methods for making estimates predictability and risk assessment in ecotoxicology

... area of research for several reasons First, a better understanding of hedge fund risks is needed for individuals and institutions desiring to make investment decisions involving hedge funds A ... joint to the point (a,0), while the right most bar [ZN-1,ZN] is joint to the point (b,1) Following this definition we obtain continuous empirical marginals F1(s1) and F2(s1) and the corresponding ... This helps in classifying them and determining an appropriate benchmark for evaluating their performance Style analysis can be performed using data on holdings of the manager or using data on...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 20:00

... Tin in Xin Man district Geological in Xin Man district Elevation in Xin Man district Slope in Xin Man district Distance to lineament in Xin Man Buffer road system in Xin Man Drainage density in ... Xin Man Landcover in Xin Man Road system in Xin Man Landslide distribution in Xin Man district Landslide hazard zonation for buffer area in Xin Man Landslide hazard zonation for buffer area in ... zonation for buffer area in Xin Man Risk of slope in Xin Man’s Road Network Risk of distance to Xin Man’s road network Risk in Xin Man Risk assessment for road network in Xin Man ix 19 22 23 25 27...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2014, 13:14

... strength and function sustained for six months after finishing training Aging Clin Exp Res 2007;19:300–9 Please cite this article in press as: Liang C-K, et al Gait speed and risk assessment for falls ... all staff in the Gangshan Veterans Home for their valuable assistance in obtaining the information Please cite this article in press as: Liang C-K, et al Gait speed and risk assessment for falls ... adjusting for age, polypharmacy, hearing impairment, urine incontinence, history of falling in past year, EQ5D VAS scores, with symptoms of pain, IADL, and depressive symptoms based on GDS-15, and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 21:40

... electroplating, smelting, and ore processing (ATSDR 1994) Mine tailings and drainage from mines can contain high concentrations of zinc (Cobb et al 2000) The fate and transport of zinc (Zn+2) in the ... agencies, and individuals conducting human health risk assessments It contains information on the human health risk assessment process used in CERCLA mandated remedial investigations and feasibility ... because of inadequacies data reporting Risk Assessment A comprehensive risk assessment was performed in an attempt to quantify the carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic risks, associated with ingestion...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:10

... organochlorine insecticides in the USA and most industrial nations in the 1970s The advent of risk science and risk assessment has provided a framework for targeting the type of residue information ... Volume Trinexapac-ethyl Yi Lin Introduction Outline of methods Trinexapac-ethyl Trinexapac Apparatus Reagents Sampling and preparation Extraction and cleanup Trinexapac-ethyl Trinexapac Determination ... developed in the 1950s and 1960s to include legal limits (tolerances) for residues on foods and in feeds and, with time, in water and air.2 Enforcing these regulations required analytical methods...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... written in conservative form This leads to a diculty in justifying the consistency, and I explain this topic very precisely, including at second order and in multidimension I present several methods ... , Ur can be joined by a j-contact discontinuity if and only if there exists some C path joining Ul to Ur remaining in the set where wn (U ) = wn (Ul ) for n = 1, , p mj But since the dierentials ... conservative scheme for solving (1.8) is a formula of the form Uin+1 Uin + t (Fi+1/2 Fi1/2 ) = 0, xi (2.5) telling how to compute the values Uin+1 at the next time level, knowing the values Uin at time...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... for careful and detailed criticism, Bob Henderson for trying out most of the algorithms, Richard Wang for pointing out several errors in chapter 8, John Johns for trying (and finding errors in) ... numerical methods for computers within the arithmetic of the system Two programs in FORTRAN for determining the machine precision, the radix or base of the arithmetic, and machine rounding or truncating ... Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the Copyright Licensing Agency British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Nash, J C Compact numerical methods for computers: linear algebra and function minimisation...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:02

... assistance and advice and organising fermentation and drying trials in Ben Tre and at Nong lam University Success Alliance is also thanked for their in providing information regarding the cocoa industry ... 3.3 Labour and time inputs for planting seedlings Obtaining quantifiable data on labour, time inputs and costs for planting cocoa seedlings proved difficult to obtain from farmers For the sake ... Sources of information for cocoa growers in Ben Tre 13 “Other” sources of information in Ben Tre .14 Distance to seedling buying point 14 Price paid for seedlings in Ben...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... training sessions (Solar dryers and fermenting boxes demonstrated in Ben Tre Province during an “International Cocoa Workshop” Nov 2006 and a seminar on cocoa fermentation& drying and quality assessment ... liquors and chocolate CTU therefore, now has trained staff and the equipment for making cocoa liquor and chocolate samples Western Highlands Agricultural Science Institute A cocoa liquoring machine ... been reported in the fermentation and drying trial report (attachment to milestone 7) Activity 14.2: Information gained for inclusion in final report and recommendations made regarding problems...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... mapping S and h a potential function for γf i.e., h x γf x for x ∈ H Journal of Inequalities and Applications For finding a common element of the set of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings and the ... function for γf i.e., h x for x ∈ H The results obtained in this paper improve and extend the recent ones announced by S Takahashi and W Takahashi , Iiduka and Takahashi 14 , Marino and Xu , ... w, and A4 , we have F η, w ≤ for all η ∈ C For t with Since yni − xni /rni → 0, yni < t ≤ and η ∈ C, let ηt tη − t w Since η ∈ C and w ∈ C, we have ηt ∈ C and hence F ηt , w ≤ So, from A1 and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... Fixed Point Theory and Applications So projection methods have dominated in the iterative approaches to CFP in Hilbert spaces; see 6, 8–11 and the references therein In 1993, Kitahara and Takahashi ... surjective, and it is the duality mapping from E∗ into E We make use of the following mapping V studied in Alber 16 : V x, x∗ x − x, x∗ x∗ 2.4 φ x, J −1 x∗ for all x ∈ E and x∗ ∈ E∗ for all x ∈ E and ... 2.2 exists for each x, y ∈ U It is also said to be uniformly smooth if the limit is attained uniformly for x, y ∈ U It is well known that p and Lp < p < ∞ are uniformly convex and uniformly smooth;...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... Modeling of Domain–Domain Interactions Considering the similarity of domain–domain interaction (folding) and protein– protein interaction (binding), docking techniques that have been developed for ... of Protein Complexes) describes computational issues for docking, including protein–protein docking (both rigid body and flexible docking), protein–DNA docking, and protein–ligand docking It covers ... the forefront of the major areas of the field and bring extensive experience and insight into the central intellectual methods and ideas in the subdomain and its difficulties, accomplishments, and...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... We call a point F an unconstrained point, if we have strict inequality in all inequalities defining A, and a constrained point else Assume that F is an unconstrained point By continuity, Ft = ... contained in the plane {y = −b}, ¯ which by the foregoing arguments is contained in K (2) We will show that F belongs to a rank-one segment between a point G in this intersection and the point ... combines ideas from different fields such as analysis, numerical simulation, and materials science Beginning in the 80s, variational methods have been playing a prominent rˆle in modern theories for...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... standardized and typically only performed in the patients with abnormal chest Xray findings This would, underestimate the true risk of developing lung metastasis(es) If the CT scan of chest and/ or ... of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript 16 17 18 19 20 21 Competing interests The authors ... the head and neck, chest X-ray and an ultrasound scan of the abdomen A CT scan of the thorax or the abdomen and a bone scan were performed if the initial examination revealed abnormal findings that...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... 12 p 100 for adult weight and egg laying, respectively The selection intensities for egg laying and adult weight in both lines are shown in table In the independent culling line the intensity ... independent culling line The difference between average gains in egg laying was significant (tabl 3) The mean value for adult weight increased in all replicates of the index line, increasing in replicates ... larger for adult weight than for egg laying (tabl 4) The secondary selection intensities for egg laying from the index line were in general smaller than the corresponding values obtained in the independent...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... the choice of retaining the final annotations in a private section (where they will be retained for months before transfer to ISfinder and ISbrowser) or including it directly in the public databases ... BG, Parkhill J, Rajandream MA: Artemis and ACT: viewing, annotating and comparing sequences stored in a relational database Bioinformatics 2008, 24:2672-2676 14 Donlin MJ: Using the Generic Genome ... class includes proteins similar to accessory proteins of the IS91 and Tn3 families, such as tyrosine or serine recombinases (integrases and resolvases, respectively) The second class contains proteins...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:24

... advantages in computerized image modeling and processing For example, it eliminates spatial sampling and/ or interpolation in ACMs; interface evolution can be advanced by geometric but algebraic forces; ... experiments and results are summarized and discussed in Chapter The relevant findings enable us to have a better understanding on LSMs, MRE and their integration In addition, they are helpful for us ... investigation, the modality for deformation or wave imaging, and the algorithm for elasticity interpretation In terms of motion imaging, both US and MRI have been proposed for elastography (Ophir...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:50

... uniformly represented by a linear transformation M such that Pdef = Pmov ∗ M , (2.11) where Pmov stands for the points in the moving image and Pdef stands for the points in the deformed image Nonrigid ... points in the deformed floating image points in the floating image land mark points likelihood based on nonlocal contextual prior the B-spline transformation mesh the transformation function the principal ... transformation includes translation, rotation, scaling, and sheer transformation Rewriting a 3D point (x, y, z) into the homogeneous coordinate [x, y, z, 1]′ , the affine transformation can be uniformly...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:55

... He, Vincent Mok, Winnie Chu, Jing Yuan, Ying Sun, and Xiaogang Wang,“Free-Form Fibers: a Whole Brain Fiber-to-DTI Registration Method” In: Medical Image 149 150 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Computing and ... perfusion imaging: parameter optimization for signal response and cardiac coverage J Magn Reson Imaging 14 (5), 556–562 Bookstein, F L., 1989 Principal warps- thin plate splines and the decomposition ... Guehring, J., 2009 Combining registration and minimum surfaces for the segmentation of the left ventricle in cardiac 140 BIBLIOGRAPHY cine MR images In: Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv pp 910–...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:56

... Machines are subject to random machine failures that occur only during the processing of a part Machine processing times are deterministic and equal for all machines and for all part-types Machine ... approximately $200 million for retooling and reconfiguring their produc- tion lines in North America in 2009 (Ford, 2009) Therefore, it is essential that proper methods are used in selecting the system configuration ... loss in demand Storage space can also be very costly in certain production environments (Hyer and Wemmerlov, 2002) Thus, most industries will attempt to minimize inventory levels while maintaining...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:59