developing objective criteria for comparisons of orofacial skeletal characteristics

... regardless of age This revised report is intended to meet the objectives set out in the box Objectives of RP-162 Update existing criteria for acceptability Update and extend criteria for acceptability ... EQUIPMENT  acceptance testing of new equipment,  identification of criteria of acceptability for equipment safety and performance throughout its life, and  establishment of quality assurance programmes ... specialist 1.5 Criteria for acceptability 1.5.1 Approaches to criteria In Table 1-1 the criteria for acceptability were divided into two categories, qualitative criteria and quantitative criteria, ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:20

... 20 19 Table 1: Numerical values of parameters used for simulation of the rate model (18); see [11] for a discussion of the derivation of the model and the meaning of the parameters Parameter Value ... (11) then there will be an open dense set of perturbations of f that remove the intersection, giving lack of robustness of si and hence we obtain a proof for case On the other hand, if (11) is not ... part of Pi } is dynamically invariant for all ODEs in that class For a given symmetry or coupling structure, we identify a list of possible cluster states and use these to test for robustness of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... univalence criteria for analytic function In this section, we make a criteria for space of analytic functions to be univalent We give proof and applications only for the first theorem and for the ... and Darus Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:109 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/109 Page of Proof of Theorem 2.1 Since for each fi Î A implies ... 3n α ∈ R, c ∈ C and fi (z) ≤ M, ∀i and M ≥ Then, the family of functions f denoted by Gn,a belong to the class S Proof Using the proof of Theorem 2.1, we have zF (z) ≤ (α − 1) F(z) ∞ z2 f i (z)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... |z(t)| < ε for all t ≥ s, and the zero solution of (8) is stable Thus, the zero solution of (8) is asymptotically stable, and hence the zero solution of (1) is asymptotically stable The proof is complete ... http://www.advancesindifferenceequations.com/content/2011/1/48 Page of 11 Definition 2.2 Assume that l (t) ® ∞ as t ® ∞ and satisfies l(t + s) ≤ l (t) l (s) for t, s Î R+ largely enough Then for any ψ Î C (s), the zero solution of (1) is said to ... stability of the zero solution of Equation Then, we generalized the results of the stability to Equation Consider the first-order delay neutral differential equation of the form x (t) = −b(t)x t − τ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... circumference in cm (0-10); roughness of the bark (0-3); bark cracks (0-4); form coefficient of the tree: K 0.4 ( V x R), V being c the verticality (from points for 90° to points for 75° or less) and R the ... reduction may be desirable The relative weights of groups B and C seem to be fairly realistic The lack of information about future development of the market for different qualities could make it necessary ... Almoraima estate, in the south of Spain The average rainfall is 900 mm/year, and altitude ranges from 200 to 500 m Within the 16 000 forest is the largest pure forest of cork oak in Europe: 000 As...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... Don’t forget to switch off the photocopier before you leave the office C Don’t forget switch off the photocopier before you leave to the office D Don’t forget to switch the photocopier before ... is one of our problems in biggest cities 49 to / before / you / the / don’t / leave / office / forget / switch / the / off / photocopier /./ A Don’t forget to switch off the office before you ... other forms of testing Objective tests also tend to be more reliable than other types of testing; and the objective format allows instructors to test a large number of students on a wide range of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:19

... generalized expectation (GE) criteria GE criteria are terms in a training objective function that assign scores to values of a model expectation In particular we use a version of GE that prefers parameter ... tractable amount of time, since according to the Markov as2 Often these are more complicated than picking informative features as proposed in this paper One example of the kind of operator used ... distributions.3 For semi-supervised training of CRFs, we augment the objective function with the regularization term: log pθ (y(d) |x(d) ) − O(θ; D, U ) = d Generalized Expectation Criteria for Conditional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... the addition of penalty for the given combination of critical pollutants to the maximum value of C2 for them For example, critical pollutants: Benzene – exceeded for out of 12 days of monitoring, ... standards 40 Criteria for Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of Industrial Clusters 41 Criteria for Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of Industrial Clusters 42 Criteria for Comprehensive ... existence of large number of CEPIs, there is a lack of objective criteria for choosing an appropriate aggregating method (Kang 2002) A meaningful environmental index has been defined as an index for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... (comments that may be of help to validators of reports of ADRs) Proposed definition of the term (including a list of published definitions) Basic requirements for use of the term (for validating the ... Assessment of causality is a different matter and requires various kinds of additional information In setting requirements for the use of ADR terms for spontaneous reporting, the level of detail ... Classification of Diseases (ICD)13 helps with reporting the reasons for taking a drug For purposes of drug safety a correct diagnosis and assessment of causality of a suspected ADR are of particular...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20

... t,t θt+1 = arg max (16) −P(t |t) β t We perform this optimization for each instance of (15) These optimizations could easily be performed in parallel for greater scalability     (13)    ... control over the sparsity of the tag-bigram and channel probability distributions by using a different α for each: We can think of the approximate model size as a kind of prior: log P(θ) = α · ... norm of θ, simply counts the number of non-zero parameters in θ The hyperparameter α controls the tradeoff between likelihood maximization and model minimization Note the similarity of this objective...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... equivalent of AI, whereby many offspring can be obtained from one cow The magnitude of this increase is much less for ET (tens of offspring) than for AI (hundreds of thousands of offspring) Embryo ... the future performance of the cow’s offspring 4.1.2 Male selection The male pathway of selection theoretically offers more opportunity for increasing intensity of selection but, unfortunately, ... stakeholders are necessary for redefining the goals of breeding programmes BREEDING AND SELECTION CRITERIA Because of wide variability in the amount of information available for selection of cattle and buffaloes...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... suffices for the discreteness of spectrum of HV that the condition (2.5) holds only for a sequence of d’s; i.e., d ∈ {d1 , d2 , }, dk → and d−2 γ(dk ) → +∞ as k → +∞ k ¨ DISCRETENESS OF SPECTRUM FOR ... Ω\BR (0) ∞ for every u ∈ C0 (Ω) |∇u|2 dx + Ω |u|2 V(dx) , Ω ¨ DISCRETENESS OF SPECTRUM FOR SCHRODINGER OPERATORS 931 Therefore, it follows from the discreteness of the spectrum of HV that for ¯ every ... left-hand side of (3.21) tends to +∞ as Gd → ∞ This concludes the proof of part (i) of Theorem 2.2 Discreteness of spectrum: sufficiency In this section we will establish the sufficiency part of Theorem...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... was performed as follows: first cycle at 95°C for min, and then 30 cycles at 94°C for 45 s, 54°C for min, 72°C for and a final extension cycle of 72°C for The house-keeping gene b-actin was taken ... One part of tissues was stored -20°C, and the other tissues were fixed in 4% formaldehyde solution for immunohistochemistry staining Measurement of particle size and zeta potential of FAPEAs:DNA ... 15.0, SPSS Inc., USA) was used for statistical analysis Comparisons between two groups were performed by Student’s t test, and comparisons among multiple groups were performed by Oneway ANOVA The...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... after the close of each month With the exception of two months the reconciliations were not performed on time In addition, there was a lack of evidence of review of the reconciliations for the first ... Reconciliations Criteria: Internal control policies and procedures should be in place and implemented to ensure the timely performance of controls and timely review and evaluation of the controls ... taken offsite to the IT Manager’s home for storage Cause: No written recovery plan has been developed which addresses short term continuation of processing as well as recovery in the event of a...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... was performed as follows: first cycle at 95°C for min, and then 30 cycles at 94°C for 45 s, 54°C for min, 72°C for and a final extension cycle of 72°C for The house-keeping gene b-actin was taken ... One part of tissues was stored -20°C, and the other tissues were fixed in 4% formaldehyde solution for immunohistochemistry staining Measurement of particle size and zeta potential of FAPEAs:DNA ... 15.0, SPSS Inc., USA) was used for statistical analysis Comparisons between two groups were performed by Student’s t test, and comparisons among multiple groups were performed by Oneway ANOVA The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... analysis of available secondary data; • documentation of activities for the training manual; and • planning for future training activities for CAP staff at UWA associated with the analysis of the ... training for IPSARD staff on assessment of competitiveness of SMEs and other firms in the Vietnamese animal feed value chain • Development of a manual on how to conduct a study of competitiveness of ... three regions to examine the value chain of the animal feed industry including an assessment of characteristics and costs of production, the nature of information and product flow, quality control...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... training for IPSARD staff on assessment of competitiveness of SMEs and other firms in the Vietnamese animal feed value chain • Development of a manual on how to conduct a study of competitiveness of ... three regions to examine the value chain of the animal feed industry including an assessment of characteristics and costs of production, the nature of information and product flow, quality control ... Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agricultural and Rural Development PROPOSAL Performance Measures Narrative Information Required OBJECTIVE 1: Build capacity at IPSARD in research of value...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... production strategies is needed The strategy of developing networks of producers and small animal feed mills need to be investigated • Land for livestock, and credit for both feed production and livestock ... – and associated with this, corruption within the DLD responsible for testing, and poor enforcement of penalties for breaches of the feed regulations • What is a low quality feed?: protein content ... about the future of SMEs given the dominance of the foreign-owned companies operating in this sector Are there policies that could be implemented to improve the competitiveness of SMEs in the animal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... given for restrictions on the movement of goods Of these, “police conduct” was nominated as the most important restriction on movement of goods by 67% of small firms, 33% of medium firms and 75% of ... Production Sector in Vietnam For Information of the Minister of Agriculture, and relevant staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial Departments of Agriculture and Rural ... Livestock Feed Sector in Vietnam For Information of the Minister of Agriculture and relevant staff of the Departments of Livestock Production and Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... survey of pig and chicken producers was conducted as part of the overall project The main objective of this producer survey was to get overall information on production characteristics of livestock ... three regions to examine the value chain of the animal feed industry including an assessment of characteristics and costs of production, the nature of information and product flow, quality control ... of a manual on how to conduct a study of competitiveness of SMEs that can be used in other studies to be implemented by IPSARD in the future Objective 2: Understand the role and performance of...

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