... takingthe Cartesian product over all the parameter values. It alsoallows us to specify equivalence classes of stable states, and it then automatically categorizes the state (and hence, theequivalence ... 1986.[6]Alan D. Christiansen, Andrea D. Edwards, and Carlos A. Coello Coello. Automated design of part feeders using a genetic algorithm. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation. ... Seehttp://www.research.digital.com/SRC/juno-2.[10]JayaramanKrishnasamy, MarkJ.Jakiela, andDanielE.Whit-ney. Mechanics of vibration-assisted entrapment with appli-cation to design. In International Conference...
... Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, CanadaEmail: Amir Adel Rashidi - amiradel@interchange.ubc.ca; Aslam H Anis - aslam.anis@ubc.ca; Carlo A Marra* ... Health Utilities Index utilities? Acomparisonof patient and community preferences for health status in rheumatoid arthritis patientsAmir Adel Rashidi1, Aslam H Anis2 and Carlo A Marra*3,4Address: ... Marra*3,4Address: 1Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2MHA Program, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology,...
... has a larger bandwidth than the transmitted signal, thusall the information from the transmitted s ignal is available inthe received sampled signal.Simulations show that the performance gain ... GHz bandwidth between 59 and 62 GHz that has been reserved for high data rate applications.This large amount of bandwidth can be exploited to establish a w ireless connection a t more than 1 ... conceptOffset-QPSK, a variant of QPSK digital modulation, is char-acterized by a half symbol period delay between the datamapped on the quadrature (Q) branch and the one mappedon the inphase (I) branch....
... on UniversalPersonal Communications, vol. 2, pp. 631–635, Ottawa, Ont,Canada, October 1993.[14] A. A. M. Saleh and R. A. Valenzuela, “Statistical model for in-door multipath propagation,” IEEE ... conceptOffset-QPSK, a variant of QPSK digital modulation, is char-acterized by a half symbol period delay between the datamapped on the quadrature (Q) branch and the one mappedon the inphase (I) branch. ... respectively, a 1 and a 3are real polynomial coef-ficients. We assume an amplifier with a unity gain (a 1= 1) and an input amplitude at 1-dB compression point A 1dBnor-malized to 1. Therefore, by...
... problematic feature and fall backto simpler operation. The feature names are based on a hierar-chical namespace, and new feature names can be registered withIANA. This means that any developer can ... places where a non-standard parameter has beenadded. If a vendor wishes to add a new value to some existingparameter, and there is no placeholder fora nonstandard ele-ment, one cannot be added. ... handle calls from a multitude of users. Similarly, SIP servers and gateways willneed to handle many calls. For large, backbone IP telephonyproviders, the number of calls being handled by a...
... farms adopting the organic approach because of access to high quality pastures and the ability to manage pasture as a dairy feed source. These areas also have a long history of small dairy operations ... terms of the scope and the depth of data supporting the analyses. This study addresses these limitations, taking advantage ofa unique nationwide data set of organic and conventional dairies. ... income and expenses, and farm assets and debt, as well as farm and operator characteristics. The 2005 ARMS included a version that also elicited detailed information about the production practices...
... Editors130. To avoid an appearance of conflict, certain editors mustannually affirm to the chief financial officer of The TimesCompany that they have no financial holdings in violation of paragraphs ... collect valuable objects in the visual arts(paintings, photographs, sculpture, crafts and the like) mustannually submit a list of their acquisitions and sales to theassociate managing editor for ... questions about their professional neutrality or that of The Times. In particular, they may not campaign for, demonstrate for, or endorse candidates, ballot causes or efforts toenact legislation....
... different approaches to sentence ranking: A simple paragraph-based approach intended as a baseline, two word-based approaches, and two coherence-based approaches. In the paragraph-based approach, ... sentence ranking 2.1 Paragraph-based approach Sentences at the beginning ofa paragraph are usually more important than sentences that are further down in a paragraph, due in part to the way people ... numberimportance rankingNoParagraphWithParagraph Figure 6. Human ranking results for one text (wsj_1306). that there was a coherence tree annotation available in Carlson et al. (2002)’s database....
... for the use of neural network learning techniques for this type of application and data set, and insight about the appropriate design, use, and parameterization of the network to achieve acceptable ... implementation on a large-scale, real-world data set using a variety of network parameters and sizes, and to determine the best network structure and settings for the handwritten digit data set. ... development and use of an artificial neural network architecture for recognizing handwritten digit data. The feed-forward neural network, which was implemented in Java, was designed to be modular and...
... med-ians as well as means to measure average workload insamples that include a small number of large and manysmall facilities.The analysis o f workload (Figur e 3) comparing ART and non-ART ... numbers of facility health staff in Malawi (52 facilities) and Zambia (27 facilities): baseline and follow-up1Malawi: Zambia:Health worker category Mar2006Mar2008Mar2006Mar2008Mar2006Mar2008Mar2006Mar20082004 ... studies have pointed to a large and longstanding degree of rural-urban inequity in Zambia.Only 52% of all health workers and 24% of doctors live and work in rural areas where two thirds of Zambiansreside...
... RESEARCH Open Access A comparisonof general and ambulance specificstressors: predictors of job satisfaction and healthproblems in a nationwide one-year follow-upstudy of Norwegian ambulance ... standard deviations andcomparison between the sample available at T1 only and the sampleavailable at both T1 and T2Sample 1 Sample 2 T-test(T1 only) (T1 and T2) sample 1 vs. sample 2(n = 784-821) ... article as: Sterud et al.: Acomparisonof general and ambulance specific stressors: predictors of job satisfaction and healthproblems in a nationwide one-year follow-up study of Norwegianambulance...
... (hernia repair and laparoscopic cholecystect-omy) andfor the global assessment items.Statistical AnalysisMagnitude and direction of change were calculated for each item of the checklist for ... Dörning1, Alf Trojan3 and Stefan Nickel3AbstractBackground: Measuring change is fundamental to evaluations, health services research and quality management.To date, the Gold-Standard is the ... Kendall’staubandKappa statistics were used to examine the associationsbetween conventional and retrospective values. Spear-man’s rank correlation and Kendall ’s tau b are non-para-metric measures of association...
... onimage analysis and mappedtree data, For. Ecol. Manag. 149 (2001) 217–233.[41] Smith A. P., Hogan K.P., Idol J.R., Spatial and temporalpatterns of light and canopy structure in a lowland tropical ... days was analysedin the same way.The relationship between light variables and quantita-tive stand variables (ND and BD) was tested withPearson’s correlation coefficient, whereas an analysis ... below-canopy irradiance, I0is the above-canopy irradiance, and k is the extinction coefficient. An empirical correctionfactor C is used to account for I0 and an average value of k = 0.88 that was...
... Distribution and chemicalcharacteristics of cations in annuals rings of japanese cedar, J.Environ. Qual. 24 (1995) 1141–1149.[25] Okada N., Katayama Y., Nobuchi T., Ishimaru Y.,Aoki A. , Trace elements ... (twoQuercus and one Castanea) studied by Okada et al. [25],Fagus sylvatica is unusual in having decreasing concen-trations of metals from pith to cambium. That patternwas already reported by Hagemeyer ... dots) and Quercus roburL. (black dots) (mean and standard deviation over five individ-uals).Figure 3. Al/Ca and Ca/Mg concentration ratio (on a massbasis) in 5-year growth intervals in Fagus...