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... models in behavioral toxicology: Automated techniques, updates and perspectives* Andrew S Kane and James D Salierno University of Maryland Sandra K Brewer U.S Army Corps of Engineers Contents Introduction ... mg lÀ1 and less, and also avoided cadmium at mg lÀ1 and greater, but showed little response to concentrations between this range In recent physiological and behavioral studies (McNichol and Hara, ... quality criteria and standards, and understanding changes in fish population dynamics based on anthropogenic effects Behavioral endpoints could also, through the increased use and decreasing costs,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 13:22

... variables were expressed as means ± standard deviation and were compared using standard t-test Categorical values were expressed in absolute and relative frequencies, and were analyzed using χ2 test ... respiratory failure, endstage renal disease and immunosuppression ICU and hospital duration of stay, and vital status at discharge both from the ICU and from the hospital was documented Hospital ... Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; LOS, length of stay; NS, not significant; SAPS, Simplified Acute Physiology Score Table Actual and predicted mortalities and standardized mortality...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... 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 repeats The draining and infusion ... 2005) The percentage of APD in PD users is rising steadily in recent years in many parts of the world, like Canada, US, Singapore and Switzerland (Blake, 1999; Dell'Aquila, Berlingo, Pellanda, & ... Bandura’s social learning theory and is defined as “people’s beliefs in their capabilities to exercise control over their own level of functioning and over events that affect their lives” (Bandura,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 17:34

... 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 ... canal, clitoris, and labia minora Apocrine Gland — The apocrine glands are simple saccular or tubular glands with a coiled secretory portion and a straight duct (simple coiled tubular glands) (Figure ... epidermis and dermis by restricting some molecules and permitting the passage of others, influences cell behavior and wound healing, and serves as a target for both immunologic (bullous diseases) and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... by-participants and by-items ANOVAs (both p < 0.05) and in a linear mixedeffects analysis with participants- and item-specific random interactions (t > 2; see Baayen et al., 2008) The same pattern persists and ... 234–243 Levy, R and Andrew, G (2006) Tregex and Tsurgeon: tools for querying and manipulating tree data structures In Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ceedings ... true sentence) and PC (·) terms reflect the comprehender’s linguistic knowledge and beliefs about the noise processes intervening between intended sentences and perceptual input w∗ and w must be...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 21:20

... Parameter estimates and their standard errors for model (5) Parameter b0234 b114 b12 b13 b21 b22 b234 Zone(s) Estimate Standard error ICH, IDF, and PP All ICH IDF All ICH IDF and PP 8.829 1.516 ... at young ages and at old ages, particularly for the high and low sites These are small, however, and therefore the Hann and Scrivani curves should have given reasonable height and site index ... (5) for the plots in the BG and ICH zones (part a) and the IDF and PP zones (part b) This figure is split into parts to illustrate a problem with the curves for the BG and ICH zones Although the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... identification, 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, ... expression of ventralizing genes (vox, ved and vent), dorsoventral patterning gene pou2 and neuroectodermal genes (pax2.1 and pax6.1) and to the expanded expression of the mesendodermal gene ... al., 2006) Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog are the earliest-expressed set of genes known to maintain pluripotency in vivo and in vitro They can regulate each other and themselves and form a feedforward...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:45

... 243, 1360–1363 [30] DeLong, E.F., 1999 Visualization and enumeration of marine planctonic archaea and bacteria by using polyribonucleotide probes and fluores cent in situ hybridization Appl Environ ... Tilton, R.C., Balows, A (Eds.), Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology and Immunology Springer, Heidelberg, pp 27–36 [54] Graf, B., 1998 Qualitative and quantitative analysis of autofluorescence ... efficient and nonefficient biological phosphorus removal activated sludge systems Appl Environ Microbiol 65, 4077 4084 [19] Boye, M., 1998 Specific detection of the genus Serpulina, S hyodysenteriae and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2012, 11:02

... 8.5 8.6 8.4.3 Random example I—test data and fixture generation and selection126 8.4.4 Random example II—result collection 127 8.4.5 Random example III—result evaluation and test analyzer ... one hand, large, and on the other hand, small- and mediumsized enterprises Small- and medium-sized enterprises seem to experience a lack of resources to a higher degree than large enterprises and ... work Andreas Boklund provided many interesting discussions and good feedback, while my co-authors in one of the first paper I wrote, Krister Hansson and Andreas Jonsson, provided much support and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... correlations) Based on studies by Altman and Kishore (97) for bonds and Asarnow and Edwards (95) for deposits Based on studies by Altman and Kishore (97) for bonds and Asarnow and Edwards (95) for deposits ... deposits Based on studies by Altman and Kishore (97) for bonds and Asarnow and Edwards (95) for deposits Based on studies by Altman and Kishore (97) for bonds and Asarnow and Edwards (95) for deposits ... expected shortfall (ES) (Chart 6) Expected and unexpected losses are the first and second moments (mean and standard deviation) of the loss distribution and can be calculated analytically Expected...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... phase of the moon, and so on), and the %MktEx and %ChoicEff macros are no exception They will find the same design if you specify a random number seed and run the same macro over and over again on ... analyze consumer preferences for products and services See Green and Rao (1971) and Green and Wind (1975) for early introductions to conjoint analysis and Green and Srinivasan (1990) for a recent review ... each of the choice and non-choice attributes The chart illustrates that PRICE, BRAND1, BRAND2, and BRAND4 are significant You can view other results by pressing the Results button and selecting “Statistics,”...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20

... Equilibrium, Efficiency and Information (2003) Bielecki T.R and Rutkowski M., Credit Risk: Modeling, Valuation and Hedging (2002) Bingham N.H and Kiesel R., Risk-Neutral Valuation: Pricing and Hedging of ... Y2 ) is a standard normally distributed random vector We look for r.v.’s X1 , X2 and functions g1 , g2 such that each 20 Static Monte Carlo Yi is equal to gi (X1 , X2 ) and both X1 and X2 are ... methods and dynamic programming and an additional 14 hours to partial differential equations and applications These time constraints xvi seem to be a rather common feature for most academic and professional...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 13:20

... such methods are linear mixtures and log-linear mixtures (Koehn and Schroeder, 2007; Civera and Juan, 2007; Foster and Kuhn, 2007) which were used as baselines and discussed in Section Other methods ... (Koehn and Schroeder, 2007; Hildebrand and Vogel, 2009) Among these approaches are sentence-based, phrase-based and word-based output combination methods In a similar approach, Koehn and Schroeder ... use expertise of both out-of-domain and in-domain systems Bertoldi and Federico, 2009) In this approach, a system is trained on the parallel OUT and IN data and it is used to translate the monolingual...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... 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 over 50 runs 124 AP Dempster, NM Laird, and ... K Georgila, J Henderson, and O Lemon 2006 User simulation for spoken dialogue systems: Learning and evaluation In Proc ICSLP, Pittsburgh, USA E Levin, R Pieraccini, and W Eckert 2000 A stochastic ... to its dialog management policy Concretely, the val˜ ues of St , Ut , At and At are all assumed to belong to finite sets, and so all the conditional distributions in our model are multinomials Hence...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... perceptually grounded objects in the environment (Siskind, 1995; Roy and Pentland, 2002; Yu and Ballard, 2004) Especially in (Yu and Ballard, 2004), an unsupervised approach based on a generative ... corresponding word wj and ok never co-occur in any observed list pair (wi , oi ) w o Let li and li denote the length of lists wi and oi respectively To distinguish with the notations wj and ok whose subscripts ... words and 5-10 fixated (l i=1 i j=1 k=0 object changes) w w where δi,j = if wi,j ∈ wi and δi,j = otherwise, ˜ Given a time window, we then found the objects o o ˜ and δi,k = if oi,k ∈ oi and δi,k...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... important in finance (Islam and Craven [38, 2002]; Taperio [81, 1998]; Ziemba and Vickson [89, 1975]; Senqupta and Fanchon [80, 1997]; Sethi and Thompson [79, 2000]; Campbell, Lo and MacKinlay [7, 1997]; ... of impulse and absolutely continuous stochastic control problems which have been further studied by Brekke and B.Øksendal [3, 1991] Mundaca and Øksendal [62, 1998] and Cadenillas and Zapatero ... the following: bang-bang control, deterministic and stochastic models, finite and infinite horizon models, aggregative and disaggregative, closed and open loop models, overtaking or multi-criteria...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 06:20

... 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 ... the verbal theme There are suffixes to indicate plurals and other grammatical categories as aspect, locationdirection, reflexive and reciprocal and desiderative mode The verb has no mark of time As ... thesis R1-R4 model the medialization vowels procesess, R5-R7 are elision and ephentesis procesess with very specific contexts and R7 represents a diachornic phonological process with a subjacent form...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... Orlando, FL, April Ahmad Emami, Kishore Papineni, and Jeffrey Sorensen 2007 Large-scale distributed language modeling In Proceedings of ICASSP, pages 37–40, Honolulu, HI, April Andrew Finch and ... Section 2, we will briefly introduce related work and show how our models differ from previous work Section and will elaborate the backward language model and the MI trigger model respectively in more ... Emami et al., 2007; Brants et al., 2007; Talbot and Osborne, 2007) and syntax-based language models (Charniak et al., 2003; Shen et al., 2008; Post and Gildea, 2008) Since our philosophy is fundamentally...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... Sanchis, e and Alejandro H Toselli 2008 iATROS: A speech and handwritting recognition system In V Jornadas en Tecnolog´as del Habla (VJTH’2008), pages 75–78, ı Bilbao (Spain), Nov [Nelder and Mead1965] ... results The simplified English and Spanish versions were used to estimate the IMT, IBM and language models The corpus consists of 56k sentences of training and a development and test sets of 1.1k sentences ... 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 and maximum entropy...

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