... burden increasing non-performed loans - Forth, the risk and the reality of loosing and wasting state capital is noticeable Performance of SOEs in comparison withenterprisesof other forms In this ... responsibilities of organizations andindividuals assigned as state representatives in SOEs - To restructure SOEs, towards making them effective, productive enough to be the core of the state economy - To ... First,it is necessary to review andto define specific industries in which the State needs to holds 100 percent of capital, or to hold controlling share Second, competitiveness of SOEs must be enhanced,...
... vertical line anchors at either end labeled "complete meaning disagreement" and "complete meaning agreement", denoted as and 100, respectively; the line was marked in units ofand labeled in units of ... the pairs of statements could be judged in a continuous form between and 100% The concept of general meaning was used to evaluate the similarity regarding the idea transmitted by the statements ... alpha coefficient of 0.70 in the total sample A study carried out in San Diego and Los Angeles (USA) with 339 families ofindividualswith cancer between the ages ofand 18 years found alpha coefficients...
... ∞ and u = ∞ xi ⊗ yi in i=1 xn n=1 γ-norm Let B(X, Y ; E) be the Banach space of continuous bilinear operators from X ×Y into E and L(X ⊗Y, E) be the Banach space of linear continuous operators ... left-hand side of (11) converges toin probability Thus, by Theorem 3.6, the third integral on the right-hand side of (10) converges in probability to the third integral on the right-hand side of ... assume without loss of generality that the process Qt is continuous By a standard argument as in the proof of Lemma 3.2 and the Ito’s method we can prove the following Theorem 3.5 (Continuous...
... values of root plate width in spruce trees growing in poorly drained sites (315 cm) in comparison with our results according to which the mean value of Wrp was 499 cm in spruce trees growing in waterlogged ... trees in waterlogged sites Moreover, this correlation was even lower in the case of spruce trees growing in well-drained sites Interestingly, in either of the localities no correlation was determined ... in spruce trees growing in poorly drained sites and 100 cm in the trees growing in well-drained sites However, according to our results, the mean values of the thickness of root plates were almost...
... temperature of 12.5 °C and receive annual rainfall averaging 930 mm (1951-1990) The Bray and L sites were even-aged maritime pine stands originating from row seeding, with an understorey consisting mainly ... trees in 1990 and Maritime pine foliage area 14 trees in 1995, according to their diameter at breast height (DBH, cm) and 30 trees in 1997 according to their height In winter time (late November to ... et al INTRODUCTION Appreciation of forest structure is determinant in studying stand growth and functioning In forestry, stand structure mostly refers to the relative position of trees andto stem...
... downstream of the start and stop codons, respectively, and divided into 10 bins of 40 bp each, while the coding regions were divided into 20 bins of equal size Black vertical lines separate different ... mechanisms of the striking coordination between transcription, chromatin and splicing, and the functional importance of Poll II pausing within introns Materials and methods Yeast strains and experimental ... at the end of introns might cause Pol II to slow down or pause Alternatively, or in addition, Pol II enrichment in introns could be directly linked to co- transcriptional splicing and could reflect...
... emergence of androgen-insensitive tumor cells arising as a consequence of an adaptation to androgen withdrawal or from pre-existing androgen-independent clone [33] According to the androgen levels, ... especially in prostate cancer cells Little information exists concerning the role of signaling pathway in regulating cell apoptosis and survival/angiogenesis in prostate cancer cells in context to PSMA ... treatment with bFGF stimulates the expression of PSMA in LNCaP (androgendependent) cell line and restores the expression of this protein in disseminated form of prostate cancer, PC3 and DU145, (androgen-independent...
... complex intervention because it consists of several presumably relevant components Therefore, there is a need to model components of a complex intervention andto perform exploratory trials to ... monitoring visit, and 20 patients (10.4%) were seen in the context of a disease management programme The remaining patients came with acute complaints or to discuss results of laboratory examinations ... used to measure the meaning of associations and differences [27] Because of the exploratory nature of our study, we decided not to adjust for multiple testing This has to be considered when interpreting...
... databases store several thousands of individual datasets and some of these offer on-line tools for data normalization, filtering, statistical testing and pattern discovery [22-26] In parallel with ... obtain certain amount of information at every step with progressive specification and refinement The aGFP database contains several gene selection and grouping tools including predefined gene families ... the useof various normalization algorithms in individual experiments makes direct comparison of genes of interest within various datasets uncertain To solve these issues, we devel- Page of (page...
... Pressler BM, Lappin MR, Jensen WA: Effects of urinary tract inflammation and sample blood contamination on urine albumin and total protein concentrations in canine urine samples Vet Clin Pathol 2004, ... during surgery, and level of urine protein to creatinine ratio on the day of surgery and 2–4 months later Dog no WBC in blood X10e9/L (6.0–18.0 X10e9/L†) Urinary Tract Infection Urinary protein:creatinine ... dogs with pyometra in the original study Renal biopsies of dogs with pyometra were obtained during ovariohysterectomy using theBard® Biopty-Cut® device (C.R Bard Inc., Covington, GA, USA) with...
... intracellular signalling pathways, which culminate in secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines and type-I IFNs and maturation of DCs [79] The genital mucosa is often in contact with external ... Moreover, BV is associated with increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines (e.g IL-1β and IL-8) and these cytokines induce the secretion of other proinflammatory cytokines or recruit other immune ... ultimately to inflammation and activation of mDCs and macrophages In steady -state, resident flora of the vaginal mucosa is constituted primarily of lactobacilli that contribute to the equilibrium of...
... the “lim inf” path of the proof in the Mosco convergence, we proceed as in the proof of Theorem 3.7 Finally, by the arguments as in the proof of Theorem 3.7 and by Lemma 3.4, we obtain the “lim ... array of selections to prove the “lim inf” path of Mosco convergence Also, as in the proving of [21, Theorem 4.2], to give conclusions, we have touse Lemma 3.5 However, in [21, Theorem 4.2], ... exchangeable random sets and fuzzy random sets in a separable Banach space A new method in building structure of triangular array of selections to prove the “lim inf” path of the Mosco convergence...
... Metric labeling looks like it’s just combining SVMs with nearest neighbors, and classifier combination often improves performance Couldn’t we get the same kind of results by combining SVMs with any ... Finding strong and weak opinion clauses In Proceedings of AAAI, pages 761–769 Yu, Hong and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou 2003 Towards answering opinion questions: Separating facts from opinions and ... the above two labeling schemes to a scale dataset3 containing four corpora of movie reviews All reviews were automatically preprocessed to remove both explicit rating indicators and objective sentences;...
... related to domain content, or not containing any domain content, but expressing the student’s metacognitive state or attitudes Utterances expressing domain content were then coded withrespectto ... are trying to model Thus, the training data for our model consists of 35 instances, each corresponding to a single dialogue and the learning gain associated with it We can compute intrinsic evaluation ... evaluating individual NLP components, linking commonly used intrinsic evaluation scores with extrinsic outcome metrics We describe an evaluation of an interpretation component of a tutorial dialogue...
... exposure to the potential for passive smoking and previous smoking environmental tobacco smoke? to increase risk in control women and mask effects on the Passive exposure to tobacco smoke is very common ... how the exposure or lack of exposure to product of nicotine, cotinine, in the blood of nonsmokers as environmental tobacco smoke is determined Studies a marker for tobacco smoke exposure They reported ... presence of tobacco chemicals at higher concentrations than were found in blood Women passively exposed to tobacco smoke have tobacco chemicals in their blood too, but examinations of their breast...
... medical costs and productivity loss associated with illness, whereas WTP encompass direct and indirect costs of illness and intangible aspects (e.g pain and suffering, time spent in taking care of ... They are reported in Table 19 Total costs include the medical cost of illness (COI) but also the willingness -to- pay (WTP) related to avoiding the suffering and inconvenience of disease Table 19 ... quality and health Given the rapid rise in transport and energy usein non-OECD countries, air pollution levels are anticipated to continue to increase, resulting in a growing number of health...
... non-HIV-infected individuals [2,13,14] due to increased resting energy expenditure, presence of fever and infection, diarrhoea and vomiting, and the need for growth and weight recovery The RUTF in ... assisted with the study in the field, and contributed to the interpretations of results AM, ES, SB and DMO contributed to the design of the study, interpretation of results, and critical revision of ... MSF, in collaboration with the respective country’s Ministry of Health, provides outpatient and inpatient HIV and tuberculosis (TB) care The Mathare clinic is a stand-alone clinic, located in Nairobi,...
... required n Convolution and convex combination k In this section, we show that the class MHSs j, m, α is invariant under convolution and convex combination of its member ∞ n −1 j /z −1 j ∞ |bn |zn and ... is negative This contradicts the required condition for fj ∈ MHSs is complete j, m, α and so the proof Distortion bounds and extreme points k In this section, we will obtain distortion bounds for ... z and g z are analytic in U \ {0} and U, respectively, and h z has a simple pole at the origin with residue here j In , the authors introduced the operator Dm for f ∈ SH which is the class of...
... between each side of the face These results combined with the total pixel intensity changes and an illumination compensation factor in the relevant facial regions are fed into classifiers to quantitatively ... (3) since the height of face is approximately 1.5 times of the width The ROI (region of interest) of the head is assigned with the xright , xleft , ytop Due to varied skin color and lighting conditions, ... on the characterization of the iris and pupil The iris-pupil region is dark compared to the white of the sclera of the eye ball andto the luminance values of the skin color The iris localization...