... of PCMs into porous materials and direct incorporation of PCMs into hollow brick cavities. PEG E600 for building application can be directly incorporated into Hollow Brick cavities and can ... of PCM incorporation into the building by direct incorporation, immersion and encapsulation. Castellon et al. [18] studied how integrating PCM in construction materials (concrete in their case) ... equal to 0. 3.2.1 Thermal performance analysis using PEG E600 integrated hollow brick walls covered by RCC Slab placed in East West direction Building model was constructed for 1 cubic feet using...
... 2. Competitors simultaneously recreate the picture on a sheet of paper, correctly including named objects in accurate positions. This game reinforces the use of prepositions, such as to the ... students to comprehend written instructions. This is also good for introducing cross-culture topics. Recipes may vary depending on what food terms and cultures the teachers wishes to cover. Salads ... language-learning can be summed up in nine points. Games ã are learner centered. ã promote communicative competence. ã create a meaningful context for language use. ã increase learning motivation....
... Association for Computational Linguistics Using Automatically Transcribed Dialogs to Learn User Models in a SpokenDialog SystemUmar SyedDepartment of Computer SciencePrinceton UniversityPrinceton, ... deter-ministic and tracks dialog history relevant to actionselection — for example, whether the system cor-rectly or incorrectly confirms a slot value. Here weassume that it can be easily hand-crafted.Formally, ... large. To control the size of themodel, we first assumed that the user’s intendedcallee does not change during the call, which allowsus to group many user actions together into genericplaceholders...
... Modeling localcontext for pitch accent prediction. In Proc. ofACL’01, Association for Computational Linguis-tics.S. Pan and K. McKeown. 1999. Word informa-tiveness and automatic pitch accent ... understanding. In this paper we investigate probabilistic, contex-tual, and phonological factors that in uence pitchaccent placement in natural, conversational speech in a sequence labeling setting. ... 0.5% increase in accuracy, 76.1%with a window of size w = 1. Using larger windows resulted in minor increases in the performance of the model, as summarized in Table 5. Our best accuracy was...
... deletions infringing on th is side lead to a d ecrease in binding. Constructs 2Â5, 5Â2B and 5Â1 are of particularinterest; t he rst two constructs break at amino acid 489 andretain binding to Dys-1, ... Dyb-1for in vitrobinding experimentsDeletions were carried out on the dyb-1 coding sequence, using clone AN450 [encoding Dyb-1 amino acids 3 90–543fused in frame to the GST coding sequen ce; plasmid ... dystrophin-associated proteins, andhomologous to the C- terminal region of dystrophin. Alpha-dystrobrevin was originally identified as a molecule thatcopurifies with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in sucrosegradients...
... outputof Minipar can be inaccurate, leading to failure in conversion. We check whether conversion is suc-cessful in the filtering stage.2.4 FilteringThe goal of filtering is to identify U that ... mappings with distinct syntacticstructures. It would be surprising to see this typeof variety in a hand-crafted generation dictionary. In addition, the learned mappings contain 275 dis-tinct ... domain: only 2.4% of the sentencescould be used to create the mappings. One way to increase recall might be to automatically aug-ment the list of distinguished attribute lexicaliza-tions, using...
... decline in welfare (Conning and Udry 2005) I. Introduction Microcredit is an increasingly common weapon in the fight to reduce poverty and promote economic growth. Microlenders typically ... that increased access to credit may lead some microentrepreneurs to re-optimize into lower level of capital inputs into their businesses. Table 11: Intention -to- Treat Effects on Subjective ... businesses are credit constrained, and predict that expanding access to microcredit will lead to business growth. Other theories show that expanding access to formal credit may have indirect but potentially...
... 159:197-207.17. Letsch A, Scheibenbogen C: Quantification and characterization ofspecific T-cells by antigen-specific cytokine production using ELISPOTassay or intracellular cytokine staining. Methods ... 9:26http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/26Page 11 of 13 BackgroundCell-based immunological assays are integral to moni-toring the effects of immunotherapy clinical trials. Themain clinical specimen obtained ... Cancer VaccineConsortium. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy 2009, 58:1701-1713.21. Frelinger J, Ottinger J, Gouttefangeas C, Chan C: Modeling flow cytometrydata for cancer vaccine immune monitoring....
... Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and by the Multidisciplinary Team in Locomotor Rehabilitation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).References1. ... limiting factor of gait speed in stroke subjectsand the compensating role of hip flexors. Clinical Biomechanics1999, 14:125-135.5. Kawato M: Internal models for motor control and trajectoryplanning. ... (Figure 4C; dashed line), it can be seenthat the subject produced a trajectory similar to baselinewhen the force was unexpectedly removed. Comparingthe knee angular displacement curves to baseline...
... thatdefine this trajectory (e. g., slopes, intercepts). In addition,we attempt to account for such variability in trajectoriesby using gender and psychiatric disorder. Fourth, we dis-cuss the ... An individual growth model estimates the averagetrajectory as well as individual trajectories, thus allowingfor the explicit examination of inter-individual differences in intra-individual change. ... Henian Chen* - chenhen@pi.cpmc.columbia.edu; Patricia Cohen - prc2@columbia.edu* Corresponding author AbstractBackground: The individual growth model is a relatively new statistical technique...
... nicotine doses ofinjected nicotine. The displacement of18F-nifene wasfound with the pre-nicotine challenges. With each doseincrease of nicotine, a steady increase in binding occu-pancy ... compete with18F-nifene can be used to detect changes in receptor occupancy suggesting PET to be a valuable tool in assessing tobacco-related depen-dence [13]. Pre-nicotine challenges at different ... Mukherjee*AbstractMicroPET imaging studies using 18F-nifene, a new positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer for nicotinicacetylcholinergic receptors (nAChR) a4b2 receptors in rats, have been carried...
... October 2005; Accepted 31 October 2005Recommended for Publication by Joe C. Chen In shallow water environments, matched-field processing (MFP) and matched-mode processing (MMP) are proven techniques ... (10 m in oceanic scale). Table 4 summarizesthe source -array geometry in reduced and oceanic scales.For the sake of simplicity, quantities will be given in oceanic scale in the following. As ... geoacoustic inversion [10, 11])and estimates source depth using mode amplitudes (alsocalled mode excitation factors) extracted from real data.Contrary to MFP, matched-mode processing only extractsinformation...
... Introduction tousing macros in Microsoft Excel 2003 12 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Recording and running macros 1 2.1 Recording a macro which uses absolute cell references 1 2.2 Running a macro ... 39: Introduction tousing macros in Microsoft Excel 2003 38 Guide 39 Version 1.0 Introduction tousing macros in Microsoft Excel 2003 This guide provides an elementary introduction tousing ... 13 Click on Assign Macro. 14 In the Assign Macro dialog box, select the Address_abs macro and click OK. 15 In the Customize dialog box, click on Close. Guide 39: Introduction tousing macros...