... properties ofthe device The use of healthy adults allows the characterization of any normal variation that could occur without the confounding effects of change that may occur within a patient population ... coordinates are Thenew starting anglea method: X andcalculation to deterThe new measurement method: X and Y coordinates are measured and used in a trigonometric calculation to determine the starting ... for each trial, using the trigonometric equation, theta = tan -1 X/Y Reposition error was calculated for trials 1 20 (repeated trials portion 1) and for trials 1 7 (test-retest portion 2) as the...
... 2α , then I − Aisa nonexpansive mapping of C into H If there exists u ∈ C such that v − u, Au ≥ 2.6 for all v ∈ C, then u is called the solution of this variational inequality The set of all ... Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 318 , no 1, pp 43–52, 2006 Y Yao, A general iterative methodfora finite family of nonexpansive mappings,” Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods ... Point Theory and Applications Let f : H → H be a mapping If there exists a constant ≤ κ < such that ∀x, y ∈ H, fx − fy ≤ κ x − y , 1. 2 then f is called a contraction with the constant κ Recall that...
... Inequalities and Their Applications, vol 88 of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Academic Press, New York, NY, USA, 19 80 10 I Yamada, The hybrid steepest descent methodforthe variational inequality ... addition, it is easy to see that 1 and Φ2 satisfy the conditions A1 – A4 Therefore, by setting m in Corollary 3.6, we know that, for any initial guess x1 ∈ H, h1 y − h1 u1n y − u1n , u1n − ... of C ofa Hilbert space H We denote by Athe set of solutions of 4 .1 and assume that A / ∅ We denote the sets of solutions ofthe following two optimization problems by A1 and A2 , respectively,...
... Applications For finding a common element ofthe set of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings and the set of solution ofthe variational inequalities, Iiduka and Takahashi introduced following iterative process: ... 0, and {λn } ⊂ a, b for some a, b with < a < b < 2β We note that when A I and γ 1, the iterative scheme 1. 12 reduces to the iterative scheme 1. 10 The purpose of this paper is twofold First, ... maximality of sums of nonlinear monotone operators,” Transactions ofthe American Mathematical Society, vol 14 9, pp 46–55, 2000 H K Xu, “Iterative algorithms for nonlinear operators,” Journal of the...
... been studied: stationary disk subjected to rotating load and rotating disk subjected to stationary load In both cases, relative motion between the disk and the load is involved The latter case is ... study are of uniform thickness and elastic As plate theory is assumed, the transverse strain is absent This isa valid approximation as the disk used isof small thickness It is thin such that ... blade rotates to cut an object, in-plane and transverse forces is exerted to the blade at the contact Fora floppy-disk drive, read/write head exerts transverse load to the disk In the case of...
... 5¢-GTTCACCACCAGAAGCT GGTGTTCTTCGCTGAAGACGTGGGTTCTAACAAG GGTGCT-3¢; Abc, 5¢-CACAACGCCACCAACCATCAGA CCGATGATAGCACCCTTGTTAGAACCCAC-3¢; Abstart, 5¢-GCGTAGGGTCGACATATGGACGCTGAATT CCGTCACG-3¢; Abstop, ... using the primers Abstart and Ab42stop (5¢-CCTG CCGAGCTCCTATTAAGCGATCACAACGCCACCAA CCATCAG-3¢) and a sequence-verified plasmid carrying the Ab(L1–40) gene This adds Ile 41 and Ala42 to the peptide ... 5¢-CCTGCCGAGCTCCTATTA CACAACGCCACCAACCATCAG-3¢ The PCR solution was prepared in the buffer supplied with the enzyme, and contained Aba, Abb and Abc at 40 nm each, and the start and stop primers Abstart...
... organizations Trupti posts a request on her community for potential partners A group forms and the grant is successfully submitted The community congratulates the team, and offers whatever assistance ... transmission of real time market data If farmers had knowledge ofthe best market for their products, they would be able to strategically and efficiently transport their crops and get the best price ... for them However, national policy greatly limits who can provide the Internet access The agents want to join and support the national advocacy movement for policy reform They joined the E-REFORM...
... hoard or protect information rather than share it because of their organizational culture? • What legal and political factors can impact the success or failure ofthe community? Is there a law ... impact the sustainability of your community? Technical factors Without the Internet and interaction software, online communities would not exist So the availability, cost and speed of Internet access ... communication and to pay attention and intervene if the power gets out of balance, or the community gets either too controlled or not controlled enough Organizational and environmental factors The...
... Capacity building and institutional strengthening for intermediary organizations that serve rural and agricultural development is necessary so that they can make the most appropriate and creative ... community links and amplify the voices ofthe poorest; based on the notion ofthe appropriation ofthe communicational process and the development of local content • The participatory process ... thought regarding peoples’ actions This isa longstanding argument called the ‘‘ nature/ nurture’ argument Some thinkers believe that the actions This isa longstanding argument called the nature/...
... a1 ) i=2 j= i +1 l +1 = xi − i =1 l l +1 xi − i =1 aj − a1 − a1 l i =1 xi x i − xj x i − xj aj + a1 − a1 l +1 l aj x − xi 2 l +1 − aj l +1 aj x i − xj i=2 j= i +1 i=2 j= i +1 i =1 j= i +1 l +1 l − − a1 (1 − a1 ... xl +1 Î H and a1 , a2 , , al, al +1 Î [0, 1) with l +1 i =1 = Let y = Then applying the induction hypothesis we have l +1 xi = a1 x1 + (1 − a1 )y i =1 = a1 x1 l +1 = i =1 + (1 − a1 ) xi i =1 l l +1 + a1 (1 ... j= i +1 a1 l i=2 i=2 l +1 = l +1 x i − xj l +1 i=2 j= i +1 i=2 = l +1 aj 1 − a1 x − xi a1 x i − xj aj l +1 − x1 − y l +1 i=2 j= i +11 − a1 − − a1 (1 − a1 ) (xi − x1 ) − a1 i=2 = l l +1 − a1 (1 − a1 ) l+1...
... VoynoYasenetskaya T et al, 19 94) Although, the signaling pathways acting downstream of these GTPases to stimulate NHE1 are distinctly different, they all lead to the 34 activation of kinases For example, ... over a longer time-scale compared to the short-term changes ofthe actin cytoskeleton and the implication that these events require transcriptional activation, it is plausible that the small GTPases ... of chemotherapy Major mode of action of taxanes is thought to be their ability to bind to tubulin leading to G2/M arrest ofthe cell and subsequently apoptosis Down-regulation of NHE1 activity...
... for all water quality parameters Figure shows the thematic maps of pollutant emission estimates compared with official land used data obtained from SCAG land use data The pollutant loading maps ... wastewater and stormwater runoff from the City of Los Angeles that impair water quality Improved wastewater treatment plants have reduced the pollutant emissions from wastewater discharges Therefore, ... identifying the areas that discharge high pollutant loading into receiving waters METHODS Our area of interest was Marina del Rey and its vicinity in the Santa Monica Bay Watershed Santa Monica Bay is...
... scale supportsthe idea that engagement isa state of aroused,situationspecific motivation that is correlated with both attitudinal and behavioral outcomes Individually the scale items appear to ... VALIDITY ASSESSMENT, REPLICATION The nextstep wasto administer thenew scale, along with measures of other constructs, to a sample representative ofthe population ofinterest, (Hinkin 19 95, 19 98) This ... Principal Axis Factoring with Varimax rotation Thea priori assumption wasthat the items would generate a single factorsolution The solution converged after nine iterations, with two extracted factors...
... area generation capacity and the area load In the supported set, the available area generation capacity is smaller than the area load A "required load" is defined for each area in the supported ... ~i~ is an element of B - ~ Equation (19 ) indicates that the elements in the optimal basis are the sensitivities ofthe basic variables to the elements in the right-hand term of constraints Area ... standard deviation forthe ith area load dertainty usually, the same standard deviation is assumed for all area loads In this case, Equation (6) is simply written as c = u2p (7) After the covariance...
... 2 the words validated, guaranteed, and verified are used interchangeably to denote that state enclosures are mathematically and not only empirically proven to be correct Traditional validated techniques ... nonlinearity of higher-order approximations leading to higher computational effort for overestimation reduction in Step and Step Step 2: Initialization ofthe Iteration Scheme To start the iteration ... given, thenewmethodis introduced, and the proof is presented that all reachable states are guaranteed to be enclosed by the obtained interval bounds Additionally, possible applications in control...
... refers to both precision and recall since disambiguation of all target words in the test set is attempted Results are statistically significant at the 0 .10 level, using bootstrap resampling (Efron and ... generalization capability allows the data points to be grouped by principal components reflecting nonlinear patterns in the data distribution, in ways that linear PCA cannot Note that in this space, ... data such as the Senseval lexical sample Earlier we mentioned that one ofthe promising advantages of KPCA is that it computes the transform purely from unsupervised training vector data We can...
... line approximating the diagonal This line can be thought ofthe text alignment path Its departure from the diagonal illustrates that the texts of this corpus are not identical nor linearly aligned ... point i is matched to point j, and point u to point v, the texts between these two points are matched but we not make any assumption about how this segment of texts are matched In the extreme case ... Linguistics, 19 (1) :12 1 -14 2 KUMANO, AKIRA ~ HIDEKI HIRAKAWA 19 94 Building an mt dictionary from parallel texts based on linguistic and statistical information In Proceedings ofthe 15 th International Conference...
... them these other tasks - at the same time as they belong to other organizational structures, such as: • business units, where they shape the organization; • teams, where they take care of projects; ... support of agriculture, NRM and rural development are not covered, such as the use of rural radio, or the design of agricultural information databases Many of these subjects are dealt with in the ... community would be a great opportunity … Benefits of an online community Alice isthe Managing Director ofthe Regional Association for Sustainable Agriculture (RASA) RASA’s mission is to strengthen...
... Car Plan fora Greener Future aims to The automotive sector isa cornerstone of Australian manufacturing Australia is one of only about fifteen nations in the world today that can create a car ... in assistance over thirteen years It will revitalise an industry that is critical to the Australian economy and the Australian community It demonstrates the government’s commitment to 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 without it either Manufacturing isthe mainstay of families...