... accessions that represent the seven different soybean ecotypes and 39 Japanese soybean accessions from various regions using 46 SSR loci Cluster analysis with UPGMA separated the Chinese accessions ... ranged from almost no chlorosis (VCS= 1.2) to mild chlorosis (VCS=2.3) to moderate chlorosis (VCS=3.0) to severe chlorosis (VCS=4.2), nonetheless, consistent genotypic differences usually were observed ... error variances across classes for each measure used in classifying genotypes Welch s F test was used to test the equality of means across the levels of the single class terms (Littell et al.,...
... this adds some sampling error Simulation studies offer the possibility to increase the number of animals and to repeat the analysis, to know the true breeding values and to have direct answers ... daughters, MAS was more efficient This approach has some similarities with the Bottom-up scheme proposed by Mackinnon and Georges [7] and which was shown to increase MAS efficiency Sires of candidates ... effects as accurately as possible Therefore, it is very important to genotype many animals such as dams and progeny daughters’ families Indeed, the results showed that when sires of candidates have...
... deaths from most causes is unlikely to vary substantially with cause of death.11,18 Furthermore, any recall bias affecting assessment of smoking habits in the cases should similarly affect assessment ... blood-forming organ diseases (280–289, 0.9%), mental disorders (290–319, 3.3%), nervous system diseases (320–359, 3.1%), digestive system diseases (520–579, 27.5%), genitourinary system diseases (580–608, ... shows that tobacco smoking is associated with a moderate, but highly significant, increase in the risk of death from various cancers The consistency in results was observed in the analyses using...
... parts of the tubes exit holes In cases with a macroscopically not clean operative situs, the sponges were only exchanged and tissue samples as well as parts of the removed V.A.C sponges were sent ... months no reinfections occurred (Fig 7) Complications were observed in three cases In case no 2, it was necessary to remove the sponges after days due to a postoperative haemorrhagia and consecutive ... Med Sci 2009, 242 fields the vacuum-assisted closure (V.A.C.) has been established as an efficient treatment option even for deep wound infections The most important advantages of this system...
... processes is often confusing In reality, IP classless only affects the operation of the forwarding processes in IOS; it doesn't affect the way the routing table is built If IP classless isn't ... and each has chosen its best path to that network through its internal metrics and processes Each of these four processes attempts to install their route toward 192.168.24.0/24 into the routing ... If the supernet or default route is learned via IS−IS or OSPF, the no ip−classless configuration command is ignored In this case, packet switching behavior works as though ip−classless were configured...
... source-sides of rules Such features identify possible source side phrases and thus can give preference to rules including them.2 Rule shape: These features are indicators that abstract away from ... radical measure against overfitting The key idea is to view shards as tasks, and to apply methods for joint feature selection from multi-task learning to achieve small sets of features that are useful ... matrices in Figure Assuming the same loss for both matrices, the right-hand side matrix is preferred because of a smaller / norm (12 instead of 18) This matrix shares features across tasks which...
... also how it should be realised (how -to- say) This how -to- say process takes into account issues such as the rearrangements described in the previous section In traditional language generation research, ... Generator translates the selected proposition into a natural language expression and sends it to the TTS-administrator module Then the NL Generator has to wait until the Text -to- Speech software ... their system and MIKE is that the system itself creates topics The SOCCER system described in (Andr~ et al., 1994), combines a vision system with an intelligent multimedia generation system to provide...
... levels and, thus, close to CLalt However, keeping B s outcomes close to CLalt increases the risk that B s outcomes will fall below its CLalt because of miscalculations on A s side If this occurs, ... adversity (see n 2) The discussion in this section is conditional, or ceteris paribus—that is, one factor at a time, holding everything else fixed We state hypotheses as simple comparisons between ... is not amenable to a simple selection hypothesis and, instead, needs to be described in terms of both selection and causation Causation is present because environmental adversity is likely to...
... those categories found to be heterogeneous should be assumed to be heterogeneous across classifications, and similarly for those that seem to be homogeneous The second major issue to address is ... C to Diseases and so on Every branch has several sub-branches; Anatomy, for example, consists of Body Regions (A01), Musculoskeletal System (A02), Digestive System (A03) etc We refer to these ... however, as it was quite difficult to find examples for these cases, we suspect they are relatively rare A question arises as to if representing nouns using the topmost levels of the hierarchy causes a...
... MDR substrates First, many substrates of MDR transporters have been shown to cross biological membranes passively at considerable rates, such that even efficiently transported substrates may not ... dissociates from the low-affinity binding site Subsequent sequential ATP hydrolysis (iv) results in dissociation of the NBDs (v) and a synchronous resetting of the TMDs The catalytic cycle closes ... ability to form hydrogen bonds [27,43] It is stunning that these functional homologues and protagonists of MDR obviously use very different ways to select their substrates Towards a simplistic model...
... in the composed ˆ transducer p ◦ G to a set of states (s1 , s2 ), s2 ∈ S2 , ˆ where S2 is a subset of the states of G When computing the outgoing transitions of the states in (s1 , s2 ) with input ... Voices Product synthesizer and that of the synthesizers based on our new unit selection system with shrunken and unshrunken trigram language models In such tests, several listeners are asked to ... 8250 units or minutes of synthesized speech Table gives the unit selection time (in seconds) taken by our new system to synthesize this AP Model No of states No of transitions 2-gram, unshrunken...
... subset of dosed-class items as being discourse-oriented, distinct from those closed-class items whose processing does not depend on discourse knowledge A more complete list of closed-class lexical ... realization-classes, and was no different from the decision to make a sentence active or passive Here, we are separat ing discourse information from linguistic knowledge Our system is closer to McKeown 's ... attachments to conceptual and discourse information Related to this, we discovered an interesting distinction between two types of closed-class items, distinguished by the knowledge sources necessary to...
... domain.independent constructs For instance, the following rule transforms possessives into "of" phrases, which we chose as canonical: These patterns for message descr~tions illustrate the two problems mentioned ... case fillers against successive positions of the skipped sequences This step picks up cases for which the masker was incorrect or gadoled simple process, consider 14 if worOs are Mill on SKIPPED ... ways • Case-Frame Instantiation is necessary to parse general imperative constructs and noun phrases with posThominal modifiers This method has been applied before with some success to linguistic...
... are respectively presented in Tables and Numerical results and discussions In this section, numerical results and discussions are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms ... delay to cognitive radio networks (CRNs) To address this issue, the study [15] proposed that cooperative SUs sent local sensing data concurrently But this scheme will increase the system design ... N, k Î I, I is the set of all positive intergers) SUs are employed to cooperate to sense a PU channel There is a fusion center in the CRN, which assigns k SUs to cooperate to sense the PU channel...
... proposed scheme uses uncoded QAM transmission with guard times and uses ZF equalization at each node The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed scheme asymptotically achieves the ... divided into two phases: In phase one, the source broadcasts the message to the destination and the relays, and each relay attempts to decode the message In phase two, the source is silent Depending ... gain of best relay selection is only about 2dB Thus, when there is already sufficient Scenario 1, Best Scenario 2, Best Scenario 3, Best Scenario 4, Best Scenario 5, Best Scenario 6, Best Scenario...
... methods were used to measure effectiveness (Table 2) Assessment methods commonly used Figure Article selection and review process included subject self-assessment by survey, computer log, a pretest ... or use of technology-assisted education that could be described as a “Best Method.” Assessment methods commonly used included subject self-assessment by survey, computer log, a pretest and posttest, ... of subject matter that consists of complex associations or difficult to demonstrate spatial relationships using standard methods can be enhanced with computer-assisted instruction Some studies...
... have similar measurements to be able to form a cluster We refer to the nodes with only geographical closeness as “g-neighbors” and “g-neighbors” who also possess similar measurements as “sneighbors” ... as well as the Harris detector when used with SIFT or SURF descriptor This is because the DWT-based detector is more sensitive to discretization noise caused by image rotations which happen to ... dataset from a small size Visual Sensor Network This VSN is composed of 12 Mobile Sensor Platforms (MSPs) built at the AICIP lab [24] The structure of MSP is based on two 12 × 12 inch PVC sheets...
... relaying strategy, as illustrated in Figure The J − node sets S1 , , SJ −1 are located from the source to the destination The source is denoted as S0 and the destination is denoted as SJ The ... (i.e., a decrease in the diversity gain) Thus, the challenge is to effectively select a subset of the decoded nodes as relays to try to maintain the same diversity gain as the all-select strategy, ... EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing using m-group Dis-STBC as an example, we propose a power-efficient relay-selection strategy for decentralized DisSTBC In Section 4, an asymptotic...
... discontinuous surfaces (e.g., cli s) may be provided, which is not possible with classical InSAR Conventional change of perspective methods of ascendingdescending passes mosaicing [33] or possible ... the University of Pisa, where he is an Associate Professor since October 2000 He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and a Member of the EURASIP JASP Editorial ... formation-based spaceborne systems have low K To gain some insight on the behavior of ITC methods in non-ULA InSAR systems, we first simulated performance for a system with K = phase centres and ULA structure...