... Birkhoff, one of the first American mathematicians of note, suggested a formula for the complexity of an image, and proposed it as an aesthetic measure And in 1938, Rashevsky, the father of mathematical ... Figure The top graph shows the frequency distributions of the number of sheep (on the vertical axis) against their fractal dimension (on the horizontal) The bottom graph shows the sum of the ratings ... categories: on the top in Fig is the number of sheep of that dimension (bins are 0.05 wide), on the bottom is the sum total of ratings of sheep of that dimension In short, we find that sheep of AFD between...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20
... effect of depression on the mental aspect of QoL went through the mediator of pain, and over 72% of the effect was direct When depression was the mediator, depressive symptoms accentuated the negative ... and 25% of the effect was direct Statistically, the mediation of depression (Model 4: 75%) exerted the strongest effect (cf Model 1: 28%) These findings offer insights to the current understanding ... as: Wong et al.: The differential mediating effects of pain and depression on the physical and mental dimension of quality of life in Hong Kong Chinese adults Health and Quality of Life Outcomes...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo toán học: "On the Continuity of Julia Sets and Hausdorff Dimension of Polynomials" ppsx
... , from [1] there exists a neighborhood of x persisting in the Fatou set for large n Therefore the original sequence satisfies J(fn ) → J(f ) The proof of Theorem is complete Proof of Theorem Since ... n→∞ s→∞ the proof of theorem is complete Open Question I not know any example satisfying the hypothesis of Theorem Acknowledgments I am grateful to the referee and the editor for reading the first ... prove the theorems; the proof is divided into parts Let f , fn be rational functions We have the following lemma; see [1] Lemma 3.1 If fn → f algebraically, then J(f ) ⊂ lim inf J(fn ) Proof of Theorem...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 05:20
auditor independence, accounting firms, and the securities and exchange commission
... suggests that the negotiation and the agreement are related to the diversity and intensity of the values and interests of the participants Values of the participants in the dispute included independence, ... auditors and changes the structure of the development of accounting standards Ironically, the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the accounting profession debated many of the same ... accounting profession and the SEC sought to work together to resolve the growing independence issue For instance, the joint development by the SEC and the AICPA of the Independence Standards Board (ISB)...
Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 22:20
mohamed and habib - 2013 - auditor independence, audit quality and the mandatory auditor in egypt
... including the discussion of the reasons for the lack of independence problem in Egypt The following section then will discuss the model and the hypotheses used, followed by the data analysis and findings, ... findings, then finally the conclusion Auditor independence and the impact on audit quality The auditor independence is the cornerstone of the auditing profession It is defined as the refusal of the auditor ... quality The application of mandatory rotation in the Egyptian context where there the problem of the lack of auditor independence is really clear is suggested so as to overcome the consequences of the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43
At the heart of student migration education, mobility, and the time space production of everyday life
... the social (re)production of everyday social relations, practices, and affects, and the ways in which a variety of spaces and times participate in the making, routinizing, and/ or disrupting of ... literature gathers insights from a range of theories on the embodied, the emotional, and the non-representational to draw attention to the sociality and materiality of everyday life These include ... the whole jumble of cultural forms and practices that constitute and create everyday life and the meanings by which people understand themselves in the world”, it is important to understand these...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 14:23
At the heart of student migration education, mobility, and the time space production of everyday life
... subjectivities, and aims to construct a more grounded, intimate, and accountable rendering of the globalizing spaces of education In centering students at the heart of the everyday, quotidian, and transnational ... geographies of education migration, geographers have expounded on the power of space and place in producing, differentiating, and maintaining the sociointeractions and relations of these young ... Spatio-Temporal Production of Proximate and Distant Lives 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Times and Spaces of Intimacies: the Story/Strategy of Aulia 6.3 Doing Intimacy I: Information and Communication Technologies...
Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:13
yale university press into the black jpl and the american space program 1976-2004 nov 2006
... past the countercultural rebellion of the 1960s and the Vietnam War into the thaw of the 1970s and then to the renewed chill that started in the late 1970s and lasted into the 1980s For the space ... the post-Apollo drawdown and then the remilitarization of space that culminated in the Strategic Defense Initiative And then there is that central event of the last half century, the end of the ... James Fletcher canceled the Grand Tour The cancellation surprised fans of the Grand Tour at the Of ce of Management and Budget, who abandoned their usual hard fiscal line and offered funds for a scaled-back...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:49
Báo cáo khoa học: "a Chat-oriented Dialogue System based on the Vector Space Model" ppt
... gains back the control of the dialogue and initializes the current history vector Two types of vector initializations are possible here If the user is already know by IRIS, it will load the last ... decide whether IRIS should ask the user for the meaning of such a term If IRIS decides to ask for the meaning of the term, the control of the dialogue is passed to the vocabulary learning module ... combining the two scores The dialogue management module randomly selects one of the top ranked utterances and prompts back to the user the corresponding reply (from the dialogue database) to the wining...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20
Lived experience in a neighbourhood wet market culture and social memories of a disappearing space 3
... student in the National University of Singapore In my Masters thesis, I am studying the memories of the wet market as a disappearing space and „heritage space from the perspective of history and heritage ... with your mother, and the activities of the elderly men and Nepali vendors who gathered there Why have you chosen to remember the wet market in the above ways? What kind of emotions and reflections ... student in the National University of Singapore In my Masters thesis, I am studying the memories of the wet market as a disappearing space and „heritage space from the perspective of history and heritage...
Ngày tải lên: 01/10/2015, 17:26
Lived experience in a neighbourhood wet market culture and social memories of a disappearing space 1
... constituents of the micro-level culture of Bedok Market – the kinds of socialities, and dramaturgical ingredients that comprise what I call the theatre of buying and selling in this space Hence, ... Framing the narratives of the disappearing marketplace 101 5.2 Of hardship and resignation: the hawkers’ narrative 103 5.3 Of inconvenience and resignation: the customers’ narrative 109 5.4 Of formal ... out to the five heritage bloggers who have shared their memories of vanishing/vanished marketplaces and spaces in Singapore, and their ideas of nostalgia and heritage My engagements with the bloggers...
Ngày tải lên: 01/10/2015, 17:26
Lived experience in a neighbourhood wet market culture and social memories of a disappearing space 2
... furthermore, facilitated a juxtaposition of the sensory environments of the wet and supermarket: differences in the physical layout; the kinds of products sold and presentation of these; and the ... Bedok Market in terms of the physical layout of the stalls and foods sold, the hawkers‟ personalities, and the flows of people and activity throughout the day A map of the stalls is affixed to ... into the social networks and structures that organize the marketplace These include the structure of auctions in Tsukiji, and the roles of auction houses, auctioneers and traders; the dynamics of...
Ngày tải lên: 01/10/2015, 17:27
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Basis of recognition between the NarJ chaperone and the N-terminus of the NarG subunit from Escherichia coli nitrate reductase pdf
... 100-fold and the lifespan of the complex by 10-fold, as judged by koff The physiological chaperone cycle probably consists of the rapid binding of the N-terminus of the partner, regardless of whether ... enthalpy, independent of the buffer used in the experiment, and another term representing the contribution of the proton ionization of the buffer, which is multiplied by the number of protons that ... hypothesize that the protonated state of the chaperone initiates this cycle, whereas the deprotonated state occurs upon completion of the maturation process of the partner The nature of the signal...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Protein–protein interactions and selection: generation of molecule-binding proteins on the basis of tertiary structural information potx
... loop of antibody fragments (A) Replacement of the candidate location in NCS for grafting with the CDR loop of VHH (B) Insertion of the CDR 1-containing loop of the heavy chain in Fv into the candidate ... into the CDR and CDR loops in the light chain (CDR L1 and CDR L2) to study the potential of Fv as a scaffold protein for grafting They investigated deviations in the amino acid sequences of the ... from a different species [23–25] The success of the series of studies shows that the stable framework structure of Fv enables the transfer of function by means of CDR replacement Barbas et al...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The structural basis for catalytic function of GMD and RMD, two closely related enzymes from the GDP-D-rhamnose biosynthesis pathway pdf
... corresponding to the anomeric resonances of the 4-keto (compound B) and gem-diol (compound C) forms of GDP-6-deoxy-d-lyxo-hexos-4-ulose (Fig 4B) On the basis of integration of the anomeric signals, the 4-keto ... both the P aeruginosa and A thermoaerophilus RMD sequences have gaps in the region of the RR loop, and in the His6-RMDAt structure, the b2–b3 loop is notably shorter than in GMD The truncation of ... shown in aqua and light sand, respectively; the APPR portion of the cofactor (dark gray) and the ligand analog GDP-DMan (light gray) are represented as space- filling models Termini and secondary...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo Y học: Structural basis for the inhibitory efficacy of efavirenz (DMP-266), MSC194 and PNU142721 towards the HIV-1 RT K103N mutant doc
... is reduced by the stacking of Od1 in between the plane of the thiourea moiety and the Ca of G190 Hence, the undefined orientation of the N103 amide Od1 and Nd2 atoms may reflect the repulsive forces ... by the K103N mutation The electron density for Cc of the K103N mutant structures is well defined but the quality of the map does not allow assessment of the orientation of the amide plane There ... composed of the backbone carbonyls of K102 and G191 and the side chain of D192 Ó FEBS 2002 The HIV-1 RT K103N mutant and inhibitor efficacy (Eur J Biochem 269) 1673 Fig Orientation and Conformation of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 01:20
LAW AND THE PUBLIC DIMENSION OF HEALTH docx
... issues of law and gender, and criminology Professor Robyn Martin is Professor of Law at the University of Hertfordshire, and has taught at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Bristol ... of public health law Understandings of health have changed, and are continuing to change These changes are challenging the prioritising of the role of medicine in the xli Law and the Public Dimension ... fluid, and increasingly educated The individual is no longer the grateful recipient of the commodity of health from the State, but rather an agent of health, and responsibility for the attainment of...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "A survey of American neurologists about brain death: understanding of the conceptual basis and diagnostic tests for brain death" pdf
... integrative unity of the organism [1-4, 6, 10, 11]), and understand the criterion of death (irreversible loss of all functions of the brain, including the brainstem), and the empirical state of the brain ... responses The strengths of the survey include the development methodology, and unambiguous nature of most of the questions In addition, the striking similarity of our results to those of other surveys ... Acknowledgments There was no source of funding for this project AJ had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo toán học: "On the determining number and the metric dimension of graphs" pot
... formula and a linear time algorithm for computing the metric dimension of a tree They also obtain an upper bound for the metric dimension of the d-dimensional grid, showing that to compute the metric ... from v0 and relabel them with its position in the order beginning with “1”; The Step of the algorithm is a variation of the linear time algorithm by Hopcroft and Tarjan [16] to check whether two ... of V (G H) The projection of S onto G is the set of vertices u ∈ V (G) for which there exists a vertex (u, v) ∈ S The projection of S onto H is defined analogously A column of G H is the set of...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:22
Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Statistical methods and the subjective basis of scientific knowledge" pps
... because the history of scientific theories is the history of the abandonment of old hypotheses and of the keeping of the newly formulated ones For example, when a law f (x, B) derived from theoretical ... manner of contrasting the hypotheses r and the conclusion about the value of r is subjective the rules =- r ; - OPTIMUM ESTIMATION We shall now examine another aspect of the question of the rule of ... posing the rule of the most probable value: choose the hypothesis i B having the largest posterior probability, with the risk of error given by the sum of the probabilities of the hypotheses...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21