations of physicians The origins of drama and the art of acting are the ... patient portrayals; offered introductory guidelines for recruiting SPs (including working with actors and non-actors); depicted the role ofthe coach in helping the SPs to achieve performance ... that the SPs are taking on and a huge responsibility forthe coaches training them because ofthe necessity for obtaining accuracy inthe data that the SPs submit on the student’s clinical performances...
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... distinguish aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ from those formed inthepresenceof Zn2+ Taken together, these results suggest that Ab aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ or Zn2+ are less ... aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ [(i) and (iii)] or Zn2+ [(ii) and (iv)], or as fibrils formed inthepresenceof EDTA [(v) and (vi)] The amount of amyloid or amyloid-like structure within the ... elements or because they are deeply buried inthe core ofthe fibril [12,13] Samples verified by AFM and ThT analysis to contain the fibrillar forms of Ab(1–40) and Ab(1–42) (fibrils formed inthe presence...
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... Although being independent of NSD , this point is a function ofthe destination index m Increasing the NSD while keeping NR constant is therefore in favor of protocol A1 If the number of relays increases, ... (20) Inthe following, we derive expressions forthe perturbed single-hop channel estimates obtained by protocols A1 or B1 These are then used as basis forthe subsequent performance comparison of ... samples Note that the direct link is not taken into account in this work because it is independent of LO phases ofthe relays The quality of its estimates is therefore the same for all four channel...
... The class of problems 1.1 appears in many nonlinear phenomena, for instance, inthe theory of quasiregular and quasiconformal mappings 1–3 , inthe generalized reaction-diffusion theory , inthe ... other works see, e.g., 8–20 and references therein for more general nonlinearities inthe terms f and g which include the cases considered by them The principal theorem in considered, in problem ... completes the proof of Theorem 1.6 10 Boundary Value Problems Proof of Main Result: Theorem 1.1 To complete the proof of Theorem 1.1, we will first obtain a classical and positive lower solution for...
... forwarding bit) For each check node ci , we need to assign one bit for message initiating and one word of size d(ci ) for message forwarding Fortunately, the communication links needed to forward ... to perform message initiation and forwarding based on the stored forwarding information The decoder trap detection, shown in Figure 5, is implemented as a logic tree similar to the tree ofthe ... summation terms: the intrinsic information and three information messages In this case, the estimated values for v1 (and v3 ) will be incorrect because all ofthe four summation terms of its estimation...
... ofthe fundamental differences inthe performance of gradient-based estimators such as the LMS algorithm and time-averaged recursive estimators such as the RLS algorithm inthe cases of modeling ... that in this work, each iteration ofthe adaptive algorithm occurs at the symbol rate To examine the convergence ofthe BER here, we employ a sliding window of Nwindow symbols For example, the ... are interested inthe noise-free predictor weights, given by ⎡ where cl are the tap weights ofthe predictor The output ofthe PEF, yPEF,k , is defined as the subtraction ofthe estimate ofthe interference...
... j, i ≥ j The form in (31) is useful to calculate the exact CRB inthepresenceof AR colored noise Substituting (31) into (3), and performing the matrix expansion, the FIM entries inthe (N − ... matrix inversion In this section, we elaborate the use of CMT inthe evaluation ofthe CRB inthe frequency domain The major advantage ofthe frequency domain evaluation is that it avoids matrix inversion ... domain CRB evaluation and a general closed form expression ofthe CRB for Jake’s model are the novel contributions reported inthe paper The closed form expression ofthe CRB in frequency domain...
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... Nevertheless, the more severe pathology certainly supports a direct role for DPPIV in inactivating proinflammatory substrates such as SDF-1α, particularly as the mouse form lacks ADA binding activity ... Furthermore, the residual activity inthe CD26 knockouts could not be inhibited by the DPPIV inhibitor valine-pyrrolidide Accordingly, multifactorial analysis of inhibitor panels and antibody-binding ... synovium infiltrate, strongly express the chemokine receptors CXCR3, CXCR4, CXCR6 and CCR5, which all bind proinflammatory chemokines SDF-1 is important for retaining cells inthe inflamed joint,...
... humans for millions of years It is presumed, therefore, that the present-day C albicans genome contains the information that enables this fungus to thrive in its human host in competition with the ... Surgeons (New York, USA) The original isolate number was 1775 and the strain is identical with strain NYOH#4657 inthe New York State Department of Health collection (This information was provided ... tool inthe future The assembly of a complete diploid genome sequence for SC5314 has allowed a reliable estimate ofthe frequency of heterozygosities in C albicans of 4.21 polymorphisms per kb, or...
... mutation inthe b-globulin gene on chromosome 11 This mutation leads to the synthesis of HbS, in which the hydrophobic valine at position ofthe 146-amino acid haemoglobin protein is replaced by the ... revisions and final corrections for this manuscript All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Received: ... beginning up to the end of surgery lasted 80 minutes Postoperative care, including fluid management and weaning off the respirator with extubation on the day ofthe surgery, was provided by the hospital’s...
... step ofthe alignment algorithm When the first pass is completed, the best scoring cell will provide all the necessary information for reconstructing the alignment: the start ofthe alignment, the ... information about the coding sequences Future work includes further improvements ofthe scoring system, for example in order to focus on the detection of short double correcting frameshifts (two ... proposed the first version ofthe method MG refined the method, proposed the initial scoring system, did the implementation and the web interface LN contributed to defining and improving the scoring...
... valuation ofthe firm is the process of determined value ofthe firm The firm is an operating organism, all assets ofthe firm are used to the business and to joint the process of making profit ofthe ... the inflation Therefore, inthe case of inflation, the book value will not reflect the intrinsic value of assets, goods what the firm is using and managing them Unlike the principle account, the ... LIST OF TABLES xiii FOREWORD 1 The necessity ofthe thesis The purpose ofthe research The objective and scope of research 4 The method of research 5 Outline ofthe Thesis CHAPTER 1: FRAMEWORK...
... so, the lower the jamming power (or the higher the signal to jamming ratio), the less accurate the jamming estimates The increased inaccuracy inthe jamming estimates leads in turn to a deterioration ... is then performed by the ML technique Theoretical and simulated vii results show the effectiveness ofthe proposed algorithm in combating follower jamming Using the principle of vector similarity, ... LIKELIHOOD-BASED BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM .44 iii 4.1 Introduction of Maximum Likelihood-based Beamforming Algorithm 44 4.1.1 ML-based Estimation ofthe Ratio of Jamming Fading Gains 45 4.1.2 ...