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... discussion and editing ofthe manuscript; IB, FMS, MS were involved in clinical management ofthe patient and interpretation of data, PED was supervisor of clinical management ofthe patient and interpretation ... management of CML in pregnant women may be individualized based on the relative risks and benefits ofthe patient and fetus and that the patient must be involved in decisions Competing interests The ... that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions MC was responsible ofthe clinical management ofthe patient, acquisition of data, drafting the manuscript; SS was responsible of the...
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... thousands of years for the benefit of mankind, the application of enzyme technology to assist industrial and process chemistry is more recent In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century there ... to assist in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and final product purity will determine application Regardless ofthe final biocatalyst form, the process begins with the production ofthe cell mass ... domestic and industrial detergent additives for cleaning clothes The application of enzymes for industrial use is perhaps the widest definition ofthe term enzyme technology The term has in the past...
... network There is a flow of resources within the network Points of Difference: • SN theorist (and early marketing researchers) seek to describe individual actors and their relations/patterns of connections ... buyers and sellers improve the likelihood of a transaction? – How does the value of information moderate the effect of social structure on relationship outcomes? • Typical Methods – Surveys and ... thought and practice? • • How does the marketing perspective compare to the sociological perspective? What are the three key perspectives of SNT that have influence marketing theory and practice?...
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... to give the subjects the views ofthe documents they are authorized to see, making at the same time the subjects able to verify the authenticity and completeness ofthe received answer The W3C ... Berners-Lee threw down the challenge ofthe semantic web andthe web of trust [1] The EC (European Commission) has argued for the information society, the knowledge society andthe ERA (European Research ... first based on the user metadata and then based on the results of a first attempt to locate (via brokers and other agents) appropriate sources and resources to satisfy the request The proposed...
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... is the number of DCF entries at the leaves ofthe tree, then the AIB algorithm takes time In our experiments, so the CPU cost is low Phase 3: The I/O cost of this phase is the reading ofthe ... not in the Eps-neighborhood of A On the other hand, if B is within Scor, A and C are not contained in Scor as they are both in the Eps-neighborhood of B The actual processing order ofthe objects ... studies the effect ofthe safe period Fig 13 Effect ofthe safe period opti- optimization on the average query processing load mization on the average query process- of a moving object Theof the...
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... true Then, we evaluate the costs ofandand let be the one with the minimum cost In the case of we build two new configurations and is obtained by dropping and from and respectively, and adding the ... diagonal matrix Then, the new diagonal matrix of can be derived by dividing the entry by Therefore, we have: The other eigenvalues ofand Thus, the co-variance matrixes of remain the same: and may be ... using the containment relationship ofthe node’s node identifier andthe ids ofthe successive compressed blocks ofthe node’s data stream The position ofthe node’s data is kept in an array and...
... graph of is an undirected, bipartite graph with node set and edge set The set of nodes is where andandandandand There is a undirected edge if and only if andandThe density of a subgraph is the ... external elements Then, a collection of XML documents is represented by the union ofthe graphs where is the union oftheand is the union ofthe We represent both document–internal and cross–document ... vertices andthe edges ofthe document graph are augmented with weights: the vertex weight for the vertex is the number of elements that document contains, andthe edge weight for the edge between and...
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