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... radiation. The extent ofthe effect of its presence on the radiation spectrum, together with the resolution and signal-to-noise ofthe instrument, determine the accuracy ofthe measurement. In the ... trace gases inthe near-infrared, theair mass factor can be approximated by the geometrical air mass factor. However, inthe UV and visible part ofthe spectrum, scattering inthe atmosphere ... (40.000 km) that they have the same rotational period as the earth. Therefore they always see the same part ofthe earth, about 1/3 ofthe total surface. From these orbits the satellite instrument...
... Faculty ofthe Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin ... and the type of electronic 16labor, and where t is the number of years in business. t is included inthe model to control for the maturity of a company. Companies operating inthe Internet ... migrate many of their business activities to the Internet, can they also benefit from insights regarding productive and unproductive activities in an online world? In the late nineties, online traffic...
... reviewed here used the firm as the unit of analysis. The remaining fifteen studies adopted ex-port venture as the unit of analysis. Inthe case of using the firm as the unit of analysis, the export ... one in- dustrial sector does not permit generalizing the results to other industrial sectors as it casts doubt on the external validity ofthe findings. Of the studies that reported the size ... fully the strengths of each indicator and minimize the impact of their shortcomings (Evangelista 1994). Accordingly, the use of multi-ple measures of export performance has been more typical in...
... Although in- corporation of this information reduced the num- ber of possible parses, the processing time in- creased because ofthe addition ofthe link nodes in the grammar. 2 Constraint Grammar ... the system assigns all ofthe possible roles the words can have by applying the lexical constraints (which specify legal word categories) and allowing the word to modify all the remaining ... words inthe sentence or no words at all. Each ofthe arcs in the network has associated with it a matrix whose row and column indices are the roles that the words can play inthe sentence. Initially,...
... protein bilinear descriptorsaccount for 83% of variance ofthe tmfor the cases in the training series; the values of F-ratio for Eqns (27)Table 10. Results ofthe stochastic bilinear indices-driven ... suggest the robustness anddiscriminatory ability of these linear discriminant models.Predicting the melting points and the free energychanges for the Arc mutantsBoth linear combinations of nonstochastic ... that characterizes each kind of R-chain in the protein. The calculation ofthe three first values of bilinear indices for the example protein (Tables 2 and3) is shown in Table 4.It should be...
... a2nx2is the remainder ofthe division of xnby the characteristic polynomial of A. Further, by elementary techniques of linear algebra one canalso compute them in terms ofthe eigenvalues of A ... that the fixed point lays on the line 10x 2y 3 0. This isalso the case inthe general setting. It follows from 4.22 that whenever σnk−1 0 then the point xn−k,yn−k is on the line ... Stability of Fixed PointsWe finish this section with the complete study ofthe stability ofthe fixed points inthe caseβ2/ 0.Theorem 4.7. Suppose that β2/ 0,letλ be a real eigenvalue of the...
... defined as trapping sets. In [3], it is shownthat the dominant trapping sets are formed by a combination of short cycles present inthe bipartite graph. In the following, we adopt the terminology and ... addressed in [3, 5–9]. The main approaches for mitigating the impact of trapping setson LDPC codes are based on either introducing algorithmsto minimize their presence during code design as in [5, ... enhancing decoder performance inthe presence of trapping sets as in [3, 6, 8]. The main disadvantage of the first approach, in addition to putting tight constraints oncode design, is that trapping...
... obtained the Master of Engineeringdegree in July 2004. She then attended Mc-Master University pursuing further studies in the Department of Electrical Engineeringand completed the degree of ... edges are the [MK−(K +L)] vectors{ηm} involved inthe principal minor. Now, since the determinant ofthe rank deficient matrix P⊥HΣr(P⊥H)Hrepresents the square ofthe volume of a collapsed ... is designated the CCD-ML method of chan-nel estimation. Since the information of hiis also embed-ded inthe matrix contained inthe parentheses, the IQML[27] algorithm can again be applied...
... similar-ity ofthe B-parts inthe Chopin example results from “sub-tracting” the segments corresponding to the A-parts givenby A2from the segments of A1. Or, inthe Mendelssohn ex-ample, the similarity ... measured in seconds. The columnsindicate the respective piece of music, the duration ofthe piece, the running time to compute the CENS features (Section 2), the runningtime to compute the self-similarity ... se-quence of length N= 901, corresponding to 15 minutes of audio. Tripling the length N by using a threefold concatena-tion ofthe Bolero results in a running time of 37.9 seconds,showing an increase...
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... agreement of increments either inthe case of identical total height with all plants included inthe comparison or inthe case of comparing only plants without the injured terminal shoot. The health ... the stocking of birch stands and that the number of injured plants decreases with the increasing stand density (K 2007).e smoothing of total heights and increments of underplanting in ... access of lateral light into the stands growing inthe Bohemian-Mora-vian Upland (with underplanting realized in margin-al parts ofthe stands) than inthe Krušné hory Mts. (with underplanting...
... growing roots.Nor can we corroborate the statements ofthe authors according to whom the sycamore maple mainly roots into a depth during the initial stages and the development of other root ... roots; incidence of malformation. e measured values were used to calculate the index of surfaces (Index p, Ip inthe tables of results). e index of surfaces is calculated as the ratio ofthe ... moundsSycamore maple is one ofthe noble broadleaved species. Its representation inthe existing species composition of forest stands being rather low, the study ofthe species and mainly of its root system...