a model of computation inspired by biochemistry

... inhibition of VCAM-1 expression in cerebral vasculature by anandamide provides a new mechanism that may explain the therapeutic action of increased anandamide tone in neuroinflammatory diseases like ... A, Bari M, Granata F, Gasperi V, De Stefano ME, FinazziAgrò A, Strom R: Regulation by cannabinoid receptors of anandamide transport across the blood-brain barrier and through other endothelial ... Schematic drawing of the BBB model, experimental design and confirmation of BBB characteristic by Evan’s blue permeability assay and Zonula occludens immunocytochemistry List of abbreviations 2-AG:...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... In the case of amplitude analysis, the same events and data segments were used Data are expressed as means ± standard error of the mean (SEM) Some data were normalized as a percentage of the control ... intrathecal application of exogenous TNFα induced mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia in rats and mice [13-15] Pain hypersensitivity associated with peripheral neuropathy was attenuated ... Modulation of spinal cord synaptic activity by tumor necrosis factor α in a model of peripheral neuropathy Diana Spicarova, Vladimir Nerandzic and Jiri Palecek Department of Functional Morphology,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... uppsatsen har varit att analysera användbarheten och möjligheten att modellera med MathWorks simuleringsverktyg Simscape genom att bygga en förenklad modell av den automatiska växellådan ZF-ECOMAT ... 2010) Table 3: Simscape predefined physical domains Physical Domain Across Variable Through Variable Electrical Hydraulic Magnetic Mechanical rotational Mechanical translational Pneumatic Thermal ... in a natural, readable and in an intuitive form It is also tightly integrated with MATLAB, Simulink and Simscape MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow are registered trademarks, and Simscape is a trademark...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:44

... are 10 factors extracted at Eigenvalues of 1.022 and total explained variance of 70.641 all factor loading are greater than the cut-off value of 0.4 The result of KMO and Bartlett's Test is also ... concepts and has been an area of interest for marketing academics and practitioners as well There are a numbers of models of brand equity in common marketing settings (Farquhar,1989; David A Aaker, 1991; ... constructs: rational evaluation and emotional evaluation These two latent variables, on the one hand, act as dependent variables that are influenced by the brand associations On the other hand, they...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 15:52

... Thunderhead: A Paranormal Romance of the Guardians of Man (Bk 2) What happens when a Guardian Angel actually hates you? What if you did nothing more than fall in love? What if they have the ability ... get acquainted, and I'll go get some wine." Ali walked across a small carpeted area and around a corner Acquainted? Stephen was stunned He hadn't thought that far into his little plan What the ... back in his pocket If Charlieman was working late, his lights would have been on So it wasn't Charlieman Maybe it was one of the Asians? Charlieman had been talking about getting a silent alarm,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 11:20

... neural correlates of preference and beauty, two variables that have affective and cognitive components The areas activated by Vartanian and Goel (2004b) may have highlighted those cOrlical structures ... processing along all five stages of the model The results indicate that evaluating a stimulus as beautiful was asSOCIated WIth mcreased activation in the orbital frontal cortex Activation in the orbital ... contrast, the studies by Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) attempted to isolate those cortical structures that are actIvated more when a stimulus is evaluated as beautiful Presumably,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... Curriculum and assessment Authority (VCAA) manages and awards school qualifications It administers and awards two senior school secondary qualifications known as the Victorian Certificate of education ... Michaels; Thomas Carr; Westbourne Grammar Ballarat Associated Schools (bas) It is a group of schools in Ballarat, that provides the basis for interschool sporting competition Ballarat and Clarendon ... school associations with ACC, APSV and AGSV all being significant in the IV model We also have discovered that the impact of the age of the school has a non-linear impact on fees and that the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... that the more a social change campaign mimicked that of a commercial marketing campaign, the greater the likelihood of its success To many, however, the idea of expanding the application of marketing ... countries (Manoff 1985, Walsh et al 1993) For example, family planning programs in Sri Lanka moved away from clinical approaches and examined the distribution of contraceptives through pharmacists and ... Fishbein M and Middlestadt SE (eds), Social Marketing: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Bagozzi R (1975) Marketing and exchange Journal of Marketing,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... of affective states The importance of the pre-classification has already been addressed in a study by Leder (2001) Telling participants that artworks are fakes rather than original paintings by ... was proposed by Ramachandran and Hirstein (1999) Other components The acquisition of knowledge about art, the finding of meaning and the evaluation of meaning are all possibly affected by social ... Conceptual ideas, stylistic reflections and variations, as well as abstract concepts no longer apparent from the appearance of the artwork have become increasingly dominant in contemporary art This aspect...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... of conducts as a set of rules instead of what they are meant to be and that is, a way of life Imagine what your organisation could achieve if your employees have the same mental approach of a ... came across the most painful realisation of all and that was I wasn’t as funny as I thought I was This was a painful blow but made me realise just how much of an impact the word ‘Manager” has on ... described as best as rude and at worst downright harassment A few years later I left and moved to London and started a career in a Finance House Anyone who has worked for a Finance House, particularly...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 14:20

... Dulay and Marina K Burt 1975 Natural sequences in child second language acquisition Language Learning, 24(1) Susan Gass 1979 Language transfer and universal grammatical relations Language Learning, ... corpus analysis we have undertaken is meant to provide this structure by indicating a partial ordering on the acquisition of grammatical features by this population of learners 1.4 Applications Having ... connected to a text parser that uses a wide-coverage English grammar augmented by “mal-rules” capturing typical errors made by our learner population It can recognize and label many grammatical errors,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... them an operational interpretation.) The model has the advantage to give an explicit and simple definition of relations that not have the same semantic range (e.g CAUSE vs FROM vs AT) The analysis ... where "s" is a place and "t", a transition This approach to semantic roles determination is close to the one undertook by Jackendoff [12] His identification of each role to a particular argument ... syntactic forms (that is how does each potential participant is grammaticalized) References [1] Anderson, J.M., 1971 The grammar of case, Towards a localistic theory, CUP: Cambridge [2] Bach,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... represent natural variability in the yeast population, and we investigated the regions of parameter and variable space described by them Metabolic Fig Schematic of the model yeast glycolytic pathway ... population of 50 models, and the corresponding steady-state metabolite concentrations and fluxes, are shown in Tables and The fitted Vmax values occupy only a very small portion of the available parameter ... therefore reach steadystate, compared to only 512 with low HXT(Vmax) PCA of the FCCs for those simulations able to attain steady state indicates that within the scanned parameter range this model of derepressed...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... the past tense Berwick, R Computational analogues of constraints on grammars: A model of syntactic acquisition Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ... discrimination process explains the order in which grammatical morphemes are mastered Finally, AMBER learns gradually enough to provide a plausible explanation of the incremental nature of first language ... substitutions, extra words, and transpositions), and each led to an associated alteration of the grammar PST accounted for children's omission of content words and the gradual increase in utterance length...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:21

... lexical entries and explain the meaning of HEAD, TEMP, and ADV As already noted, these are names of procedures that are executed after all the unsaturated arguments of the lexical entry have been ... deal with cases where the initial lexlcal entry activated by the central processor is not a TEMP-marked entry, as it was the case in the examples analyzed above, but it is a HEAD- or an ADV-marked ... arrival (see (I)) can be generated using the following lexical entry for arrival: (5) CA: XA ARRIVE HEAD(CA) XA arrival 15 Subordinate clauses, i.e verb-, noun-, and adverbial-complements, can...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... that the future wage rates of other firms are in part a function of its own past wage rat:s Finally, a bank’ market share of loans is treated in a manner similar s to a firm’ market share of ... reasonable in a macroeconomic context than models of pure monopoly behavior An apparent disadvantage of postulating more than one bank and firm and yet treating all banks and firms as identical ... bills and bonds = total value of loans of the bank sactor = value of loans = maximum value of loans that the bank will make = toial unconsuained demand for loans = bill rate = bond mte = loan rate...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:20

... employed by a visualization creator to represent an abstract dataset It is the process of translating data values to a visual representation The focus on direct mapping is generally driven by standards ... legislation has allowed the public to gain access to previously unattainable government and corporation data Non-government-organisations have started to collect and expose data as a means of provoking ... encourage creativity and sharing Dataset Availability The Internet has made the individual creation, collection and sharing of data easier Next to personal content creation, the Freedom of Information...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... table with an embedded Wacom tablet, and (3) head nod and eye gaze via a stereo-camera-based 6-degree-offreedom head-pose tracker (based on [20]) These inputs operate as parallel threads, allowing ... demonstrated nonverbal conversational behaviors Empirical Study In order to get an empirical basis for modeling face-to-face grounding, and implementing an ECA, we analyzed conversational data in ... Related Work Conversation can be seen as a collaborative activity to accomplish information-sharing and to pursue joint goals and tasks Under this view, agreeing on what has been said, and what...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20