... impose variable delays (queueing). In a number of cases, it is important to evaluate separately the total delay and the variable part ofthe delay. The total delay is important, for example, for ... empty.Data from the flow R(t) has to pour into the bucket an amount of fluid equal to the amount of data. Data thatwould cause the bucket to overflow is declared non-conformant, otherwise the data is ... section, we assume that σ(t) ≥ lmax for t>0.Thus, for practical cases, we have to assume that the arrival curve σ has a discontinuity at the origin at leastas large as one maximum packet size.How...
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... hercharacter. And respect forthe value of non-human creatures and ofthe naturalrelations among them seems to many a mark of virtue. One ofthe attractions of a broad conception of moral virtue ... virtue and judgments of obligation. One is that the former are evaluations of character while the lat-ter are evaluations of action. And the value of an act can certainly diverge from the value of ... designation of the parts of ethical theory that are centrally engaged, in a general way, in actual ethical evaluation.That is because ‘normative’ too easily suggests that the whole subject matter...
... 146analyses included in the database were performed using the same “made in USA” equipment as in the included trials and were analyzed using the same software and hardware located at the ... deviations from normal that are measured by the MCG device. The resulting mathematically integrated patterns ofthe abnormal indexes are then compared for their degree of abnormality to the abnormal ... that each patient was already scheduled forthe reference coronary an-giography for any indication. Coronary angiographic data was recorded digitally and on cine angiographic film and was...
... is larger than that of the headword ofthe parent node which has the largest predictive information quantity among all of the history feature type candidates. That is tosay, objective feature ... for feature typeselection in the probabilistic evaluationmodelling for statistical syntactic parsing.3 The information -theory- basedfeature type analysis model for statisticalsyntactic parsingIn ... information redundancy can beused as a measure ofthe redundancy between the predictive information ofa feature type andthat ofa feature type combination. Predictive Information Summation...
... By the end ofthe decade, there was a range of RRAmethods and approaches available which thengave rise to participatory rural appraisal (PRA) at the beginning ofthe 1990s. In addition to thesetwo, ... sources of employment.Natural capitalNatural capital is the quality and quantity of natural resources that are available to people andabove all, the access and control people have overthese natural ... policies and organizationsthat determine their access to assets/opportunities and the returns they can achieve● the access ofthe poor to social, human,natural, financial and physical capital andtheir...
... strains. Surprisingly, the microsomal fraction of anextract ofthe resistant insect D. melanogaster also displayed a strong binding capacity. The determination ofthe characteristics ofthe ... characterized the binding of PA1b to a proteinaceous component ofa particulate fraction of S. oryzae extracts. The binding was saturable and reversible,and the binding site exhibits a high affinity ... date thesemolecules are not adapted to grain protection againstweevils.Therefore, the recent finding ofa plant peptide lethal for these insects has enlarged the possibilities for cereal grainprotection...
... Phenomenon Example 'Do It' Anaphora 'Do So' Anaphora Stripping Comparative Deletion 'Same As' Reference 'Me Too' Phenomena 'one' Anaphora Lazy ... case, the first clause is the antecedent for both ellipses. These two examples create a paradox; apparently neither type of analysis (nor any previous analyses we are aware of) can explain both. ... describe the analysis of this case as well as others involving quantification. 7 Summary We have given a general account of parallelism in discourse and applied it to the special case of resolv-...
... “knowledge” ofthe automatic tagger may consist ofa set of rules or ofa statistical analysis ofthe results. Either way, a good tagger will provide ac-curate descriptions for 97 out ofa 100 words. ... separately for its components. As said above, combinations of an auxiliary or modal verb with a negative can be expressed in a single tag as the nega-tive form of that verb. Combinations ofa ... plural forms with -d or -s suffixes. Adverbs pose a separate problem. The standard adverbial form of an ad-jective uses a -ly suffix. But there is a class of spatial adjectives that use an...
... expounds the lease accounting calculations.Also, it describes various other forms of off-balance-sheet financing like sales receivables and take-or-pay contracts.13. Analysis of Income TaxesAccounting ... information, please visit: www.kesdee.com12. Leases and Off-Balance-Sheet Debt The course explains the fundamentals of lease financing and focuses on various forms of off-balance-sheet financing.Further, ... preparation andanalysis of financial statements. The product issupplemented with a number of interactiveexercises, in accordance with the 'learn by doing'approach.Financial AccountingUnderstand...
... (hCt) analoguesreveal a critical role of sequence 17–21 forthe oligomerizationstate and bioactivity of hCtAthanasios Kazantzis1, Michaela Waldner1, John W. Taylor2and Aphrodite Kapurniotu11Physiological-chemical ... tudies, the receptor binding a nities, and the hypocalcemic potencies in vivo of hCt, sCt, analogues 1–6and/or the partial sequence analogues 1a, 1b, 2a, and 3a. The CD data ofthe partial sequence ... small changes of these residues may dramaticallyaffect the type a nd stability o f the turn [34,35].To investigate the importance of t he type of the postulated turn for hCt b ioactivity, the...
... excessive? Many would argue that the case of the historical Socrates involved both ofthe last. They would argue that hewas not a malign influence on the youth of Athens, as he was alleged to havebeen. ... emerge as the discussion progresses. At times I introduce a related technical term. The mathematical theoryof games uses a technicalnotion of rationality such that it is a matter of maximizing ... oneform or another and is probably the best-known theoryof political obligation.It has significant attractions, but has fallen out of favour in light of two standardobjections. As I explain, actual...
... impossible.14 The Atrocity ParadigmHeaps, and Maudemarie Clark. Support of many kinds also came from MarthaNussbaum, Sandra Lee Bartky, Michael Stocker, Norman Care, Axel Honneth,Alison Jaggar, Marilyn ... reasonably foreseeable that the laws of marriage and divorcewould facilitate major domestic abuse and spousal murder, that would be rea-20 The Atrocity Paradigmwomen and about the concept of ... responses at the level of change in the institutional norms. It argues forthe abolition of marriage andmotherhood (as institutions), in favor of alternative forms of durable intimatepartnership and...