θ ψ0 or measuring additional s ψ0 and k ψ0 values

... plus soil, to be used for bulk density measurement b Take a minimum of three subsamples for wet and dry weights for mass basis values c If soil packing was done with adequate precision, subsampling ... Entrapped bubbles tend to constrict or block the water-conducting pores in a porous medium As a result, Kfs (i.e., field-saturated Ksat ) is usually less than Ks (i.e., completely saturated Ksat ) with ... of c or u Texture and structure effects are also illustrated in the Ksat values, where it is seen that the Ksat of the sandy soil is two orders of magnitude greater than the Ksat of the unstructured...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:23

... successfully created a class, and used constructors to initialize the fields in a class You have created instance and static methods, and called both of these types of methods You have also implemented ... create using the class will share a single copy of these members) The purpose of a static class is purely to act as a holder of utility methods and fields A static class cannot contain any instance ... Static methods are also called class methods However, static fields tend not to be called class fields; they're just called static fields (or sometimes static variables) Creating a static Field...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15

... time-series dimension must exceed the cross-section dimension (T > N) If you check this option you will see that the EViews output does not report standard errors, t-stats, or p -values for the estimates ... the cross-section weights or SUR methods or any AR(p) specification is used, the results all asymptotically based so that the t-stats are approximately standard normal and the Wald F-stats are ... heteroscedasticity feasible WLS to correct for equation-specific heteroscedasticity accounts for contemporaneous cross-equation correlation of errors and equation-specific heteroscedasticity To use this,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:15

... his or her results The basic premise of this book is that it can serve as the basis for a wide range of courses that discuss numerical methods used in science It is meant to support a series ... of the tensor Thus scalars are tensors of rank zero and vectors of any dimension are rank one So scalars and vectors are subsets of tensors We can define the law of addition in the usual way by ... thus tensors will not form a field unless some additional restrictions are made One obvious way of representing tensors of rank is as N×N square matrices Thus, the scalar product of a tensor...

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Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... are poor and the behavior and health status of the poor Choosing measures of health disparity involves consideration of conceptual, ethical, and methodological issues This report discusses some ... health disparity as total disparity is associated most closely with and endorsed by the WHO as a component of its general framework for routinely assessing the performance of health systems in different ... reasons for focusing attention on specific comparisons, such as the disparity between blacks and whites in the receipt of treatment for cancers of similar stage (57), such pairwise comparisons...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... thqlhq6Uephgờge s i f Weqphg6e us i f ptqphgỏe n We expanded SSK and DSK to improve the total performance of the experiments We denote them as SSK and DSK respectively The original SSK treats only exact string ... functions , and ; all are based on decay factor represents the cost of node skip For example, represents the cost of node skip and that of ; is the cost of just node skip represents the sum of ... hierarchy structure) to the String Subsequence Kernel (SSK) for word sequence, Dependency Structure Figure shows some input objects for each evaluated kernel, (a) for HDAG, (b) for DAG and DSK, and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... other words, these weight estimation methods for STSGs are also biased and inconsistent in the frequency-distribution test 185 2.3 Shortest derivation estimators Because the STSG formalism allows ... Berlin: Springer Verlag Andreas Zollmann and Khalil Sima’an 2005 A consistent and efficient estimator for data-oriented parsing Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics In press Discussion ... weight-distribution test for the whole class of STSGs, we argued earlier that this test is not the appropriate test either Both estimation methods for STSGs and the criteria for evaluating them, thus...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... HIV/AIDS, which increases work burdens and health risks for many health workers Many health workers also face challenges, such as poverty-level wages According to the WHO, the health worker shortage ... Efforts to Address Health Care Worker Shortage To help address the effects of a global shortage of skilled health care workers, USAID supports the training of midwives and other health care workers ... POPPHI has supported a number of activities, such as regional workshops for professional associations of obstetricians, gynecologists, and midwives, and is conducting a global survey on the use of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... the missing GCS score In order to impute a particular GCS score, this method sorts patients both with observed values and those with missing values for this score into a number of subsets according ... Cervical-spine Upper limb Thoracic-spine Spine Lumbar-spine Glasgow coma scores (GCS): Eye response; Motor response; Verbal response Factors considered for inclusion in the analysis are summarised ... set of covariates which are associated with the GCS scores In this application, the imputation subsets comprise patients with the same values of the injury severity scores: AIS head, AIS chest,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... diagnosis RISK FACTORS Percent surviving Throughout this monograph, there are discussions of potential causes and risk factors for individual childhood cancers The discussion below provides background ... exposure is really related to the disease In a dose-response relationship, the risk of disease increases or decreases as the amount of the exposure increases or decreases For example, the relationship ... cause brain tumors in animals All or most of these six criteria must be met before an association between a disease and an exposure is considered a causal association Age-specific rates: Age-specific...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... examples of their members The words stored in these slots are then used as a basis for generating television operation commands and search expressions to access the TV program database Response statements ... non-matching word optional mandatory any order slots or delimiter In the pattern matching process, categories important to television operations are stored as slots Table lists these category-slots and ... patternbase approach This approach is also used in other dialogue systems such as PC-based agent television systems in the (FACTS) project and (Sumiyoshi et al., 2002) The dialogue processing module...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 17:23

... as a basis for comparisons These classifiers were performed using the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) software [19] First, naive Bayes is the simplest form of Bayesian network, ... of associations with CFS for other genes was inconsistent in these studies The potential reason for the discrepancies between the results of this study and those of other studies may be the sample ... genes results in the large number of possible models [15] For example, we studied 42 candidate SNPs, and these 42 SNPs yield 242 possible models The three classifiers were chosen for comparison because...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... predictors of missingness (reminder response) Since the current QoL scores were known, the significance of these to predict missingness (reminder-response) could be assessed If these scores were ... missingness pattern would cause a loss of information Since RECORD contained intermittent missingness, Little 's test was used to illustrate a hypothesis test for MCAR Little 's test of MCAR versus ... imputed using assessments close to the point of imputation In many QoL studies the assessments are taken at frequent intervals and the correlations between successive measurements may be high Those...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... of ambulatory tasks Merging tasks was necessary when clusters associated with some of the motor tasks significantly overlapped In the two subjects for whom merging of clusters was necessary, the ... shown in sensitivity and misclassification when merging clusters, for Subj A and Subj B the increase in sensitivity and decrease in misclassification when merging clusters is significant Sensitivity ... ambulatory tasks Merging Merging clusters for ambulatory tasks The barplots show sensitivity and misclassification for different levels of merging for the three subjects from which it was possible to...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... Statistical aspects of NOEC, ECx and NEC estimates Environmetrics 1997, 8:225-261 Suter GW: Abuse of hypothesis testing statistics in ecological risk assessment Human and Ecological Risk Assessment ... way for use of this data in risk assessments would be an inefficient and irresponsible handling of resources Acknowledgements The study was financed by Formas (the Swedish Research Council for ... evaluate these data compared to relying on standards only More structured evaluation methods can help risk assessors and evaluators to use non-standard test data But, as we have shown in this study,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... TFBSs and random sites CDFs of (a) DNA duplex destabilization energies at TFBSs of single-strand, double-strand binding TFs, and random DNA sites, (b) nucleosome occupation scores at known TFBSs ... conservation is assessed with the PastCons scores [13] and regulatory potential is constructed from a set of known regulatory and nonregulatory sequences using a discriminatory computational analysis (prediction ... duplex stability scores at random sites and double strand binding sites is 0.3097, and that of random sites and single strand binding sites is 0.3641 (as depicted in Figure 3(a)) However, after shifting,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing the proposed hybrid method for inverse halftoning Section shows the experimental results and discussions, and the final section summarizes this paper ... and Edge-based LUT methods with ten images for training Table shows the PSNR values for the recovery images using these different methods Experimental results show that the reconstructed grayscale ... template always works better in other image blocks than using Gaussian filter So we should sum up the difference values for a specified template to all image blocks on the halftone image If the sum of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... determining the mass function in Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is described We shall assume a Gaussian distribution for estimating the mass function So, this work may be seen to be straightforwardly ... performance between these methods can also be easily assessed by visually comparing the segmentation results The segmentation sensitivity values reported in Tables and are plotted in Figures and ... calculating the orthogonal sum of the mass functions for the three images, the decisional procedure for classification purpose consists in choosing one of the most likely hypotheses Ci The proposed method...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20