descartes apos s solution of the quartic

... methods utilizing results of oedometer tests on three clayey soils The basic properties of these three soils are given in Table As can be seen from Table 1, - 92 - the soils utilized in the present ... associated with similarity in the δ p values Also, the discrepancy in the c v values of the proposed and Taylor methods is associated with discrepancy in the δ p values In other words, when these ... sets, respectively; these values were obtained using ©Microsoft Excel Solver Based on these results, it can be seen that the δ p value depends on the selected third point ( d ti , t i ) The solution...

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... COMPASS, COMPASS English as a Second Language (ESL), ASSET, and “Combined English Language Skills Assessment” (CELSA).4 The COMPASS ESL and CELSA tests were used only for ESL students The CELSA ... under this subpart of (1) The test taken by the student; (2) The date of the test; and (3) The student 's scores as reported by the test publisher, assessment center, or State Students Ineligible ... 16 students, the assessment center manually scored the tests For five of those eight students, the assessment center did not ensure that the tests were administered by certified test administrators...

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... required the USMS to ask permission each day the USMS needed to use the system Ultimately, the FBI disabled five USMS radios because it said there was too much traffic The USMS Chief Inspector for the ... status of these components' LMRs follows 19 For purposes of this audit, obsolete systems are systems that are no longer supported by the manufacturer or the manufacturer is unable to supply spare ... that they can be received by the other systems This allows the agencies to continue using their existing systems but requires twice as much spectrum because each system occupies separate channels...

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... instant the canoe glided into the obscurity of the shadows cast by the overhanging trees With the disappearance of Darius there came upon me the full sense of my responsibility, for I was the ... Yankees, an' the other is sneakin' in some corner!" There came the sound of hurried footsteps, and then the light of the lantern so far illumined the head of the stairway that I could see Darius, ... it as tough as is deserved These others are prisoners of war; but you two are traitors and spies, therefore must expect to fare according to your deserts." "That 's about the size of it, Amos,"...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... Blatty s adaptation of his novel THE EXORCIST (1973) is the scariest movie made on the subject of demonic possession It has had the most psychological impact on its a ­ udience since its release ... think of ourselves as masters of our universe: we’ve landed on the Moon, split the atom, and tamed the beasts of nature Seeing ourselves as anything less than perfect or at the bottom of the food ... imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite ­ osmic spaces beyond the radius of c our sight and analysis These stories frequently emphasise the element of horror because fear is our...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 17:30

... types: linguistic awareness, psycholinguistic awareness, discourse awareness, communicative awareness, sociolinguistic awareness and strategic awareness • Linguistic awareness where the aim is ... approach and the steps it entails are important in diminishing or preventing students’ problems in writing? On the basis of these questions, the following hypothesis is put forward: If learners are ... randomization process later on) to be given the questionnaire The aim of the learners’ questionnaire is to gauge the students’ level of awareness of the writing process and the writing techniques underlying...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 19:20

... Descriptions Task Task Description Propulsion The MSL propulsion subsystem comprises two independently operated subsystems: cruise stage (CS) propulsion and the descent stage (DS) The CS propulsion subsystem ... incurring the resultant costs, NASA s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate should reassess the sufficiency of the Project s funding based on our calculations In addition, the MSL ... Project s history of cost estimation, reassess the sufficiency of available reserves, and adjust funding accordingly Management s Response The Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:20

... biological osteosynthesis has gained a reputation in fracture treatment Minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO) techniques minimize the extent of soft tissue trauma to the injury zone, theoretically ... techniques of internal fixation This unusual case of delayed union of the femur fracture associated with Paget 's disease of the bone for which functional bracing was ultimately successful illustrates ... involving the entire femur of the fracture (Figure 5), the patient is able to walk unaided with a single T-cane Discussion Although Paget 's disease of the bone is a relatively common disease in Australia,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... approximates the solution z of 1.1 in the uniform sense To obtain such sequence, we will make use of some biorthogonal systems, the usual Schauder bases for the spaces C 0, and C 0, , as well as their ... It is not difficult to check that this basis satisfies similar Fixed Point Theory and Applications properties to the ones for the one-dimensional case: for instance, the sequence of projections {Qn ... problems see 1, 16–20 Preliminaries We first show that operator T n also satisfies a suitable Lipschitz condition This result is proven by using an inductive argument The proof is similar to that of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... particularly as the dimensions of the system matrices increase Thus, a number of works have been presented by researchers to evaluate the bounds and trace bounds for the solution of the ARE see 6– 16 ... our bounds are better than those of the previous results Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Professor Jozef Banas and the referees for the very helpful comments and suggestions to improve ... guarantee the existence of the positive definite solution to 1.4 , we will make the following assumptions: the pair A, R is stabilizable, and the pair Q, A is observable In practice, it is hard to solve...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 03:20

... iteration step is therefore (7/3)n3 flops, as the first step involves about n3 /3, the second one n3 , and the last one n3 flops In many applications, rather than the solutions of matrix equations themselves, ... until the residuum was less than n · Q F · eps, where eps is Matlab s machine epsilon This does not imply the same accuracy for the solution X of (1) Due to the back substitution (26), the final solution ... Next the doubling algorithm SDA was used to solve the same set of examples Its iteration solves (23), the desired solution X is obtained from the computed solution via (26) The iteration was run...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... g1 Application: Q-system from the T -system solutions In this section, we compare the restriction of our T -system solution to the case of the Ar Q-system whose solution was worked out in [5] ... formula Theorem 4.12 for the solution of the Ar T -system as the partition function for families of non-intersecting paths In Section 5, we study the restrictions of our results to the Q-system ... staircase boundaries of the type considered in the A1 case, drawn on the two corresponding shifted square lattice layers in thick (resp dashed) lines These two staircases are constrained by the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:22

... (3 cycles of CHOP) The pathological diagnosis of the second HNC in all the cases (2 cases of cancer of the gum, case of tongue cancer, and case of maxillary sinus cancer) was SCC (fig 2) The median ... by the nature of the tumor, but also by several patient factors, mainly the extent of the existing tissue damage Because of the small number of cases, we could not estimate the prognosis of second ... diseases such as tuberculous lymphadenitis, skin diseases, thyroid diseases and spondylitis, however, at present, RT is mainly used to treat malignancies The limitation of the prior disease treated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... remained disease-free for six months after diagnosis Based on these findings, a diagnosis of Ewing s sarcoma of the calcaneus was made Discussion Ewing s sarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm, predominantly ... patients of the ages five to 20 years It involves the diaphyses of long bones and occurs Figure CT image of the patient s foot, revealing a soft-tissue mass originating from the calcaneus, permeative ... of the patient s foot shows a hypointense tumor mass on T1-weighted spin-echo sequences compared to surrounding musculature The skip lesion of the talus displays a hyposignal on T1-weighted sequences...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... where they migrate towards the epidermis This hypothesis is supported by the association between Paget s and an underlying breast carcinoma in the majority of patients The second hypothesis, the ... nuclei [1,2] The pathogenesis of Paget s disease is still a subject of debate with two main hypotheses The epidermotropic hypothesis proposes that Paget s cells originate from ductal epithelium, ... Paget s disease of the right nipple with no evidence of underlying invasive ductal carcinoma, ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast tissue or lymph node invasion Discussion Paget s disease is an...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... non-Hodgkin s lymphoma with synchronous perforation Tumors of the small intestine are infrequent; only 3% to 6% of gastrointestinal tumors and 1% of gastrointestinal malignances arise from the small ... http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/5/1/57 diagnosis was made Other symptoms include bleeding, obstruction, perforation, and intussusceptions No sex predominance exists Some patients remain asymptomatic ... perforation to the time of operation can affect the outcome Pre-operative shock is also a significant poor prognostic factor for such patients Conclusions Surgeons should always be alert for the possibility...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... and sclerosis Squamous and goblet cell metaplasia in the ductal system Stage (end-stage): Cirrhosis-like, with marked parenchymal loss and sclerosis (the “burnt out” phase) Our case corresponded ... 2011 Published: 29 March 2011 References Seifert G, Donath K: [On the pathogenesis of the Küttner tumor of the submandibular gland-Analysis of 349 cases with chronic sialadenitis of the submandibular.] ... nodules of our case to be similar to follicular hyperplasia, which is characterized by the presence of progressive transformation of the germinal centers In such progressive transformation, it is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... alendronate seemed to be more suitable for the treatment of Japanese patients since the dose of alendronate used for the treatment of osteoporosis in Japanese patients (5 mg per day) was half of that used ... other sclerosing bone dysplasia [2,3] To monitor disease activity and the effects of treatment, we measured T-ALP and uNTX levels of our patients every three to six months and assessed their ... throughout the five-year follow-up Recently, several studies have indicated the possibility that long-term or high-dose bisphosphonate therapy could cause severe side effects, including osteonecrosis of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... from its base Histologically, a thick-walled arterial vessel is seen This is larger than the surrounding submucosal vessels and runs below the muscularis mucosae A similar appearance has been ... Dieulafoy 's lesion of the duodenum; successful endoscopic therapy Endoscopy 1993, 25:371 Lee YT, Walmsley RS, Leong RW, Sung JJ: Dieulafoy 's lesion Gastrointest Endosc 2003, 58:236 Gadenstatter M, Wetscher ... diffuse punched-out ulcerations and erosions in the terminal ileum successfully treated by surgical excision of the diseased part Case presentation A seven-year-old Kurdish girl from northern...

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