... intentions, and perceptions; • Amount of collected data allows use of statistical analysis for explaining and predicting certain behaviours Drawbacks: • Problematic to make consumers understand and interpret ... relations and their retention (Reidenbach and McClung 1998), (Johnson and Gustafsson 2000), (Schellhase, Hardock et al 2000) The paramount goal of the marketing domain is to understand the consumer and ... family and household, and situational influences Engel (1995) shows the scope of individual and environmental influences and this distinction is used in this study for the narrowing down and distinguishing...
... service implements full-text and faceted search, and document indexing The data service handles data (e.g., documents) replication for clients The entailment service handles the logic of the entailment ... entailment graph and the taxonomy) The index server applies periodic indexing of new texts, and the exploration server serves the exploration application on querying, exploration, anddata 83 Application ... information (Hofmann, 1999), enabling the user to drill up and down the concept hierarchies Hierarchical faceted meta -data (Stoica and Hearst, 2007), or faceted search, proposed more sophisticated...
... days, and the periodical series which they compose—there are also signs of rain and of inundation corresponding to the Chou (Rat) of the Chinese* and Thibetan cycle of Tse, and to the Fishes and ... configuration of their soil* and the mixture of savannahs and arable lands, unite the advantages of the Llanos of Calabozo and the valleys of Aragua (* It appears that the little table-lands between the ... the lagunas de oro, and the town of the gilded king (Grand Patiti, Grand Moxo, Grand Paru, or Enim), are the incursions made to the south of the Guaviare, the Rio Fragua, and the Caqueta Orellana,...
... rigorously demanded by the structure of a given language This concept is vital to an understanding of the analysis that is to follow An important example of linguistic analysis between the sememic and ... clarify the nature of sememic analysisand to show it to be a useful tool in problems of handling natural language, the analysis was not exhaustive The partial analysis of a number of major English ... Come by night: BY and BY Go by a bus: BY and BY 10 Killed by a poison arrow: BY and BY One can tell from the chair that the room is beautiful: FROM and FROM In a pickle: IN and IN Throw the ball...
... technologies and much needed expertise, as well as competitive pressure on local banks (Anderson and Kegels, 1998) As of 2000, foreign banks in Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland controlled 66, 62 and ... market Private banks came into being and the scale and scope of bank operations expanded Deposits are growing, more long-term assets replace short-term ones, and consumer loans are gaining popularity ... State Bank” and “On Banks and Banking Activity” This law formally established the two-tier banking system and defined the “rules of the road”: how commercial banks could be set up and how State...
... between 2% and 7% The type of missingness was missing at random for 18 items (items PF1, RP1, RP3, BP2, GH1, GH4, RE2 and all items of VT, SF and MH subscales) and missing not at random for the ... data as this could help prevention Our results confirm the earlier findings of Perneger and Burnand with the SF-12 [4] and of Vercherin et al with the SF-36 [8], that older age, female sex, and ... results of the univariate and multivariate analyses are given in Additional files and 3) For the items PF1, RP1, RP3, BP2, GH1, GH4, RE2 and the items of the subscales VT, SF and MH, only “external”...
... patterns anddata structures from massive databases [10,11] A specific data mining technique was applied to the data yielded by the analysis of sit-tostand (STS) trials performed by healthy adults and ... process Input data are initially selected and target data are isolated Pre-processing and transformation are performed to ensure the database reliability Data mining is the core analysis The knowledge ... on a direct analysis, which is usually demanding and time-consuming, and on the interpretation of an experienced analyst [9] Such analysis becomes hardly applicable when dealing with data collected...
... and engineers working on room acoustics (see, e.g., [11]) have studied this crucial issue intensively The influence of the environment is a complex problem, R Kronland-Martinet and T Voinier and ... frequencies and a rotating speaker port adapted to a woofer radiating low frequencies Each rotating source is driven by its own motor and mechanical assembly, and the rotating speeds R Kronland-Martinet ... McAdams and E Bigand, Thinking in Sound: The Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1993 [18] M Aramaki, H Baill` res, L Brancheriau, R Kronlande Martinet, and...
... sheet and income statements (e.g., Demsetz and Lehn 1985, Gorton and Rosen 1995, Mehran 1995, Ang, Cole, and Lin 2000), 2) stock market returns and their volatility (e.g., Saunders, Strock, and ... of standard deviations below the expected return that the actual return can go before equity is depleted and the firm is insolvent, zi = (µi + ECAPi)/σi, where µi and σi are the mean and standard ... (distribution-free and fixed-effects), different samples (the “ownership sample” of banks with detailed ownership dataand the “full sample” of banks), and the different sample periods (1990s and 1980s)...
... dataand saves them For each time step, the model evaluates the MicroClimate and the oldest Organ of the structure This Organ transmits the Evaluate method to the organs that it is bearing, and ... I + diff – and upward diffuse PAR Idiff Except for Idir, I + and diff – Idiff , these properties are set equal to the parameter values at the stand level Light distribution in the stand The PAR ... parameters Vcmax, Jmax, α, and Rd as a function of needle age Age (year) and needle temperature T (°C) Adapted from Porté and Loustau [18] Photosynthetic parameters and units Vcmax Jmax α Rd (µmol.m–2.s–1)...
... conception and the design of the study, analyzed the dataand drafted the manuscript UR contributed to the conception and the design of the study TB acquired the data IK contributed to the analysis ... the week show different nycthemeral rhythms of bodily harm Data handling and calculations were performed by Microsoft Excel ® , Matlab ® and R Significance level was set to 0.05 In the following, ... nycthemeral rhythm and not in total numbers; so we normalize the data by dividing the number of crimes at “day” d and hour h by the number of crimes on “day” d The normalized data are called y...
... Figure The GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded models The GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded models The prototype model (A) and the expanded model (B) Page of 11 (page number ... Biochemical experimental data taken from the literature and reported in Joshi and Palsson [11] d NAD(H) and NADP(H) pools are kept constant Table 3: Parameters for normal and deficient enzymes t/2 ... biosimulation and the 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program: Understanding and Control of Life's Function via Systems Biology), and in part by a grant from New Energy and Industrial...
... J1 = { j| j is odd and (2 ≤ j ≤ n} and J2 = { j| j is even and ≤ j ≤ n} yi = x j sin(6πx1 + jπ ), j = 2, , n n The search space is [0, 1] × [−1, 1]n−1 y2 , j j∈J1 5.2 Results and Discussion x1 ... 5.2 Results and Discussion x1 + |J2| y2 j j∈J2 where J1 = { j| j is odd and (2 ≤ j ≤ n} and J2 = { j| j is even and ≤ j ≤ n} and x j − [0.3x2 cos(24πx1 + jπ )+ n 0.6x1 ] cos(6πx1 ... x1 + x |J2 | h(y j ) j∈J2 where J1 = { j| j is odd and (2 ≤ j ≤ n} and J2 = { j| j is even and ≤ j ≤ n} yi = x j sin(6πx1 + jπ ), j = 2, , n and h(t) = n The search space is [0, 1] × [−2, 2]n−1...
... reflection analysis at the interface between PSTD and FEM grids 75 3.10 Reflection at the interface between PSTD and FEM grids 75 3.11 Stability analysis ... schemes between coarse PSTD grids and fine FEM grids are investigated and compared GPOF interpolation scheme has proven to be the most accurate and can ensure the accuracy and stability of the hybrid ... Some simplifications and adaption of the 3D PSTD-FDTD scheme are made for planar FZP structures 2D FDTD grids and 3D PSTD grids are employed and overlapped Quasi-2D FDTD algorithm and 3D PSTD algorithm...
... obtained by Johnson and Christy previously (73), and setting ε and ε as 2.25 and 1.77 respectively (i.e = glass, = water), a map of R versus d (thickness of the metal film 1) and the incident angle ... constant 111 R E2 (a) R 2 (b) E2 (c) 2 (d) Figure A map of R and E versus d (thickness of the metal film 1) and θ o (a and b) spolarization (c and d) p-polarization ε = 2.25 (glass) ε = 1.76 (water) ... spolarization 115 R E2 (b) (a) R E2 (c) 2 (d) Figure A map of R and E versus d (thickness of the metal film 1) and θ o (a and b) spolarization (c and d) p-polarization ε = 2.25 (glass) ε1 = 1.76 (water)...
... of R and E versus d (thickness of the metal film 1) and θ o (a and b) spolarization (c and d) p-polarization ε = 1.76 (water) 112 Fig A map of R versus d (thickness of the metal film) and θ ... 100-nm nano-cavity substrate with cavitysurface distance of (a and b) 10 nm, and (c and d) 20 nm (a) and (c) are topology plot, while (b) and (d) are near-field images 172 Chapter Dielectric Nano-cavity ... (b) and 1.96 (c) 113 Fig Otto configuration for exciting surface plasmons (a) p-polarisation; (b) s-polarization xx 2 Fig A map of R and E versus d (thickness of the metal film 1) and θ o (a and...
... is a process of intended and organized impact with contents and methods to students to enable them to form and develop a systematic knowledge, skills and attitudes demanded by the profession questions, ... teaching in general and VT for rural workers in particular in the country and the world, the author found that theoretically and practically there has been no specific research on TFEL and its application ... learners, teacher poses situations and problems for learners to solveusing past experience and intellectual and physical activities through experiential activities, exchange and interact with each other...
... Computation and Adjustment 39 3.3 Ball Candidate Generation 40 3.3.1 Object Production 40 3.3.2 Sieves and Candidate Generation 42 3.3.3 Candidate Classification 44 3.4 Candidate ... possession analysis performance 95 4.4 Play/break analysis performance 95 5.1 Values of Ms (•) and N(•) on c 1, c , and c for F1 122 5.2 Partial values of Ms (•) , N(•) , and U(•) ... which belong to two large components: Ball candidate production (including step and 2) and candidate trajectory processing component (including step and 4) In the first component, we use the anti-model...