data and information in statistics

... during this period (ESSTI 2008). The cause of this increase is not clear. Potential explanations include a genuine rise in incidence, an increase and change in diagnostic testing, and/ or the introduction ... vaccination is in fact decreasing despite the much broader trend of increased vaccination: in the UK, MMR vaccination decreased from 99% in 2000 to 86.2% in 2007 and in Denmark from 100% in ... polio, in uenza, and Streptococcus pneumoniae in the elderly. Sex -and- age-specic data on basic vaccination coverage is currently minimal. However, as most vaccination occurs during infancy and...

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... Beliefs and Intentions in a Changing World, in Precedings of the hal Spring Symposium Series: Rea- soning about Mental States: Formal Theories and Ap- plications. Asher, Nicholas and Morreau, ... Reasoning, in Proceedings to the 12th Interna- tional Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Syd- ney Australia, August 1991. Asher, Nicholas and Singh, Munindar (1993) A Logic of Intentions ... exam- ple, in (1) in Contexts 1 and 2, I infers the bill is bad for big business. Consider again discourse (1) in Context 1. Intu- itively, the reason we can infer Result(a, fl) in the anal-...

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... securing information on them” (Miettinen and Cook, 1981). Confounding bias is handled either by preventing it, through randomization in study design,orbyremoving it, through regression models in data ... anticonvulsant, in acute bipolar depression (Ghaemi et al., 2007). The clinical lore is that this drug is ineffective in this setting. Nineteen patients were used in total (half drug and half placebo) in a ... impact 30 A Clinician’s Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health Measuring Truth and Uncertainty S. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine Director,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/09/2012, 09:06

... framework for finding object-oriented information in unstructured data. This chapter also gives their advantages and shortcoming in solving object search problem. Chapter 3 introduces our ... obsolete and not usable at all [13]. 1.3 Main contribution Bearing in mind the importance of searching information on the Web, studies have shown that current search engine is not suitable for finding ... search engines essentially conduct document-level ranking and retrieval. However, structured information about real-world objects embedded in static web pages and online databases exists in huge...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2012, 15:04

... article begins with separate discussions of how cooperative learning promotes effective instruction of thinking skills and creativity, and of information technology. Thinking skills and creativity ... teachers for information, and instead can work together to find and share knowledge. All the same benefits of cooperative learning presented above in the normal classroom apply equally in information ... again analyze and share what they have learned and done, as well as what they need to do next. Lesson Plan - Using the Internet for Pre-Writing Using Cooperative Learning to Integrate Thinking...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:10

... it comes to in- and outsourcing. In my view, all of this has to do with the type of business and the information the business is built upon. Locating and defining an organisation’s information ... information. Considering the increasing service supply at Apoteket, and having in mind the type of information that is processed and transmitted in the systems on a daily basis (personal data, ... workflows against ethnographical findings are addressed in [32], models and techniques supporting design and maintenance of trustworthy services are addressed in [33], experimental support and methodologies...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 21:15

... characteristicinworking coordinate by using nonlinearcoordinate transform between the working coordinate andthe joint coordinate aboutarticulatedrobot arm. (2) Servo Controller of IndustrialMechatronic ... personallyheld and described in introduction. In eachsection of eachchapter, main points are inserted at the beginning of PrefaceX I eachsection for recommending the text readingthoroughly.The ... pointinwork- ingcoordinate hastwo possibilities in the jointcoordinate. Next,the dynamics of th erobot armisgiven in the jointcoordinate.Inan industrial robot arm, if the gearratioislarge, then theload inertiaissmall. Moreover,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 08:20

... radio listening is more popular than watching TV: Poland (+96 minutes), Iceland (+57 minutes), Finland and Austria (+42 minutes) , Denmark (+38 minutes), Sweden (+26 minutes) and the Netherlands (+10 minutes). ... spending on video cassettes and DVDs in the EU and in the US comparing 2000 with 2001 F. 4.4: Turnover from DVD sales and rentals in EU MS in 2001 F. 4.5: DVDs sold and rented in the EU and US in ... collecting and disseminating existing statistics. The AUVIS system aims to include quantitative and qual- itative information on 14 AUVIS sections and market seg- ments: Structural Business Statistics...

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... Modeling of Language Variability. In Proceedings of the PASCAL Workshop of Learning Methods for Text Understanding and Min- ing. M.C. De Marneffe, B. MacCartney, and C.D. Man- ning. 2006. Generating ... achieved in the most challenging setting 4 Using Google Translate. 122 lems. Given two pages (P1 and P2), these issues include identifying, and properly managing: (1) Text portions in P1 and P2 ... Generalization. In Proceedings of the 10th Con- ference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2010), Saarbr ă ucken, Germany. J.R. Finkel, T. Grenager, and C. Manning. 2005. Incor- porating Non-local Information...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... questions. The re~aining elements are given information. They represent information assumed by the questioner to be true of the database domain. This lapeling of information within the question ... the informant in that it informs him what the inquirer is interested in (what is on her/his mind) and * Some other influences on syntactic expression are discussed in [MORGAN and ... context. In the declarative, elements functioning in asserting information What the listener is presumed not to know are called new. In the question, elements funci:ioning in conveying what...

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... defining control schemes for tasks which demand extensive contact with the environment (such as assembly, grinding, deburring and surface cleaning) has been the subject of significant research in ... commands expressed in Cartesian space. In the case of controlling a redundant manipulator, these control inputs should be projected into joint space. Depending on the application requirements and ... choose and in such away that the vector points along , with , being a unit vector defining the direction of the cylinder axis (see Figure 3.2). Each of ,, and , can alternatively be defined through...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... between entertainment and information and between variety and diversity. He has expressed skepticism that there is a viewpoint expressed in most television programming, and accordingly, skepticism ... rigorous and the policy rests on high First Amendment standards. Following the general practice in the antitrust literature, Chapter V starts by defining the space in which news and information ... importance and role of television in the political process in a different way. Television is MEDIA OWNERSHIP and DEMOCRACY in the DIGITAL INFORMATION AGE Promoting Diversity with First Amendment Principles...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:20

... easy to hedge against (e.g. using an industry price index), thus extracting from each asset a random variable that is independent for assets in different industries or markets. In any case, our ... realization of informational asymmetry. Anybody who knows how to multiply can randomly generate (using a few coin flips and a pen and paper) a large integer by multiplying two smaller factors. This integer ... expectation D, and then choose D i random neighbors, and (b) adding to G the edges of a random bipartite graph H on m + n vertices and degree d, where we place H on m random top vertices and n random...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... local comparisons and use employer-based data to identify minimum wage effects. 1 The inconsistent findings may arise from differences in the groups being examined and ⁄ or differences in the datasets ... recent federal minimum wage increases in July 2008 and July 2009—coincided with a severe recession and increasing rates of unemployment. These two increases were enacted in the Fair Minimum Wage Act ... December 2007 and increased to 20.8 percent in July 2008 and again to 24.5 percent in July 2009. Were these increases in teen unemployment a result of minimum wage increases during an especially...

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