... corresponding to these two peptides were detected (Fig 1b) The masses ofthe two intense signals tothe right in the spectrum (Fig 1c) matched those ofthe proinsulin-derived C-peptides and The mass ... C-terminal pentapeptide ofthe rat and human C-peptides is thought to be critical for bioactivity and for binding ofthe C-peptide to its putative receptor Hence, the role ofthe truncated peptide ... peaks were detected from the peptide assumed to be glucagon However, the theoretical mass of glucagon and the measured mass ofthe peptide differ by only 1.8 p.p.m In the ECD experiments, ECD...
... as in (6) The situation-type ofthe text at the end o f the utterance ofthe second clause includcs the speaker with die propertyof having told the guy at the door to watch out and having judged ... oair of sets of situation-types One gives the set of situationtypes ofthe text (written or spoken) st - and can be regarded as representing the Iocutionary aspect ofthe act The other gives the ... f the utterance: thc initial creation ofthe situation-type (the first clause), the interpretation of but and the modification ofthe initial situation-type to accommodate the information in the...
... (32) leads to: = = y Hence, the (i, i) blocks ofthe variance-covariance matrix of can be written as: Thetothe expression ofthe covariance calculated before can be easily generalized of two distinct ... 1) of iteration using the current value B(t! of where = 2.2.2 The GAR HTO + to round procedure The size (I(J — 1)) ofthe E matrix to invert in W may be very large in of applications (e.g ... models, they proposed to base inference about threshold cutoff points, location and dispersion parameters ofthe latent distribution on the mode ofthe a posteriori (MAP) distribution This approach...
... equating the corresponding quasi-score function to zero, vix As shown by the expression in [3], the quasi-likelihood approach only the specification ofthe marginal mean vector and ofthe variance ... z’are the corresponding row incidence vectors, the parameterization in P being assumed to be of full rank Notice that [2] is an extension to mixed models ofthe structure of &dquo;linear predictors&dquo; ... effects on the other hand A simple example of that is the classical animal model In (a2! ) x! p + +pi, for the jth performance ofthe ith female (eg ovulation rate of an ewe) as a function of = a...
... rNetPhotosynthesis ÀrCO2 !Starch Ratesof net photosynthesis (rNetPhotosynthesis) were calculated as the average rate of carbon uptake during the first half ofthe light phase (n = h): n R rNetPhotosynthesis ... of photosynthesis, gas exchange of plants was measured by infrared gas analysis Measurements were performed during the first h 508 ofthe light phase, representing the time period of photosynthetic ... derivative of this function The flux rate of CO2 into sucrose synthesis (rCO2 !Suc ) was caclulated as the difference between the rate of net photosynthesis and that of net starch synthesis (unit: C6 h)1Æg)1...
... economic context ofthe subsector analysis For example, one ofthe objectives ofthe Bangladesh study was to investigate the link between the supply of loans and marketing arrangements in the commodity ... failing to meet their objectives this may be because of lack of assets or that their aims are in conflict with those of other, more powerful, groups One ofthe key principles ofthe SLA is the attempt ... distributors) (i) Analysisofthe livelihoods systems of fishing communities This started with an investigation ofthe capital assets available tothe different wealth groups in the villages, and their...
... developed to capture the dynamic characteristics ofthe problem with consideration tothe stochastic nature ofthe cardholders’ repayments first and secondly tothe attrition of accounts and tothe ... connect the hidden neuron j tothe unique output neuron The sum of their weighted outputs and of a bias term c is used as the input ofthe final transfer function ϕ2 to compute the output ofthe unique ... state space ofthe accounts S is such that, it is relevant to assume the Markov propertyto hold therein The process of evolution ofthe accounts is then a Markov process p refers tothe probability...
... L2 It is therefore useful to consider the bilingual approach as a possible way of teaching the Chinese language to L2 learners and to gather some ofthe public’s responses towards this approach ... have shown, the definition of ‘mother tongue’ is problematic in the field of linguistics The issue of ‘mother tongue’ is further confounded in the Singapore context Laying aside the above-mentioned ... the eligibility criteria to allow more students to take the Mother Tongue 'B' syllabus in secondary schools where the students are unable to cope with their Mother Tongue despite putting in the...
... assumed to be larger than all the elements tothe end of each ofthe auxiliary arrays, to help accomplish the task of moving the remainder of one ofthe auxiliary arrays back to a after the other ... compares to sort an array of N elements Proof If CN is the number of compares that the Program 1.1 uses to sort N elements, then the number of compares to sort the rst half is C⌊N/2⌋ , the number of ... rather we focus on the “machine-independent” parts oftheanalysis in this book Indeed, to determine the total running time ofthe program, it is necessary to study the branching structure of the...
... extensions tothe rules for tree drawing and the inventory of hypertags were proposed, on the basis of problems encountered by the linguist in providing a satisfactory grammatical analysisofthe constructions ... Tagging The success ofthe probabilistic model for word tagging prompted us to devise a similar system for providing a constituent analysis Input tothe constituent analysis module ofthe system ... was devised, G.R Sampson began the task of drawing tree diagrams ofthe constituent analysisof sample sentences ca computer print-outs ofthe word tagged version ofthe corpus As tree drawing proceeded,...
... matching of protein spots first to reference gels ofthe same condition and thereafter to reference gels common to both conditions The stepwise annotation of protein spots to two independent levels of ... gel replicates The modular character of this type ofanalysis allowed the integration of all unique protein spots into one big 2D reference map Due tothe poor representation of dog proteins ... the major role ofthe MMP family is the control of cellular responses critical to homeostatic regulation ofthe extracellular environment and the immune response [19,20] We decided to apply protease...
... anaerobic growth on either ofthe electron acceptors U(VI) and Se(VI) is due tothe decaheme cytochromes c not recognizing either of these electron acceptors, we probed the relative affinities ... acceptor These results therefore provide evidence that there are differences between the electron transfer pathways towards chelated Fe(III) on the one hand and either U(VI) or Se(VI) on the other ... slightly, the affinity of OmcB for its metal substrate However, the curves totally refute the reverse possibility, i.e that OmcB is needed to get functional OmcA On the other hand, the derived...
... suffixation of an affix to a prescribed prosodic subconstitucnt of a word rather than tothe whole word 2.2 The Non.Isomorphism of Morphophonology and Morphosyntax Another fundamental propertyof morphology ... boundaries, off tothe syntactic parser The f'n'st task is to find the prosodic constituents, i.e to find where the syllables are, where the feet ~ are, and where the prosodic words are The particular ... number of clitics which are suffixes as far as the phonology is concerned (i.e., they undergo Vowel Harmony with the word to which they attach) are separate words from the point of view ofthe syntax...
... concepts After theanalysisof these relations according tothe requirements ofthe task, we have decided to use the ones listed in Table together with their description in the second column The third ... branch required the annotators to fill in the domain description ofthe names in question together with their etymologies if required, while the second asked them to determine the devices of creativity ... since the naming task should favor further terms tothe category word in order to exaggerate, to evoke and thereby to be more effective The first constituent of our approach uses the pattern “as property...
... Illustration ofthe path a classifier must trace in order to identify the location ofthe gap from Figure At the top level, it must choose to recurse into the SQ node, and at the second level, into the ... downward from there, eventually predicting the location ofthe gap At each node we encounter, the classifier chooses either to recurse into one ofthe child nodes, or to predict the existence of a gap ... within the VP subtree it should predict the location ofthe gap as the last child ofthe parent VP SBARQ - begin at the first branching node dominating the WH operator, and train a classifier to...
... heuristics ofthe relevant Expert subclass (here the Travel Expert), the system analyses the supplied information, to try to establish the context ofthe transaction, and then to process the transaction ... ask the user to narrow the enquiry to one ofthe areas available Although the system may request specific information (as in the turn above), the user may supply rather more than this Using the ... travel tothe destination on the day and at the time requested Figure below illustrates the process If the instance is unable to meet the criteria it simply performs a cut and passes the call to the...
... assumed to be larger than all the elements tothe end of each ofthe auxiliary arrays, to help accomplish the task of moving the remainder of one ofthe auxiliary arrays back to a after the other ... compares to sort an array of N elements Proof If CN is the number of compares that the Program 1.1 uses to sort N elements, then the number of compares to sort the rst half is C⌊N/2⌋ , the number of ... rather we focus on the “machine-independent” parts oftheanalysis in this book Indeed, to determine the total running time ofthe program, it is necessary to study the branching structure of the...
... priests, the guardians ofthe sanctuary, had access.18 They refuse to put the money into the treasury ofthe Temple; ‘they use it to buy a field, thus inscribing their crime on the soil of Israel’19 ... After the death and burial of Jesus, the chief priests (together with the Pharisees’) set a guard at the tomb of Jesus and make it ‘secure’ by sealing the stone After the 18 When Matthew writes of ... seated at the right hand of God and will come ‘with the clouds of heaven’ at the climax of history to gather in the elect (Mark 14: 61–2 parr.); (4) Pilate’s question, ‘are you the King ofthe Jews?’...
... singular (for example, the giving ofthe tablets to Moses on Mount Sinai, the revelation ofthe Quran through Mohammed, the incarnation of God in Christ, the Enlightenment ofthe Buddha), competing ... studying them The dynamic model of how we come to know our experience and the experiences of others developed in chapter is based on research on embodiment and theory of mind Theory of mind is ... Protestant theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, the self-authenticating experience ofthe individual seemed like a promising source of religious renewal, less vulnerable tothe acids of historical...