comparison between deterministic and stochastic models

... (RMM1) and the (co)variance between sire effects of GL and CD, and  e GL are the herd-year and residual variances for GL, and  hGL hCD and  e GL e CD are the herd-year and residual covariances between ... effects, sire, and maternal grandsire effects, respectively; s dm and s smgs are the covariances between additive direct and maternal genetic effects and between sire and maternal grandsire effects, ... genetic effects affecting GL and liabilities to CD and SB However, a comparison between their model and nested models with different restrictions on relationships between variables has not been...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... different candidate models for the number of spots were compared Poisson and ZIP models were considered, with the log of the Poisson parameter of each of the models regressed on environmental and genetic ... other models except under H3 Notably, DIC selected the right model only in 172 out of 400 comparisons (43% of the time) Poisson and ZIP models for spots in sheep 387 Table IV Mean and standard ... correlations between true and posterior means of ram breeding values H4 scenario for models Pe (a) and Ze (b) the predicted values (posterior mean) was calculated for each combination of scenarios and models...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... building ventilation including analytical models, empirical models, multizone models, zonal models, experimental models and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models [2] The use of CFD in particular ... both summer and winter conditions: air permeability to reduce heat dispersion in winter and guarantee passive cooling effect by combining convective and heat transport between the outer and inner ... simulations and experimental validation cases Mathematical model of the façade Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research uses computational and mathematical models of flowing fluids to describe and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... women shake hands more often than older women In social situation, when two people meet, they shake hands When shaking hands English people shake hands for a few seconds, and they shake hands firmly ... greeting gestures like handshaking, hugging (sometimes, and for the same gender only) In England, the religion Christianity gives prominence to equality between male and female and freedom of love ... your age, what would you say and do? a How you do? b Please to meet you. and lightly embrace him c Please to meet you. And shake his hand d Say nothing and shake hand When you meet a person for...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 09:36

... missing values c Between patients and population controls d Between the patients who completed the questionnaires (baseline and admission, n = 133) and those excluded (n = 64) b Number and home municipality ... determine a) the differences in the 15D score and dimensions between patients and population controls, and b) the differences between the baseline and admission measurements within the patient ... (including patients and population controls) were from capital area A total of 75 (28%) participants were from other urban area and 48 (18%) from rural area A comparison between patients and population...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... between psychiatric outpatients and regular students recruited from the same catchment area and during comparable time intervals and matched for sex and age, we found outpatients to report, and ... difference between parent report of students and patients and might be interpreted mistakenly Given non-significant differences between parent proxy Page of reports and significant differences between ... significant difference between outpatient and student samples was found on the Total (M = 48.0, SD = 13.8 and M = 47.7, SD = 14.0), Externalizing (M = 14.4, SD = 7.2 and M = 14.5, SD = 7.4) and Internalizing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... during stage and stages and 4, respectively In NAVA, the trigger delay remained stable during stage and during stages and The expiratory trigger also remained stable in NAVA, during stage and during ... during stages and NAVA allows optimizing the neuromechanical coupling and therefore patient-ventilator synchrony [33] and allows for optimized adequacy between ventilatory load and patient breathing ... [20] Two electro-oculogram and three chin electromyogram leads were used to score REM and non-REM sleep The electroencephalogram, the right and left electro-oculogram, and the submental electromyogram...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... sites in Flanders with well-known management and stand structure were selected for this study (Fig and Tab I) Three main forest management systems can be distinguished: high forest, coppice and coppice-with-standards ... Flanders N: number of tree-ring series AV No TR, AV RW and AV STDEV: the average number of tree rings, the average ring width and the average standard deviation of the tree-ring series MS and ... foundations for houses and revetments along a waterway and in a harbour Dendrochronological research proved that the main building activity took place between A.D 1250 and 1300 [14] In total,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... reproducible and uniform properties The great variability between individual trees, as well as within and between stands, indicates that there is large potential for more efficient and optimized forest and ... position in a tree affects strength and stiffness Furthermore, the relationships between the strength and stiffness and between some growth characteristics and strength and stiffness are shown The results ... content Four studs (three fast-grown and one slow-grown) failed owing to handling or during measurements of E = logs (TL) from fast-grown stands (FG) and thinning stand (ThL)] in terms of the measured...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... target volumes and in other various critical structures in coplanar and non coplanar field IMRT Methods Patients Between July 2004 and April 2005, consecutive patients (3 males and females) with ... values for each organ with their standard deviation No difference was noted between CF and NCF for the ipsilateral and controlateral lenses, brainstem, temporomandibular joints, inner ears or parotids ... results and seems to be due to non coplanar fields rather than the PMBAO AS, KI, and PF conceived the study, collected data, and drafted the manuscript AA, LS, and NA collected data JBD and DA...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... has great impact on these values Souweine and coworkers [23] showed that the standard cutoff values of BAL and PSB would have to be lowered to 103 cfu/ml and 102 cfu/ml to retain diagnostic accuracy ... P aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp We found different levels of sensitivity (81%, 65%, 26%) and specificity (23%, 48%, 78%) for qualitative and quantitative (cutoffs 105 cfu/ml and 106 cfu/ml) ... sent to the laboratory and cultivated within hour of collection A dilution of the tracheal aspirate was prepared and inoculated with a calibrated loop on chocolate agar and MacConkey agar After...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... KaplanMeier curves, and any differences between curves were explored using log-rank or Tarone-Ware tests For correction of age between two groups of patients (patients with sepsis and patients with ... Figure 5) Between January 2003 and December 2003, a total of 164 patients were included in the study Sixty-six of the patients were admitted because of sepsis (severe sepsis and septic shock), and ... was conducted in a surgical ICU, and the patients with sepsis (76%) were mostly admitted after major abdominal surgery and had abdominal sepsis Haraldsen and Andersson [22] retrospectively evaluated...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... 0.0001) and the correlation between VE-induced changes in SV-TTE and SV-Flotrac was r2 = 0.77 (P < 0.0001; Figures and 3) After VE, the classification between Rs and NRs was similar using SV-TTE and ... (ml) Comparison between SV-TTE and SV-Flotrac at baseline, during PLR, before VE and after VE Bland-Altman plots between stroke volume measured SV-Flotrac at baseline, during PLR, before VE and ... hypovolemia SV-TTE and SV-Flotrac were compared using the Bland and Altman method [21] Bias (mean difference between SV-TTE and SV-Flotrac) represents the systematic error between both methods...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... with venous and arterial occlusive disease in multiple organs, miscarriages, and livedo reticularis Materials and Methods We focused on the secondary prevention of stroke with APS, and compared ... patients http://www medsci org Int J Med Sci 2010, 17 Figure Comparison between single antiplatelet therapy and combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy for secondary prevention in ... females, mean age 48 years), who were hospitalized between October 2002 and November 2004 They consisted of 13 with primary antiphospholipid syndrome and with SLE-related antiphospholipid syndrome...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... toxicity and copper accumulation in F hygrometrica and (2) to investigate the relationship between two BLMs in terms of each stability constants MATERIALS AND METHODS Test organism and cultures ... d.w 0.2 0.4 fCu 0.6 0.8 Fig - Relationship between growth rate and total copper concentration (A) or fCu (B) and relationship between copper accumulation and total copper concentration (C) or fCu ... extensive and appropriate prediction of copper toxicity and copper accumulation in organisms REFERENCES Ashton N W and Cove D J (1977) The isolation and preliminary characterization of Auxotrophic and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... AISC LRFD 3rd Edition ASD and LRFD Major Differences • Load Combinations and load factors • ASD results are based on the stresses and LRFD results are based on the forces and moments capacity • ... allowable stress values • LRFD = actual forces and moments are compared to the AISC limiting forces and moments capacity ASTM Steel Grade • Comparison is between Table of the AISC ASD 9th Edition ... Ratio = 0.989 19 Tension Members Load Factor difference between LRFD and ASD 640.881 / 400.688 = 1.599 Equation Factor difference between LRFD and ASD LRFD = (1.5) × ASD Estimate required cross-sectional...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 20:15

... 0.542 Comparison with CFG filtering In this section, we compare a pair of CFG filtering techniques for LTAG (Poller and Becker, 1998) and HPSG (Torisawa et al., 2000) described in Section 2.2.1 and ... trade-offs between the degree of CF approximation and the size of approximated CFGs as in Maxwell III and Kaplan (1993) Acknowledgment We thank Yousuke Sakao for his help in profiling TNT parser and ... 19(2):313–330 J T Maxwell III and R M Kaplan 1993 The interface between phrasal and functional constraints Computational Linguistics, 19(4):571–590 Y Miyao, T Ninomiya, and J Tsujii 2003 Lexicalized...

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Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:00

... century, and Copland from our present The Sacramento Chamber Orchestra consisted of Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass, Piano, and Harp When combined, the performance was outstanding ... the ride and enjoy it The last major piece was by Copland, called Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Harp and Piano The Copland piece was in two movements bridged by an unusually ... illusion that the piece might have been improvised It was very moving and flowing using melody and harmony Very pleasing and also from the romantic era What a great way to end the piano concert...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:00

... overconfidence and points above would show underconfidence Fig contains these scatters for both older and younger subjects, along with standard errors and significance tests for differences in accuracy and ... such losses are not that serious and not show an endowment effect In either event, by testing for an asymmetry between WTA and WTP using the procedures of Plott and Zeiler to avoid confusion, we ... offer was randomly determined and not based on the actual value of the item (Becker et al., 1964) For sellers, if WTA was less than or equal to the random offer, they gave up their item and received...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20