... China Authors’ contributions Both authors contributed to each part of this work equally and read and approved the final version of the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... h and H = H □ Footnote This work was partially supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC Author details Department of Mathematics, Tamkang University, No.151, Yingzhuan Rd., Danshui ... New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan, PR China 2Department of Electronic Engineering, China University of Science and Technology, No.245, Academia Rd., Sec 3, Nangang District, Taipei City 115, Taiwan,...
... Chains and Random Walks on Graphs” http://stat.berkeley.edu/users/aldous [2] P.Diaconis and D.Freedman, Iterated Random Functions, SIAM Review 41 No 1, p 45–76 [3] J.C.Hansen and J.Jaworski, Large ... V.F.Kolchin, B .A. Sevastyanov, and V.P.Chistaykov, Random Allocations, Winston, 1978 [9] J S Rosenthal, Convergence Rates for Markov Chains, SIAM Review 37 387– 405 the electronic journal of combinatorics ... visited states T are a (non-uniform) random subset of S that includes at least two elements, namely sn and (with probability 1) s1 We prove later that T typically contains most of the small numbered...
... EAT patients Panel A: Quantity and duration of episodes and the associated symptoms Panel B: Detraction in daily life generally and in parts of daily life variable PANAL A Detraction in daily life ... diagnosis (Years) All patients AVNRT AVRT EAT From symptom to ablation (Years) All patients AVNRT AVRT EAT RF-Applications (Number) All patients AVNRT AVRT EAT Examination time (Minutes) All patients ... percentile) and median The distribution of categorical data is expressed by absolute and relative frequency The comparison of the distribution of the categorical variables before and after ablation concerning...
... -Wall lab 1a. c lifegame.c -o lab 1a. o athena% Start by examining the contents of lifegame.h and lab 1a. c You need to fill in a few lines in main() and complete the functions next generation(), get ... faced and how you addressed them, and what you learned from this lab Turn in a zip file containing all your code (lab 1a. c, lab1b.c, lifegame.h, and lifegame.c), and your lab report, using the online ... program’s output to the Lab Assistant Check off: Part B: The World in a File In the first part of this lab, the initial state of the world was hard-coded into lifegame.c and the final state of the...
... your answers in the table below User Interface User Services Business Services Data Access Data Store Communication Operating Systems System Services Development Tools Data Access Data Storage ... responses with the class The instructor will write the class consensus ona flip chart Use the space below for brainstorming Activity 7.2: Determining the Impact of Technology ona Windows DNA ... Activity 7.2: Determining the Impact of Technology ona Windows DNA Design Exercise 1: Determining Technology Implications ! Determine technology implications Participate in small groups as assigned...
... phone was connected at once, and two minutes later, I received a very important call, and about an hour afterward, the one I had been awaiting One’s ships come over a calm sea So long as man ... genius and magic Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight The explanation is, that fear 22 The Power of the Word attracted the ladder on the ... Evil has come of man’s “vain imagination,” or a belief in two powers, good and evil There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of “Maya the Tree of Illusion,” and saw two powers instead of one...
... woman once asked me why her life was now one of poverty of limitation Formerly she had a home, was surrounded by beautiful things and had often tired of the management of her home, and had said ... minutes later, I received a very important call, and about an hour afterward, the one I had been awaiting One's ships come in over a calm sea So long as man resists a situation, he will have it ... that what man images, sooner or later externalizes in his affairs, I know ofa man who feared a certain disease It was a very rare disease and difficult to get, but he pictured it continually and...
... pathologists RNA preparation and cDNA microarray hybridization Rat liver total RNA was isolated using the Trizol reagent (Invitrogen) and purified with an RNAeasy column (Qiagen) RNA quality was ... chows were manufactured and provided by the Shanghai Laboratory Animal Center One to two animals in each group were killed for monitoring of cardiovascular and liver alterations at 8, 12 and 15 weeks ... L, Masserang A & Chan C (2006) Palmitic acid-treated astrocytes induce BACE1 upregulation and accumulation of C-terminal fragment of APP in primary cortical neurons Neurosci Lett 406, 55–59 Patil...
... Resnikoff, Howard preparation The Illusion of Reality, 1985, in Waltz, David L and Jordan B Pollack "Massively Parallel Parsing: A Strongly Interactive Model of Natural Language Interpretation," ... is similar in function to a serial sort It accepts as arguments a parallel data field and a parallel comparison predicate, and it sorts among the selected processors so that the data in each successive ... finitea u t o m a t a to many sentences in parallel After this application of scan, the last word in each sentence contains the state that afinitea u t o m a t a parsing the string would reach...
... MAR MCAR MAR MAVIS Baseline months 12 months MCAR MCAR - MCAR MAR - MAR MCAR/MAR MAR MCAR/MAR RECORD months 12 months 24 months MAR MAR - MAR MAR - MAR MAR MAR MAR KAT Baseline months 12 months ... months MCAR MAR MAR - MCAR MAR MAR - MAR MAR MAR MAR MAR MAR PRISM Baseline 12 months 24 months MAR MAR - MAR MAR - MAR MAR MAR MAR Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and ... biphosphonate therapy for the management of Paget's disease QoL was assessed at baseline and then annually [8] Each dataset contained a proportion of patients with complete data or a monotone, intermittent...
... psychological, and social domains of health [7] There is a growing body of cross-sectional data that support a strong relationship between obesity and the quality of life, in that the quality oflife ... Nutrition 2000, 16:947-952 Hassan MK, Joshi AV, Madhavan SS, Amonkar MM: Obesity and health-related quality of life: A cross-sectional analysis of the US population Int J Obes 2003, 27:1227-1232 Fontaine ... Pain, General Health, Vitality, Social Functioning, Role-Emotional, and Mental Health) that are organized in a hierarchical manner to the summary measures of Physical and Mental Health The highest...
... standards Acta Paediatrica 2005, 94:496-498 Meltzer H, Gatward R, Goodman R, et al: Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain HMSO, London; 2000 Stansfeld SA, Haines MM, Head JA, ... Chan and Ms Survi Patel for assistance with data collection, and Professor Michael Healy for statistical advice This study was supported by the Royal Holloway Research Strategy Fund Author details ... children and adolescents aged between and 16 years were invited to participate These were consecutive attenders at the Paediatric Obesity Service, Royal London Hospital, for the evaluation of medical...
... patient to paradoxically report a change when no change has occurred, or a disproportionate change than that which has actually taken place An inaccurate representation of change due to McPhail ... between baseline (VAS 1) and the final follow-up assessment (VAS 3) Data Analysis Demographic and baseline EQ-VAS data were tabulated (Table 1) Raw data was checked for normality graphically and using ... investigation Participants and setting One hundred and fifty-one patients admitted to the rehabilitation unit ofa tertiary hospital in Brisbane, Australia, participated This population was selected...
... the Brazilian National Research Committee (CNPq) Author details Stroke Clinic of the Federal University of Bahia, Ambulatório Magalhães Neto, Rua Padre Feijó 240 Canela, Bahia, Brazil 2Bahiana School ... Authors’ contributions EBP conceived and carried out the study, and participated in the data analysis, drafting IM participated in the acquisition of data for EQ-5D and mBI, and database management ... participated in the acquisition of data for NIHSS and mBI, and database management TGF, JCS, DFM, CC, ISN participated in the acquisition of data for NIHSS and mBI PAPJ participated in the acquisition...
... invisible barrier: literacy and its relationship with oral health A report ofa workgroup sponsored by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Health, U.S ... Suominen-Taipale AL, Lahti S, Nuttall NM, Allen PF: A cross-national comparison of income gradients in oral health quality oflife in four welfare states: application of the Korpi and Palme typology ... Individuals’ perception of oral health and its impact on the health-related quality oflife J Oral Rehabil 2007, 34:79-87 Allen PF: Assessment of oral health related quality oflife Health Qual Life Outcomes...
... Association, addition ofa sulfonylurea or thiazolidinedione to metformin monotherapy ona date (index date) from January 2001 to January 2006, and at least one hemoglobin A1 c (HbA1c) measurement ... (blindness, renal failure, or amputation) and cardiovascular events (ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease) during ... Table Factors associated with patients’ rating of their health-related quality oflife state (EuroQol Visual Analogue Scale) - adjusted linear regression analyses Variable Model 2† Model 1* Parameter...
... (Japan) using a Cu Ka X-ray source operating at 45 kV and 100 mA, scanning at the rate of 4°/min with an angular resolution of 0.05° of the 2h scan to get the Fig FESEM images of psCeO2 prepared ... the preparation condition and the morphology of yielded CeO2 Nanoscale Res Lett (2008) 3:431–434 Morphologies Characterization XRD analysis of CeO2 was carried out on the D/max-1200 diffractometer ... electrode potential and potential direction At constant electric field, such as the way of potentiostatic, OH- and Ce3? ions are electrically adsorbed onto the surfaces of CeO2 in an oriented manner under...
... Japan Cover glass was purchased from Matsunami Glass Ind., Ltd., Japan A photoresist (OFPR-800) was purchased from Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Japan CNT immobilization on glass Fabrication of ... over that of using a single layer of APS After deposition of the source and drain electrodes, the top gate was fabricated ona 500-nm-thick APS layer on nanotubes and source and drain electrodes ... to fabricate a nanotube device ona cover glass and to investigate its applications Regarding the fabrication process of the nanotube FET sensor, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method has been...
... Yamazaki, H Hara, T Iwase, and T Endo, “An automated classification method for mammograms based on evaluation of fibroglandular breast tissue density,” in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop ... statistical grey-level histogram modeling and classification based on multiresolution histogram information, respectively This paper deals with Bayesian segmentation of breast anatomical regions, namely: ... Adel et al system V under consideration c∈C Uc (x) is an energy function At last Z is a normalizing constant called the partition function 2.2 Bayesian segmentation Image statistical segmentation...
... the area belongs to the Bytom Basin In general, its climate can be characterized by an annual average air temperature of 8°C and annual average precipitation of 700 mm The deposits are genetically ... loading rate and sawdust additions on row crop yield and nitrate leaching potentials in Virginia sand and gravel mine reclamation Land Reclamation – A Different Approach In: Proceedings 18th National ... Table Shannon diversity index 'H' and abundance of species (number of species) in plant communities depending on the age and category of areas in the Szczakowa sand mine cast Age of areas (years)...