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... Fig The ARF flow diagram 2.2 Adaptive Auto Rate Fallback (AARF) To overcome the given shortcomings, a new approach called Adaptive Auto Rate Fallback (AARF), was proposed (Lacage et al., 2004) ... to select adequately an instantaneous link rate This proposed model is evaluated with most recent techniques adopted by the IEEE 802.11 standard: ARF (Auto Rate Fallback) and AARF (Adaptive ARF) ... Auto Rate Fallback (ARF) Auto Rate Fallback (Kamerman & Monteban, 1997) was the first rate-control algorithm published and quickly adopted/integrated with the Wi-Fi standard It was designed to...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... 39 Carlo Grignani, Francesco Alluvione, Chiara Bertora, Laura Zavattaro, ` Massimo Fagnano, Nunzio Fiorentino, Fabrizio Quaglietta Chiaranda, Mariana Amato, Francesco Lupo, and Rocco Bochicchio ... Colturali, Forestali e dell’ ` Ambiente, Universita della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy ` Maurizio Badiani Dipartimento BIOMAA, Universita Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria, Italy Chiara Bertora Dipartimento ... Sicily Calabria Basilicata Puglia Campania Molise Lazio Abruzzo Marche Umbria Tuscany Emilia Romagna Liguria Veneto Friuli Venezia Giulia Trento Lombardy Valle d'Aosta Piemonte Italian regions...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 14:41

... 251 Chapter 14 Role of Tumor Tissue Analysis in Rectal Cancer Pharmacogenetics 253 Emilia Balboa, Goretti Duran, Maria Jesus Lamas, Antonio Gomez-Caamaño, Catuxa Celeiro-Muñoz, Rafael Lopez, Angel ... Rectal Cancer – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Management 83 year-old female patient with a 40-year history of Crohn's disease and low intestinal obstruction signs Supine trans-lateral radiography ... disease recurrence Image A demonstrates superficial adenomatous transformation of small bowel mucosa, which was adjacent to an area of invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma Image B shows neoplastic...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 19:20

... A FOUCAULDIAN APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL LAW This page intentionally left blank A Foucauldian Approach to International Law Descriptive Thoughts for Normative Issues LEONARD M HAMMER Senior ... USA Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hammer, Leonard M A Foucauldian approach to international law : descriptive thoughts for normative issues ... internal and external accountability issues, the chapter will offer the means for engaging an approach to international relations and international law that incorporates various non-state entities...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... that the tolerance mask is not always touched by the magnitude response In some regions the magnitude response ranges far below the allowed attenuation, which can be traced back to the fact that ... delay yields a smoothing effect In the stopband the group delay is apparently not minimized at all Therefore the stopband can be regarded as a “do not care” region thus increasing the available degrees ... yield a convex optimization problem 3.2.1 Passband Narrow-band low-pass filters usually not exhibit a distinctive passband In order to obtain a narrowband low-pass filters it is sufficient to ask for...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... able to create meaningful data valid in large scale analyses (across herds and veterinary practices) Such veterinarians would generally want to focus on possibilities for across-herd data analyses ... scores as a 'diagnostic tool' related to each individual treatment decision rather than being part of a collaborative data collection For example, they could add rectal temperature and other parameters ... Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 cal analyses in the future, and they are highly motivated to use, for instance, multi-factorial analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... correlates poorly with liver histology, the ratio of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >1 is a dependable marker for cirrhosis [28,29] Increased INR and thrombocytopenia ... HCC, and mortality In addition, HCV infection has been linked to a variety of extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and cryoglobulinemia Some ... regardless of treatment candidacy Alcohol abstinence should be recommended to all patients as this may accelerate the progression of liver disease Hepatotoxic drugs should also be avoided, as patients...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:51

... years, ALT has been used as a standard surrogate for the activity of CHB Thus, ALT level in combination with HBV DNA level and histological activity has been used as a determinant for HBV treatment ... normal transaminases have historically not been considered as candidates for HBV treatment based on the assumption that these patients usually have a slow progression and evidence that these patients ... predictors of response to LAM and ADV therapies are similar to those for IFN except that baseline HBV DNA may not be very important Individualization of HBV Treatment As summarized in Table and...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41

... However, Feynman soon learned that there was a great obstacle to this delayed action-at -a- distance theory: namely, if a radiating electron, say in an atom or an antenna, were not acted upon at all by ... xn (a) and which leaves the action invariant (for example, the transformation may be a rotation) The transformation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuous function of a For a equal ... gives probably the most fundacorresponds to e mental quantum analogue for the classical Lagrangian function It is preferable for the sake of analogy to consider the classical Lagrangian as a function...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 11:21

... time available/ in the available time.(1) We have to exploit all available potential/ all potential available in our country (2) As we know that when changing the position of adjective available ... should be washed everyday Nguyễn Thị Nga K 1 1A 19 Graduation paper 2.2.5 Exclamatory adjective sentence An adjective as head of an adjective phrase or as its sole realization can be an exclamation: ... up to now C .A plays an important role in learning a foreign language as a main subject at most language universals According to C James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study and a central...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... the American Nurses Association, the American Psychological Association, and Sigma Theta Tau International She is a board member of the International Council on Women's Health Issues and a charter ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publkation Data Thomas, Sandra P, Listening to patients : a phenomenological approach to nursing / Sandra P Thomas, Howard R Pollio p cm Includes bibliographical ... the man as a nurse and Ginger as a physician, whereas still other reactions identify the man as a nurse and Ginger as a patient You don't have to be a philosopher of language or a communications...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2013, 11:15

... team The database analysts and the programmers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass information back and forth between the interface and the database, and the requirements analysts and ... software packages), hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers or software), database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage and access), hardware and software ... Project managers usually employ a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) such as the sample in Table (PMI, 2000), and OD scholars have advocated similar approaches in teambuilding and organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... into manageable size—say to make a presentation about the Vietnam War or locate the best marketing strategy for a hypothetical business venture—consider making a quick visual map to see what ... number of audiences equals the number of students in class Write one per slip of paper and place in a hat and let each student draw an audience out of a hat Each now write a paragraph to the audience ... makes a permanent record to be reread and studied in your absence And if you want to maintain a certain tone or coolness of demeanor, this can be accomplished more easily in writing than in face-toface...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 17:33

... the Sandia National Laboratory study on enterprise transformation serves to bring the dangers that managers and administrators face when attempting to impose a transformational change into their ... Sandia National Laboratories approach, a four-level transformation model that focuses on identifying a transformation trigger, and an eight-factor public management model A Need for Transformation ... the earlier actions are integrated into the organization’s culture The Sandia Laboratories management team, for example, warned that a transformation initiative should not demand more than the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 20:20

... competitive advantage over its rival and is on the path to high performance The key is for banks to evaluate their business model now against scenarios ranging from best case to worst case, and to act ... program initiatives1 As Figure shows, a tactical cost-cutting approach will quickly yield substantial savings which rapidly level off after the first year A bank taking a more strategic, transformational ... Accenture’s approach to efficiency contains a portfolio of tools and assets—the Accenture High Performance Bank Framework—that can help a bank achieve high performance We believe there are significant...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... 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, ... orbital frontal cortex was greater for stimuli classified as beautiful, and the authors argued that this activation in the orbital frontal cortex was due to the reward value of beautiful paintings ... network than before, again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, but in particular bilateral orbital frontal corlex What the results of Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005)...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... unlimited raw corpus compensates for the modest recall As a result, large quantities of NE instances are automatically acquired An automatically annotated NE corpus can then be constructed by extracting ... fourDigitNum, containsDigitAndAlpha, containsDigitAndDash, containsDigitAndSlash, containsDigitAndComma, containsDigitAndPeriod, otherNum, allCaps, capPeriod, initCap, lowerCase, other Benchmarking and Discussion ... example: IsA(man) Æ PER IsA(city) Æ LOC IsA(company) Æ ORG IsA(software) Æ PRO Automatic Construction of Annotated NE Corpus In this step, we use the parsing-based first learner to tag a raw...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... identify critical components that are key to success G HAZOP and FMEA approaches Hazard and Operability studies and Failure Modes Effects Analysis are quantitative technical failure analysis techniques ... N 17 Risk appetite, tolerance and constraints Sources of assurance available to the Board A structured approach to Enterprise Risk Management Appendix B: Implementation summar y The table below ... they enable an organisation to identify accumulations of similar risks A risk classification system will also enable an organisation to identify which strategies, tactics and operations are most...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data", SRI International, 1976 hltman,D.J., and Allen, J.F., "A Plan Recognation Model for Clarification Subdlalogues", Proceedings of the International ... exlsting plan may contain constant instantiatlons in place of former variaOles A term fragment still associates with such constant terms A constant fragment can only associate with terms whose semantic ... utterance Allen views the speaker's utterance as part of a plan which the speaker has constructed and is executlug to accomplish his overall task-related goals To interpret elliptical fragments, Allen...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... operator THE, and the operator POWER for definite plurals follows Scha [25] The operators KIND and SAMPLE follow Cad.son's analysis [10] of the semantics of bare plurals THE, as an operator, takes ... constants that can appear in formulae that lexical items map to For instance, vessel and ship map to VESSEL In the example above regarding pilot, the constants were PERSON, FLYING-EVENT, and ACTOR; ... Since IRACQ assumes that a large vocabulary is available for use in the training examples," a way to rapidly infer the knowledge bases for the overwhelming majority of words is an invaluable complement...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20