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... how identification was established Examples of adequate notations are set out in this Guide If Treasury has any question about the liability of your financial institution as a result of the payment ... This is the date the bond was printed and is NOT used to determine the value of the bond How to Use this Guide Please start at the Check Bond tab and proceed as directed based on the answer to each ... how identification was established Examples of adequate notations are set out in this Guide If Treasury has any question about the liability of your financial institution as a result of the payment...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... experimental research Yin (1984) describes cases with a single source of information as holistic cases, cases with multiple sources of information as embedded cases He cautions that embedded cases may ... is easily possible to overcome at least part of the reproach directed against the case study 3.0 Justification for case study as a research strategy This essay has thus far presented the case ... at fault as the methodology itself Qualitative research as preparation - As mentioned above, qualitative research has a long standing history as an exploratory strategy Comments of researchers...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... was larger than it ever was All in all, our General Appropriation Bill was $1,250,000 larger than it was two years ago, and our Specific Appropriation was $250,000 larger I know, because I was ... er, I mean pass, this bill It must pass You and I shall see to it I am particularly pleased with the fearless and unwavering stand on the bill your Minority member has taken As he has so well ... village was also a valued source of income, as well as sustenance, and Pap took a personal hand in its operation, spending more and more time there as he grew older Andrew E Durham passed away...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... wear wildly colorful clothing with tall shiny shoes Her face was often painted with bright makeup And her dancing was as energetic as her voice Here is a recording of Cruz singing “Isadora” with ... Celia Cruz died as a result of brain cancer Her life was celebrated at two funerals Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funerals Actors, politicians, musicians as well as thousands of ... the Cuban Conservatory of Music She was discovered a few years later by the music group La Sonora Matancera This group of was one of Cuba’s most famous orchestras Their lead singer had just left...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... treatment but also in research. 48 Administrative databases such as insurance claims databases, though not as detailed and not as expensive to generate as clinical databases, are another potentially ... generated through database analysis as described above The growth of practice-based research networks and electronic health records will make it increasingly feasible to conduct large research studies ... EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH: CANCER AS A CASE STUDY NOTES: 28 IMPROVING MEDICAL DECISIONS THROUGH COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH: CANCER AS A CASE STUDY NOTES: 29 For more information please contact...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... E Gazit case a central aromatic region was identified by the nonbiased peptide scan [22] Interestingly, the same motif was independently identified when analyzing peptide fragments [49] As with ... fibrils is associated with major human diseases and has a clear physiological role in micro-organisms, the precise mechanism of its formation is not fully understood As most amyloid-related diseases ... found in proteins It was suggested that stacking interactions have been suggested to provide an energetic contribution, as well as order and directionality, in the self-assembly of amyloid structures...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... efficiency by focusing on finance professors in their joint roles as both researchers and market participants I ask three main research questions: (1) how efficient finance professors believe ... professors accept markets as semi-strong form efficient; twice as many finance professors passively invest than actively invest Surprisingly, their opinion about market efficiency has very little to ... professors to study four areas related to academics as investors: (1) current asset allocation, (2) expected sources of retirement income, (3) expected retirement asset allocation, and (4) types...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:06

... SpR practice • Disease itself has an impact on NoP (and a minor impact on HuP and USP), while the duration of disease has no impact on the forms of SpR practice However, disease and its duration ... level disease duration of disease 0.000 29.344 0.982 0.417 4.429 2.555 1.228 0.000 n.s n.s 0.005 0.042 n.s 0.007 0.028 n.s 0.003 0.001 (4) humanistic practice disease duration of disease disease * ... R+S-) was associated with significantly higher mean levels for CRP than subjects with a spiritual attitude (R-S+ and R-S+), while in contrast a spiritual attitude (R+S+ and R-S+) was associated...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... finally agreed upon by the two assessors for inclusion (initial assessor consensus was 93%; where consensus was not reached, the second author was consulted) Reasons for exclusion were: duplicate ... economic status, income Chronic disease Myocardial Infarction, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Cardiovascular disease, Coronary Heart Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, depression, psychological distress, ... score of 12 or more was considered high quality, 10-11 was considered moderate quality and nine or less was deemed low quality The quality of articles was considered not as exclusion criteria...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... dual window decreases as the oversampling rate increases The difference between the analysis and synthesis windows is negligible for the commonly used window functions, such as the Gaussian and ... n(t), where j denotes the index for the order value p j within [pmin , pmax ] and j increases as p j increases; the order difference between the adjacent order components Δp j | j ≥1 = p j − p j ... viewed only from pure mathematics, we can perfectly reconstruct the signal s[i] with (1) and (2) as long as γos ≥ and γ[i] is a dual function of h[i], regardless σD D = σopt = ΔM · N , 4π (6) the obtained...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... The pole sensitivity measure is also used in closed-loop context, in some stability-related measures [14, 16], see Section 2.3 Limitations The classical measures are based on the sensitivity ... with the SIF 3.3.1 Cascaded State-Space The cascade form is a common realization for filter implementation It generally has good FWL properties compared to the direct forms For cascade form, the ... quantization In the same way as in Definition 16, the degradation can be evaluated in a stochastic way Definition 24 (Sensitivity-Based Pole Error) The sensitivitybased pole error is defined by...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... corresponds to an increase in the O2 Hb and a decrease in the HHb concentrations, whereas in Figure 1(b), vasoconstriction corresponds to a decrease in the O2 Hb and an increase in the HHb concentrations ... measured light is indicative of the concentration of a given absorber Unlike other spectroscopic systems, the NIRS devices usually adopt a scattering-based measurement and not a transmissionbased ... Analysis We organized the data in a matrix containing the 68 subjects as rows and 26 measured variables as columns On each subject, we measured the following variables derived from the time-frequency...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... However, most work has assumed that the channel conditions are perfectly known at the receiver and/or transmitter sides Especially in mobile applications, this assumption is unwarranted as randomly varying ... network model phase In the network training phase, a priori unknown fading coefficients are estimated at the receivers with the assistance of pilot symbols Following the training phase, AF and DF ... and Pr = 50), we assume that Ps = 0.5 and Pr = 0.5 in Figure In Figure 5, we observe that increasing δs will increase achievable rate until δs ≈ 0.1 Further increase in δs decreases the achievable...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... the output of each classifier In fact, the multiclass classification problem refers to assigning each of the observations into one of k classes As two-class problems are much easier to solve, many ... propose to use twoclass classifiers for multiclass classification PPPE algorithm is a popular multiclass classification method that combines all comparisons for each pair of classes Furthermore, ... modeling method improves system performance in most cases As mentioned above, the main reason is that multiple discriminative classifiers based on hierarchically clustered speaker groups are employed...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... all x1 , ,xm ∈ X Proof We first assume that f is a solution of (1.2) Define f1 , , fm : X →Y by f1 (x) := f (x,0, ,0), , fm (x) := f (0, ,0,x) for all x ∈ X One can easily verify that f1 , , fm ... xm ≤ n ϕ 2n x1 , ,2n xm ,2n x1 , ,2n xm − as n − ∞ → → = (2.26) for all x1 , ,xm ∈ X Hence, the mapping F is the unique m-variable quadratic mapping, as desired References [1] J Acz´ l and J Dhombres, ... University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1989 [2] J.-H Bae and K.-W Jun, “On the generalized Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of an n-dimensional quadratic functional equation,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 11:20

... all x1 , ,xm ∈ X Proof We first assume that f is a solution of (1.2) Define f1 , , fm : X →Y by f1 (x) := f (x,0, ,0), , fm (x) := f (0, ,0,x) for all x ∈ X One can easily verify that f1 , , fm ... xm ≤ n ϕ 2n x1 , ,2n xm ,2n x1 , ,2n xm − as n − ∞ → → = (2.26) for all x1 , ,xm ∈ X Hence, the mapping F is the unique m-variable quadratic mapping, as desired References [1] J Acz´ l and J Dhombres, ... University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1989 [2] J.-H Bae and K.-W Jun, “On the generalized Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of an n-dimensional quadratic functional equation,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 11:20

... interoperation among ad hoc and infrastructure networks, the base SWAN signalling was adapted and extended [32] to interoperate with infrastructure QoS signalling based admission control, and to support ... class starts at its maximum rate and lower classes take more time to reach the required throughput (time increases with decreasing priority) In the extended SWAN model, the realtime traffic class ... correctly After nodes are properly configured, unicast and multicast routing is required to support basic network access Enhanced services such as voice calls require some form of differentiation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20