... costs and benefits of staying within the natal group and engaging in helping activities, versus leaving the group and refraining from helping, and therefore may explain the extent of cooperative ... observations, focal adult males were generally more aggressive towards their mates and subordinates than the focal females were towards their mates and subordinates (Table 1), and aggression towards ... (‘digging alone’) Inthe evening of the same day, a large male and female was added, who accepted the focal individual as a subordinate in each case successfully During this period, which lasted on average...
... lateral cylinder wall andthe cylinder wall opposite tothe pre-chamber at approximately the same time It reveals that the flame started in pre-chamber and then invades a large portion of the main-chamber ... NOx As shown in Figure 11e, at 380°CA, the NO forms inthe swirl chamber throat, pre and main chambers and then transferred into the main chamber at 400°CA for baseline engine While at adiabatic ... [29] Arash Nemati, Shahram Khalilarya, Samad Jafarmadar, Hassan Khatamnejhad, Vahid Fathi Numerical parametric investigation of a gasoline fuelled partially-premixed compression-ignition engine International...
... Cooker Washing machine Telephone Cupboard Cup Sofa • • • • • • • an armchair a fridge a television a coffee table a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone ... Starter Rooms ina house Living room = sitting room Bedroom Kitchen Dining room Bathroom Toilet Objects inthe house Armchair Fridge Television Coffee table Bookshelf Plant Stereo Lamp Cooker ... a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone a cupboard a cup a sofa ...
... pregnancy There was a significant further advance of her renal disease, necessitating the initiation of haemodialysis (a kidney machine) two years later, anda living, related donor renal transplant ... during pregnancy, remaining remarkably stable The pregnancy was complicated at 20 weeks’ gestation by a right deep vein thrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and anti-coagulation ... explained toand accepted by the woman (and her partner), then to refuse treatment on the sole ground that her health may deteriorate is unacceptably paternalistic on the part of the clinicians involved...
... interesting for several reasons The opinion targets are mostly confined toa predictable set of human entities, i.e the political actors involved in each debate Additionally, the format adopted inthe ... Theresa Wilson, and Claire Cardie 2005 “Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language” In Language Resources and Evaluation, volume 39, 2-3 We are grateful to João Ramalho for his assistance ... Minister of Finance is done!) There are also cases wherein the opinion is targeting another commentator (e.g Mr Francisco de Amarante, did you watch the same debate I did?!?!?), and others where...
... Gondwanan associations These taxa include the Aplodactylidae, Latridae, Congiopodidae, and genera or species inthe Cheilodactylidae, Labridae, Sciaenidae, and Sparidae (Wilson and Allen, 1987) The ... fish assemblages However, if habitat associations are examined based on a cladogram of the family, there is a clear indication that the lineage lived initially in seagrasses and that the early ... The break up of Gondwana extended over a period of about 80 Ma from an initial separation about 135 Ma tothe final separation of South America and Africa inthe North Atlantic at about 84 Ma...
... larger objective of automating the generation of annotation and metadata databases to enhance search and browsing of meeting recordings This goal can be achieved by providing plugand-play databases, ... easy to change the tools to generate a new ver94 sion of the database tables • Applicability: the tables are ready to be loaded into any SQL database, so that they can be immediately used by a ... such as search or metadata editing The process of extracting, structuring and storing 95 the metadata is as follows: Crawl the AMI Corpus website and store resulting metadata (related to media files)...
... information using double-blinding, assessing the reliability of the data gathered, standardizing procedures and instruments, training of field-work and labo- ratory teams, and adjusting for several confounding ... (puntuación en el Cuestionario General de Salud, autovaloración del estado de salud y de la agudeza visual, grado de dificultad para caminar 300 metros, incapacidad para realizar las actividades ... appointment because of existing lines, andin obtaining medicines because of financial problems or any other problem (Table 4) ple, in China and India, higher income levels, particularly in urban...
... counseling; classroom lesson planning; and where to reassemble students and staff if the school building is unavailable ● Training and practicing Training needs, dates and types of training to be ... activities Make mental health services available, including Employee Assistance Program, if applicable Practice active listening and acknowledge pain and anxiety as well as a healing process that has ... call with the media prior tothe first day back to set the tone and parameters for the day Remember the goal is to establish a normal routine, heal and foster a sense of safety Host a media tour...
... (TB) laboratory investigations in tertiary healthcare facilities which have a large number of cases and financial constraints The present study aimed to re-evaluate the efficiency of smear microscopy ... currently available to detect AFB in clinical samples by ZN staining As seen in Table 1, 80 % of the samples showed the presence of AFB inthe primary smear Most of the primary smears showed + grading ... of AFB in sputum samples of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in tertiary healthcare facilities which have a large number of cases and financial constraints Ethical Approval The study was approved...
... To check for mixing inthe reactor, samples were also withdrawn from inside the reaction vessel (bottom of the reactor vessel) Sampling from inside the reactor was taken using a sampling/drainage ... irradiation Afterwards, the reactor reached steady state andthe concentration of 4-CBA remained constant At steady state, the effluent concentration of 4-CBA was approximately 64% of the initial ... at oxidant to contaminant molar ratio of 5.33 (based on feed concentrations) This was observed for the degradation of the parent contaminant, the total organic carbon and its mineralization to...
... 849–859 the potential groundwater and surface water contamination by these contaminants Arsenic can exist in inorganic form, organic form, and gaseous state The oxidation states of As inthe natural ... t, in which a straight line can be obtained The constant a can be calculated from the slope of the straight line The constant a can be obtained from thea value andthe intercept on the y-axis ... increased adsorbate loading initially and then increased gradually when higher adsorbate loadings were added due to surface sites saturation As the sites on the soil were occupied, it was increasingly...
... eight domains, total physical and total mental health summaries, as well as total SF-36 score are shown in Table For the majority of domains, including totals the average scores were less than 50, ... on total physical health, total mental health and SF-36 score health, and total SF-36 were calculated using scoring Total physical Total mental Total SF-36 algorithms The association between variables ... HQoL, such as health status of participants according to clinical and para clinical findings whereas elderly people experience diseases and impairments that threaten their quality of life (Carriere...
... of Alaska; the Inuit, Inuvialuit, Athapaskans and Dene of northern Canada; the Kalaallit and Inughuit of Greenland; the Saami of Fennoscandia and Russia’s Kola peninsula; andthe Chukchi, Even, ... marine mammals such as seals, walrus, narwhals, beluga, fin and minke whales, and polar bear and land mammals such as caribou, reindeer and musk-ox; and fish such as salmon, Arctic char, northern ... UV-radiation andthe long-range transported contaminants in arctic and alpine regions are stress factors that challenge terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems The large natural variation inthe physical parameters...
... andamajor industry center Today Busan has nearly million inhabitants Automaking, shipbuilding, electronics, footwear, and textiles are the main export industries of the district Aerospace and ... PIFF was especially meaningful due tothe fact that it was the first ‘international’ film festival in Korea andamajor breakthrough to bring out the audience to actively participate in cinema culture ... wave of mass culture and mass leisure in America They provided cheap recreation to an industrializing society (Kando, 1975) A movie industry has grown inthe urban and with the urban areas and...
... is to assume a generative model whereby a word w anda surface pronunciation tn are related via an underlying canonical pronunciation sm of w anda stochastic process that explains the transformation ... representing a (factored) probability distribution using a graph Nodes of the graph correspond to random variables; and edges to dependence relations between the variables.4 To inference or parameter ... Bayesian graph edit distance IEEE Trans on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22:628–635 M Neuhaus and H Bunke 2004 A probabilistic approach to learning costs for graph edit distance In...
... more natural interaction by allowing the system to adapt its utterances according tothe perceived expertise level On the other hand, we also want to validate and assess the usability of the three-level ... over the usability of any kind of automatic adaptivity and maintained that the user should decide whether she wants the system to adapt at a given moment or not Inthe related field of tutoring ... utterance, as well as provide any other comments that they may have on adaptation and adaptive systems All interviewees agreed on one major theme, namely that the system should be as friendly and...
... reproduction as central to maintaining perceived authenticity, we coded ‘Authentic’ to indicate that the programme was consistent with the classical canon and genres; and ‘Inauthentic’ to indicate that ... several reasons for the apathy of the larger American public, the main one is the imbalance between the old and new in classical-music programming Mainstream music lovers are said to be indifferent ... that critics are central to authenticating artistic expression by valorizing and naturalizing musical tastes In addition, critics are key actors who can moderate andin uence how institutional...