... graft and anastomosis patency in all cases Results are comparable to those previously reported with this technique [7,8] MIDCAB is the less demanding procedure and has gained widespread acceptance ... anastomosis technique allowed to improve the patency: after the occurrence of post-anastomotic dysfunction cases, distal LAD occlusion during anastomosis was abandoned and this type of failure disappeared; ... completed for all patients During follow-up, only symptom-based coronary angiography was performed Mean follow-up was 2.7 ± 0.1 years and cumulated follow-up was 438 years Data was accessed and analysed...
... be untrained and unsupervised, and may lack strength and endurance because of the presence of a degenerative disease Thus the systemis user-friendly enough for untrained, unsupervised individuals ... time and effort into this project and have provided valuable feedback References Bird, S and Simons, G.F (2003) Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description Language, ... the synthesis process MT Voice Recorder determines the average pitch of each utterance and gives the user feedback on whether the pitch is within an acceptable range This feedback mechanism also...
... research and analysis conducted by the RAND Corporation in collaboration with GDD between May 2011 and May 2012 This report is a companion volume to another RAND report, Creating an Innovation System ... environmental quality and regulation, energy resources and systems, water resources and systems, climate, natural hazards and disasters, and economic development— both domestically and internationally ... attraction, growth, and sustainment of innovative, hightechnology firms in Knowledge City From the standpoint of RAND and GDD, the key reason to define and understand an innovation systemis to find leverage...
... with this information is therefore not necessarily useful for this task, especially when the datais sparse Nevertheless, thereis a big discrepancy between the F-score for the EU dataand those ... lookup systemand the baseline While the tagger performs much better for the internet and the space travel data, it requires hand-annotated training data The lookup system, on the other hand, is ... model and therefore manually annotated data, the output of our system increases the performance of the learner when incorporating this information as an additional feature Combining statistical...
... provide the initial SCL and CCL The current version of UTTER uses null lists as the initial SCL and CCL, and therefore forces the user to build these lists via the SEL and CEL This implies a rather ... English," TESL Studies~ Vol 4, pp27-93: 1981 [Sherwood78] Sherwood, Bruce Arne, "Fast Text-to-Speech Algorithms for Esperanto, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and English," ~nternational Journal of Man-Machine ... cluster and its associated attributes are checked against a list of exceptions to the cluster rule (called the "cluster exception list" or CEL) This list is normally empty, and addltlons can only...
... Waltinger, Alexander Mehler, and Maik St¨ hrenberg 2008b An integrated model of u lexical chaining: Application, resources and its format In Angelika Storrer, Alexander Geyken, Alexander Siebert, and Kay-Michael ... Jussen, Alexander Mehler, and Alexandra Ernst 2007 A corpus management systemfor historical semantics Appears in: Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 3.6 Historical Semantics Corpus Management Mitchell P ... data model is a distributed research group consisting of several research teams: One team collects data from field research, a second processes and annotates the raw dataand a third team performs...
... Morocco to the US Thereis also potential for increased merchandise 27 trade between Tunisia and United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, the United States and Portugal (See Annex for details) Figure ... diversification and dynamism, particularly in Tunisia and Morocco An important policy question concerning prospects for regional integration is whether thereis potential for increased intraregional merchandise ... States, Canada, Mexico; MGB= Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia); CEE = Central and European countries (Poland, Hungary, Czech and Slovak Republics); ASEAN 5= Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and...
... (Angola, Cameroon, Comoros, Gambia, Malawi, Mali, Sao Tome and Principe, and Togo) with medians ranging from 17.1% to 4.5%; two (Equitorial Guinea and Swaziland) have statistically significant ... TC, GS, and RL were involved in the development of the study concept HD, TC and RL worked on study design HD performed data collection AK and RL assisted with data analysis HD created the manuscript, ... HIV/AIDS displaced aid for other health issues? Health Policy and Planning 2008, 23:95-100 22 De Maeseneer J, van Weel C, Wgilman D, Mfenyana K, Kaufman A, Sewankambo N, Flinkenflögel M: Funding for...
... Kneebone M and Kissane D: Clozapine-induced neuroleptic malignant syndrome: review and report of new cases J Clin Psychopharmacol 1995, 15:365-371 Karagianis JL, Phillips LC, Hogan KP and Le Drew ... neuroleptic malignant syndrome: two new cases and review of the literature Ann Pharmacother 1999, 33:623-630 Caroff SN, Mann SC and Campbell EC: Atypical antipsychotics and neuroleptic malignant syndrome ... Apple JE and Van Hauser G: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome associated with olanzapine therapy [letter] Psychosomatics 1999, 40:267-268 Hickey C, Stewart C and Lippmann S: Olanzapine and NMS Psychiatr...
... acid (Lister et al, 1961; Hansen, 1967; Warembourg and Paul, 1973; Glerum and Balatinecz, 1980; LangenfeldHeyser, 1987; Smith and Paul, 1988; Lacointe, 1989; Schneider and Schmitz, 1989; and many ... (using an IRGA) andan injection system Rough control of the ambient CO can be achieved by temperate injection of chemical reactants (Warembourg and Paul, 1973; Smith and Paul, 1988; Schneider and ... infrared CO analyzer and a Geiger tube for continuous measurement of CO exchange in photosyn2 thesis and respiration Can J Bot 39, 581-591 Palit P (1985) Translocation and distribution of C-labelled...
... antibody therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of serious infections and malignancies: systematic review and meta-analysis of rare harmful effects in randomized controlled trials JAMA 2006, ... Haematopoietic malignancies in rheumatoid arthritis: lymphoma risk and characteristics after exposure to tumour necrosis factor antagonists Ann Rheum Dis 2005, 64:14141420 Symmons DP, Silman AJ: Anti-tumor ... disease treated conventionally [6] However, using randomized trials, the confounding effect of severity should have been allowed for, and so these data raise concerns about an increased risk for...
... participated in acquisition and analysis of data HO participated in the design of the study and helped to perform the statistical analysis CS participated in analysis and interpretation of dataand helped ... IA and among stage IB) Distant metastasis appeared in 13 patients (8 among stage IA and among stage IB) There was no difference in regional and systemic progression between patients with and ... craniocaudal and right-to-left directions in the upper and Amplitude of tumor movement under conditions A, B, C and D in the craniocaudal and right-to-left directions in the upper and lower lung...
... scientific community and allows the browsing, downloading, visualisation and analysis of all data recorded in the PHENOPSIS platform The PHENOPSIS platform and the information system structure are ... W3C [18] standards and were validated by W3C online tools [19,20] PHP scripts call R functions to check, insert and format data, and to perform online statistical analysis or visualisation The ... growth chamber before and after watering at a given date andfor each plant watering cycle Download and visualisation of environmental conditions during an experiment Download and analysis of images...
... facility and were permitted to watch television, use the telephone, dine, take breaks and sleep Data analysis and statistics Raw physiologic data records were uploaded to a centralized data center and ... Entire duration of depicted recording is 1-min and 37-sec Table provides performance summaries for the LS system to detect cough during for night vs day andfor low and high respiration rates, respectively ... detect cough and demonstrate a high level of agreement and accuracy when compared to video surveillance for cough over an extended period The system was well-tolerated and allowed for free movement...
... anddata using the identifiers stored in the manifests Table 3-1 Basic dataand commands of a smart object Data 3D model and user interface Data manifest RPC manifest Pose Command Get data Get data ... syntax and semantics of dataand command representations to enable interoperability between virtual and real worlds Thus, data formats for sensor nodes used for user interaction, virtual object data ... some of the basic dataand commands, some of which are mandatory, that a smart object can implement 32 The dataand RPC manifests are the only ways to access the appearance and functionality...
... project and working and cooperating with the author Last but not least, the author wants to thank his family and friends, directly or indirectly, for their supports and encouragement and the financial ... angle and 3DIVAS has been conducted in this thesis The correlation coefficient is 0.9284 between IVAS and the Cobb angle, 0.9175 between MIVAS and the Cobb angle and 0.9116 between 3DIVAS and the ... method for assessing scoliosis is the Cobb angle measurement A radiograph of the spine is made in the coronal plane and the angle of any spinal curve is measured The Cobb angle isan important measurement...
... breadcrumbs and previews that allow users to easily switch back and forth between citation and writing ActiveCite also includes a shorthand notation for passing contextual information to the back-end system ... Following is a brief discussion of the three classical recommendation techniques and their advantages and disadvantages 2.2.1 Content-Based Technique Recommendation systems based on content analysis ... Related Work Switching between searching for references and writing is still disruptive even with existing assistant tools Our proposed system handles this problem well It has a feature that allows...
... player Distance Player speed Distance >=450 45 distance = 360 40 distance = 280 35 distance = 210 30 distance = 150 25 distance ... the distance between player1 and player2 From this number, we can find out the force of player1 Table 3-1 shown us the relation between distance and the speed of player1 Table 3-4: Distance and ... late datais still good data However, for hard real-time systems, late datais bad data Most real-time systems interface with and control hardware directly The software for such systems is mostly...
... mono-lingually classes for the target language (English) and afterwards optimizing classes for the source language (Eq (11) and Eq (12)) For EUTRANS-I we used 60 classes andfor EUTRANS-II we used 500 ... more context is used in the translation and therefore the translation quality is higher An explanation for the superiority of BIL-2 over BIL is that by first optimizing the English classes mono-lingually, ... performance of the translation system was optimal The CPU time for optimization of bilingual word classes on an Alpha workstation was under 20 seconds for EUTRANS-I and less than two hours for...
... Ioannides and Roussas , Oliveira , Sung , Xing and Yang , and Xing et al On the other hand, Kim and Kim 10 , Nooghabi and Azarnoosh 11 , and Xing et al 12 obtained exponential inequalities for ... 1730–1736, 2007 G Xing and S Yang, “Notes on the exponential inequalities for strictly stationary and positively associated random variables, ” Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, vol 138, ... inequalities for negatively associated random variables In this paper, we establish an exponential inequality for identically distributed negatively associated random variables by using truncation method...