... parameter, the ratio aeb/av, forEquation (4) and is determined by three parameters, β1, β2 and α1/α2 forEquation (5) The first prediction for these multi-compartment allometric models is that log(BMR) ... reduction of variance for models that predict the basal metabolic rateModel SSR Kleiber's Law Equation (1) Equation (4) Equation (5) Equation (7) 18.87 16.62† 15.98† 15.90† 15.93† P* 0.057† 0.019† ... model described by Equation (1) does For the optimal fit of the four-parameter model of Equation (5) to the data of White and Seymour, β1 and β2 are 0.56 and 0.91, respectively, and the MLE for...
... was generated by peak comparison between CRC and normal controls Peaks labeled by * were selected as biomarkers for CRC diagnostic model Figure The decision trees of diagnostic modelfor CRC ... Int J Med Sci 2011, five year survival ratefor colorectal cancer diagnosed at early stages is higher than 90%, while the five year survival ratefor those diagnosed with widespread cancer ... with limited sensitivity (30-40%) for early CRC diagnosis [9] It should be noted that none of these existed serum markers could be used individually for screening for CRC with sufficient accuracy...
... the compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability of the 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of one such Laser for the treatment of pathological frenulum, keratoses, ... device; Ruby and Argon lasers, despite having an excellent chromophoric specificity for melanin-hemoglobin, did not allow photothermolysis owing to inappropriate pulsing for the treatment of smaller ... The area comprising the lesion was cooled by applying ice for minutes immediately before and after the laser session The procedure was performed with fluences from to 15 J/cm2, a pulse length of...
... controls) in DBase IV format was combined with the new data package in an EXCEL format and with a total of 308 records was made The package in EXCEL format was exported to SPSS format for its later statistical ... The predisposing effect for the condition was potentiated for both variables at the individual level (OR of 1.051 for AGE and OR of 1.138 for CA 19.9) with respect to the model obtained with raw ... network for computer-aided diagnosis of breast masses Acad Radiol 2005;12:487-495 34 Austin PC, Tu JV: Automated variable selection methods for logistic regression produced unstable models for predicting...
... HOUSE’S MODELFOR TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT 2.1 Presentation of the model Julian House is a German linguist She first proposed her modelfor translation quality assessment in 1977 in A Modelfor ... APPLICATION OF HOUSE’S MODELFOR TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT 2.1 Presentation of the model 27 27 2.1.1 An overview of the model 27 2.1.2 Operation of the model 28 2.2 Application of the model 31 2.2.1 ... Investment of Vietnam Therefore, a set of parameters for assessment is necessary Among the various criteria and models for translation quality assessment, House’s model is chosen in this study...
... 3: forest 4: residence 5: livestock farm Land use data Drainage data Fig Mesh data The equations used in the model are as follows Symbols used in the equations are illustrated in Fig The equations ... Considering that nitrogen effluent rates differ depending on the land use, the dissolution rate (α) is set to 0.5 for the upland fields, 0.0 for livestock and 1.0 for others, that is, the nitrogen ... affect the runoff - Verification of the model response to rates such as the cumulative rate and purification rate is required The values used in the developed model are obtained from literature;...
... method is applied for the calculation of the electricity cost for a given power system In section 2, both the least-squares method and the finite difference method for heat rate curve approximation ... illustrated and the results obtained are discussed The conclusions are summarized in section Io L (kWh) Figure Input – output curve Heat rate curve approximation The most common method for heat rate ... applied for the approximation of the heat rate curve shown in Figure 2, which represents the performance of a 120MWe steam turbine [3] We observe that least squares fitting method gives very accurate...
... iterative modeling is done in close interaction with stakeholders, who, along with the modelers, use the models for scenario planning.” This is how we would like to use the models: we try to integrate ... opportunities and breakthroughs, among which spatial modeling is a key one “Models will have increased capacity to integrate social and bio-economic information”(Bilderberg 1999) Adaptive management ... points of intervention and to construct a bank of options for resource management” The role of modeling is formulated in this context: “Modeling proceeds iteratively by successive approximations...
... DIRECTED GRAPH MODELFOR A POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK Find equipment failures that reverse the normal gain of the branch so that the overall loop becomes positive feed forward The formal NFFL operator ... and effect models can be developed for in0sal l ar0 dividual devices (such as switches, voltage supplies, senVS +1 sors) and then connected by linking input variables from TI-M TI one model with ... CUMMINGS ET Al.: FAULT TREE SYNTHESIS FROM A DIRECTED GRAPH MODELFOR A POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK Each of the mains, A(l), and transformers, T(i), are sized to carry the entire plant load The...
... customers and citizens for having redundant or country-unique tests ? * One Test includes Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity option June 24, 1998 Modelfor Regulatory Reform One Standard feedback ... *requirement for FCC - acceptable accredited test labs June 24, 1998 Progress Toward One StandardOne Test, SDoC for IT Products Information Technology Industry Council (US) … years this form since ... How you optimize the Value of Information Technology (IT) products for both Customers and Citizens? June 24, 1998 The Opportunity is Based on Three Concepts For IT Regulations 1of Product Safety...
... market interest rate (for floating -rate bonds only) For the purposes of the model, some assumptions or forecasts have to be made about the future behavior of the market interest rate Examples are ... Comprehensive Quantitative ModelFor Analyzing Bond Refunding Decisions The model will cope with both fixed- and floating -rate bonds of any term to maturity up to 30 years The corporate tax rate, term to ... Quantitative ModelFor Analyzing Bond Refunding Decisions Other Applications of the Model: If a firm’s original bond issue is a floating -rate one, refunding to other fixed -rate or floating -rate bonds...
... REF—reference model where the fraction of correctly predicted exceedances (TPR, true positive rate) represents the sensitivity of model and the false positive rate (FPR) the specificity of model In the equations, ... adequate information for achieving the performance described in the results Results 3.2 Validation statistics 3.1 Evolved MLP models The validation statistics is presented for each model and the ... for evolving the MLP models 0.16 ð3Þ 0.15 i¼1 2.7 Model evolution runs and validation Finally, the coarse-grained GA with the selected parameters (Section 2.5) was used for evolving the MLP for...
... ACOL model is simplified in that the covariates are not included The equationfor the value of leaving in the ACOL model is Vt L Wt c T t t Wc Rtm c t (3.5) This is identical to the equationfor ... Predicted Pilot Retention Rates for ROTC Accessions 1.0 Cumulative retention rate 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 10 15 Years of service RAND TR470-4.3 20 19 20 The Dynamic Retention Modelfor Air Force Officers Figure ... implementing the DRM by showing the equations for a simple stay/leave model This model is very similar to the original Gotz-McCall (1984) model and the later Daula-Moffit model (1995) It omits the Markov...
... object-oriented models Center for Integrated Facility Engineering: Stanford; 1992 [23] Luiten G, Froese T, Bjork BC, Cooper G, Junge R, Karstila K, et al ¨ An information reference modelfor architecture, ... available for the modelling of IS One of the most prominent and widely used is the Unified Modeling Language (UML) [15] UML allows class diagrams to be used for data modelling and activity diagrams for ... keeping with Thomas, a reference model is defined as an ‘‘information model used for supporting the construction of other models” [19, p 491] The use of reference models is frequently based on the...
... for transliteration mining These methods model the conditional probability distribution and require supervised/semi-supervised information for learning We propose a flexible generative modelfor ... transliteration and a non-transliteration sub -model The transliteration model jointly generates source and target 470 strings, whereas the non-transliteration system generates them independently of each other ... “non-transliteration model ) Interpolation with the non-transliteration model allows the transliteration model to concentrate on modelling transliterations during EM training After EM training, transliteration...
... hierarchical model and regression model to score sentences in new documents, eliminating the need for building a generative modelfor new document clusters characterize their candidacy for inclusion ... Later, we build a regression model with the same features as our HybHSum to create a summary We train models with DUC2005 and evaluate performance on DUC2006 documents for different parameter values ... HIERSUM This indicates that with our regression model built on training data, summaries can be efficiently generated for test documents (suitable for online systems) Experiment 4: Manual Evaluations...
... Retrieval Model Comparison To demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model, we compared it with the following models using different evaluation metrics: (1) IR: We adopted a classical information ... contextual information to express relevant opinion, and inter-sentence information to measure the degree of each word pair through a graph-based model in the following section 3.2 HITS Model We propose ... Experiment We performed the experiments on the Chinese benchmark dataset to verify our proposed approach for opinion retrieval We first tested the effect of the parameter of our model To demonstrate the...
... re-ranking model performs rather well for a limited number of candidate structures, and outperforms Charniak’s model when k = In this case we observe a small boost in performance for the detection ... encourage , promote (S[dcl]\NP)/NP encourage , , VBP NN advocate abortion NP (S[dcl]\NP)/NP[conj] N abortion (S[dcl]\NP)/NP (S[dcl]\NP)/NP (S[dcl]\NP)/NP[conj] promote conj (S[dcl]\NP)/NP or advocate ... abortion abortion NP (S[dcl]\NP)/NP prohibits (c) J S[dcl] N funding N NP\NP (d) NP (NP\NP)/NP for NP NP NNS activities N activities NP\NP (NP\NP)/(S[dcl]\NP) that S[dcl]\NP (S[dcl]\NP)/NP CC or WDT...