... impoverishment ofthe media; a sequence of stock-market scandals; the poisoning ofthe food chain in the pursuit of profit; and the displace-ment of aesthetic values in theart world. The chief villains ... intimation ofthe hoax,but has concealed the knowledge for forty years, partly to protect the repu-tation of his mentor Lionel Stokesay, father ofthe perpetrator ofthe hoax.As Middleton uncovers the ... Middleton uncovers the truth ofthe scandal, so does his professionalstar rise until, at the end ofthe novel, he accepts the Chair ofthe History The State and the Novel 29wondering if his...
... staff of lawyers,scientists, and other environmental specialists, NRDC combines the power of law, the power of science, and the power of people in defense ofthe environment. NRDC, which has officesin ... the least industrial-ized parts ofthe state) , and some of which result from industrial activities (andare found in the most urbanized parts of California)—represent a range of humanand other ... half of all the wellsused by all the large public water systems in thestate at the time. The results ofthe tests were published in 1986, in a paper entitled “OrganicChemical Contamination of...
... challenge thestate rather than the professions. Newregulatory models may increase the instability of regulation anddissatisfaction ofthe users. The third part ofthe book links the findings ... controversies between market, state and professionalself-regulation. It highlights the role ofthe professions as mediatorsbetween the interests ofthe body of citizens /state and the individual(research ... circles of physicians, new professionalisation strategies and the use of professionalism by the health occupations, and the inclusion of the users in the regulatory system; these key arenas of change...
... the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages ofthe compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability ofthe 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... reduced [17,18]. The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves as the working tip at the end ofthe handpiece. The use of flexible, length-adjustable ... On the basis ofthe results obtained in the treat-ment of benign facial pigmented and vascular lesions, while recognising the physical limitations ofthe 980 nm wavelength compared to the...
... match to the three parts of the word BIO-SEN-SOR. The first section ofthe book is focused on the principles and techni‐ques of bio-selective recognition of different compounds and the immobilization ... YK, Shusta EV. Development of GFP-based biosensors possessing the binding properties of antibodies. Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009;106(29): ... the most out of collected information. Regarding the first sections as BIO and SEN accordingly, the last section SOR could be considered as the “Smart Organization of Results”. The division of...
... and closing ofthe ligand binding site. When stabilized by p23, the opening time is State oftheArtof Therapeutic Endocrinology 20 nonrandom regions within the nucleus as the steroid receptor. ... 13602-13610 State oftheArtof Therapeutic Endocrinology 12 transcriptional activation. In an analysis ofthe relative contribution ofthe different phosphorylation sites within the GR, it ... W.B. (1994). The hsp56 immunophilin component of untransformed steroid receptor complexes is localized both to microtubules in the cytoplasm and to the same State oftheArtof Therapeutic...
... reviews the current stateof tech-nology and research progress in the Thailanguage processing. It resumes the charac-teristics ofthe Thai language and the ap-proaches to overcome the difficulties ... etc. Furthermore the similar problem also occurs in the levels of sen-tence and paragraph.2 Word and Sentence Segmentation The first and most obvious problem to attack is the problem of word ... cases, they depend on the individualjudgement. This causes a lot of difficulties in the Thai language processing. To illustrate the problem, we employed a classic English exam-ple. The segmentation...
... demonstrate the contextsin which the triple occurs. The number of relations marked will depend on the time available to the lexicographer, as well as the complexity ofthe sense division to be made. The ... justone ofthe word's senses. The user then has the task of associating, by selecting from a pop-upmenu, the required sense for unambiguous clues.Reference can be made at any time to the actualcorpus ... total of twenty-sixdistinct relations. These relations provide a flexi-ble resource to be used as the basis ofthe compu-tations of WA S PB EN CH . The relations contain a substantial number of...
... using a “good”, i.e. near state- of -the- art, sys-tem. For state- of -the- art performance on the MUCdata sets see, e.g. Yang et al. (2003); for state- of- the- art performance on the ACE data sets see, ... slightly from Ta-ble 3 because this part ofthe work did not use the OPTIONALfield ofthe key, employed by theof cial MUC scorer.5 Related Work The bulk ofthe relevant related work is describedin ... NYcardie@cs.cornell.eduEllen RiloffUniversity of UtahSalt Lake City, UTriloff@cs.utah.eduAbstractWe aim to shed light on the state- of -the- art in NPcoreference resolution by teasing apart the differ-ences in the MUC...
... definition of “perceived difference”;•1stapproach: minimize the sum of distances between colors and the centers of color clusters resulting in the quantization process (Ù minimize the sum of distances ... processing & analysis State oftheart in color image processing and analysisLecturer:Assoc. prof. Mihaela GORDANTechnical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications ... attributes of color. The perceptual attributes of color = the HVS specific attributes in the perceptionand description of a color: Brightness; Nuance (Hue); Saturation (Purity).• Note: the RGB...
... images ofthe same subject far apart than images of different subjects [13]. Hence we used estimates of albedoin the hope of mitigating the illumination effect. Albedo is the fraction of light ... EVALUATION OF STATE- OF -THE- ART ALGORITHMS FOR REMOTE FACERECOGNITIONJie Ni and Rama ChellappaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, ... conveniently select the desired imagesfor their experiments.We evaluated two state- of -the- art FR algorithms on thisremote face database including a baseline algorithm and the recently developed...
... in the testing phase. The memory requirements ofthe PCA+LDA and BDPCA+LDA frameworks mainly depend on the size ofthe projector and the total size ofthe feature prototypes. The size ofthe ... training sample of the ith class, and ni is the number of samples ofthe ith class, C is the number of classes. The sample xij is a one-dimensional vector or a vector representation ofthe corresponding ... Enhancement of Faces in Low Resolution Video 173 Annika Kuhl, Tele Tan and Svetha Venkatesh StateoftheArt in Face Recognition 36 correctness of these assumptions. The size ofthe training...