... level of savings achievable in the back office In light of market pressures, rationalization of operational activities a main source of savings—had to be realized ina quick and sustainable manner ... clear financial objectives and operating model • An incontestable fact base and cost baseline • Ongoing transparency and reporting of cost and benefits linked to financial plans • Clear alignment ... removing duplicated or unnecessary processes Accenture supported the bank in realizing its goals by helping to: • Establish a detailed financial baseline • Analyze the financial baseline to identify...
... common approachto spelling correction utilizes statistical information (Kernighan et al., 1990; Schierle et al., 2007; Mitton, 2010) As a simple example, if we want to avoid maintaining a manually-crafted ... explain, our approach can still incorporate query-log data as features involved in the correction, as well as means to refine the parameters 1.3 Contribution and Outline As said above, our goal ... EMNLP-CoNLL, pages 181–189 L Chiticariu, R Krishnamurthy, Y Li, S Raghavan, F Reiss, and S Vaithyanathan 2010 SystemT: An algebraic approachto declarative information extraction In ACL, pages 128–137...
... COLING - ACL (Montreal, Canada) pp 385-391 Antonio Ferrández, Manuel Palomar and Lidia Moreno (1999) An empirical approachto Spanish anaphora resolution To appear in Machine Translation 14(2-3) Jerry ... our approachto that of Dagan and Itai, and to be able to evaluate the importance of this kind of information, our method was applied with statistical information12 only If there is more than ... has been incorporated into a computational system (SUPAR) In the evaluation, several baselines on pronominal anaphora resolution have been implemented, and it has achieved better results than...
... glucose back to the normal range and help to maintain exercise training intensity It only adds 20 calories to the daily diet Again, up to 15-30 grams of carbs (think Gatorade) can be sipped on during ... dieting into a maintenance phase that can be sustained In this chapter, I want to make some introductory remarks and, in the after that I’m going to give two different options of how to eat at maintenance ... of a subcategory within aerobic training; you can think of it as sprint training Interval/sprint training is performed with the same types of activities as aerobic training but entails working...
... returned to the clinic one week later complaining that the pain in his left calf area persisted and could be further aggravated by tiptoeing and weight bearing maneuvers Again, US examination in the ... muscle Am J Sports Med 1977, 5:191-193 Takebayashi S, Takasawa H, Banzai Y, Miki H, Sasaki R, Itoh Y, Matsubara S: Sonographic findings in muscle strain injury: clinical and MR imaging correlation ... guidance, a 21–gauge needle was inserted into the fluid collection area and 15 ml of serosanguinous fluid was aspirated (Figure 3) Dramatic pain relief was noted after aspiration An elastic stocking...
... the individual minority categories (African American, Hispanic and Multi-racial) on the internalizing ratio score were evaluated to identify if collapsing the categories into a minority variable ... relationship existed between MA and the internalizing ratio score The sample's mean internalizing ratio score was 49 with a standard deviation of 25 The results indicate that mental age was a ... http://www.capmh.com/content/1/1/9 variable Similar to the analysis for gender, a factorial ANOVA with minority status (minority versus Caucasian) and the low and high mental age categories were used as...
... cell shape, for example Understanding of pathways leading to targeted and combination therapies How biochemical pathways can be used to find new therapeutics was illustrated by David Lane (University ... and a compound that prevents DNA repair through an alternative pathway, in this case base excision repair This combination results in the cells sustaining fatal genomic instability In elegant ... 2008, Characterizing genes and pathway interactions is clearly a crucial step in elucidating oncogenesis, and high-throughput analysis of pathways in model organisms offers one way of doing this...
... of inflammation) increased in wounded skin, and PAG administration significantly reduced MPO activity in wounded skin compared to non-treated animals Histological analysis also revealed that aggregated ... [13] That endogenous H2S was found to participate in hindpaw swelling was also suggested in animals using a standard test for oedema formation (carrageenan-induced hindpaw swelling) [14] Several ... A mathematic model was applied to determine the time to half wound healing In the exponential phase starting from Day 3, the change in area per change in time is a function of the remaining area...
... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 Background Files with information on animal disease have a variety of applications at both the herd and national level, including monitoring the incidence ... and bias in relation to monitoring of animal disease incidence on herd and national level, causal analysis on national level, as well as estimation of validated treatment criteria Monitoring of ... Variation and bias in data based on clinical examinations can be linked to veterinarians' individual perception of the purpose of, and their motivations for, data collection Some veterinarians...
... capturing and reinvesting IT project savings ina measurable way IT and the projects that create it are going to be an increasingly integral part of modern life in the years to come Most organizations ... slips and turnover among the 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 ... (implementing new computers or software), database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage and access), hardware and software upgrades (replacing or enhancing existing assets), and network...
... usage, 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 ... Stallard, David Answering Questions Posed in an Intensional Logic: A Multilevel Semantics ApproachIn Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing ... 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;...
... in response to galactose The GAL genetic switch The GAL regulatory network is composed of three regulatory proteins: a transcriptional activator Gal4p, a negative regulator Gal80p and a signal ... regulatory proteins Gal4p, Gal80p, Gal3p and activated Gal3p, respectively Model I includes sequential binding of activated Gal3p to DNA-Gal4p–Gal80p Parameter m represents cooperativity during binding ... in cytoplasm Gal3p Activated Gal3p Operator of genes with one binding site for Gal4p Operator of genes with two binding site for Gal4p Molar balance equations The following are the molar balance...
... conflicting evaluations seems more appropriate Such an approach allows taking into account ina flexible and natural way the variety of knowledge sources and processing a c t i v i t i e s that are involved ... representation of a text has been P produced, i t is easy to prune the less relevant parts in order to obtain the representation of an appropriate summary to be eventually translated into natural language ... Guida G., and Tasso C (1982) Forward and Backward Reasoning in Automatic Abstracting In J Horecky (Ed.), COLING-82, Amsterdam, NL: North-Holland, 83-88 Fum D., Guida G., and Tasso C (1983) Capturing...
... Environment Climate Change Indicator Ozone Depletion Indicator Acidification Indicator Eutrophication Indicator Toxics Dispersion Indicator Solid Waste Disposal Indicator Composite Pollution Indicator Resource ... to indicators that can support national or international decisionmaking These indicators can guide national decisionmaking and focus top-level policy attention Those gauging national performance ... could also be combined with other health information to create an overall health index of use as an indicator of sustainable development IX APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS This...
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... STAT proteins capable of binding to IL-2Ralpha, pim-1, and IRF-1 GAS elements after cytokine stimulation, we observed IFN-alpha-induced binding of STAT1, STAT3, and STAT4, but not STAT5 to all ... Task 2009, achieving an F-score of 30.58 in Task 1, and 29.27 in Task The frame extraction task was modeled applying the same approach that has been applied to tasks like semantic role labeling ... and J Zavrel 1999 Forgetting exceptions is harmful in language learning Machine Learning, Special issue on Natural Language Learning, 34:11–41 W Daelemans, J Zavrel, K Van der Sloot, and A Van den...
... number ana agree grammatical case of anaphor ana case the level of embedding ina sentence ana s depth Coreference-level features compatibility in agreement between anaphor and antecedent agree ... task is to label each instance When an instance is labeled as coreferring, the IDs of the anaphor and antecedent are kept ina response list for the evaluation according to Vilain et al (1995) ... predefined baseline features Then we train models combining the baseline with all additional features separately We choose the best performing feature (fmeasure according to Vilain et al (1995)), adding...
... mathematical modelling techniques to analyse dynamic mechanisms and measures of crosstalk We illustrate our approach by giving an example of two signalling pathways in the budding yeast Saccharomyces ... few available experiments (see below), some parameter adjustments were made Qualitative information that was available about the relation of certain reaction velocities was incorporated into the ... crosstalk and activation measures for varying parameters In the Monte Carlo study, we picked the values of 34 kinetic parameters randomly from an interval between a minimal (0.01) and a maximal value...
... answer can be provided Clarification dialogues are organized ina top-down way, along the GH In our approach, answers should include not only information about the involved constraints, but also about ... specific information is available For exainple, a step of die action of getting information on a course plan is to talk with the curriculum advisor, that can be •specialized in different ways according ... [Carberry, 90] S.Carberry Plan Recognition in Natural Language Dialogue ACL-MIT Press, 1990 [Carberry 90b] S.Carberry Incorporating Default Inferences into Plan Recognition Proc 8th Conf AAAI,...
... such an approach provided significant advantages in the parsing of correct input as well These points are covered in detail in [2] Syntax: A further advantage is related to language definition Since, ... efficient parsing of grammatical input, and easier task.specific language development This final benefit arises because a construction.specific approach allows a language definition that is natural in ... Reasons for a Construction-Specific Approach ] There are additional independent reasons for adopting a constructions~oecific approachto flexible parsing Our initially motivating reason was that...