fundamentals and potential application to phytoremediation

... which are usual and informative In Mandarin, there are four basic lexical tones and a neutral tone The number of tonal syllables is about 1,300, and it is reduced to about 410 when tone discriminations ... with four tones: the flat tone (tone 1), the rising tone (tone 2), the falling and rising tone (tone 3), and the falling tone (tone 4) Each tone of each vowel from a female voice is recorded five ... a tonal vowel discrimination experiment 5.1 Experiment Design We recorded the five Mandarin vowels [a], [i](yi), [u](wu), [e], and [o](wo) with four tones: the flat tone (tone 1), the rising tone

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... for each city, town, rural area, highway, road, and so on Based on this, the mobile operator will have enough information to make the decision about built or buy, and/or to claim to the NRA with ... service i per sector Miusers and the user density ρi as follows (note that a Node B may be divided into several sectors Each sector corresponds to a cell): Rt i = DL users MDL i · NSectors π · ρi ... values of Rt i and Rt i largely depend on DL UL the distribution of the capacity over the different services by means of the total load factor allocated to each service LTotal UL i and LTotal DL i

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... Journal of Inequalities and Applications Volume 2008, Article ID 430521, 22 pages doi:10.1155/2008/430521 Research Article The Generalized Gronwall Inequality and Its Application to Periodic Solutions ... evolution operator given by us, the T 0 -periodic PC-mild solution is introduced and suitable Poincar ´ e operator is constructed. Showing the compactness of Poincar ´ e operator and using a new ... number; and δ ∈ N denoted t he number of impulsive points between 0 and T 0 . The operator A is the infinitesimal generator of a C 0 -semigroup {Tt,t≥ 0} on X; f is a T 0 -periodic, with respect to

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... Distributions of Singular BVPs on Time Scales and an Application to Emden-Fowler Equations Ravi P. Agarwal, 1 Victoria Otero-Espinar, 2 Kanishka Perera, 1 and Dolores R. Vivero 2 1 Department of Mathematical ... restriction to every closed subinterval J of a, b T belong to the Sobolev space H 1 Δ J. We refer the reader to 9–11 for an introduction to several properties of Sobolev spaces and absolutely ... arbitrary time scale, and to 12 for a broad introduction to dynamic equations on time scales. Definition 1.1. u is said to be a solution in the sense of distributions to P if u ∈ H 0,loc ,

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... standard Gaussian random vector and dk is the displacement vector containing the velocity and acceleration parameters estimated using the preceding state estimates dk is further refined by a random ... on Image and Video Processing to the camera The proposed algorithm simultaneously estimates the size, pose, and location (up to scale) of the ellipsoid We also extended our application to full ... later section An alternative way of handling the state prediction is to include the velocity parameters into the state vector and propagate them with model and pose parameters We found that estimating

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... perfect shuffle operator of order 2N collects all N even components onto the first half and the N odd components onto the second half of the output vector 2.2 Synthesis of fast Haar-like and Hadamard-like ... generating vectors and the CLASS matrix must be taken into account Step Lossless encode the generating vectors and the CLASS matrix Compare the compression efficiency for the whole image (taking into account ... , m; the input vector x j −1 to that stage is first permuted according to P ( j) and then the result is multiplied by the block diagonal matrix H ( j) , which is equivalent to multiplying the

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... distortion is minimised when the TDC and SDC estimators are applied [30]. As a possible solution, Mittal and Phamdo [30] proposed to classify the noisy frames into speech-dominated frames and ... eigenvectors ¯ v i , σ 2 w the noise variance, and I the identity matrix. A crucial observa- tion here is that the eigenvectors of the noise are identical to the clean-speech eigenvectors due to the ... becomes equal to the LS estimator. Also, the MV estimator is a special case of TDC with μ = 1. The most straig htforward way to specify the value of μ is to assign a constant value to it, independently

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... to introduce the notation b(k) = L in (e k )ands(k) = L out (e k ) to represent the input and output symbol vectors associated to the transition e k ,respec- tively. Note that the output vector ... estimator very suitable to be used within a Turbo equal- ization structure. 5. APPLICATION TO AN STC SYSTEM FOR SUBWAY ENVIRONMENTS We focus now on the application of the ML-EM channel esti- mator ... input symbol vector b(k), and the output symbol vector without noise s(k) = Hz(k). It is important to point out that the incoming state is determined by the m −1 previous symbol vectors, that is,

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... delinquencies and monitor the rao of non-earning assets to total assets Rate of Return and Costs Segregates all essenal components of net earnings to help calculate investment yields and evaluate ... assets and commodity prices CAMELS Objective The purpose of CAMELS ratings is to determine a bank’s overall condition and to identify its strength and weakness It’s a standardized ... quality according to standard criteria to. .. health and profitability of bank borrowers Management Quality A key to determine banks performance but is difficult to measure as it

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... vectors perpendicular to it The trivector 1^ 2^ 3 commutes with all vectors, and hence with all multivectors The trivector (pseudoscalar) 1 2 3 also has the algebraic property of squaring to ... angular momentum and any other object that is usually represented as an \axial" vector 4 trivectors have simply a handedness and a magnitude The handedness tells whether the vectors in the product ... vectors (e.g a and a) commute, and the the geometric product of parallel vectors is a scalar Such a product is used, for example, when nding the length of a vector Perpendicular vectors

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... 1995, Mehran 1995, Ang, Cole, and Lin 2000), 2) stock market returns and their volatility (e.g., Saunders, Strock, and Travlos 1990, Cole and Mehran 1998), and 3) Tobin’s q, which mixes market ... are assumed to remain constant for each bank over time, and the random errors lnε are assumed to tend to average out over time To reduce the impact of substantial random outliers,... ... outputs and financial liabilities and physical factors as inputs... functional form that includes ECAP and ½ECAP2 to allow the relationship between agency costs and leverage to be

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... , f 2 and f 3 describ- ing the stomatal response to air vapour pressure deficit (D), total intercepted PAR per leaf area unit and predawn water potential respectively. The inertia of stomatal ... growth remains time, and such models remain close to produc- tion tables. On the other hand, process-based models are forced to take into account the geometry of trees, that is to say their architecture, ... perpendicular to and in the direction of their woody axes are presented for two different shoots: (a) at the bottom of the crown and (b) at the top of the crown. A. Bosc 560 model too much. Therefore,

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... Gene Ontology (GO) annotations and text-mined protein interactions, which cover close to 50% of the human proteome By applying this network to two glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) data sets and projecting ... experiments, typically generate multiple candidate genes, ranging from a handful to several thousands These data sets are noisy and contain false positives in addition to genes that are truly involved ... we describe the procedures to construct this FI network (Figure 1), and apply this network to the study of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and other cancer types by expanding a human curated GBM

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:22

... associated with the hormones testos- teron and serotonin. Both of them show a nycthemeral rhythm [7,8] and are linked to violent behavior [46,47]. The different rhythm on Friday and Saturday could be −2.5 ... vectors forming an orthonor- mal basis and change basis. Statistical methods are applied to search for single coordinates of the data (rela- tive to the new basis) that are “large” compared to ... analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript. UR contributed to the conception and the design of the study. TB acquired the data. IK contributed to the analysis. JK contributed to the intellectual

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... that will cover a time scale ranging from seconds to minutes to hours. To simplify this task and to make it more practica- ble, we undertook stoichiometric modeling of brain energy metabolism ... astrocytes and neurons. Astrocytes take up leucine from the blood brain barrier [65] and oxidize it so as to form a branched chain keto acid, α-ketoisocaproate (KIC) (r 99 ), to supply amino nitrogen to ... formation, and hence glutathione is oxidized and then reduced to remove oxidative stress. NADPH used for oxidative stress reduction is 0.18 and 0.24 μmole/g/min in cytosol (r 180 ) and in mitochondria

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... the prototype and expanded modelsFigure 5 The GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded models. The prototype model (A) and the expanded model (B). AB C F E D AB Theoretical Biology and Medical ... Expansion of the prototype model and simulation experiments The de novo GSH synthesis and GSSG export pathways (Figure 3) were added to the prototype model. The kinetic equations and parameters of ... prototype model The prototype model was used to simulate the effects of G6PD deficiency. G6PD is a key enzyme in the pentose phosphate pathway that converts glucose 6-phosphate into gluconolactone

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... inhibitor with concen-tration I and inhibitor constant K I Figure 3 Competitive inhibition of ICLs by an inhibitor with concentration I and inhibitor constant K I . Inhibition of ICL1 and ICL2, ... inhibitor with concen-tration I and inhibitor constant K I Figure 4 Uncompetitive inhibition of ICLs by an inhibitor with concentration I and inhibitor constant K I . Inhibition of ICL1 and ICL2, ... (Rv3339c) and ICD2 (Rv0066c), and two isoforms of ICL [17,18], ICL1 (Rv0467) and ICL2 (Rv1915 and Rv1916), in M. tubercu- losis H37Rv strain. The requisite co-enzymes and co-fac- tors were assumed to

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... distributions were assigned to the sire and residual variances as and , respectively, where  u = 5 and  e = 3 correspond to the degrees of freedom, and = 0.1 and = 8.67 were the corresponding ... G, Lin Y, Lee Y, Zhang H: Optimal properties and adap- tive tuning of standard and non-standard support vector machines. In Nonlinear estimation and classification Edited by: Deni- son D, Hansen ... with progeny records, and needed to have more than 20 progenies with FCR records, to have a reliable mean phenotype. Sires in the training and testing sets had an average of 33 and 44 progeny, respectively.

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... addition, he was always ready to lend a hand in anything that needed to be done, as well as helping to bail me out of a few of the predicaments I managed to get into e Daniel Lang, Staff Engineer ... e David Laidlaw, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computer Science David’s breadth of algorithmic knowledge, combined with his experience and willingness to sit down and understand the problems with my ... mapping of (R,R) the coefficients and included here as a conceptual aid The coefficients q¿;” ˆ can be seen to correspond to the highest-resolution contribution to the total representation As implemented

Ngày tải lên: 29/11/2014, 06:57

... conversion and application, and technology to exploit chemical compounds in the Garcinia. These are the concerns to be considered and studied so as to make a good plan for exploiting, producing, and ... transformation and its application to slimming food products in detail. Garcinia is a kind of high- yielding trees, easy to grow and exist in most of the parts in the Central and Central Highlands. ... bands at 3200, 1760, and 1680 cm -1 . 1 H-NMR spectra of the (-)-HCA lactone showed two protons at the γ-carbon, which give an AB quartet at δ 2.53 and δ 2.74 with J=17.1 Hz, and one proton

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