... 2. Casaoa MA, Navarroa E, Solerab J. Evaluation of Brucellacapt for the diagnosis of human brucellosis. Journal of Infection 2004; 49: 102–108. 3. Clavijo E, Diaz R, Anguita A, Garcia A, Pinedo ... Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 2003;4:612-5. 4. Ordun A, Almaraz A, Prado A, Purıfıcacıo M, Gutıerrez N, Garc a- Pascual A, Duen A, Cuervo M, Abad R, Herna´Ndez B, Lorenzo B, Bratos AM, Rodrıguez ... structure of the antigen cell surface. Brucella, which is a gram negative bacterium, has a lipopolysaccharide struc-ture in the outer membrane in S colony phase and has a surface that is in contact...
... is also associated with both smok-ing and cancer deaths, was not measured in this study, and the separate calculation of risk patterns in urban and rural areas was used as a surrogate analy-sis ... smoking was greater for urban males than rural males, both study groups revealed a con-sistent pattern of the effect of smoking on risk of can-cer deaths. TABLE 1. Characteristics of cases and ... indication. Our findings revealed that better equivalence exists in urban than in rural areas, and for cancers with a high death rate than for ‘rare’ cancers. The possible expla-nations may...
... Albarreal, M.C. Calzada, J.L. Cruz, E. Fern´andez-Cara, M. Mari´n, Stability and Convergence ofa ParallelFractional Step Method for the Solution of Linear Parabolic Problems, Applied Mathematics ... Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 23 (2007) 201-209Fully parallel methods for a class of linear partialdifferential-algebraic equationsVu Tien Dung∗Department of Mathematics, Mechanics, ... solution of PDAEsbecause of their importance in various applications, such as plasma physics, magneto hydro dynamics,electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering, etc Although the numerical solution...
... to a statistical tool that allows for i solation of a pattern of the data — the signal — out of noisy or raw time-series data.16 35/2009 Yuliya Demyanyk – Iftekhar Hasan Financial crises and ... efficientfor the evaluation of bank failure as early as four y ears before it occurs.The authors also compare UTAD IS with other traditional multivariate dataanalysis techniques and find that UTADIS performs ... hastic DE A. Kao and Liu (2004) formu late a DEA m odel of in terval data for use inevaluating the performance of banks. Their study makes adv ance predictions of the performance of 24 Taiw an...
... overall reaction [50]. A rationally designed variant of L-Ala-D/L-Glu epimerase (a third member of the enolase superfamily, Fig. 8),containing a mutation (D297G) analogous to that of theE223G ... encodingpotential enzymes into microorganisms such as bacteria,this process can be harnessed in the laboratory to concen-trate the selection process on an individual catalytic activity. A great advantage ... Monofunctionalversions of the dehydratase and the dehydrogenase are provided by plasmid pKIMP-UAUC. Random gene libraries are introduced into this strainand the ability ofa cell harboring an individual library...
... Abbreviations— V & G: Vartanian and Goel (2004); K & Z: Kawabata and Zeki (2004); C-C et al: Cela-Conde andcolleagues (2004).382 M. Nadal et al.the neuroanatomical correlates of aesthetic ... frontal activitydetected by Cela-Conde et al. (2004) (dorsolateral), Kawabata and Zeki (2004)(orbitofrontal) and Vartanian and Goel (2004) (anterior cingulate) was associatedwith positive ratings. ... Illes Balears, Crta Valldermossa s/n, km 7,5,Palma de Mallorca 07122, SpainReceived 21 March 2006; accepted 10 March 2007Abstract—Aiming to provide a tentative framework for the study of the...
... ofa quality or attribute of those things. Man is a name of many things; humanity is a name of an attribute of those things. Old is a name of things: old age is a name of one of their attributes. ... improvement) can only consist in performing more systematically and accurately man, a Greek, an Athenian, a sculptor, an old man, an honest man, a brave man. All these are, or may be, names of Sophroniscus, ... a name which stands for an attribute ofa thing. Thus John, the sea, this table, are names of things. White, also, is a name ofa thing, or rather of things. Whiteness, again, is the name of...
... consists ofa federation of 11 states in Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak in the north of Kalimantan. Kuala Lumpur, the national capital, Labuan UNEP/SCS – National Report Malaysia ... waters. As coastal aquaculture systems are located mainly in sheltered coastal waters of the Straits of Malacca, these agricultural wastes, carrying bacteria and heavy metals, can be a health ... part of South-East Asia and occupies a total land area of 330,434 square kilometres. The land mass comprises three main components: Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sabah and Sarawak,...
... 2007.c2007 Association for Computational Linguistics A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing Jianfeng Gao*, Galen Andrew*, Mark Johnson*&, ... Introduction Parameter estimation is fundamental to many sta-tistical approaches to NLP. Because of the high-dimensional nature of natural language, it is often easy to generate an extremely large ... is a version of Boosting with Lasso (L1) regularization. We first investigate all of our estimators on two re-ranking tasks: a parse selection task and a language model (LM) adaptation task....
... Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Ontario, Canada. 722 Presentation Core Generator Domain Data , Manager Macro-Planner ~ - i Y [Micro-Planner ... In Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation, pages 45-56, Trento, Italy. White, M. and Caldwell, D. E. (1998). EXEM- PLARS: A Practical Exensible Framework for Real-Time Text Generation, ... parameters when the exemplar is called. • Conditions of evaluation: Specification of the conditions under which the exemplar can be evaluated. • Data: Specification of domain data instan-...
... package takes care of the overall management of the project’s operational and nancial aspects and facilitates in- and external cooperation.WP2: Use cases and framework for self-organisation. ... both a database infrastructure and a tool for real-time measurements. • LOBSTER: LOBSTER provides a database infrastructure. • RIPE: RIPE provides a database infrastructure. • BART: BART is a ... the above goal«The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the European Commission or any of its officials» A great deal of additional information on the European...
... Malouf, 2002; Zhou et al., 2003; Riezler and Vasserman, 2004). One of the main advantages of CME modeling is the ability to incorporate a variety of features in a uniform framework with a ... split afeature space into n- disjoint subspaces, and select an equal amount of features for each fea-ture subspace. 2. dimension-based-split: split afeature space into disjoint subspaces based ... Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Bar-bara Peskin, Jeremy Ang, Dustin Hillard, Mari Os-tendorf, Marcus Tomalin, Phil Woodland and Mary Harper. 2005. Structural Metadata Research...
... Estimation of the quality of anautomatic summaryWe are now looking for a function QM,x (a) thatestimates the quality of an automatic summary a ∈ A, given a set of models M and a similarity ... Our framework satisfies this con-dition. An advantage of ORAN GE, however, isthat it does not require a large number of gold stan-dards to reach stability, as in the case of QARLA.Finally, ... paper, we introduce a probabilistic framework, QARLA, that addresses such issues.Given a set of manual summaries and another set of baseline summaries per task, together with a set of similarity...