... performance database was designed to store the majority ofthe data collected by the LTPP program for easy and convenient dissemination and use The pavement performance database is a relational database ... SEASONAL MONITORING PROGRAM 4.1 Data Acquisition The first and foremost important task for this research was the collection ofthe required data that could be used forthe data analysis The Transportation ... Transportation Research Board (TRB) ofthe National Research Council, under the sponsorship ofthe Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and with the cooperation ofthe American Association of State...
... since the parser has to simultaneously perform two tasks: Searching fora path to be analysed and analysing it as well If the analysis procedure is too liberal, it may already accept and analyse an ... semantic predicates, a list of scopal constraints, syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic information as well as tense and aspect and sortal information An example ofa VIT forthe sentence Montag ... length ofthe temporal interval an analysis spans; an analysis with a greater length is preferred The coverage of an analysis is the sum ofthe lengths ofthe component analyses it consists of Note...
... documents and metadata; 64 Presentation by Trajko Veljanoski, President ofthe Assembly ofthe Republic of Macedonia, and Jani Makraduli, Vice President ofthe Assembly ofthe Republic of Macedonia, at ... on the other end ofthe spectrum, many parliaments lack a strategic plan, an adequate ICT infrastructure, basic tools for Members of Parliament and staff, systems for managing documents and trained ... South African parliament has a special public participation function in decision-making processes The theory ofthe separation ofthe powers ofthe state, i.e the legislature, the executive and the...
... spine care model will facilitate integration ofthe chiropractic profession into the mainstream of healthcare Integration offers substantial advantages toward addressing professional values and ... described as the ideology of chiropractic or the hypothesis of chiropractic, rather than as a philosophy This modelof chiropractic has continued to advance a hypothetical modelof health and disease ... between the profession's assessmentofthe value the practice of chiropractic offers and society's assessments ofthe same Some chiropractors lament that the profession has done a poor job of educating...
... midpoint ofthe values of ki plus the midpoint ofthe values of bi because values of ki are not available for certain tissues For scaling ofthe brain and the epithelial tissues ofthe skin and gastrointestinal ... comparable to other data sets analysed, multiple data points fora species were replaced by a single data point calculated as the average value of body weight and the average value of BMR forthe ... anatomical conceptualization has also been used to develop a five-compartment anatomical model (brain, liver, kidney, heart and all other organs) as an explanation for Kleiber's law [28] The anatomical...
... identifiers assigned to POS tags We used the approach of Katz (Katz.1987) for parameter smoothing, and build a trigram model to predict the probabilities of parameter (1) and (3) In the case that unknown ... Street Journal distributed with the Penn Treebank II, and the definition of baseNP is the same as Ramshaw’s, Table summarizes the average performance on both baseNP tagging and POS tagging, each section ... together such that the final output takes the uncertainty in both steps together The approaches proposed by Ramshaw & Markus and Cardie&Pierce are deterministic and local, while Argamon, Dagan...
... Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics) for running many ofthe analytical ultracentrifugation samples, A Padovani for making the W56F variant and J A Kornblatt for encouragement and advice ... in a change in the conformation of this loop Changes in the conformation ofthe backbone at this point and changes in the orientation of other side chains, as a result ofthe introduction ofthe ... the QuickChange method (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) The primer sequences were as follows: 5¢-GG GGT GTT ATG GTT TCC CAT CGA TCT GAA GAA ACT GAA GAC (G376E) and 5¢-CCA TTC TTG AAC GTT TTA AAC...
... ortholog of Caenorhabditis elegans (AhR-1C.E.), neither photoaf®nity labeled by a dioxin analog, nor activated by b-naphto¯avone in a yeast system [20]; the rainbow trout AhRa that binds TCDD [21] and ... to the bound state, Arg206 affects the position of Asp212, which in turn undergoes the largest conformational change of all the sidechains [12] Interestingly, although the conformation ofthe ... ofthe isolated domain PYP has been previously proposed as an appropriate structural template for AhR, but our analysis ofthe recently determined structures ofthe FixL and the HERG PAS domains...
... wave breaking on a natural beach To verify the accuracy ofthe numerical model on the simulation ofthe wave transformation on a natural beach, existing experimental data on the wave dynamics in ... suitable fora practical application. On the other hand, based on results of Nadaoka et al [9], Ting and Kirby [15‐17], it can be estimated that in the surf zone, the time scale ... wave dynamics in the near shore area and in the vicinity of coastal structures. It has been found that the numerical model can satisfactorily simulate the wave transformation, ...
... Materials and methods All mathematical analysis and numerical tting were performed using the software package Mathematica 7.0 (Wolfram Research, Inc Champaign, IL, USA) The substrate in the calorimetric ... and off rate At a xed k2, a change in this ratio may be interpreted as a change in the afnity ofthe enzyme forthe substrate Hence, we can assess relationships of this afnity parameter and the ... approximations as the average area of randomly adsorbed enzymes will be larger than the footprint, and only a certain fraction ofthe enzyme will be adsorbed in the initial stages Nevertheless, the analysis...
... institutions The association acts principally as a forum forthe exchange of ideas and the formation of opinions However, it also shares the responsibility with the National Bank ofthe savings banks ... with the exception ofthe guarantee forthe livret A already mentioned In particular, therefore, French savings banks are subject neither to a liability forthe debts ofthe saving banks (“Anstaltslast”) ... from the sale ofthe shares ofthe cooperative savings banks, – The corporate aim ofthe cooperative savings banks, – The composition ofthe members ofthe cooperative savings banks and the future...
... Colony, 4th Avenue, Anna Nagar, Chennai - 600040, India 3Dept of Surgery, Sundaram Medical Foundation, Shanthi Colony, 4th Avenue, Anna Nagar, Chennai - 600040, India 4Dept of International Emergency ... R, Colford JM Jr, Reingold AL, Kalantri S: Nonmalarial acute undifferentiated fever in a rural hospital in central India: diagnostic uncertainty and overtreatment with antimalarial agents Am J ... protocol, if an eligible patient was stable and had had less than days of fever, all investigations and antimicrobial therapy were deferred, and the patient was prescribed antipyretics and asked to...
... temporal artifacts in the halftone videos Therefore, perceptual quantitative measures for evaluating these artifacts are desirable Quantitative assessmentof temporal artifacts can facilitate comparison ... This instantiation ofthe flicker assessment framework is depicted in Figure In Figure 9, K, Q, and R each have a value of L, and S have each a value of P has a value of −1 The “Artifact Map” is ... dirty-window-effect Forthe perceptual evaluation of each artifact, a particular instantiation ofthe generalized framework, was presented and the associated results were EURASIP Journal on Image and Video...
... guidance from the research staff about the criteria for each rating The nurses' judgment was based on review ofthe medical record, as a summary of all staff accounts Although the nurses assigned ... deep structural reparation ofthe mechanism of disorder The theory ofthe Cape Cod Model claims that the experimental intervention achieves reparation of that mechanism, in measurable increments ... patients mislearn from their private experiments faster than they make progress in therapy with analysis ofthe transference and of scenarios of old betrayals The crisis intervention ofthe Cape...
... was calculated on a leaf area basis by: = where A is the cross-sectional area ofthe conc ductive pathway and L the leaf area (all sided) ofthe tree A was measured after the experic ment on the ... shape, and calculating the sap flux as the average ofthe measurements made at a height of m on a sample of ten trees at Carrasqueira and at a height of 8.5 m on seven We trees at the Bray site The ... temperature and transpi- a crown ration rate; the resistance and capacitance of each compartment are independent ofthe flux or water potential ofthe compartment and remain constant during the day...
... Evolution ofthe ATP transporter family based on available amino acid sequences from a range of microsporidian parasites 1, Putative ancestral duplication of ATP transporters within the microsporidia ... uncultivatable organisms from which only a handful of contaminant-free DNA can be extracted Finally, an important goal ofthe present study was to gather a large amount of genome sequence information ... nothing about the overall organization ofthe genome because the fragments sampled were small and only a tiny fraction ofthe genome was characterized in any one case [35,36,38] The data presented...
... using the python data together with other comparative data to estimate genomic characteristics ofthe ancestral amniote genome Page of (or the ancestral squamate genome) would be fascinating, ... completion of long mate-pair library sequencing will mark the end ofthe data collection phase and the start of assembly and analysis The end of this phase will be marked clearly on the snake genomics ... future, and the incorporation of additional lineages of snakes would further support their utility as research models Formation ofthe Consortium for Snake Genomics and a portal for snake genomic...
... distally along the shoe), medial (greater medial than lateral wear at the heel and forefoot), which may indicate excessive pronation, or lateral (greater lateral than medial wear at the heel and forefoot), ... context, the range of each measure across included footwear was also reported Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability for all categorical data was evaluated using percentage agreement, and kappa (κ) ... reliability for all categorical items, use of these items from the tool to assist clinical footwear assessment can be recommended fora range of populations Qualitative evaluation ofthe tool and...
... depth of barium titanate particles in the temporary cavity The radiological examination ofthe infiltration depth of barium titanate particles within the ruptures ofa temporary cavity in the gelatin ... size ofthe temporary cavity and the infiltration depth ofthe barium titanate particles In contrast to this, the infiltration depth of barium titanate particles in the case ofthe full metal jacket ... Yoganandan N, Pintar FA, Kumaresan S, Maiman DJ, Hargarten SW: Dynamic analysis of penetrating trauma J Trauma 1997, 42:266-72 Yetiser S, Kahramanyol M: High-velocity gunshot wounds to the head...