... meeting local, national, and increasingly international environmental demands, securing the long-term availability of raw materials and energy, and providing specific combinations of goods and services ... leisure and relaxation Inhabitants of mountain regions see it as protection against natural dangers and as a tourist attraction Forest owners, farmers, and industry see it primarily as a source ... political relevance, and transparency in negotiations and decision making are the necessary ingredients in managing renewable natural resources ina sustainable way In this context one has to...
... functioning in patients with MDD Competing interests RWL has received honoraria for consulting/speaking from: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc., AstraZeneca, Biovail, Canadian Network for Mood and ... The HPQ has been validated against objective measures of absence and performance ina number of blue-collar and white-collar occupations [17,18] and can be considered the "gold standard" productivity ... Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Pfizer, Ranbaxy, and Scherring Plough He has received research grants from: AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, Canadian Institutes...
... F, Blanca JM: EST2uni: an open, parallel tool for automated EST analysis and database creation, with a data mining web interface and microarray expression data integration BMC Bioinformatics ... from the Near-East region such as elongated (chate and flexuosus) and Asiatic ananas and chandalak types; group 3, modern cantalupensis cultivars; group 4, mainly traditional varieties and wild ... performed the variability analysis, coordinated the SNP mapping and participated in the drafting of the manuscript MBP prepared DNAs for the melon accessions and participated in the genotyping for...
... Preliminary data analysis revealed no significant main effects and only one significant interaction of day and aroma on the pleasantness ratings of the young, implicating an increase in pleasantness ... investigation, since there are ambiguous results and evidence forand against on that matter Acknowledgements The authors thank practical trainees Linda van Mierlo and Pascalle Weijzen from Wageningen ... bitter and more intense in currant flavor andin overall flavor, and stronger in after-taste than the sample with a regular aroma concentration The heightened aroma concentration caused a slight...
... competency-based framework within which states and institutions can award educational credit for academic-equivalent competencies mastered through formal and informal occupational education and training ... procedures for taking a certification away from an individual It is a testing model The American National Standard that looks at education/training certificates is ASTM 2659 – Standard Practice for ... metrics and processes for assuring quality across the postsecondary education and training landscape are essential in order to validate the quality of prior learning assessment and credentials and...
... reparanda and alterations A hybrid system using the right corner transform and keeping information about how a repair started may be able to improve EDIT-F accuracy over this system Table 1: Baseline ... reparandum 108 Conclusion This paper has described a novel method for parsing speech that contains speech repairs This system achieves high accuracy in both parsing and detecting reparanda in ... 33– 39, Barcelona, Spain Mark Johnson 199 8a Finite state approximation of constraint-based grammars using left-corner grammar transforms In Proceedings of COLING/ACL, pages 619–623 Mark Johnson...
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... Increased thermal efficiency in Scandinavian integrated TMP and paper mills Analysing the potential for steam savings using the Heat Load Model for Pulp and Paper Chemical Engineering Transactions ... potential for steam savings and temperature levels of excess heat are identified for four Scandinavian thermo-mechanical (TMP) pulp and paper mills using the Heat Load Model for Pulp and Paper ... characteristics and external, geographical and infrastructural, factors influence the potential for large-scale implementation of the pathways? In what way these characteristics and factors influence...
... Q-x-P-WD-P to TGase and Q-x-x-W-x-W-P to Factor XIII (x and W are any amino acid and hydrophobic amino acid residues, respectively) We applied a similar approach to obtain information regarding the preferred ... Gottingen, Germany) For hematoxylin and eosin staining, ¨ the tissue section was fixed, then stained using standard methods and analyzed with a microscope, BZ-8100 (Keyence, Osaka, Japan) Acknowledgements ... greatly appreciate Dr Masatoshi Maki and Dr Hideki Shibata in our laboratory for providing valuable suggestions This work was supported by a Grant-inAid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas...
... technology, and (7) subject’s experience and motivation during training Information on adherence to the biofeedback-based training program was collected by extracting participation rates and information ... Nottingham Balance Platform: force plate system with display Sway and weightdistribution during standing RMA, Nottingham ADL scale Zijlstra et al Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation ... external validity and 89% in assessing internal and statistical validity This resulted ina total Cohen’s Kappa score of 0.73, which is substantial (.61.80) according to Landis and Koch’s benchmarks...
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... Fixed Point Theory and Applications Using this functional, Matsushita and Takahashi 2, studied and investigated the following mappings in Banach spaces A mapping S : C → E is relatively nonexpansive ... Takahashi, “Weak and strong convergence theorems for relatively nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces,” Fixed Point Theory and Applications, no 1, pp 37–47, 2004 S.-Y Matsushita and W Takahashi, ... problems and fixed point problems in Banach spaces,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol 225, no 1, pp 20–30, 2009 15 A Tada and W Takahashi, “Weak and strong convergence theorems for...
... data transfer and data retrieval and our adaptive accuracy adjustment using reinforcement learning under the PARIS framework in Section We present the experimental evaluation of our approach in ... main logical components in PARIS are on-demand data transfer, runtime update of near likely node (for efficient data retrieval), and adaptive adjustment through reinforcement learning By on-demand ... Expanding and shRinking) algorithm, which can perform adaptive adjustment during runtime and improve the prediction accuracy by using the reinforcement learning technique In addition, a probability-based...
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... intervals to indicate statistical differences Discrepancies are evident at young ages and at old ages, particularly for the high and low sites These are small, however, and therefore the Hann and ... regenerate It is difficult to establish because of drought at critical times in the growing season, competing vegetation, animal damage and predation, seedling quality, and frost heaving [11] Natural ... [20]) This model was fit to the heightbreast height age data using nonlinear least squares estimation and I made the usual assumptions about the random errors [26] All statistical analyses were done...
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... followed by a change in PEEP level This finding is important because many clinical and experimental studies report early evaluation findings for therapeutic interventions that are initiated just after ... 26:1046-1056 Abraham E, Gallagher TJ, Fink S: Clinical evaluation of a multiparameter intra-arterial blood-gas sensor Intensive Care Med 1996, 22:507-513 Biomedical Sensors: Paratrend Operating Instructions ... minutes after PV measurement and persisting for at least 15 minutes Correlations were analyzed using Pearson product correlation The maximal increase in Pao2 after PV measurement taken using both...
... wt [21] for mouse mammary carcinomas, mouse mammary adenocarcinomas, and rat hepatomas Larger tumors typically have less vascular surface area [21], although vascular volume may stay relatively ... Jain [40] measured the capillary filtration coefficient (CFC), i.e LpA where A = vascular surface area, for mouse mammary adenocarcinomas, finding CFC ≈ 2.6 ± ml/ Using vascular surface areas ... to the plasma elimination (γ) phase, intracellular and extracellular concentrations decrease and flatten in space They also remain nearly static in time, decreasing very slowly compared to the...
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