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... abortion statistics are used to derive abortion rates for Northern Ireland The trends in abortion and fertility in Northern Ireland are shown in Figures and Abortion rates in Ireland, where abortion ... (2005 for Republic of Ireland; 2004 for England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Sweden; 2003 for Czech Republic and Finland; 2001 for Denmark) Linear Regression Response variable: cumulated ... protection Breastfeeding gives additional protection Hormonal contraceptives are conducive to breast cancer Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is also conducive to breast cancer Modeling for England...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... genomic context: exonic miRNA in noncoding transcripts, intronic miRNAs in noncoding transcripts, and intronic miRNAs in protein-coding transcripts [8,9] Based on the accumulating knowledge on miRNA ... transfection PLD2 and a-tubulin were detected by a polyclonal antibody and a mouse monoclonal antibody, respectively, followed by goat antirabbit secondary IgG conjugated to Alexa 680 and goat ... IgG and was used as a transfection and loading control The expression of EGFP and IgG on the western blot was determined by the rabbit polyclonal GFP antibody ⁄ Alexa 680 goat anti-rabbit secondary...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... rate constant [133] Degradation and mineralization can be monitored by determining sulfate ion and total organic carbon concentrations in the reaction solution In this study, the reduction in ... valence band and an empty conduction band When a photon with energy of hν matches or exceeds the bandgap energy of the semiconductor, an electron is excited from the valence band into the conduction ... band leaving a hole behind Excited state conduction-band electrons and valence-band holes can recombine and dissipate as heat The valence-band holes are powerful oxidants, while the conduction-band...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:06

... agent -based simulation and counterterrorism, defense modeling, and simulation Moon has a PhD in computation, organization, and society from Carnegie Mellon University Contact him at icmoon@smslab.kaist.ac.kr ... the transitional probabilities among users based on unlabeled email interactions The second term in the formula represents the supervised label bias over users Constant a ∈ [1, 0] controls the ... clustering algorithm based on the user’s personal social network An element of the subvector is if the user belongs to the corresponding cluster and otherwise; each user can belong to only one cluster...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:26

... 10% glycerol, 1% Triton X-100, 10 mm imidazole); lysozyme was added to a nal concentration of mgặmL)1, the suspension was incubated on ice for 30 min, and then sonicated on ice (15 ã 30 s every ... cap analogs and their hydrolysis products were identied using absorption and emission spectroscopy and HPLC analysis The concentrations of the investigated substrates were determined on the basis ... m7GpppG and m32,2,7GpppG [20,21] Human and yeast DcpS can effectively hydrolyze only the m7GpppG cap, and human DcpS has activity on capped oligonucleotides up to 10 nucleotides [2224] In contrast,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... Electronic Lexical Database Bradford Books Yablonsky S.A., 1998 Russicon Slavonic Language Resources and Software In: A Rubio, N Gallardo, Yablonsky S.A., 2000 Russian Monitor Corpora: Composition, ... Composition, Linguistic Encoding and Internet Publication Proceedings Second International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Athens, Greece, 2000 Yablonsky S.A., 2002 Corpora as Object-Oriented ... administration tool through which all major text maintenance and administration functions may be performed • Concept Clustering identifies the relationships between phrases of the texts and it builds...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... Donald G LeGrand and John T Bendler Handbook of Polyethylene: Structures, Properties, and Applications, Andrew J Peacock Polymer and Composite Rheology: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Rakesh ... Technology Handbook: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Manas Chanda and Salil K Roy Prediction of Polymer Properties, Jozef Bicerano Ferroelectric Polymers: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, ... Rheology and Processing, A V Shenoy and D R Saini Prediction of Polymer Properties: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Jozef Bicerano Practical Thermoforming: Principles and Applications, Second...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 14:26

... a BCI one is responsible for acquiring the signal and for conditioning it (by filtering and amplifying it) Following, the analog signal just acquired is converted to a digital one (A/D converter), ... and fast catching motions In addition, experiments with targets being placed in different directions and distances are also conducted An EMG -based command is also used in a dexterous robot hand ... imagination of "left" and "right" hand (or arm) movements, "cube rotation", "subtraction", and "word association", which were used by a finite state automata for controlling the robot An asynchronous...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... “Vehicle communication experiment environment with MANET and NEMO,” in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, Workshop on Network Mobility (SAINT WONEMO ’07), p ... Networks in Conjunction with the International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities and Workshops (TridentCom ’09), Washington, DC, USA, ... these environments Second, traffic flows have to be allocated to appropriate paths depending on the application demands and network performances Since real-time applications are sensitive to handovers,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... best solution by using three operators: selection, crossover, and mutation [13] The process is repeated until a predefined condition is satisfied Once we have the genetic representation and the fitness ... International Conference on Knowledge -Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems and the XVII Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, pp 202–208, 2007 [9] Y Zhang, F Zuo, Z Zhai, and C Xiaobin, ... Washington, DC, USA, 2001 [6] A Westfeld and A Pfitzmann, “Attacks on steganographic systems,” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Information Hiding, 2000 [7] N Provos and P Honeyman,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... variations Local variations SVM -based fusion rule 100 Global variations Local variations Svm -based fusion rule (a) 10−1 (b) Figure 7: ROC plots of the local variations, the global variations, and ... genuine and imposter classes Using different kernels makes it possible to define linear and nonlinear boundaries and consequently a variety of linear and nonlinear fusion rules The position and distance ... deformation, occluded regions, and the degradation factors like motion blurriness and lack of focus The more the method is reliant on texture details, the more is the prone to failure verification Generally,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... [14], with a quantization cell approximation [40, 41], the quantization cell approximation is based on the ideal assumption that each quantization cell is a Voronoi region on a spherical cap with ... Operating regions for BF and ZF with both CSI delay and quantization, Nt = 50 18 45 16 40 14 Nt = U = BF region Nt = U = ZF region 30 25 BF region ZF region Nt = U = 20 BF region 15 ZF region 10 10 ... active users is U = Nt , and the users are scheduled independently of their channel conditions, for example, through round-robin scheduling, random user selection, or scheduling based on the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) experiments were performed using JEM 2010 transmission electron microscope Results and Discussion The formation of Co NT and the subsequent formation of Ni ... the fabrication of such a one-dimensional system namely Ni @ Co nanorods, which is essentially a core–shell architecture (Ni as core and Co as shell) and studies on their structural and magnetic ... controlling the deposition of one of the components It was shown earlier that a single-step template-assisted electrodeposition method could be employed for the fabrication of one-dimensional magnetic...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... IEEE International Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum, San Diego, Calif, USA, June 2005 B Bhanu and X Zou, “Moving humans detection based on multi-modal ... networks and active contour models,” Neurocomputing, vol 43, pp 145–172, 2002 [5] J B Kim and H J Kim, “Efficient region -based motion segmentation for a video monitoring system,” Pattern Recognition ... (i.e., an upstanding, crouched, or crawling person) can be considered as an additional feature and is automatically selected, considering combinations of the above-defined features, among a predefined...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... is reconstruction: the green component is first reconstructed using the red and blue gradients, and then the red and blue ones are reconstructed using the green values, edge approximations, and ... and horizontal colors is used to detect an edgy region (directional area), a small variation in colors can lead to a wrong decision, that is, nondirectional regions are likely to be considered ... 35 40 45 50 Reconstruction High-frequency bands projection Initial interpolation Low-frequency band optimization Subband decomposition 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 High-frequency bands 180 170 160...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... direct up-conversion architecture, (b) offset up-conversion architecture with baseband reconstruction, (c) offset up-conversion architecture with bandpass reconstruction of the transmitter RF band, the ... architectures: direct up-conversion architecture, offset upconversion architecture with baseband reconstruction, and offset up-conversion architecture with bandpass reconstruction Simplified block diagrams ... analog-to-digital converter (A/D), and conversion of the signals to the frequency most convenient for sampling and quantization Besides, they often provide band selection, image rejection, and some other...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... Determination of the threshold in quiet (absolute threshold) Step 3: Finding the tonal and nontonal components of the audio Step 4: Decimation of tonal and nontonal masking components Step 5: Calculation ... compression/decompression Let XMP3,m (ΨMP3,m ) represent an MP 3and- watermarked audio That is, a watermarked audio X is further manipulated by MP3 compression/decompression Audio Watermarking Based on ... tutorial on mpeg audio compression,” IEEE Multimedia Journal, vol 2, no 2, pp 60–74, 1995 [13] A Shamir, On the generation of cryptographically strong pseudo-random sequences,” in 8th International...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... probesets with contradictory responses to stress (expression significantly increased in one condition, but significantly decreased in another) were not considered Functional annotation was then assigned ... analysis and submission RLA performed all root tissue preparations and mRNA extractions and data analyses for root cDNA library construction KAS performed hierarchical clustering analysis and data ... interpretation and finalization of the manuscript GRC participated in the organization of the studies and finalization of the manuscript JCC conceived and organized the studies, conducted EST...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:20

... (inclusion 1) (the PICU-condition with complete segregation) and 19 (inclusion 2) (the PICU-condition without complete segregation) (RR 5.72, p < 0.01(Poisson distribution), 95% CI: 1.69-19.33) violent ... traditional seclusion settings Segregation of patients raises ethical and legal questions During the last years there have emerged new legislations, recommendations, court cases and professional ... Dept and Research Centre Brøset, Trondheim, Norway Authors’ contributions AEV, VCI, GM, JCF and OML conceived and designed the study VCI and AEV coordinated the study including the inclusion of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... adjacent and act as pairs in three dimensional structures, and to enable identification of significant RTP distributions in coding and non-coding promoter sequences for classification purposes ... known non-promoter sequence in training_datak We considered both strands of each sequence (plus and minus strands) for hexamer frequency analysis, and then CPi and CNPi were calculated using Eq and ... size in one generation was 1,000, the number of reproductions in one generation was 500, the maximum child limit in one generation was 500, and the maximum number of generations was 1,000 After...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20