a functional analytic framework for understanding adolescent risk taking behavior

... 238 Functional- analytic method for difference equations nonlinear partial difference equations of two variables, we developed a similar functionalanalytic method in [11, 12], which was extended ... partial difference equations of three and four variables The aim of this paper is to present the generalization of this functional- analytic method for the study of linear and nonlinear partial ... equation under consideration into an equivalent linear or nonlinear operator equation in an abstract separable Hilbert H or Banach H1 space Then, after some manipulations, we bring the linear...

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... international financial accounting and reporting standards, and the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, which issues international auditing and assurance standards In addition, each ... Sutton, MA: Audit Analytics Audit Analytics 2010b Audit Fees and Non-Audit Fees: A Seven Year Trend Sutton, MA: Audit Analytics Bailey, W T 1982 An appraisal of research designs used to investigate ... There has long been a call for auditors to publicly share this kind of information in a national database, analogous to the National Transportation Safety Board, which collects data on accidents...

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... become available for practice-based research and because of this a concomitant demand has appeared for the development of standards for such 34 A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING PRACTICE AS RESEARCH ... OSU’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), OSU faculty member Maria Palazzi (ACCAD/Department of Design), and Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD/Department of Dance) began a collaborative ... investigation of these inquiries in a manner that is satisfying both as theory and as an attempt to further understand and facilitate creative practice A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING PRACTICE AS RESEARCH...

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... between, say, a Ferrari and the Brazilian rainforest Ferraris are complicated machines, but an expert mechanic can take one apart and reassemble it without changing a thing The car is static, and the ... context, staying aware of danger signals, and avoiding inappropriate reactions, managers can lead effectively in a variety of situations THE CONTEXT’S CHARACTERISTICS SIMPLE Repeating patterns and consistent ... Dissent and formal debate are valuable communication assets in complex contexts because they encourage the emergence of well-forged patterns and ideas A “ritual dissent” approach, for instance,...

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... CCR and CVA risk capital charges This paragraph deals with the aggregation of the default risk capital charge and the CVA risk capital charge for potential mark-to-market losses Note that outstanding ... (a) the IMM capital charge based on current parameter calibrations for EAD and (b) the IMM capital charge based on stressed parameter calibrations for EAD ii The standardised CVA risk capital ... that the bank’s CVA loss exposures arising from SFT transactions are material A Banks with IMM approval and Specific Interest Rate Risk VaR model 34 approval for bonds: Advanced CVA risk capital...

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... between formal language theory and natural languages may well have more to with the unnaturalness of the traditional diagnostics than a lack of relevance of the underlying structural properties Finally, ... of all analyses that can occur in human languages The principles then distinguish particular sub-languages the head-final or the pro-drop languages, for instance Each realized human language is ... Finally, the fact that these complexity classes have automata-theoretic characterizations means that results concerning the complexity of natural languages will have implications for the nature...

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... Lexical Chain Features Chain starts and ends We follow (Chan et al 2007) to model the lexical chain starts and ends at a story boundary with a statistical distribution We apply a window around ... We have presented a Bayesian decision framework that performs automatic story segmentation based on statistical modeling of one or more lexical chain features, including lexical chain starts, ... approach in (Chan et al 2007) based on the training data The optimal value is found to be 130.9sec for long programs We make use of three lexical chain features: chain starts, continuations and...

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... accuracy of Spade is 49% on the RST-DT corpus To obtain a clausal path, we map each anchor A i to its clause in Spade If anchors A i and A j belong to the same clause, we assign them the relation ... i and A j 5.3 Evaluation of templates At this stage, we have a set of accepted integral relation paths between any anchor pair A i and A j The next task is to merge appropriate set of anchors ... -> peasants - Nucleus Satellite Nucleus, Satellite Nucleus, Satellite Nucleus, Satellite Arg , Arg Target, -, ArgM-MNR Arg , Arg Arg , ArgMMNR Satellite It's a dark comedy about a boy Target_Cue...

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... how functional programming differs from imperative programming with languages such as Java and Ruby, and what a functional programming language actually is As the name implies, functional programming ... follow, and the syntax should be fairly readable for anyone familiar with Ruby, PHP, or similar languages Table 1.1 Comparing Java and Scala styles of coding Java Scala When building class definitions, ... (such as calendaring, Gravatar, and JavaScript autocomplete) XMPP Actor-based wrappers around XMPP message exchange At the time of writing, the available modules are located within a separate Git...

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... models (probabilistic and coverage) outperform all RTE lexical baselines on both data sets, apart from (Majumdar and Bhattacharyya, 2010) which incorporates additional lexical resources, a named entity ... (TAC) Debarghya Majumdar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya 2010 Lexical based text entailment system for main task of RTE6 In Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference (TAC) Shachar Mirkin, Roy Bar-Haim, ... (4)(Majumdar and Bhattacharyya, 2010) and (5)(Jia et al., 2010) While the probabilistic and coverage models are comparable on RTE-6 (with non-significant advantage for the former), on RTE-5 the latter...

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... 0.12 Table F1-measure for Features vs Abstractness: ODP/is -a WordNet For example, under artificial intelligence, ODP has neural networks, natural language and academic departments Clearly, academic ... interaction between features and relations, as well as that between features and term abstractness Related Work There has been a substantial amount of research on automatic taxonomy induction As ... well for sibling relations, but not for is -a and part-of Syntactic features also work well for sibling, but not for is -a and part-of The similar behavior of contextual and syntactic features may...

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... study Aromatic amine dehydrogenase (AADH), like MADH, is a TTQ-dependent amine oxidase AADH transfers electrons, derived from the deamination of primary amines (aromatic amines are generally preferred ... larger than the active site alone Also, vibrationally assisted quantum tunneling is, for example, well established as a means of H-transfer in metals [16] and for enzyme-mediated electron transfer ... H-tunneling by a vibrationally assisted mechanism, although a Boltzman analysis suggests a very small population in anything other than the vibrational ground state An alternative explanation might be found...

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... frontal left lobes of Alpha and Gamma2 band and central lobes of the Alpha band Alterations in the Alpha band are also expected since they are generally associated with problems in attention and ... group for both the signal representation approach and the signal modelling approach in the univariate and bivariate cases Once the features were available, classification was performed using a simple ... between and 11 years analyzed in [32] have also shown an increase in theta and alpha power When considering the mathematical subtraction Task the most significant bands (Table 2) are Theta, Beta and...

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... [18]) Each grid has a grid head, an active sensor for message transmission and public share storage The grid head stores the public shares of all active nodes within its grid at designated locations ... [21] before deployment This pairing is done based on node IDs, and therefore mutual authentication can be realized after deployment since all keys are unique and each is associated with a pair of ... message dissemination and keying information storage When a grid head needs to be replaced due to reasons such as power depletion, it can delegate another active sensor as the new grid head and...

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... per each EK Whenever the manufacturer generates a new EK, it informs the Privacy CA, in a safe way, about that EK The Privacy CA, like the manufacturer, maintains a database of all available ... The manufacturer maintains a database of all available EKs (M EKDB), indexed by MD(EK) The database has all information that the manufacturer needs about each SDR-MD it has produced When the manufacturer ... ACK ACK Stores AC AC AC Generates AC ACK ACK Obtains AK pair Obtains C Authenticates CA KEK {C (AK pair)} KEK {C} Generates C ACK R = Att(EK) SDR-MD Request R0 SDR-DM KEK {C (AK pair)} Obtains...

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... [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/ data/view/ERP000619] 28 Affymetrix - Sample Data, Exon 1.0 ST Array Dataset [http://www affymetrix.com/support/technical/sample_data/exon_array_data.affx] 29 Akira S, Takeda K: ... of the Barres Lab (Stanford), Myers Lab (HudsonAlpha Institute), Ravits Lab (Benaroya Institute) and Maniatis Lab (Harvard/Columbia) for providing data and/or user feedback This work was supported ... data Brad A Friedman1,2,3* and Tom Maniatis4 Abstract RNA-Seq and microarray platforms have emerged as important tools for detecting changes in gene expression and RNA processing in biological...

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... HoustonPharma Dr Keefe has received grant/research support from Astra-Zeneca and Eli Lilly, and NIMH He has also served as a consultant and on advisory boards for various pharmaceutical companies as ... baseline values for all measures included in this analysis can be found in Table The majority of patients were male with an average age of approximately 39 years of age The average age of onset ... Interpersonal Values associated with directed pathways are standardized path coefficients; values over the double-arrowed arches are correlations; asterisks indicate statistical significance at *p

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... reduction is available as MATLAB code in Additional data file 9, and updated versions will be made available online [51] Additional data files The following additional data are available with the ... genes associated with a functional category or a particular transcriptional factor are learned from unclassified data In an insightful analysis of functional classes in classification of microarray ... DNA relaxation [20]), ATPases, transposon related, targets of FIS, a nucleoid associated transcriptional regulator as well as anaerobic genes and targets of FNR, a regulatory gene for fumarate...

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... are applicable to the field of agent-based simulation in general Empirical validation is usually approached as either an indirect calibration approach, or as a check against available historical ... Gupta and Ranganathan’s work (which also appealed to the FEMA diagrams), resource management is identified as a key task during a crisis Nash equilibriums from game theory are employed in an attempt ... The black-box nature of agents is an attractive mechanism for abstracting driver behavior, and provides a modular means of adding new types of agents such as pedestrians or traffic lights Tao and...

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... LHβ ERE/AP1 Pitx1 TGTCAatcTGAC Sf-1 GGATTAG -260 TATA TAGAGGTCA -232 -154 -25 Common carp and goldfish LHβ ERE/AP1 Pitx1 GTTCAttcTGACC Sf-1 -138 TATA TTAAGGTCA ATAATC -92 -61 -22/- Mammalian LHβ ... pathway GnRH activates the cAMP/PKA pathway, which has been shown to activate the mouse, rat and human αGSU promoter activity (Attardi and Winters, 1998; Maurer et al., 1999) In rat pituitary ... Schena et al., 1995) The major advantage of microarray technology is that it can be used to investigate global transcription patterns quickly owing to the fact that many genes can be analyzed at...

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