fish models in behavioral toxicology automated techniques updates and perspectives

... Ostrander / Techniques in Aquatic Toxicology L1664_c032 Final Proof page 559 21.12.2004 6:19am chapter thirty-two Fish models in behavioral toxicology: Automated techniques, updates and perspectives* ... (Sand Hill Engineering, Geneva, FL) software interface on a Macintosh operating system Dusk–dawn lighting systems are very useful in reducing stress in aquatic holding and testing facilities, and ... Beauvais, S.B and Jones, S.B., The use of automated monitoring to assess behavioral toxicology in fish, linking behavior and physiology, in Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Standardization...

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... stratification in severe sepsis and septic shock is commonly used in clinical trials and in practice [20], which helps to improve accuracy when evaluating new therapies and refining indications ... approaches in risk stratification have been utilized, including the use of severity of illness scoring systems and the use of certain inflammatory markers (e.g interleukin-1, interleukin-6, tumour ... million from HIV/AIDS Infectious and parasitic diseases accounted for 43% of the 40 million deaths occurring in the developing countries in 1996 With increasing international travel and the trend toward...

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... ambulatory during this period) absorbing wastes, toxins and excess water from the blood and then is drained out of the body together with the wastes Then the infusion process begins again and the procedure ... incongruence between drugs at home and prescribed in the clinical file Creatinine excretion (CrEx) > 1.24 Baxter PD Link software Missing PD sessions in 90 days Self-report / laboratory Missing ... modality, creatinine, potassium, phosphate, albumin, hemoglobin and Kt/V, see Appendix E) was abstracted from medical records by nursing staff in the participating clinic Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)...

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... sebaceous glands Glands of the Skin The excretory portion in the skin involves secretion from the sebaceous glands and the apocrine and eccrine sweat glands Sebaceous Glands Sebaceous glands are ... The apocrine and eccrine sweat glands produce a secretion that contains scent and functions in territorial demarcation The integument plays a role in metabolizing keratin, collagen, melanin, lipid, ... keratinized cells are surrounded by a plasma membrane and a thick submembranous layer that contains a protein, involucrin This protein is synthesized in the stratum spinosum and cross-linked in...

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... and reading time in sentence processing In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 14, pages 59–65 Nederhof, M.-J and Satta, G (2003) Probabilistic parsing as intersection In ... uncertain input In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 234–243 Levy, R and Andrew, G (2006) Tregex and Tsurgeon: tools for querying and ... maintain and act on uncertainty about past linguistic input Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(50):21086–21090 Smith, N J and Levy, R (2008) Optimal processing times in reading:...

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... algebraically inverted to predict site index from height and age, but site index can be obtained from the models using iterative techniques [35] It is critically important to have good growth and yield information ... the site index model A progression of increasingly complicated fitting techniques is presented to evaluate their impact on the resulting models Researchers often test several models and choose ... subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, and lodgepole pine in British Columbia, West J Appl For 15 (2000) 62–69 [4] Chen H.Y.H., Klinka K., Kabzems R.D., Height growth and site index models for trembling...

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... ligand-binding region and an intracellular domain harboring tyrosine kinase activity 16 Binding of FGFs causes FGFR receptor dimerization and triggers tyrosine kinase activation leading to autophosphorylation ... Nanog in maintaining and establishing pluripotency are underscored by iPS techniques 1.3.7 Domain structure of Nanog protein Nanog is a homeoprotein which contains a unique homeodomain and is ... expression and function of nanog in the medaka and zebrafish as excellent models for analyzing pluripotency and patterning The medaka and zebrafish nanog termed Ong and Zng respectively, encode proteins...

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... detection of the genus Serpulina, S hyodysenteriae and S pilosicoli in porcine intestines by fluorescent rRNA in situ hybridization Mol Cell Probes 12, 323–330 [20] Brown-Howland, E.B., 1992 Development ... colonization of large intestines of streptomycin-treated mice Infect Immun 67, 6152–6156 [37] Felske, A., 1998 In situ detection of an uncultured predominant Bacillus in dutch grassland soils Appl Environ ... bacteria in the near infrared Exp Cell Res 236, 43–50 [6] Alfreider, A., 1996 Community analysis of the bacterial assemblages in the winter cover and pelagic layers of a high mountain lake by in situ...

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... and focus on extending and improving the usage of random testing and partition testing While Chapter focuses on investigating the combinations of different testing techniques, i.e partition and ... effectiveness and efficiency Effectiveness is improved by combining and enhancing testing techniques, while the factor of efficiency is increased mainly by examining how software testing can be automated ... columns in the table Random testing [122], is a technique that tests software using random input (Figure 1.5) By using random input (often generating massive number of inputs) and comparing the...

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... modelling, the interested reader is referred to one of the standard textbooks, including Bluhm et al (2003), Cossin and Pirotte (2007), Duffie and Singleton (2003), Lando (2004) or Saunders and ... flows and other international macroeconomic linkages“ by R Anderton, F di Mauro and F Moneta, March 2004 13 “Fair value accounting and financial stability” by a staff team led by A Enria and including ... and commodity risks, however, other financial risks in the balance sheet – including credit and interest rate risk – are usually very small Credit risk is only a minor component of overall financial...

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... making a purchasing decision The insight gained from perceptual mapping and conjoint analysis can be a valuable asset in marketing decision making These techniques can help you gain insight into ... Green and Wind (1975) for early introductions to conjoint analysis and Green and Srinivasan (1990) for a recent review article Conjoint analysis grew out of the area of conjoint measurement in mathematical ... medicine, early detection, and a brilliant and gifted surgeon using the latest technology, I am doing very well Advocates of early testing and screening are trying to catch cases like mine early,...

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... Valuation: Pricing and Hedging of Financial Derivatives (1998, 2nd ed 2004) Brigo D and Mercurio F., Interest Rate Models: Theory and Practice (2001, 2nd ed 2006) Buff R., Uncertain Volatility Models ... in the theoretical aspects of finance, and who wish to implement models into viable working tools Users typically include: A Junior analysts joining quantitative positions in the financial or insurance ... Selection: Optimizing an Error”, “Alpha, Beta and Beyond” and “Automatic Trading: Winning or Losing in a kBit” A5 Applied financial econometrics Cases “Scenario Simulation Using Principal Components”,...

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... Civera and Juan, 2007; Foster and Kuhn, 2007) which were used as baselines and discussed in Section Other methods include using self-training techniques to exploit monolingual in- domain data ... concatenation baseline In particular, Switching:Max could gain up to 2.2 BLEU points over the concatenation baseline and 0.39 BLEU points over the best performing baseline (i.e linear mixture model ... methods for combining translation tables Baselines The natural baseline for model adaption is to concatenate the IN and OUT data into a single parallel corpus and train a model on it In addition...

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... across data sets of differing sizes We repeated this entire process (generating training and test sets, estimating and evaluating user models) 50 times The results presented in Figure are the average ... dialogue systems: Learning and evaluation In Proc ICSLP, Pittsburgh, USA E Levin, R Pieraccini, and W Eckert 2000 A stochastic model of human-machine interaction for learning dialogue strategies ... user model, with respect to both the training and test set, is given in Table Since the output of the EM method depends on a random choice of starting point θ (0) , those results were averaged...

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... previous work in the following three areas: psycholinguistics studies, multimodal interactive systems, and computational modeling of language acquisition and grounding Previous psycholinguistics ... using realtime multi-modal user-agent interactions In Proceedings of IUI’99, pages 105–108 M K Tenenhaus, M Sivey-Knowlton, E Eberhard, and J Sedivy 1995 Integration of visual and linguistic information ... (Griffin and Bock, 2000) These psycholinguistics findings have provided a foundation for our investigation In research on multimodal interactive systems, recent work indicates that the speech and gaze...

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... types – linear and non-linear); and (iv) the initial and terminal conditions – various types in different models Optimal control models in finance can take different forms including the following: ... deterministic and stochastic models, finite and infinite horizon models, aggregative and disaggregative, closed and open loop models, overtaking or multi-criteria models, time optimal models, ... programming models in finance not only provide useful information for computing purposes, but also for determining efficiency or show prices of financial instruments OPTIMAL CONTROL MODELS IN FINANCE...

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... mocovi and kaduveo, to the guaycuru language family (Messineo, 2003; Klein, 1978) The toba is spoken in the Gran Chaco region (which is comprised between Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay) and in some ... are studying we can think that if a word is a string of prefixes, a stem and suffixes, one automata head will read will the prefixes and the other the suffixes Taking into account that linear grammars ... for modeling agglutination in this language, but first we will present the former class of languages and its acceptor automata 3.1 Linear context free languages and two-taped nondeterministic finite-state...

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... Xu, Franz J Och, and Jeffrey Dean 2007 Large language models in machine translation In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational ... training procedures and explain how the models are integrated into the phrase-based decoder Section will empirically evaluate the effectiveness of these two models Section will conduct an indepth ... the ending to the beginning Our BLM is different from theirs in that we access the BLM during decoding (rather than after decoding) where source sentences are still proceeded from the beginning...

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... models have been considered: direct IBM1 and IBM2 models, and inverse IBM1-inv and IBM2-inv models with the inverse dictionary from Eq However, a more interesting set up than using language models ... likelihood and discriminative training of direct translation models In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’98), pages 189–192, Seattle, Washington, USA, ... (Spain), Nov [Nelder and Mead1965] J A Nelder and R Mead 1965 A simplex method for function minimization Computer Journal, 7:308–313 [Och and Ney2002] F J Och and H Ney 2002 Discriminative training...

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