epidemiological design and statistical analysis of toxicological investigations

... possible to produce the bushel of wheat either with, say, a certain quantity of land and a certain quantity of labor or with more land and less labor or less land and more labor, other factors ... Factors of Change The Theory of Innovation The Entrepreneur and His Profit The Role of Money and Banking in the Process of Evolution Interest (Money Market; Capital) Chapter IV THE CONTOURS OF ECONOMIC ... income, net total of profits and to reason 011 these, together with elements of outstanding importance for the system as a whole—such as quantity of money, rate of interest, and price level If...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

... waveform with unit amplitude and duration τ, ωq and φq are the frequency and random phase of the qth subcarrier, respectively, and c(k) (t) is the spreading sequence of user k, which is given by ... illustrates the analytical and simulation results of both the APIC and CPIC receivers in terms of BER versus SNR The derivations of both EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 10−1 ... second moment and βq (t) is uniformly distributed (k) over and 2π It is assumed that the channel gain ζq (t) is independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) for different values of k and q This...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... strengths of MSCC and HELP-seq/Methylseq, and the supporting analytical workflow that maximizes the quantitative capabilities of the data generated Results and discussion Library preparation and sequencing ... influence of base composition and fragment length parameters as potential sources of bias Page of 11 PCR amplification Massively parallel sequencing with Illumina GA Figure HELP-tagging assay design and ... MSCC [15] and HELP-seq [10] assays, not only by means of technical modifications such as the use of EcoP15I but also because of the concurrent use of MspI for normalization The effect of these...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21

... failure of the mapping Thus, one of the fundamental limitations of choosing the anatomy of a single subject as an atlas is the introduction of a statistical bias based on the arbitrary choice of the ... LIST OF TABLES xii List of Figures 1.1 Illustration of DTI versus HARDI The colors in panel (b) indicts the fractional anisotropy (FA) of each tensor, where blue stands for low FA value and red ... the one of DTI, including HARDI-based registration, HARDI-based atlas generation and HARDI-based statistical INTRODUCTION analysis, is needed for the studies of white matter similarities and differences...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 19:24

... initial momentum m0 and the evolving diffeomorphism φt We see that by making a change of variables and obtain the following expression relating mt to the initial momentum m0 and the geodesic φt ... connecting Itemp and Itarg , mt = |Dφ−1 |(Dφ−1 ) m0 ◦ φ−1 t t t 20 (2.10) 2.2 Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping where stands for the transpose of matrix As a direct consequence of this property, ... as atlas, Iatlas , the space of the initial momentum m0 , provides a linear representation of the nonlinear diffeomorphic shape space in which linear statistical analysis can be applied 21 BACKGROUND...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 19:26

... Computational complexity of LDDMM-FA, LDDMM-ODF and LDDMM-Raffelt The computational complexity for the calculation of the trajectory and the regulation term of LDDMM-ODF and LDDMM-Raffelt is of the same order ... is the neighborhood of xi , and wj is the weight of xj based on the distance between φ1 (xi ) and xj The exponential maps and logarithm maps can be computed via Eq (2.4) and Eq (2.5) respectively ... (Similar to the shape of ODF, the colors of ODF also indices the relative values of ODF in each direction, where blue stands for low ODF value and red for high value.) First of all, we denote s...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 19:27

... [61, 65] and then describe how to calculate fσ (J (i) |φ(i) , φ, I0 ) in §4.3 based on a Riemannian structure of the ODFs 62 4.2 The Shape Prior of the Atlas and the Distribution of Random Diffeomorphisms ... Diffeomorphisms Figure 4.2: Illustration of the general framework of the Bayesian HARDI atlas estimation 4.2 The Shape Prior of the Atlas and the Distribution of Random Diffeomorphisms Adopting previous ... identity matrix π π and kV and kV are scalars In particular, we assumed that kV and kV are Gaussian with kernel sizes of σV and σV π Since σV determines the smoothness level of the mapping from...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 19:27

... T1 image of the selected slice and ROIs Panel (b) illustrates the ODFs in the selected ROI and the peaks of each ODF, where blue and red lines indicate the diffusion directions of CC and CST based ... type of ODF ¯ metrics of that row, the mean variance of synthetic data, M SE(ψi , ψ); the mean squared of the geodesic regression are ˆ residuals of the geodesic regression, M SE(ψi , ψi ); and ... ˆ ψi ξi , ξi ψ i ˆ and logψi ψi ˆ ⊥ = logψi ψi − logψi ψi ˆ ˆ , where (·) and (·)⊥ denote components of (·) parallel and orthogonal to ξi respectively 93 GEODESIC REGRESSION OF ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 19:27

... , S.-H.A C HEN , AND W.-Y.I T SENG Tract-Specific and Region of Interest Analysis of Corticospinal Tract Integrity in 125 REFERENCES Subcortical Ischemic Stroke: Reliability and Correlation with ... , AND G REIG I DE Z UBICARAY Genetic influences on brain asymmetry: A DTI study of 374 twins and siblings NeuroImage, 52(2):455 – 469, 2010 2, [12] D A LEXANDER , C P IERPAOLI , P BASSER , AND ... E M AIER , AND R K IKINIS Nonrigid Registration of 3D Tensor Medical Data Medical Image Analysis, 6(2):143–161, 2002 [17] H UI Z HANG , PAUL A Y USHKEVICH , DANIEL C A LEXANDER , AND JAMES C...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 19:27

... DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF EFFICIENT WIRELESS SYSTEMS WANG PEIJIE (M.Sc., National University of Singapore) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ... channel Our design and analysis of the ABEP-based and the BEOP-based power control laws are generalized for both BPSK and quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulations 1.2.2 Receiver Design and Performance ... understand that for the same packet, its CSIT and CSIR are different, or say, decorrelated due to the delay This is a practical and general model for the design and performance analysis of actual...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 08:25

... effort into the design and performance analysis of QFRs In the following, a literature review of QFRs and some related topics will be given 1.2 Review of Quadratic-Form Receivers and Related Topics ... performance analysis of QRs and design of GQRs in MIMO systems, we are also interested in the error performance analysis of a general QFR, which takes the general quadratic form in complex Gaussian random ... GUB1-KL and GLB1-KL on Q(a, b) for the case of b > a 109 Diagram of the derivation of the new generic exponential bounds GUB2-KL and GLB2-KL on Q(a, b) for the case of a > b 112 Diagram of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 11:19

... assumptions simplify the analysis and design of STBC, but reduce their generality Therefore, large gaps remain between the real application and the theoretical analysis The results of STBC obtained so ... on assumptions of STC systems, which are inherited from the very first work [23] These assumptions, on the one hand, simplify the analysis and design of STBC, but on the other hand lose the generality ... of ’every-other-line’ code matrix 4.8 92 The BEP of original G4 code matrix (4.39), hand-designed code matrix (4.53) and the optimum code matrix (4.41), compared with that of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:05

... adaptability and profitability of sunflower in the Mekong River Delta and South Central Coast * To ameliorate soil constraints of acidity and phosphorus by optimising applications of lime and modify ... fertilizer and muck (an organic fertilizer) Methods • • Randomized design (Binh Thuan, Mekong) and Randomized complete block design (Lam Dong) For the experiments on a small scale a plot size of 20 ... of branch (n+1) No of internodes/stem No of internodes that have pods Mean of 10 samples 79.5 65.6 9.8 2.0 13.9 12.5 Profitability of sunflower production in Viet Nam March 2006 Table Yield and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... of forward error correction coding (FEC) System capacity (for BER = 10 −12 ) is shown to be 23 Gb/s without coding, and 75 Gb/s with a (255,239) Reed Solomon code The effect of non-rectangular ... receiver sensitivity is investigated for both OOK and FSK transmission, assuming the system (de)multiplexer filters to be N’th order Butterworth bandpass Although narrower filters are recommended ... environment Performance-optimized spectrum-sliced WDM systems have potential use in both local loop and long-distance fiber communication systems which require low-cost WDM equipment for high data...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 00:20

... result list of load cases, superposition files and influence lines 3.64 Version 8.38.03 • • • • Use of combination codes “SupOrX” and “SupAndX” for superposition files corrected New command “PLSCFAC” ... to choose between E- and Fformat of the written values Information about units added to the plot file of the action PlInfl, screen plot Results/ PlInfl and to the list file of the action DoList/Influence ... new program release! 1.2 Unit dependency of Import/Export of RM2000 Export and Import of RM2000 database is now UNIT dependent! In this case: • • Import of PARTIAL project, created by RM2000 Version...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 15:18

... Disclaimer and Copyright Disclaimer Much time and effort have gone into the development and documentation of RM2000 and GP2000 The programs have been thoroughly tested and used The user accepts and ... the two load sets and the two loading cases (e.g.: L.C is a UDL of 10kN/m from Elem to Elem 20 and L.C is a Settlement of 0.001m at the beginning of element 1200.) Choose AddCon and insert the ‘Additional ... the program and the documentation remain with TDV Austria Use of the program and the documentation is restricted to the licensed users Unlicensed use of the program or reproduction of the documentation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 15:55

... Definition of loading and construction stages "RECALC Definition of calculation parameters and start of the calculation "RESULTS Viewing of results and creating of output files (plots and listings) ... from the icons at the top of the RM2000 screen), write the sequence of commands and save it as ‘filename.tcl’ The summary and the syntax of the commands to be specified and used in the TCL script ... displayed on the right hand side of the screen #NODE Definition of nodes and their attributes #ELEMENT Definition of elements and their attributes #TENDON Definition of tendons and their attributes...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 15:55

... conditional breakfast They often have cereal or porridge, egg and bacon followed by toast and marmalade and coffee and tea or they may just have a toast and marmalade and coffee and tea *Elevenses - ... Definition of word meal - Field of word meal in English and in Vietnamese equivalents - Cultural and linguistic analysis of the English word meal Chapter III Cultural and linguistic analysis of Vietnamese ... People often drink a glass of mild and a sandwich 3.1.6 Parts of meal Basically, English meals and meal time are quite clear Even name of courses are also: starter, main course/ meat course and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 15:11

... for analysis The lower limit for band detection was set by a relative intensity per lean of 0.5% of the total band intensity The presence or absence of bands in fingerprints of test systems A and ... labels a, b, and c are PCR-DGGE banding patterns of 16S rRNA gene in test systems A, B, and C, respectively; d, e, and f are PCR-DGGE banding patterns of C12O gene in test systems A, B, and C, respectively; ... 15 15 Fig - PCR-DGGE banding patterns of 16S rRNA gene, C12O gene and C23O gene of Spirodela polyrrhiza-associated bacterial communities in test systems A and B and that of suspended bacterial...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... making and energy storage Dr.Pohekar is a life member of Solar energy society of India and International society of multi-criteria decision making, and fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and ... different design and operating parameters The identified design and operating parameters are listed in Table Table Design and operating parameters used in the analysis Parameter Inner radius of the ... dispersed unit and that of conventional pure PCM charged unit is presented for different mass flow rates and inlet temperatures of HTF Physical model The LHTS system consists of a bank of tubes arranged...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10