... on income (Y) for household. We include the following quality variablesin the form ofdummyvariables Written by Nguyen Hoang Bao May 22, 2004 Applied Econometrics DummyVariables 7 3) In ... Econometrics DummyVariables 5Workshop 4: UseofDummyVariables 1) To help firms determine which of their executive salaries might be out of line, a management consultant fitted the following multiple ... independent variables used inregression equations, which usually take values over some continuous range. Frequently, one may wish to include the quality independent variables, often called dummy variables, ...
... management in software engineering projects”, in Proc.Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’99, 1999,pp. 20–27.65. P. Br¨ossler, “Knowledge management at a software house: ... knowledgemanagement, and are eager to know how this is interpreted and used in softwareengineering, or for people in the software engineering field, who are interested in knowing more about what knowledge management ... methodsaccording to the subject of study; in software engineering it can be either a processto produce software or a software product. In an article on research methods in software engineering [30]...
... learning. Peer learning is becoming an increasingly important part of many courses, and it is being used in a variety of contexts and disciplines in many countries. The potential of peer learning ... way of moving beyond independent to interdependent learning. This idea of interdependence is important since the alternative is a more instrumental peer teaching approach which often involves ... depending on the type of peer teaching activity being undertaken. These include: levels of formality and informality, emphasis on individual or group learning, and learning goals of individuals...
... the presence ofmultiple iPLA2cprotein products in mitochondria resulting from usage of different translation initiation codons in rat myocardium.Alternative splicing of iPLA2c in mammalian ... profiles and proteinchemical techniques including radiolabeling with [3H]BEL[7–12]. Study of human heart PLA2underscored thecomplexity ofmultiple distinct isoforms of iPLA2 in thecytosolic, ... resulting in loss of theAUG initiating translation of the 88 kDa isoform. Wespecifically point out that differential utilization of exon 1vs. exon 2 in splice variants introduces differing upstreamORFs...
... class of the majority of the items which reached it during training. The trees were grown using recursive partitioning; the splitting criterion was reduction in deviance. Using the Gini index ... for function 145 Proceedings of EACL '99 Exploring the Useof Linguistic Features in Domain and Genre Classification Maria Wolters' and Mathias Kirsten 2 1Inst. f. Kommunikationsforschung ... stores all training set vectors in an instance base. New feature vectors are assigned the class of the most similar instancc. We use the Fuclidean distance metric for determining nearest ncighbours....
... terminal and terminal symbols of Gw. This trans- forms the question of determining whether a symbol is useful into a reachibility question on the graph of Ma In particular, for any string of ... ways of representing the parse forest one of which involves the useof linear indexed grammars and the other the useof context-free gram- mars. The work presented in this paper is intended ... corresponding nodes in/ 3. The remaining nodes in 7 ~ have the constraints of the corresponding nodes in 7. Given p E dom(7), by Ibl(7,p) we refer to the label of the node addressed # in 7. Similarly,...
... regarding useof lopinavir/ritonavir in neonates.oAddition of new pharmacokinetic data on nevirapine in preterm infants.• Initial Postnatal Management of the HIV-Exposed Neonate:oBecause of ... elimination of perinatal transmission in the United States includethe continued increase in HIV infection in women of childbearing age;12absent or delayed prenatal care,particularly in women ... hematologic toxicity in infants receiving azidovudine/lamivudine-containing prophylaxis regimen, a recheck of hemoglobin and neutrophilcounts is recommended 4 weeks after initiation of prophylaxis...
... of diseases in cattle, sheep, goats, and human beings. This isan indication that ethnoveterinary medicine is of great importance in the smallholder sector of Zimbabwe. It is increasingly gaining ... glyco-proteins and anthraquinones, which blockthe regeneration of thromboxanes andbradykinin, and also inhibit and break downbradykinin. In rural areas, a mixture of Avera and engine oil (lubricant) ... treatment of minor wounds, skin irrita-tions including burns, bruises andabrasions, and general inflammatory skindisorders.4It has anti-allergy and anti-inflammatory properties because of glyco-proteins...
... performance of our preprocessing in this case we 225 USE OF H~ru'RISTIC KN~L~EDGE IN CHINF SELANGUAGEANALYSIS Yiming Yang, Toyoaki Nishida and Shuji Doshita Department of Information ... ambiguity of syntactic category of words is a big problem in Chinese analysis. In another exa~ole, in English, "-ing" is used to indicate a participle, or "-ed" can be used ... uses heuristic knowledge to find local syntactic structures of Chinese sentences. We call it a preprocessing, because we use it before we do global syntactic structure analysisCl ]of the input...
... figure indicates that the news corpus is characterized by a great deal of embedd- ing of both types: finite clauses (relative clause~ adverbial clauses), and well as non-finites (infin- itive ... analysis of infor- mation, contains three minor episodes in addition to the major one introduced in the first sentence of the report. The discussion below of syntactic forms used to indicate ... detached clause is defined Intonatlonally: it is bounded by pauses, has falling intonation at the end, or is preceded by a clause with fall- ing intonation (Thompson, 1983). This clause is...
... Academy of Engineering.The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination ... Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration ... pharmaceutical innovation is full of new and often unexpected indications ofuse that emerge in the post-marketing setting. What is needed may be a more streamlined process for looking at evidence,...
... used in cement manufacturing in China. In spring 2008, the government in Chongqing entered into an agreement with the Lafarge Cement Manufacturing Company in Chongqing to accept sewage sludge ... residues in the ten provinces in China with the greatest biomass production. The feasibility of using biomass residues in cement manufacturing is in part dependent on the proximity of cement ... magnitude of cement production in each of the ten provinces with the highest value of unused biomass residue. Based on the criteria of large availability of biomass and a substantial cement industry,...
... stories of their losses in their journals. Joan Didion tells the story of the sudden death of her husband of nearly 40 years in The Year of Magical Thinking; C. S. Lewis describes the loss of his ... T E RIntroductionThe loss of a loved one often leaves behind the loose ends of grief. — Stephen LevineGrief, art, and storytelling are an innate part of the human experience. Each of us ... healing of ritual in different forms. Rituals have therapeutic properties though the power of acting out, legitimizing of emotions, physical ventilation, and bringing limits to grief by having...
... Although 70% of South African households used electricity for lighting, only half used electricity for cooking and heating in 2001.9 About one-third of households in the country used solid ... dung) for cooking and heating, and 95% of these households were black African.9,10 A further 1 in 5 households used paraffin 764Estimating the burden of disease attributable to indoor air pollution ... continues to cook with solid fuels such as dung, wood, coal and agricultural residues. This includes more than 75% of the people in India and China and 50 - 75% of those in certain regions of...