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... double-glazed solar cooker, Kumar [7] One of the earliest mathematical models to test the thermal performance of a Solar Cooker was presented by Garg et al [8] and Vaishya et al [9] Also, Jubran and Alsaad ... and management vol 32 (6): pp 537- 541 R S Mishra, S P Prakash, 19 84, Evaluation of solar cooker thermal performance using different insulating materials, International Journal of Energy Research ... solar cooker, and the parameters that characterize the performance of the solar cooker Evaluation of solar cooker thermal performance using different insulating materials was conducted by Mishra...

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... objective of the FARM Program is to enhance the capabilities of GOs and NGOs, to build local capacity of resource poor farmers for sustainable use and management of agricultural and natural resources ... research approaches to support the small-scale household farming in utilizing and managing of agricultural and natural resources reasonably Central elements in this participatory research are team-work ... team-work and also multiple perspectives It gives the appreciative character of social organization of innovation In fact that SWG acts to bring a collaborative and linking among important actors...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 21:20

... determined numerical values of the ratio a/ b, and is the theoretical numerical value of ratio a/ b for a mixture of aromatic amino acids (Tyr and Trp), containing the same molar ratio as the protein ... Miyao, M., Fujimara, Y & Murata, N (1988) Partial degradation of the extrinsic 23-kDa protein of the photosystem II complex of spinach Biochim Biophys Acta 936, 46 5 47 4 22 Kuwabara, T., Murata, ... quite good and the programs did not mark any as poor or inappropriate Another structural analysis, obtained by the VERIFY3D program [61], gave an average value of 0.21, which is greater than zero,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... was not trained on enough data Belz and Reiter (2006) carry out a comparison of automatic evaluation metrics against human domain experts and human non-experts in the domain of weather forecast ... the overall results of Task 3a, we investigated how the average ranks of the three alternatives presented for individual items differ between Task 1a and Task 3a An example of an original corpus ... based on automatic evaluation metrics published in that paper are confirmed in an evaluation by humans Another goal is to collect data that will allow us and other researchers1 to explore...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20

... nonterminal labels of the treebank g r a m m a r For example, our g r a m m a r maintains a fairly large number of semantic classes of singular nouns, and it is natural to stipulate that each of t ... be ascertained The value of a large bracketed training corpus is that it allows the grammarian to obtain quickly a very large set of sentences that 2Actually there are 18 x = 54 labels, as each ... (viz a year) or else a number Note t h a t all of these classifications were m a d e on the basis of the examination of concordances over a several-hundredthousand-word sample of manuals data Possible...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... material and small group discussion This program is a feasible program for other areas in Tanzania Program evaluation Gallant and Maticka-Tydale compared reproductive health education programs applying ... The questionnaire was translated to Kiswahili as a language familiar to most Tanzanians Data was gathered by an anonymous questionnaire The knowledge test consisted of 10 items and asked students ... 30 Wubs AG, Aarq LE, Flisher AJ, Bastien S, Onya HE, Kaaya S, Mathews C: Dating violence among school students in Tanzania and South Africa: Prevalence and socio-demographic variations Scand J...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... 2006 Comparing automatic and human evaluation of NLG systems In Proceedings of EACL 2006, pages 313–320, Trento, Italy Amanda Stent, Matthew Marge, and Mohit Singhai 2005 Evaluating evaluation methods ... generation in the presense of variation In Proceedings of CICLING, pages 341 –351 Aoife Cahill and Martin Forst 2009 Human Evaluation of a German Surface Realisation Ranker In Proceedings of EACL ... Proceedings of the ACL- 04 Workshop, pages 74 81, Barcelona, Spain, July I Dan Melamed, Ryan Green, and Joseph P Turian 2003 Precision and recall of machine translation In Proceedings of NAACL-03, pages...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... Postgraduate Award and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship 47 4 Delivering Health Education via the Web: Design and Formative Evaluation REFERENCES Agostinho, ... experienced while navigating through the site A suggested enhancement to the navigational capability of the site was a text-based replication of site navigation bar at the top of each page to make scrolling ... activities and tasks in more detail resulted in a clarification of the structure of each learning activity and thus, a proliferation of pages for each activity Now, each learning activity is associated...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... 6/20/07 8: 14: 57 AM ORIGINAL ARTICLES Table I Baseline data for the 58 smear-negative patients Characteristic 520 Study participants (N) Age (years) Median Interquartile range Female sex (N ... these patients One patient, who had initially improved symptomatically with weight gain after weeks of TB treatment and then defaulted, had died at a secondary hospital weeks later Another patient ... growth of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) In of these 28 patients TB was also confirmed by a positive smear from a lymph node FNAB that became available after empirical TB treatment was commenced, but...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... primers: the 4- kDa peptide N-terminal primer: 5¢-AACCATGGCTAAAGCAGATTGTAATGG TGCATGT-3¢; the 4- kDa peptide C-terminal primer: 5¢-AAGAATTCTTATTATCCAGTTGGATGTATGCA GAA-3¢ The amplified sequence was cloned ... studies revealed that a small amount of 4- kDa peptide is localized around the plasma membranes and cell walls [9] The subcellular localization of 4- kDa peptide is similar to that of the 43 -kDa protein, ... mutant 4- kDa peptides to the 43 -kDa protein was detected with anti- (4- kDa peptide) Ig Ligand: (A) normal 4- kDa peptide; (B) Arg16fiAla mutant; (C) Val29fiAla mutant; (D) Phe31fiAla mutant signalling...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... dates Associations of patient and caregiver characteristics with caregiver quality -of- life scale scores were analyzed using Pearson or Spearman correlations or analysis of variance (ANOVA), as ... data on these variables was to use the sample mean of subjects with nonmissing data for the particular variable Higher order associations of individual scales were evaluated using factor analysis ... caregivers and 57% of patients were female The caregiver was a spouse of the patient 45 % of the time, and 43 % were an adult-child/child-in-law Spanish was the primary language among 11% of the caregivers...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... property Data Analysis Data were processed and analyzed after testing each subject The same time interval of BML and IDEEA data was analyzed for the three specific physical activities (gait, stepping, ... assisted in analyzing the data and revising the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank Patrick Duplessis for his assistance with data analysis ... summarizes the various activities performed by all subjects while awake Subjects took an average of 8 ,44 1 +/- 4, 785 steps (range, 4, 369– 14, 715 steps) per session Table quantifies the various activity...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... http://www.occup-med.com/content/3/1/35 Table 2: Main and second activities Status CA1 CA MA1, SA MA, SA1 MA, SA MA, SA MA, SA Event +CA2 +SA +MA2 + SA2 +CA -SA -MA Result CA1 stop CA2 start CA → MA SA start MA1 stop MA2 start SA1 ... SA1 stop SA2 start MA stop SA stop CA start SA stop MA → CA MA stop SA stop SA → CA CA start CA = Central Activity (no second activity) MA = Main Activity SA = Second Activity Reliability study ... file Application of the job task analysis tool The time recording software translates the job task categories from the Visual Basic data bank and generates a category tab for every element of this...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... 2008, 30:278-2 84 Lannocca M, Varini E, Cappello A, Cristofolini L, Bialoblocka E: Intraoperative evaluation of cementless hip implant stability: A prototype device based on vibration analysis Med ... 29:886-8 94 Jaecques S, Pastrav C, Zahariuc A, Perre G Van der: Analysis of the fixation quality of cementless hip prostheses using a vibrational technique In Proceedings of ISMA 20 04 International ... tibia by modal analysis J Biomech Eng 1983, 105(3): 244 - 248 Nikiforidis G, Bezerianos A, Dimarogonas A, Sutherland C: Monitoring of fracture healing by lateral and axial vibration analysis J Biomech...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... revealed a strong similarity in vascular patterning to the vascular anatomy of the human femora head [26,27] In humans, vessels such as the extracapsular arterial ring, the artery of ligamentum ... lessons learned from a comparative study of osteonecrosis in man and experimental animals Vet Pathol 2003, 40 : 345 -3 54 26 Trueta J: The normal vascular anatomy of the human femoral head during ... Am 2005, 87:550-557 18 Agarwala S, Jain D, Joshi VR, Sule A: Efficacy of alendronate, a bisphosphonate, in the treatment of AVN of the hip A prospective open-label study Rheumatology 2005, 44 :352-359...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... http://www.jiasociety.org/content/12/1/3 Table 1: Univariate analysis of variables associated with viral failure in 49 6 Ugandans on ART at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda Variable Total Undetectable viral load N ... Moore, Sundhiya Mandalia, Jessica Oyugi, Rose Naluggya, Ali Taylor, Petra Schaefer, David Thomas, Keith McAdam and all the staff of the Adult Infectious Disease Clinic and the Academic Alliance The ... 20 04, 18:981-89 Harries AD, Nyangulu DS, Hargreaves NJ, Kaluwa O, Salaniponi FM: Preventing antiretroviral anarchy in sub-Saharan Africa Lancet 2001, 358 :41 0 -41 4 Koizumi Y, Ndembi N, Miyashita...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Tanzania Sex Transm Infect 2009, 85:308-312 Mshana GH, Wamoyi J, Busza J, Zaba B, Changalucha J, Kalluvya S, Urassa M: Barriers to accessing antiretroviral therapy in Kisesa, Tanzania: a qualitative ... 1999, 49 : 147 3- 148 7 Atkinson S, Ngwengwe A, Macwan'gi M, Ngulube TJ, Harpham T, O'Connell A: The referral process and urban health care in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Lusaka, Zambia Soc Sci ... rates at a HIV treatment programme in rural Tanzania AIDS Care 2009, 21:632-637 Mbata D, Wringe A, Busza J, Roura M, Nhandi B, Nsigaye R, Kumuloga Y, Ndee M, Clark B, Marston M, Urassa M, Zaba...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... evaluation All data were analyzed using SPSS version 17 (New Jersey, USA) Data were collected as part of routine programme monitoring and evaluation, and anonymized prior to being made available ... JK, Hochgesang M, AberleGrasse J, Pasulani O, Schouten EJ, Kamoto K, Harries AD: A national survey of the impact of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy on health-care workers in Malawi: effects ... National Statistics Office: Malawi Demographic and Health Survey Zomba: National Statistics Office; 20 04 15 National Statistics Office: Malawi Population Census Lilongwe: National Statistics Office;...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... psychometric evaluation of a patientreported VAS for the daily assessment of anxiety when used in a clinical trial assessing pharmaceutical treatments for GAD Methods Preliminary Qualitative Study As part ... 16 Nardi AE, Valenca AM, Nascimento I, Mezzasalma MA, Zin WA: Doubleblind acute clonazepam vs placebo in carbon dioxide-induced panic attacks Psychiatry Res 2000, 94: 179-1 84 17 Graham SJ, Scaife ... healthrelated quality -of- life: the remarkable universality of half a standard deviation Med Care 2003, 41 :582-592 38 Scrimshaw SV, Maher C: Responsiveness of visual analogue and McGill pain scale measures...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... images of the GI tract These sensors may have disparate sampling rate and sample data size For example, the pressure and temperature sampled data may be smaller in size and lower in sampling rate ... S-MAC [6], T-MAC [10] are examples of typical contention-based MAC protocols They offer the advantages of simplicity, small overhead, small latency, etc TRAMA [11] and LMAC [12] are typical schedule-based ... http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/ 54 Page of 12 Table Parameters for evaluating the multi-hop communications Parameters Value Parameters Area Straight line of 30 cm Inefficiency factor a Value...

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