... areas ofthe state of Sóo Paulo, southeastern Brazil: the cities of Botucatu and Campinas; an area covering the cities of Itapecerica da Serra, Embu, and Taboóo da Serra; andthe district of Butantó ... risk and promotes the prevention and control of most chronic diseases.4,25 Excess consumption of alcohol increases the risk of several diseases and is associated with increased risk of injuries and ... work status, place of residence and number of chronic conditions component of quality of life, and smokers showed poorer quality of life than never-smokers The results ofthe present study are...
... investigate the effect ofthe exact distribution ofthe language inventory size on the nature ofthe degree distribution ofthe consonants through a synthetic approach based on the principle of preferential ... Regime of Figure 3(b) comprises ofthe rest ofthe consonants The point marked as x in both the figures indicates the breakpoint Each ofthe regime in both Figure 3(a) and (b) exhibit a power law of ... indicating the average inventory size andthe right column the breakpoint x Inferences Drawn from theAnalysisof PlaNet In most ofthe networked systems like the society, the Internet, the World...
... April 6, 2011, and April 11, 2011 The panel consisted of 15 individuals—three from RAND and twelve from other institutions (see the list of panelists at the end ofthe document) Their combined ... Children and Families (ACF) andthe Office ofthe Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within the U.S Department of Health and Human Services The goal ofthe task order is to develop ... A LT H The research described in this report was sponsored by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services and was conducted in RAND Health, a division ofthe RAND Corporation The R AND Corporation...
... Finally the Command Dispatcher signals the successful completion ofthe task back to the Client Figure shows the class diagram ofthe master data model The design is woven around the general ... sharing them with other users and groups It follows the look and feel ofthe Windows Explorer Documents and repositories can be created and edited via context menus They can be moved via drag and ... the initial set of applications which is currently available via eHumanities Desktop Figure gives an idea ofthe look and feel ofthe system It shows the visualisation of a chained document and...
... the crack would propagate Prior to performing the analysis, it was necessary to specify the magnitude of crack increment and also the number of steps over which the crack would propagate In the ... Figure (4) shows the results of a crack increment step (Δa) It was noticed that there are no effects on the stability of results andthe very close agreements between the three types of a crack increment ... Description and Boundary Conditions of Load-Carrying Cruciform Welded Joint Figure (3) shows the results of mesh sizes density It was noticed that there are no effects on the stability of results and the...
... successfully, (c) the number of packets in the buffer may reach a maximum value and stay at this state until the lth packet arrives, and (d) the number of packets in the buffer then decreases from the maximum ... where x is the smallest integer greater than x χ is the index ofthe last removed packet when packet l arrived and defined as trm,0 = On the other hand, if there are Nof (l) overflow packets, then Qlength ... solutions, the CAC computes the outage probabilities of all mobiles andthe lengthened activity factors of NRT services Iterations are performed to make both the outage probabilities andthe lengthened...
... from the llth to the l6th wk after the start ofthe study (Fig ) These branches appeared from the axil of leaves in an area between the 30th andthe 55th leaf The dates of branch initiation on the ... (Fig 2) These curves showed numerous and pronounced variations over the 61 wk ofthe study These variations corresponded to the appearance and For the 61 wk ofthe experiment, comparison of signals ... between rest periods andthe resumption ofthe activity ofthe main axis This wide range was also seen in the amplitude ofthe growth rhythm Consequently, the characteristics of this rhythmical...
... long lateral roots could lean in the same way On the other hand, the influence of soil properties may be overriding on the changes of root architecture The influence of physical soil properties is ... length ofthe apical non-branching zone, defined by the region from the most visible apical n + order laterals to the axis tip) Statistical studies of these ture are data allow the determination of ... (1972) A model ofthe extension and branching of a seminal root of barley, and its use in studying relations between root dimensions II Results and inferences from manipulation ofthe model Aust...
... depending on the number of units, the number of respondents per unit, andthe amount and distribution of missing data between and within units [68-74,77,78] The r wg differs from the other three ... which the proper testing ofthe theory andthe utility ofthe construct in implementation research depend Our intent in exploring these conceptual and methodological concerns is to promote further ... example, if one-half ofthe members of a unit describe the implementation climate as positive andthe other one-half describe it as negative, then the average of members’ perceptions of implementation...
... contributions ADD and AM initiated the project HFD, DJ and LG designed the DB LG and DJ designed the web interface and implemented the DB and associated tools and developed the source code ofthe web application ... visualization andanalysis Two factors, tissue (Seed vs Flesh) and developmental stage, were clearly identified and guided the coding ofthe biological samples andthe organization ofthe data in the database ... the database with the user’s data, and 3) analysisand visualization ofthe user’s data The aim ofthe tomato study was to characterize differences between the metabolic profiles of two interdependent...
... revealed the presence of these AP2 domains in the deduced amino acid sequences The structure ofthe AP2-like genes ofthe Hordeum genotypes is similar to that of other AP2-like genes (Figure 1) They ... barley AP2 in tritordeum The results are of interest in understanding the role ofthe AP2-like gene in the spike morphology of cereals and in understanding the regulation of this gene in barley ... while their theoretical isoelectric points (pI) were between 6.72 and 7.31 The percentage of identity and polymorphism ofthe sequences were estimated by means of a comparative alignment of all the...
... coordination, and performed the measurements GM participated in the study design and coordination, and performed the measurements SA participated in the study design and coordination, and performed the measurements ... participated in the study design and coordination, and performed the measurements FP performed the statistical analysisand helped to draft the manuscript GLB participated in the study design and coordination, ... coordination, performed the measurements and wrote a first draft ofthe manuscript FT participated in the study design and coordination, performed the measurements and to helped draft the manuscript MC...
... analysisofthe data and drafted the manuscript GC contributed substantially to the conception and design ofthe study, data collection in the field, analysisofthe data and critically reviewed the ... personnel and equipment The head office ofthe Ministry of Health and Child Welfare constitutes the highest level ofthe public health care sector and it is the main actor in terms of health ... preference of a similar size to the range chosen above [53] The size ofthe discount rate affected both the effects of health interventions through the DALY formula andthe costs of health services The...
... expression analysisand splicing analysis None ofthe commercial software suites allow integration with the analytical libraries of R and all are proprietary and licensed, while the X:MAP database and ... set of functions ofthe form X.to.Y() that handle the intricacies of database IO and connections internally For example, the function probeset.to.gene(probestid) takes a list of probeset ... Suite, and Stratagene's ArrayAssist® Many of them are extensions of previously known software products for standard arrays, and their major analytical aims overlap with those available in exonmap and...
... that the presence of constraints reduces the number of degrees of freedom of a system Three possibilities arise in theanalysisofthe motion -of- mass systems First, the system may consist of a ... which the point A is the center of mass The preceding results [Eqs (1.20) and (1.21)] are contained in the theorem: the time rate of change ofthe moment of momentum about a point is equal to the ... integral on the left-hand side is called the “impulse” ofthe external force Equation (1.15) shows that the change in linear momentum ofthe center of mass is equal to the impulse ofthe external...
... connect the hidden neuron j to the unique output neuron The sum of their weighted outputs andof a bias term c is used as the input ofthe final transfer function ϕ2 to compute the output ofthe unique ... according to the answers of such questions, and then in each yes (no) category to compute the ratio between the probability of being “good” andthe probability of being “bad” Such ratio is then the value ... subsequently result in an increase ofthe volume ofthe portfolio as well as an improvement ofthe goodwills ofthe cardholders The present study would investigate the study ofthe variance on a per account...
... silicon and presence of multi-valley conduction band During the past years, there have been a lot of investigations to grasp the new physics of these issues to facilitate the understanding of future ... state, (ii) the negligence of inter-valley effects arising from the band structure ofthe silicon because ofthe presence of six conduction minima in the lowest conduction band Later, these six ... devices12,87 Existence of ground gate and A-gate in the same plane, facilitate the fabrication ofthe qubit 28 and reduces the sensitivity of performance to the thickness ofthe silicon layer In addition,...
... summary and states the future directions for further research works 10 Chapter The Semantic Web In this chapter, we review the development andthe state -of- the- art of technologies for the Semantic ... given We have also listed the contributions that have been achieved The rest ofthe thesis is organized as follows Chapter reviews the Semantic Web andthe state -of- the- art Semantic Web technologies, ... finding, trend detection and fuzzy document retrieval 1.7 Organization ofthe Thesis This chapter has discussed the background and motivation of this research work The objectives ofthe research have...