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... he admits that Matsumoto Leiji 's Space Battleship Yamato series has very "Japanese-esque" aspects to it In fact, virtually all anime contain some Japanese references , from psychology to aesthetics ... tion anime contain Significant elements related to contem­ porary japanese issu es, they are usually played out across "sta teless" fantasyscapes of fu ture cities or far-away galaxies For example ... Shinriky6 , a cult that still attracts adherents today The Aum attack is seen by both j apanese and Western observers as a watershed in postwar japanese history, encapsulating the dark and complex...

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:22

... Chapter Best bases, basis pursuit or matching pursuit algorithms are examples of adaptive transforms that construct sparse representations for complex signals A central issue is to understand to ... well adapted to represent a class of signals Mathematical approximation theory suggests choosing a basis that can construct precise signal approximations with a linear combination of a small number ... how to select an appropriate basis for processing a particular class of signals The decomposition coe cients of a signal in a basis de ne a representation that highlights some particular signal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 10:56

... biological and medical research; the advent of new technologies and approaches drive fields forwards and often depends on folks trained in disparate areas maths and physics to name just two that often ... important issues is essential, and I find there are attributes to admire and aspire to in all sorts of people However, my belief is that mentoring works best on an informal basis and that you ... understanding of innate immunity to retroviruses and retroelements in general As it is customary, I have asked Mike to share with us some thoughts on his own work and on general issues of interest...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... it was no longer possible to maintain SaO2 > 90% and MAP >50 mmHg, data collection was stopped and animals were sacrificed (with pentobarbital and phenytoin) Statistical analysis Baseline Haemorrhage ... Results A total of 137 paired measurements were available for comparisons Sixty-six paired measurements were collected from stages to (6 stages × 11 pigs) and 71 additional paired measurements (6.5 ... techniques: basics, limits, and perspectives Anesth Analg 2010, 110:799-811 Michard F, Alaya S, Zarka V, Bahloul M, Richard C, Teboul JL: Global enddiastolic volume as an indicator of cardiac preload...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... hours, instead of three days John Palmer was lessee and manager of the Bath and Bristol theatres, and went about beating up actors, actresses, and companies in postchaises, and he thought letters ... and Bristol, requiring Her Majesty 's officers to be assisting unto him in this service."[Pg 18] A warrant was also issued "to Sir Thomas Heneage, Knight, Treasurer of her Majesty 's Chamber, to ... J .A Housden, late of the Savings Bank Department, G.P.O., London; also by Mr L.C Kerans, expostmaster of Bath, and Messrs S. I Toleman and G.E Chambers, ex-assistant Superintendents of the Bristol...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20

... life This may not seem like a big leap to most people, but I was an assistant professor in a graduate school that was teaching students a Christian-based approach to business In most instances, I ... exchanges that happen in servant Be a Leader for God s Sake leadership I believe his metaphor also applies to agapao leadership A Jazz band is an expression of servant leadership The leader of a ... God s Sake Chapter 3: The Value of Caring for Employees/Followers I used to see The Beatitudes as separate elements or factors of agapao leadership Each value had an equal weight But as I have taught...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 19:20

... vegetables’, ‘Fruits are among the best (foods) I know’ and ‘Fruits and vegetables are very suitable as snacks’ Perceived accessibility at home had a possible range from -10 to 10 and was assessed ... studies [25] The authors concluded that the observed associations between SES and eating habits among adolescents seemed less robust than the association between SES and eating habits among adults ... may be explained by the methods used to assess FV intake In the study referred to above, a 24-h recall was used to assess FV intake in order to assess the effect of the school fruit programs,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... CONSOLIDATION The case study chapters of Ascalon and Caesarea are structured so as to present the research aims as well as the historical and archaeological backgrounds that are specifically tailored ... In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life, he argues that ‘small things’ such as gravestones, teacups and house façades all “carry messages from their makers and users,” ... Caesarea, but it was not as accessible This left the sites of Acre, ‘Atlit, CHAPTER METHODOLOGY 42 Caesarea, Ascalon, and Jerusalem These sites were all potentially accessible and all had a significant...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 18:04

... cropping patterns get firmly established on a financially viable basis This proposal also raises a number of very serious issues As has been amply demonstrated by Afghanistan s experience opium is footloose, ... central clearing point for international hawala activities, and various cities in Pakistan also are major transaction centers Even payments for drug shipments to Iran enter Afghanistan from Pakistan ... This means that sizable inventories of opium can be and are maintained, that opium can be and is used as a form of saving and even as “currency”, and that speculation in and sizable capital gains...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2016, 04:57

... of a short story Essay assignment This is the assignment I’ve set myself: ‘Every story is a journey towards self-discovery.’ Using a novel you’ve read this year as an example, show why you agree ... A S F O R A N E S S AY MAKING A LIST Write the assignment at the top of a page If you’ve got an essay assignment you can use that Or you can use my assignment Or, you can adapt some of the assignments ... takes, it is asking you to write a piece that will ‘entertain’ your readers—that is, engage their feelings Essay assignments Essays generally ask you to one of four things: These assignments...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 18:12

... uniformity Tolerance stack-up issues also impact the cascaded splitter approach, similar to the stack-up issues related to mechanical assemblies In a centralized approach, however, these uniformity issues ... this device supports my argument that providers must always use a forestand-trees analysis as they look toward the future: From Baseline to Business Case to Build, the ratio of CAPEX vs OPEX must ... furnished, installed, and ready for turn-up tests to initial subscribers New subscribers are added as take rates grow and consumer demands increase One of the key areas to save money is the creation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 22:15

... Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Document Available from: National Technical Assistance Center for Children s Mental Health Georgetown ... can have just as 1.1 Mental Health Problems many societal benefits as those that focus on physical health In a recent report to Congress, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ... v Acknowledgments Appreciation goes to a distinguished group of people at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) These professionals contributed leadership, inspiration,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... “Voices of Fear and Safety” Women s ambivalence towards breast cancer and breast health: a qualitative study from Jordan Hana Taha1,2,3* Email: hana.taha@ki.se Raeda Al-Qutob4,5 Email: raeda@johud.org.jo ... and Bacon; 2007 22 Merriam SB, and Associates: Qualitative research in practice: Examples for discussion and analysis San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers; 2002 23 Patton MQ: Qualitative research ... our study told that some husband s had misconceptions about breast cancer being a transmissible illness Men s knowledge about breast cancer and their attitudes towards their partner s breast cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... One place to avoid getting a dog is at a pet store Some pet stores obtain their pups from puppy mills, where dogs are basically farmed, to obtain pups for sale In many cases, the dogs are kept ... city and he used to be scared to death when a bus would pass us Basically, we’re just being patient with him and trying to show him that he s safe now He has overcome most of his fears Liza Boston, ... can become matted and knotted, and this can be painful Short coated dogs are also easier to check for ticks and fleas, quicker to brush, and dry faster after a bath Are you an active person? Some...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 07:20

... to a second language, whereas skills that are academically mediated (transfer of learned academic strategies), such as reading, appear to transfer A case study of an excellent Spanish–English bilingual ... the Spanish word “barca” that forms its root 11 COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND STRATEGIES Several studies have addressed the cross-language transfer of comprehension skills and strategies Royer and Carlo ... curriculum is consistent across sites; there are parallel versions in Spanish (Éxito para Todos) and English; some children in SFA schools are instructed solely in Spanish before they transition to English;...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... Phillips Steve Prey Jack Safely Chris Schmidle Jennifer Seal Dave Sharky Lisa Skumatz Arnie Sowell Gail Sturm Scott Tomeshevski James Toothaker Barbara Van Gee Jed Waldeman Clark Williams Alex Wilson ... firm s design culture • Contractors, Property Managers, Real Estate Analysts, Budget Analysts, Crew Chiefs and Custodians are included on the Design Team • Selected sustainable design strategies are ... energy, water, and waste; lower operations and maintenance costs; and enhanced occupant productivity and health As Figure ES1 shows, analysis of these areas indicates that total financial benefits of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... gerunds, NNS tags nominal plurals, DT tags determiners and so on Following this POS representation, there are as many as 10 possible POS tags that may occur in between the–of, as estimated from ... character- and word-level nodes We propose to incorporate character-based features in word-based models Consider a characterbased feature function φ(c, t, c) that maps a character-tag pair to a ... accuracy is badly hurt In contrast, when searching in a constrained space rather than the raw space, the constrained tagger (beam=5) is 10 times fast as the baseline and the tagging accuracy is even...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... phonological research undertaken in the tone sequence paradigm The handling of accentuation and phrmsing by the generator resembles the syntacto-semantic approaches Only a few tags such as emphasis [EMPH] ... boundary basically designates a fall-rise contour which shoukl be a felicitous if the last pitch accent before the boundary was a falling one The second term states, that after a rising pitch accent ... formalism and the same ratification machinery as the grammar 1042 formation like (potential) accent and syllable boundary positions Input to the synthesizer is a SAMPA string enriched with qualitative...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20