... a summary of the key information in thelocal language, for example via the newsprint and broadcastmedia, road side displays, or direct mail. In general, it isa good idea to ask for stakeholder ... Internationaland two Indian NGOs partnered in 2002 with one of India’slargest battery manufacturers, Amara Raja, to undertake a pilot audit of their operations. Through observation and test-ing, areas ... emerging issues and concerns of local communities. 67NEGOTIATION AND PARTNERSHIPSINDIA: NEGOTIATING A BEST ENVIRONMENTALSTANDARD FOR LEAD BATTERYMANUFACTURING AND COLLECTIONThe annual health...
... of parallelism and good architectural topology with a high degree of regularity andmodularity and an efficient fixed-point implementation that is well adapted fora VLSI realization. Thus, a new ... elements in many digitalsignal processing applications being good approximations tothe statistically optimal Karhunen-Loeve transform [2, 3].They are used especially in speech and image transformcoding ... as distributedarithmetic [20]orsystolicarrays[21]. This approach leadsto low I/O cost and reduced hardware complexity, high speedand a regular and modular hardware structure.Systolic arrays...
... cornerstone of Australian manufacturing. A New Car Plan fora Greener Future is a plan for reinventing the Australian car industry. It is about preparing the industry fora low-carbon future and making ... of AustraliaThe automotive sector isa cornerstone of Australian manufacturing. A NEW CAR PLAN FOR A GREENER FUTURE 8 | A NEW CAR PLAN FORA GREENER FUTURE | 9 More generally, assistance ... future of manufacturing in Australia. Manufacturing employs a million Australians and accounts fora tenth of our GDP. We can’t have a balanced economy without it – and we can’t have a just society...
... 4ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme ANCOVA Analysis of Covariance ANOVA Analysis of Variance BCF Bioconcentration Factor CITES Conference on International Trade ... A common transport pathway analysis tool that can facilitate the detection and interpretation of trends in POPs air concentrations is based on air-parcel back-trajectory analysis. In this approach, ... Shatalov, 2001; and as summarized for example in Scheringer and Wania, 2003; OECD, 2002; and AMAP, 1999). Regional fate and transport models can aid in the analysis of the observational data...
... certain events and entities take place in laboratories. The second rests on the fact that information is acquired there. A classical issue in lexical semantics that arises at this stage is ... dis- ease": A disease may be caused by an agent. ã "the clinical manifestations of a disease": A disease is detectable by signs and symptoms. ã "the course of a disease" ... : A disease goes through sev- eral stages in time. ã "infectious disease": A disease can be transmitted. ã '% notifiable disease": A disease has patterns in the population...
... USAmrogati+@cs.cmu.eduMarilyn A. WalkerAT&T Labs – ResearchFlorham Park, NJ, USAwalker@research.att.comAbstractTechniques for automatically trainingmodules of a natural language gener-ator have recently been ... component fora mixed-initiative travel planning system, AMELIA, de-veloped at AT&T Labs as part of DARPA Com-municator. Consider the required generation ca-pabilities of AMELIA, as illustrated ... evaluation of natural lan-guage generation has utilized three different ap-proaches to evaluation (Mellish and Dale, 1998).The first approach isa subjective evaluationmethodology such as...
... 169).Itfollows, asatleastonezero-inflationist(ArthurOkunagain)hasadmitted,thatwhere'implicitcontracts areespeciallyimportant,theremaybe a case for a horizontalwagetrend(and a correspondingnegativetrendinprices)'(ibid., ... ownproduct'sprice,whenthatsellermightbebetterofflettingotherscuttheirpricesfirstinstead?New Keynesian writings also assign a crucialroleto what they call'aggregatedemandexternalities' as a sourceofsluggishpriceadjustment.AccordingtoBallandMankiw(1994, ... singlenote,theyarecertainly distracting,andtheycertainlyarenotanaccurateandtransparentreflectionof what Bachintended.Theonlyvaluableinformationtheyconvey is thatsomejoker is messing...
... Systems Research Laboratories NEC Corporation 1-1, Miyazaki 4-chome, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki-city, Kanagawa 213, Japan ABSTRACT The following proposal isfora Japanese sentence analysis method ... characters, more than one hundred different kana characters ( two kana character sets ~ Hiragana and Katakana are used in Japanese sentences ) and alphanumeric characters. Because of the variety ... several candidates per character are accepted. Unsuitable character candidates are eliminated through sentence analysis. 3. Each punctuation mark is used as a delimiter. Sentence analysis of...
... It is fun to play a game with these at a tea−party and eat them upafterwards.Margaret's Own CakeMargaret's mother named this cake for her, because she liked it so much to make it and ... turkey. Always use parsley with meat, cold or hot. Saratoga potatoes make a good border for lamb or roast beef, and cold peas mixed with mayonnaise are always delicious with eitherchicken or lamb. ... little fish are really not broiled at all, but that is the name of the nice and easy dish. Take a box of largesardines and drain off all the oil, and lay them on heavy brown paper while you make...
... respectively.Statistical analysisStatistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prismsoftware, with sigmoidal non-linear curves used to calcu-late the IC50 of inhibitors.List of abbreviationsAVINA: ... assay sensitivitywas observed when IC50 of amantadine was calculatedfrom the amount of NA activity in the supernatant. For A/ Memphis /14/ 98, an IC50 > 33 μM was calculated for amantadine ... of virus replication is shown at each concentration of amantadine was calculated by: 100 ì (average RFU at each amantadine concentration/average RFU in the absence of amantadine).01020304050607080901000...
... science and engineering,” InternationalJournal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, no. 54, pp. 3413–3442, 2003.2 J.Sabatier,O.P.Agrawal,andJ .A. TenreiroMachado,Advances in Fractional Calculus: ... Benchohra, S. Hamani, and S. K. Ntouyas, “Boundary value problems for differential equationswith fractional order and nonlocal conditions,” Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications,vol.71, ... El-Shahed, “Positive solutions for boundary value problem of nonlinear fractional differentialequation,” Abstract and Applied Analysis, vol. 2007, Article ID 10368, 8 pages, 2007.13 H. Jafari and...
... Cholamjiak and S. Suantai, A new hybrid algorithm for variational inclusions, generalizedequilibrium problems, and a finite family of quasi-nonexpansive mappings,” Fixed Point Theory andApplications, ... 1967.33 W. Takahashi, Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Yokohama Publishers, Yokohama, Japan, 2000.34 L C. Ceng and J C. Yao, A hybrid iterative scheme for mixed equilibrium problems and fixed pointproblems,” ... Analysis andApplications, vol. 341, no. 1, pp. 276–286, 2008.23 S. Takahashi and W. Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorem fora generalized equilibrium problemand a nonexpansive mapping in a...
... isa Carath´eodoryfunction, K :R→ R isa positive continuous function, and λ isa real parameter. Direct variationalmethods are used. In particular, the proof of the main result is based ... nonlinearityts−1 is replaced by a more general hx, t and the nonlinearity f is multiplied by a positiveparameter μ, the existence of at least three solutions for all λ belonging to a suitable ... 0, isa Caratheodory function, K : R→ R isa positive continuous function, λ isa realparameter, and u Ω|∇u|2dx1/2 is the standard norm in W1,20Ω. In what follows, for every...
... for the Helmholtzequation in the interval 1,L. Hence it is natural to assume knowledge about u at a secondpoint.Let us summarize what we have so far. The constant C in Lemma 2.4 is unchanged.The ... can obtain a well-posed problem. This method has been used for solvinginverse heat conduction problem 12, and sideways heat equation 13, sideways parabolicequation 14 . An error estimate ... 2010, Article ID 212056, 13 pagesdoi:10.1155/2010/212056Research Article A Spectral Regularization Method fora CauchyProblem of the Modified Helmholtz EquationAilin Qian, Jianfeng Mao, and Lianghua...
... [9].These devices can act as a central processor for hearing aidswith access to binaural audio information and the advantageof increased processing performance [10]. Based on suchscalable systems, ... toward that direction is low-delay real-time signal processing systems based on standardhard- and software, such as the Master Hearing Aid (MHA)[11], a development framework for hearing aid algorithms.Another ... PCS and its applications. The PCS is a development based on new advanced mobile telephonesand Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The reason for selecting a mobile phone as a PCS platform is...