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... speed and reliability ofa door -to- door transportation move Speed and reliability are modeled by the mean and standard deviation of door -to- door transit time for all available transportation ... questions: what is theinventorytheoreticapproach and why use it? Theinventorytheoreticapproach considers the trade-off between inventory and transportation in an effort to minimize total logistics ... handle a wide variety of variables, easily accommodate additional constraints, and guarantee the optimal answer given valid assumptions and accurate data In contrast tothe matrix approach, which...
... (DTO) AQUAINT program Thanks to fellow coordinators ofthe task, Chris Manning and Dan Moldovan, and tothe participants for making the task possible References Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman, and ... Table The top half ofthe table shows the agreement between the two-way answer key and the annotations ofthe set of first judges; the bottom half is the same except using the annotations ofthe ... had the same score that would rank them second and third, they were each assigned rank 2.5.) A run was then assigned its mean rank over the 100 justifications Figure shows how the mean rank of...
... to find the mean number of data packets in the system, as a product ofthe data arrival rate (given) and the mean residence time of data packets (computed in the simulation) The fact that data ... duration of this latest uptime period, and add it to our running total Again, make sure you understand why StartUpTime needs to be an instance variable rather than a class variable A point to always ... machines, so that we can eventually find out what proportion ofthe time the machines are up Be sure to make certain you understand why TotalUpTime must be a class variable rather than an instance...
... data are sent from local GIPAP participating physicians tothe central database quarterly The data are stored in the central system at TMF headquarters in Seattle All data are anonymous and are ... The sample includes the largest GIPAP participant (India), other large Asian countries (Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia and China), countries with some health insurance coverage for small Page of ... cannot be certain about their status This is a limitation ofthe available data Overall, there does not appear to be any seasonal effect in the number of closed cases The patient-related data...
... Simulation: A First Course Section 6.1: Discrete Random Variables 16/ 27 Discrete Random Variable Models A random variable is an abstract, but well defined, mathematical object A random variate is an algorithmically ... Simulation: A First Course Section 6.1: Discrete Random Variables 11/ 27 Expected Value The mean ofa random variable is also known as the expected value The expected value ofthediscrete random variable ... variates in the next section Discrete- Event Simulation: A First Course Section 6.1: Discrete Random Variables 8/ 27 Mean and Standard Deviation The mean µ ofthediscrete random variable X is µ=...
... times, demand amounts, etc., the random number generator’s output can be converted toa random variate via an appropriate mathematical transformation The random variates are used to approximate some ... languages This is important because animation can increase the acceptance of discrete- eventsimulation as a legitimate problem-solving technique By using animation, dynamic graphical images can ... is appropriate Simulation Languages Simulation languages have built-in features that provide many ofthe tools needed to write a discrete- eventsimulation program Because of this, simulation languages...
... source and obstacle distribution The red and blue solid lines indicate the top (metal) and bottom (substrate) sides ofthe metal-substrate interfacial crack (a) σ actual ~ +141MPa, and (b) σ actual ... right So, to all the system administrators, those whom I have spoken to directly, and all those whose work as a team keep the system up and running, a word of thanks and an admission that all this ... boundary conditions (such as the theory of Acharya and Bassani (2000)) does not predict the existence of boundary layers The same boundary problem may be analysed using the nonlocal crystal theory...
... becoming an alternative branch of research complementary to experiments and analytical theory It offers great deal of advantages, for instance, the freedom to control the parameters ofthe system and ... with available experimental data The simulations show a satisfactory agreement with the experiment data from open literature qualitatively and quantitatively The steady-state i behaviors of swelling ... (Ricka and Tanaka, 1984; Hooper et al., 1990; Basser and Grodzinsky, 1993) For instance, Ricka and Tanaka (1984) used the Donnan theory tomodelthe swelling of weakly charged ionic gels The given...
... “knowledge-transmitter” They play the role ofa facilitator ofthe students’ learning, a manager of classroom activities, an advisor to answer students’ questions and to control their performance, and a ... the information gap between the speaker and the hearer; making a choice from his repertoire of language of what to say and how to say it; and evaluating feedback from what he has done Information ... organizational aspects of language with the pragmatic • Language techniques are designed to engage learners in the pragmatic, authentic, functional use of language for meaningful purposes Organizational...
... qualitative analysis that formed the basis of Phase I ofthe study, and findings fromthe Phase II analysis Our analytic approach closely resembles theapproach that we took in the Phase II analysis The ... with medical schools The goal of Phase II was to conduct a quantitative analysis aimed at evaluating the impact ofa wide range of patient and facility characteristics on the variation in patient ... by RAND (Wasserman et al.) in January 2003 Again at the request of Congress, the VHA asked NDRI to conduct additional quantitative analyses to explore further the effects of patient and facility...
... people can access and make use of their assets Natural capital Natural capital is the quality and quantity of natural resources that are available to people and above all, the access and control ... (RRA) approachto initial project preparation was developed By the end ofthe decade, there was a range of RRA methods and approaches available which then gave rise to participatory rural appraisal ... in froma different area or family are disadvantaged, as they have to work their way in and probably have to learn the hard way, by learning from their mistakes The SLA embraces a wider approach...
... methionine and variable deamidation of asparagine and glutamine Parent and fragment mass tolerances were set to Da Up to two missed cleavages and half tryptic peptides were allowed The taxonomic search ... PAGE-based image analyses ofthe third quadrant Fig S3 2D IEF ⁄ SDS ⁄ PAGE-based image analyses ofthe fourth quadrant This supplementary material can be found in the online version of this article ... Kristiansen TZ, Jonnalagadda CK, Surendranath V, Niranjan V, Muthusamy B, Gandhi TK, Gronborg M et al (2003) Development of human protein reference database as an initial platform for approaching systems...
... reappearance of any new signals was the result of Cu(I) to polypeptide stoichiometries higher than five Taken together, the initial additions of Cu(I) to each domain caused the disappearance of ... ordered to form a distorted chair The C-terminal a- domain is characterized by an adamantane-like four-metal cluster Solution structures of 113 Cd-substituted Cd7MT-2 from rabbit, rat and human are available ... disappearance ofa large set of NOESY cross-peaks and the parallel appearance of another set of cross-peaks, until a clean 2D spectrum belonging toa single species was obtained Judging fromthe highest...
... ACTGTCAATAGTGAAGGT CCCCATGTCGCCTTTAGT TCGCTAGAACACATTGAC ATGATGAAACGGTTCAAT TTAGTTACCGTGTGCTTC CTGCTGCTCGCAGCAAGT GTGTGATCTGCAACTGTT CACCGAGGAATAATAAATGATG AAACGGTTCAATTTC TTAGTTACCGTGTGCTTC CACCGAGGAATAATAAATGATG ... omcA– mutant, and omcA (lane 7), omcB (lane 8), mtrA (lane 9) and mtrB (lane 10) in the omcB– mutant MR-1R was used as a positive control to display omcA (lane 1) and omcB (lane 6) DNA standards ... CACCGAGGAATAATAAATGATG AACGCACAAAAATCA TTACATTTTCACTTTAGT OMCA-PBAD-R OMCB-PBAD-F OMCB-PBAD-R 3736 controlled by an arabinose promoter [26], was achieved as visualized by heme staining of SDS ⁄ PAGE...
... Ngarrka-ngku.ka marlu marna-kurra luwa.rnu ngarni.nja-kurra (man-ergative-aux kangaroo grass-obj shoot-past eat-infmitive-obj) 'The man is shooting the kangaroo while it is eating grass.' This example ... consists ofthe stream of segments and a stream of stressesS: pangupangu Lexical lookup is complicated due tothe fact that the surface string can differ fromthe underlying representation ofthe ... i,e, the morphemes are in the right order and the relevant phonological rules have applied correctly over the appropriate domains n we then pass the morphological analysis off tothe syntactic parser...
... variable quantification to resolve pro-forms and VP ellipses to their antecedents The variable quantification in TLG is comparable tothe use of memory in storing antecedents and anaphora The verbs ... in analytic languages by incorporating CCG with a memory mechanism In the memory mechanism, fillers and gaps are stored as modalities that modalize a syntactic category The fillers and the gaps are ... Hyderabad, India, January William A Woods 1970 Transition network grammars for natural language analysis Communications ofthe ACM, 13(10):591–606, October Gerald Gazdar 1988 Applicability of indexed...
... it, and (3) the most suitable external media for its storage and retrieval Of far greater concern is the fact that we are not fully aware ofthe mental processes involved in the performance ofthe ... signal is stored in GS and the tag t is placed in the normal position ofthe target T for final printout ILLUSTRATION As an example ofthe performance of this section ofthe program, we offer the text ... only As regards the second aim, the TCj which accompany a current word may reveal that it could be a possible indicator ofa main clause, or subordinate clause, or a phrase If such is the case, an...
... pellet was discarded and a sample ofthe supernatant was withdrawn for radioimmunoassay of insulin and glucagon [24–26] The supernatant contained approximately 25 lg insulin and lg glucagon, which ... K data points was collected The spectrum was calibrated using a dataset ofa sample of standard peptides After calibration, the masses ofthe standard peptides differed by maximum 1.1 p.p.m from ... was set to 2.2 AThe cathode surface potential was )1 V and the anode potential was 10 V Both end-plate potentials ofthe ion trap were set at 1.5 V and the duration ofthe electron pulse was 100...
... runs a real risk to face a charge based on a ‘database hit’ For these reasons, questions that emanate fromthe use made of matches derived from database searches, as well as the assessment of their ... controversially, are approached in this article froma distinct perspectiveofa graphical approach As a principal aim, the discussion will focus on explaining how the use ofa database impacts the value ... problem,’ ‘Bayesian network for a database search setting: suspect and one other individual in the database,’ ‘Bayesian network for a search ofa database of size n > 2,’ and ‘Discussion and conclusions’...