5—structural reliability and comparison of design expressions

... Unit Bank of England Email: alina.barnett@bankofengland.co.uk (2) Centre for Central Banking Studies Bank of England Email: haroon.mumtaz@bankofengland.co.uk (3) Monetary Assessment and Strategy ... Division Bank of England Email: konstantinos.theodoridis@bankofengland.co.uk The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Bank of England The authors ... the evolving dynamics of US inflation is a often cited example of this literature In particular, Cogley and Sargent (2002), Cogley and Sargent (2005) and Cogley, Primiceri and Sargent (2008) use...

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... effectiveness of programs of instruction  Providing Research Criteria: to provide a standard of judgment in a variety of other research contexts based on language test scores  Assessment of Attitudes and ... all agree that reliability and validity are essential to the interpretation and use of measures of language abilities and are the primary qualities to be considered in developing and using tests ... Davies, 1983) and predicative validity, where test scores are correlated with some future criterion of performance (Bachman and Palmer, 1981) 2.3.3 Reliability and Validity Reliability and validity...

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... conformation of BL caused by this binding of proton result in decreases in the number of BL The conformation change of BL may decrease the internalization flux of - 343 - Journal of Water and Environment ... Accumulation of Pb and Zn in Gametophytes and Sporophytes of the Moss Funaria hygrometrica (Funariales), Ann Bot., 87, 537-543 Cheng T and Allen H E (2001) Prediction of uptake of copper from ... copper toxicity and copper accumulation in organisms REFERENCES Ashton N W and Cove D J (1977) The isolation and preliminary characterization of Auxotrophic and resistant mutants of the moss Physcomitrella...

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... speeds of the on-line algorithms Fixed-point algorithms not appear in this comparison, because they are of a different type and a direct comparison is not possible 284 OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON OF ... approximation of the mean-square error of b, as was already STATISTICALLY OPTIMAL NONLINEARITIES 277 discussed in Chapter Comparison of, say, the traces of the asymptotic variances of two estimators ... analysis G 278 OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON OF BASIC ICA METHODS b bx First, note that the robustness of ^ depends also on the method of estimation used in constraining the variance of ^ T to equal unity,...

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... 2002 Fig RT-PCR analysis of temporal and spatial expression of mRNA coding for AtP16, AtP13, and AtP22 Reaction products are compared to a standard of DNA bands of known sizes (last lane) by agarose ... Shinmyo et al [64] have studied the promoter activity and wound-induction of HRPC and -E types, and of AtPCa and AtPEa Most remarkably, C2, and only C2, responded strongly to wounding The AtP38 ... Arg298 and Asn305 Most of these conserved residues appear to be of importance to the integrity of peroxidase structure Several aromatic positions, 6, 7, 45, 185, 201 and 233–234, are conserved and...

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... from CONICET and ´ ´ Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientı´ fica y Tecnologica M F Drincovich and C S Andreo are members of the Researcher Career of CONICET, and V A Campos-Bermudez and F P Bologna ... 7.4, and calibrated using molecular mass standards (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA) The sample and the standards were applied separately in a final volume of 50 lL at a constant flow rate of mLÆmin)1 ... obtained for Pta-F2 and Pta-F1 (B) Activation of the acetyl phosphate synthesis activity of E coli Pta by different concentrations of pyruvate and PEP Results are presented as percentage of activity...

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... Illustration of the Role of Bias in Machine Learning In Proceed- ings of EMNLP'96 conference Samuelsson, C and Voutilainen, A 1997 Comparing a Linguistic and a Stochastic Tagger In Pro- ceedings of joint ... the value of p has similar constraints to those of u If the test and training corpora are independent, the probability of making the same error, given that both are wrong, will be the random / ... corpus which is known to contain a b o u t 3% of errors ( C = ) , and obtain a reported performance of 93% ( K = 0.93) In this case, equations and yield a range for the real performance x that...

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... 6-MWT, VO2 and HR were noted every 30 s The reliability and intensity of the 6-MWT were assessed using the mean ˙ VO2 and HR values recorded during the last minute of the walking test Before and after ... cri˙ teria of VO2max were reached (11) Because of a possible influence of the familiarization test, only the results of the second exercise test were analyzed 170 Official Journal of the American ... two and the last two 6-MWT, the coefficient of variation (CV), and standard deviation (SD) calculation (15) During the fifth 6-MWT, ˙ the walking speed and the metabolic parameters (VO2 and HR)...

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... activity and toxicity of the basic subunit, is a product of divergent evolution of the catalytically active and toxic PLA2 The salt bridge between Asp48 of the PLA2 molecule and Lys60 of the acidic ... facilitate identification of the key substrates of individual SVMPs and enable a better understanding of the molecular mechanism of action of P-III SVMPs Functional role of the non-enzymatic proteins ... Interaction of the cysteine-rich domain of snake venom metalloproteinases with the A1 domain of von Willebrand factor promotes site-specific proteolysis of von Willebrand factor and inhibition of von...

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... analysis, and drafted the manuscript DN participated in the design of the study, critical review of the manuscript, and final approval of the version to be published AK participated in the design of ... The Uganda TB treatment success (68%) is far below the WHO target of 85% [1,2] A comprehensive understanding of barriers to and facilitators of poor TB treatment outcome is still lacking, and this ... design of the study and critical review of the manuscript EM participated in the design of the study, statistical analysis, and critical of the manuscript All authors have read and approved the...

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... dynamical modes of the nitroxide are a combination of rotary diffusion of the macromolecule, internal bond isomerization of the spin-label and backbone uctuations Analysing the lineshape of the resulting ... linewidth of R1 at the site of interest and di and dm are the corresponding values for the most immobile and most mobile sites observed, respectively These values were set at 2.1 G for dm and 8.4 ... 10)10 and )1.36, respectively [48] 11 12 13 Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the University of Iceland Research Fund and the Icelandic Research Fund for nancial support; Professor...

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... availability of a large number of genomic sequences has significantly increased the number of identifiable analogs of E coli Lon and prompted a reanalysis of the active sites of this family of proteases ... definition of the domains The locations and sequences of the Walker A and B motifs (AAA+ module) and of fragments of the proteolytic domains including catalytically active serine (S*) and lysine ... analysis of the amino acid sequences of the majority of the currently known Lon proteases The results of site-directed mutagenesis of E coli Lon protease and insights from the crystal structure of...

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... lack of agreement with the available data alone After that, we review methods for comparison of the predictive ability of two models, and finally suggest a scheme for the general comparison of two ... modeling is often used to achieve a characterization of which of these mechanisms that are significantly active, and independently important, and which mechanisms are present but not significantly and/ or ... The number of runs Ru is defined as the number of sign changes in the sequence of residuals, and it is compared to the expected number of runs, N/2 (because it is assumed that the mean of the uncorrelated...

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... quote Chandler, a pioneer of the field: strategy is “…the determination of the basic long-term goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources ... elaboration of the classes of decisions made by managers, the explicit separation of strategy from goals and objectives, and the concept of risk as a function of the amount and extent of knowledge, ... Prediction and Optimal Decision: Philosophical Issues of a Science of Values (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961) and The Design of Inquiring Systems: Basic Concepts of Systems and Organization...

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... stage of cancer, surgery and chemotherapy see table The data on CFS-D, State aR and EORTC are published elsewhere Statistics of both parts of the study A reliability analysis of all 12 items of ... ability of problem solving, security and inner congruence and resilience in terms of importance and manageability, and two additional items addressing perceptions of coldness/chillness and warmth ... out for all participants of study with SPSS 15.0 to check for item-item and item-total-correlation of r ≥ 0.40 and a Cronbach's-α -reliability of r ≥ 0.70 The test-retest reliability was assessed...

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... However, the reliability and validity of the SF-8 has not been demonstrated for use with populations affected by conflict The purpose of this study was to test the validity and reliability of the SF-8 ... meanings and Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:108 concepts of the questionnaire items remained Two out of three members of the study ... conflict-affected populations and have been widely used and tested for reliability and validity in a number of countries [6,7,13,23,28-34] The HTQ and HSCL-25 are consistent with the Diagnostic and Statistical...

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... 12 of the "sleep adequacy" dimension of the Australian, Hungarian and UK English versions, and item of the South African, item of the "somnolence" dimension of the German and South African and ... adequate and generally comparable reliability and validity The responsiveness of the tool was also demonstrated on the pooled population The robustness of the structure of the "sleep disturbance" and ... items and 12 of the "sleep adequacy" dimension for the Australian and Hungarian versions, item 11 of the "somnolence" dimension for the German, Hungarian and South African versions, and item of...

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... and 1.1%; Poland, 0.7% and 0.7%; Spain, 0.6% and 0.6% In cases where more than 6% of the data were missing (Germany, Hungary and Italy), characteristics (age, gender, duration and frequency of ... 11 implies definite cases of anxiety or depression, a cut-off of 8–10 a probable case, and < not a case The validity and reliability of the HAD have been reported in several studies [45,46] The ... scale where represents absence of troublesome symptoms and represents very troublesome symptoms The reliability and validity of the GSRS are well-documented [37], and norm values for a general...

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