... approach using fluorescent cyanine dyes increases throughput by reducing sample processing and both gel-to-gel and analytical variation by combining case and control samples into a single processing ... Placenta environment in this region was the consequence of a greater emission of gases and dust pollutions coming from the developing industry in the main coal basin in Poland The mining of not only ... dosimeters for investigating reproductive effect 20 Recent AdvancesinResearch on the Human Placenta 1.1 Brief outline of placental biomonitoring The possibility of using the placenta as an indicator...
... the Advancesin Electrocardiograms – Methods and Analysis common cardinal veins (draining the anterior cardinal vein coming from the anterior part of the embryo), the posterior cardinal vein (from ... the vitelline veins) The veins draining into the left sinus venosus (left cardianal, umbilical, and vitelline) degenerate and the left sinus venosus becomes the coronary sinus, draining only the ... 100 0.05Hz single−pole high−pass filter Cin=0.33uF Cin=0.47uF Cin=1uF Cin=2.2uF Cin=3.3uF 1.6 −0.1 10 1.8 0.05Hz single−pole high−pass filter Cin=0.33uF Cin=0.47uF Cin=1uF Cin=2.2uF Cin=3.3uF 2.95...
... entries are In bi1 ·· in 1 jn in+ 1 ·· iN = ai1 ·· in 1 in in+1 ·· iN u jn in (1) in =1 Next section presents the principles of subspace-based tensor filtering methods TENSOR FILTERING PROBLEM ... localization of sources in array processing and recognition of straight lines in image processing Principles of SLIDE are detailed in [48] In the case of a noisy image containing d straight lines, the signal ... MDL(k) = −log 1/ (In −k) i =In i=k+1 λi (1/ (In − k)) ii =In λi =k+1 (In −k)Mn (13) + k( 2In − k)log Mn When we consider lower-rank tensor approximation, (λi )1≤i In are either the In singular values...
... phytoalexin theory originated from studies of resistance to Ph infestans in potato The parasite/host interaction, which results in the production of rishitin, involves an induced shift in the biochemical ... commonly accorded kingdom status This straminipilous lineage is extraordinarily diverse, including photosynthetic (chrysophyte, diatomaceous and fucoid); heterotrophic (free-living marine and gut comensal ... to disintegrate and re-form asprovincial communities Isolated, provincial communities, recovering from the Cretaceous Terminal Event, could evolve independently, allowing for biodiversity in hosts,...
... when interpreting results and evaluating one's research The articles covered in the survey cited by Valentine did not exactly set a shining example Probably 85% used inadequate sampling methods ... specific points of time, there is, in the research world, a constant cycle occurring A project is developed from a combination of the current trends inresearch thinking (theory) and methods, other ... observers during training The notorious example, within psychological research, is the definition of intelligence as 'that which is measured by the (particular) intelligence test used' Since intelligence...
... specialized marketing researchmethods This chapter discusses two families of specialized marketing research methods, perceptual mapping and conjoint analysis Perceptual mapping methods produce ... the analysis 26 Marketing Research: Uncovering Competitive Advantages Warren F Kuhfeld Abstract SAS provides a variety of methods for analyzing marketing data including conjoint analysis, correspondence ... refueling or breaking down, the better MR-2010A — Marketing Research: Uncovering Competitive Advantages 33 Figure Preference Mapping, Ideal Point Model The PREFMAP Ideal Point Model The ideal point...
... initialization, in particular, in ob‐ taining a better dynamic and thermodynamic balance, and in the case of the EnKF also providing probabilistic information by running an ensemble Finally, full domain dynamic ... very different in character, Hurricane Debbie bringing record high winds to Ireland and Hurricane Charley bringing record rainfall to Ireland and consequently severe flooding in some locations ... leading to initialization challenges Third, it is difficult to initialize TCs properly in different environments, such as a TC in shear or with dry air wrapping into its core Finally, if TC intensity...
... behaviour The interviewing skills acquired in clinical and counseling training are also helpful in doing research, but research and therapeutic interviews have crucial differences; therefore researchers ... at sociopolitical issues, since clinical and counseling research is often conducted in working service settings and it is potentially threatening as well as illuminating For simplicity, the book ... certain interventions used in therapeutic settings Being trained in clinical or counseling psychology also makes one aware of the tension between the scientific and the therapeutic stance: in the...
... quantitative methods used in public administration research whether in government administration of public programs or in academic research involving theorybuilding and theory-testing Second, ... dignity During the process of research, the researcher is expected to be objective and unbiased in conducting research The methods of research provide the blueprint for insuring objectivity Researchers ... dealing with those methods, both for consuming studies that they use in their jobs as well in carrying out research projects The chapters are grouped in nine main areas: The Big Picture Describing...
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... 1973) Laminarin, a linear glucan containing mainly &D-(1-3) linked glucose, with some p-~-(1+6) branching points, is found in Laminaria, a brown seaweed Mannans, in which mannose units are linked ... they all bind more iodine and give a higher A,, with 12/KIsolutions, leading to errors in determining the amylose content in starch when using the blue value (BV) or iodine affinity (IA) in the ... with iodine reagent (Wx pollen, containing normal starch, stains black; wx pollen, lacking amylose, stains red) and, by counting the frequency of the wild-type recombinants, he obtained a fine structure...
... more by an interest in evaluating business practices with a view to informing business policy at the level of the firm These appear in the final stages of the book Small Firms in Tourism: International ... or wishing to live in a particular area — play an important part in explaining the reason why many individuals establish small businesses in tourism Further, it helps illuminate why certain decisions ... examines the environmental performance of small tourism firms in Western Australia They begin by noting the main arguments in favour of encouraging sustainable business practices, and the manner in...
... offer some indication of the significant level of investment in NRM-related research since 1992.3 CGIAR investments in ‘Increasing Productivity’ fell from 47% of the total in 1994 to 34% in 2002, ... 2002; i.e investments in ‘Increasing Productivity’ continue to fall, while investments in ‘Sustainable Production’ (or ‘Protecting the Environment’), as with ‘Policies’, are increasing History ... decade CGIAR investments in NRM research (NRMR) have increased substantially both within the older commodity-oriented Centres (e.g the International Rice Research Institute, the International...
... (1) We hypothesized that wearing pink sportswear would increase the level of aggression in males because wearing pink primed male athletes to a mental state in which they desired to reassert ... i-ngu-giup-dua-ra-quyet-dinh-ly-tri-hon/ Keysar, Hayakawa, &An (2012) The Foreign-Language Effect: Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases Psychological Science Tiêu chí đánh giá slides Độ tin cậy ... 1-20 tuổi 21-40 tuổi 41-60 tuổi 61-80 tuổi -2 -1 (Nominal) Thứ tự (Ordinal) Khoảng (Interval) Tỉ số (Ratio) Các dạng thang đo Thang hình minh hoạ Thang Likert Thang đối cực Thang nhiệt kế cảm...
... execution of the research is interdisciplinary, i.e that each discipline is of equal importance to the project Further reading Bowling, A (1997) ResearchMethodsin Health: Investigating Health and ... other industrialized countries Beginning with contextual information about the country, HiTs 26 Introduction describe the entities involved in financing, paying for and delivering care, drawing ... quality These domains overlap and need integrating through multidisciplinary research HSR, clinical research, audit and quality assurance HSR overlaps with clinical research, clinical audit and...
... October, 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org Recent Advancesin Robust Control ... expense of chattering in the control variable It is shown in Chapter that combining quantitative feedback theory and sliding mode control can alleviate this phenomenon An integral sliding mode controller ... computing and self-organizing systems It is outlined how the robust control problem can be represented in an information theoretic setting using entropy A toolbox for the robust fuzzy control using...
... Bi K j In order to obtain the main results in this chapter, the following lemmas are needed (8) 24 Recent Advancesin Robust Control – Novel Approaches and Design Methods Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH ... for bounding cross terms used in these methods also bring conservativeness Recently, in order to reduce conservatism, the weighting matrix technique was proposed originally by He and al in (He ... employing a fuzzy LKF combining the introduction of free weighting matrices which improves existing ones in (Li et al., 2004) - (Chen & Liu, 2005a) without imposing any bounding techniques on some...
... here to obtain a fuzzy model from (57) By decomposing the nonlinear term and integring nonlinearities of x2 (t ) into + x1 ( t ) incertainties, then (20) is represented by the following fuzzy model: ... set of indices i for which gi ( k ) is an external input, defining ß as the set of indices i for which y i ( k ) is an internal input or a neuron output, and defining ui ( k ) as the combination ... by solving for xo (t ) in the second equation above by setting xo (t ) to zero using the singular perturbation method (by setting ε = ) By performing this, the following equation is obtained:...
... control Finish training when the training performance is satisfactory Repeat this nominal layer training process for all the nominal neural networks Training the regional neural networks The input ... considered in this Chapter include: • Minimum time – resulting in the so-called time-optimal control • Minimum fuel – resulting in the so-called fuel-optimal control • Quadratic performance index ... combining challenge arising from the following: • The designed controller is expected to stabilize the system in the presence of uncertainties in the parameters of the nonlinear systems in question...