modeling the evolution of landscape features

... network The function of these gateways is to packetize the voice signal on the originating end of a call so that it can be transported over an IP network At the terminating end of the call, another ... biggest problem with IPT, the quality of the voice, was seriously affected by the end user’s own ability to configure their system (the PC, the software settings, etc), and the reality is that non-hobbyist ... Probe's ongoing analysis of bandwidth to the home and small office, and all of the associated terminal equipment, standards, and other issues surrounding the take off of residential multimedia,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 17:15

... all were, in the words of the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Admiral William Owens, “either ruled out by the context of the battle or were ineffective in the confined littoral ... airborne and often commingled in the same block of airspace Unlike the Navy, which was focused literally a thousand miles away—on the open-ocean environment, on the northern flank of the North Atlantic ... For its part, the F-14 involved in the incident was operating from the carrier USS Saratoga in the central Mediterranean Sea One goal of the exercise was to test the ability of the Air Force...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... two of the rings face in the opposite direction in the membrane to the other two, forming the same pattern as in the AFM surface representation of Fig 2A By comparison with the 3D structure of the ... compensate the negative charge on the rotor The freed positive charge on the stator attracts the next negative charge on the rotor, thus leading to rotation of the ring As most of the c rings ... distributed along the horizontal axis of the rotor [8] A positive charge on the stator attracts one of the negative charges on the ring and thus keeps the ring in place [34–36] However, the system is...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20

... leading to the failure of 160 members of the New York Stock Exchange) Toward the end of the period, glimmers of deregulation and technology advances laid the groundwork for the beginning of financial ... notable at the end of 1998 was the creation of the financial behemoth, Citigroup, that challenged the separation of banking and insurance under the then-in-effect Glass-Steagall Act THE MASSIVE ... INCEPTION AND THE EARLY STAGES (1970 TO 1997) During the latter part of the twentieth century, four forces worked together to drive the separation between the past and the present businesses of financial...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... of the prosodic intent of the speaker The starting point of intonation research is the time series of F0 But the interpretation of the F0 information diverges widely among intonation models The ... considerations They are in part determined from the mechanical functioning of the synthesizer when the latter is of articulatory nature, or from the duration of the prerecorded segments in the case of concatenate ... corresponding to the whole sentence The main goal of this thesis is to model the characteristics of Vietnamese prosody for speech synthesis It focuses on the influences of the macro-prosody on the micro-prosody,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:58

... knowledge about their evolution is basic to understand the evolution of aesthetic preference itself A comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the human brain, as well as of certain specific ... number of reinterpretations of the archaeological record have recently questioned the place and time of the appearance of modern human cognition They have shown that the revolution hypothesis ... there is no way of determining which level of analysis is the most relevant to the study of the neural correlates of aesthetic preference Additionally, the evolutionary emergence of such a capacity...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... different regions of the eye The expression of cN in the central regions of the lens, fiber cells that were laid down before birth, is consistent with the familiar pattern of expression of the principally ... encoding the two motifs of the C-terminal domain The crygn gene is thus a hybrid of b and c crystallin gene structures, apparently an intermediate in the evolution of the c-crystallins from the b-crystallins ... polypeptide capable of completing the C-terminal domain of the protein Currently there is no evidence for expression of canonical cN in primates This leaves open the question of whether the gene for...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... target side, the translation of the verbal predicate, the translation of the head word of the argument, as well as the boundary words of the translation of the argument are used as features 4.3 ... both the source and target side On the source side, the features include the verbal predicate, the semantic role of the argument, the head word and the boundary words of the argument On the target ... of A the translation of Ap the translation of Ah the leftmost word of the translation of A the rightmost word of the translation of A Table 2: Features adopted in the argument reordering model...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... 4) The vertical axis in Figure represents the ratio of errors in the set of low scored translations according to a given metric The horizontal axis represents the ratio of errors over the set of ... correlation In the case of Metric A, a high score implies a high human assessed quality, but not the reverse This is the tendency hypothesized by Culy and Riehemann (2003) In the case of Metric B, the high ... instance, Table shows the best 10 metrics in CE05 according to their correlation with human judges at the system level, and then the ranking they obtain in the AE05 testbed There are substantial...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 07:20

... v e c t o r s : Another lesson of Tab is that the effect of the composition of the feature vectors can vary depending both on the task and on the size of the feature vector The dramatic fall in ... grave for the LPE experiments because of the ceiling effect and the small size of the complete data set, therefore, we did not rerun the corresponding experiments Furthermore, the number of codebook ... punctuation information In the CL-experiments, we did not control for the potential contribution of punctuation features to the results, but on the type of lemma from which the features were derived...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 03:20

... effect on A) There is no significant effect of the age of the firm It is clear that the size of the firm in total assets is the key determinant of the amount of advertising Large firms have the financial ... extension of the familiar Gibrat process See also Davies and Geroski (1997, p 385) depending upon the extent of the persistence of market shares The sum of the effects on the future market shares (the ... 0.080 Note: The table presents the number of firms, the number of entrants (Ent), the number of firms which exited (Ext), the number of firms with market share (S) in excess of 5%, the Herfindahl...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... that the number of pilots hired by the major airlines is an indicator of some of the uncertainty in the civilian market and measures to some extent the health of the airline industry The number of ... details of the development of the specific mathematical form of our pilot attrition model Dependent Variable The dependent variable is the indicator of whether an individual stays or leaves during the ... first offered ACP well beyond their ADSO and sometime after their tenth year of service The Air Force began offering ACP contracts in 1989.5 The Navy, on the other hand, offered Aviation Officer...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... respectively [29] The overall analysis, examining the topology of the phylogenetic tree and the position of each gene inside the cluster, was informative regarding the orthology relationships of the distinct ... vertebrate enzymes The most significant difference between the amphioxus and the other retinal reductases was, nevertheless, their preference for the NADH cofactor To our knowledge, these are the first SDR ... on the cytosolic side of the membrane [38,39] Amphioxus RDH did not show positively charged amino acids at the N-terminus of the signaling sequence, but rather contained the L24ERGR motif at the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20

... forsook the haunts of men The other equally important cause was the change wrought by Christianity The brotherhood of man, the care of the body, the gospel of practical virtues formed the essence of ... obstruction of the bowels the opening of the abdomen, removal of the obstructed portion and uniting the ends of the intestine by sutures After the death of Alexander, Egypt fell into the hands of his ... elaborated the view of the pneuma, one form of which he believed came from the inspired air, and passed to the left side of the heart and to the arteries of the body It was the cause of the heart-beat...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... consequence of the physical laws of our universe and the subatomic structure of the oxygen atom As we shall see in Chap 2, the existence of oxygen atoms is in turn a necessary result of the evolution of ... Thus, the higher the pH value, the lower the proton concentration and therefore the degree of dissociation of water This behavior of water depends strongly on the temperature, the higher the temperature ... copy of a particular part of the DNA from the cell nucleus to the cytosol This serves as a matrix for the synthesis of proteins, composed of amino acids Thus, proteins express the potential of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... ancestral host of Achryso- chroides Regarding the effect of taxa sampling on the reconstruction of reproductive strategies, although the biology of most species in other parts of the world is less ... (Fig 5) The two parthenogenetic species appear basal in the atys group, and we cannot yet identify their closest sexual relatives We also examined the pattern of sex allocation in one of the species ... comprise a third of known species of this genus Regarding the effect of taxa sampling on the reconstruction of ancestral host use, most of our species are European, reflecting the most detailed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... 12/22/11 2:07 PM 12 THE EVOLUTION OF CELLS IS THERE LIFE OUT THERE? The presence of life somewhere else in the universe is not just the stuff of science fiction Astrobiology is the branch of science that ... Note the base pairs of nucleotides that make up the “rungs” of the ladder in the structure of DNA CBBL_EvolCells_F2_IBT.indd 23 12/22/11 2:08 PM 24 THE EVOLUTION OF CELLS (R) serves as the sugar ... thought of as two chains of nucleotides that are lined up to form a ladder The sugar-phosphate units of the chains form the sides of the ladder, while the projecting base pairs link in the middle...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... and the laws of thought Then you may verify the hypothesis of pauperism, the hypothesis of inequality of conditions, the hypothesis of universal association, the hypothesis of happiness, the ... OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN AND OF GOD, UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRADICTION, OR A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE % The Culpability of Man.—Exposition of the Myth of the Fall % Exposition of ... to the republic, when I am seeking for the meaning and content of the idea of God; and that the tradesmen of the university will impute to me the impiety of demonstrating the non-value of their...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... benefited from the comments and suggestions of the participants of the workshop ‘Economic Theory and the Practice of Consumption: Evolutionary and other Approaches’, organised by the University of Cassino ... analysing the shape of the growth pattern of the quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema The time of the take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the qualitative ... combined with the idea that when this would be shown the audience would see the movement because of the persistence of vision, was important to cinema The notion of the persistence of vision is...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

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