... 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...
... 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...
... 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, ...
... statistical software package (Statview 4.5; Abacus Concept Inc, Berkeley, CA, USA) and expressed as mean ± SEM Groups of data were compared by analysis of variance; the means of groups with variances ... in RA synovitis, because most ofthe leukocytes infiltrating the SF of rheumatoid joints are PMNs PMNs in the RA SF are in an activated state, and produce a variety of other inflammatory mediators ... angiogenic factor, namely vascular endothelial growth factor, was markedly induced by the interaction of FLS with synovial leukocytes via the integrin/ICAM-1 pathway [19] Taken together, these data support...
... 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...
... breaks in apoptotic cells by the TUNEL labelling assay, to further validate the importance of cleaved caspase-3 as a relevant biomarker for apoptosis In an ideal setup these data would have been ... (GAPDH) (forward 5'AGAACGGGAAGCTTGTCATC; reverse 5'TGC-TGATGATCTTGAGGCTG) spanning an amplicon of 247 bp were always run in parallel for reasons of control RT-PCR products of caspase-3 were normalized ... shifting the mean value above the corresponding mean value ofthe untreated cultured tumor samples Therefore, the median values are also given in Table The general expression levels of caspase-3...
... detail of 5-year age bands, the analysis ofa single age group resulted in nearly identical ICERs as that ofthe 5-year age group it falls within For example, if a vaccination strategy was applied ... underestimated The underestimation of costs does have the advantage that it does not favour the vaccine arm and therefore represents a conservative approach A sensitivity analysis which varied all health ... current lack of available data, themodel may underestimate the potential health benefits and cost savings resulting from vaccination Therefore future analyses, in the form of additional retrospective...
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... enhancer and scans along the DNA until it reaches the promoter (Blackwood and Kadonaga 1998) In the chromatin remodeling model, factors that bind the enhancer can propagate a change in the chromatin ... c-Fos and c-Jun (Clayton, Rose et al 2000) Protein phosphatase appears to be the histone H3 phosphatase and two kinases ofthe Aurora/AIK family, Aurora -A and Aurora-B, have been identified as the ... phosphate (NADPH) oxidase (Castro and Freeman 2001) The NADPH oxidases are a group of plasma membrane-associated enzymes that catalyze the production of reactive oxidants such as free radicals by the...
... overview ofa patient's asthma control with a quick glance Patients assume active role in their health care Implementation: The Asthma Task Force developed an Asthma Test, Asthma Management Plan, and ... 1) In Navajo asthma patients, perceptions of asthma and beliefs about the activity of asthma medications influence when and how often asthma medicines are taken, as well as the use of health services ... within the health centers The Asthma Task Force developed medical record documents to facilitate superior asthma care (including an Asthma Test, Asthma Management Plan, and Asthma Action Plan),...
... former case, there is the advantage of studying reactions to real art and the disadvantage that any two works of art differ from each other in several different respects, so that the actual factor ... et al., 2006) Another major difference among the three studies is the task that participants were asked to perform Kawabata and Zeki (2004) asked their participants to rate the beauty ofthe ... encompasses the region identified by Vartanian and Goel (2004), and has been related with the assessment ofthe relevance of motivational and emotional information and theregulationof emotional...
... estimates the quality of an automatic summary a ∈ A, given a set of models M and a similarity metric x An obvious first attempt would be to compute the average similarity ofa to all model summaries ... inequality) or decreasing the similarity between automatic summaries (the x (a, a ) factor in the inequality) Finally, adding elements to A can only increase the chances of finding a pair of automatic ... 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 metrics, QARLA provides quantitative measures...
... 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...
... often the case that a grammar assigns just one ofa range of logically equivalent representations to a sentence; designers of grammars for use in analysis generally take care to ensure that the ... translation application Similarly, the transfer rules of Zajac (1990) express a relation between subparts ofa single complex structure Such an approach does not appear suitable forthe appl/cation ... An alternative is to define equivalence classes of representations, and reduce all members ofa class to the single canonical form which the grammar can map into a senfence Exactly how the classes...
... 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 ... e-democracy The thesis will provide a critical analysis of e-parliament strategies in some countries’ parliaments Further, through an analysis of some ofthe countries’ parliaments that have e-parliament...
... retransplantation despite acyclovir therapy Liver Transpl 2005, 11:1289-1294 Halford WP, Halford KJ, Pierce AT: Mathematical analysis demonstrates that interferons-beta and -gamma interact in a ... Analysis of numerical data was performed with the software packages Microsoft Excel and Modstat (Modern Microcomputers, Mechanicsville, VA) All viral titers were transformed by adding a value of to the ... based on one-way ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc t-test b The Stat is not essential forthe early synthesis of HSV-1 latency-associated transcripts A subset of neurons synthesize LAT RNAs as soon as...