... pertaining tothe tools have been pointed out and discussed Both the research modelsandthe tools, while diverse to a different extent, were found to be useful for application in the PSS research ... included into this study 12 The overview of tools for measuring customer satisfaction excluded practical advice on how to develop these tools and how to analyse collected data, due tothe general ... subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control These theories provide some input tothe discussion held above about social relevant actors andthe importance of belonging to a group The Theory of...
... deposits and other borrowed funds on the input side The second objective of this study is to illustrate the new substitution model for the banking sector in Russia andto compare the results tothe ... Sberbank andthe existence of several other big banks, the Russian banking sector is heavily concentrated The share of the five largest banks on the loans markets is close to 50% They also lead in the ... technology they use and expertise they have developed But as banks from the capital try to establish themselves on the local markets, they bring in their superior technology as well, similar to the...
... calculated when more than the half of the items of the scale were available ("half item rule”); the score of the scale was the sum of the item scores further normalized to range from to 100, with higher ... missing The socio-demographic variables, those related to health status and those related tothe SF-36 questionnaire were tested as predictor variables The variables related tothe SF-36 were the ... items of the questionnaire missing (in addition tothe item analyzed) andthe eight subscale scores, including the score for the scale to which the missing item belongs calculated without the missing...
... filtering of the input signal gives the input to both the woofer andthe horn simulators It is worth noting that to obtain a more realistic simulation of the Leslie cabinet, the distortion due tothe ... indices) tothe sound event The first cue is emitted by the upper loudspeaker at the beginning of the sound event andthe second by the lower loudspeaker, at the end of the event Since these two ... corresponds to a fair approximation of a real acoustical situation, where the increase of the distance between the listener andthe sound source leads to a decrease of the distance between the source and...
... the weighted average of the prices of the other banks in the market excluding the bank’s own price, where the weights are each other bank’s share of the total of that input or output of all the ... over time, andthe random errors lnε are assumed to tend to average out over time To reduce the impact of substantial random outliers, we truncated the average residuals at the 5th and 95th percentiles ... are subject tothe same type of agency costs and other influences on behavior as other industries The banks in the sample are subject to essentially equal regulatory constraints, and we focus...
... time, and such models remain close to production tables On the other hand, process-based models are forced to take into account the geometry of trees, that is to say their architecture, in order to ... response tothe need to considering both the physiological processes and their interactions with the macro and micro environment (outside and inside the tree), with the same accuracy These models ... the structure, synthesises the data and saves them For each time step, the model evaluates the MicroClimate andthe oldest Organ of the structure This Organ transmits the Evaluate method to the...
... and drafted the manuscript UR contributed tothe conception andthe design of the study TB acquired the data IK contributed tothe analysis JK contributed tothe intellectual content TG, MB and ... calculate the variance between the groups, i.e the deviation the Fourier approximation of the single groups andthe Fourier approximation of the whole data If all groups show the same rhythm then the ... different nycthemeral rhythms, one describing crime rates on d6 and d7, the other on d1 to d5, see Figure for a plot of these two rhythms Now the “whiteness“ of the residuals of the fit of d1 to d5...
... A B Figure The GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded modelsThe GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded modelsThe prototype model (A) andthe expanded model (B) Page of 11 (page ... the prototype model and simulation experiments The de novo GSH synthesis and GSSG export pathways (Figure 3) were added tothe prototype model The kinetic equations and parameters of these pathways ... hexokinase and pyruvate kinase, andthe maximum activity of these enzymes was allowed to change according tothe ratio of GSH and GSSG The equations and parameters used are derived from the literature...
... of the PF of interest tothe DM Based on the role of the DM in the solution process, In an interactive method, the intermediate search results are presented tothe DM to investigate; then the ... the rays start from generated points and paralleled with the central line of the top right hypequadrant Methodology Due tothe conflicts among the objectives in MOPs, the total number of Pareto ... point into the Pareto optimal set In the proposal method, the next population is thus more concentrated in the area where more preferred alternatives are assumed to lie andthe whole Pareto optimal...
... this thesis In the three hybrid PSTD methods developed in this thesis, only theapplication of PSTD-FDTD method is extended tothe 3D problems The applications of the TDFEM-PSTD method andthe ... The hybrid methods TDFEM-PSTD, PSTD-FDTD and FMM-PSTD developed in this thesis improve the accuracy of the traditional PSTD method and preserve the efficiency of the PSTD algorithm They help to ... proven to be the most accurate and can ensure the accuracy and stability of the hybrid method After explaining the combination scheme of the TDFEM and PSTD, some numerical examples are given The...
... hq and energy ∆Eo tothe v v electrons of the solid The projection of q upon the surface kx determines the plasmon wave vector and, together with the dispersion relation, the energy loss of the ... i = 1, andthe lower v v sign for i = This is to ensure that the E1 and E2 fields will not increase away from the interface, and thereby result in an unrealistic field Since the current thesis ... (6) Since all the k values (i.e k ix and k iz ) are totally described by Eqn 2, and 6, these v v equations thus collectively determine whether the E1 and E2 fields are bound tothe interface...
... chapter The distance of the center of the cavity tothe surface is h The major and minor axis of the cavity are ˆ denoted as a and b respectively a y -axis is pointing perpendicularly out of the ... that is used to scan the specimen surface When the tip is brought into the proximity of a sample surface, forces between the tip andthe sample lead to a measurable deflection of the cantilever ... fabrication and characterization of the cavity systems are evaluated In addition, the prospective developments of thesystems as well as their contributions tothe understanding of protein layers are...
... of fans, motors and voltage regulator; Repair and maintenance of refrigerators and air conditioning Since the time factor and scope of the research, the thesis will develop a process to apply ... knowledge and especially skills CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE THESIS - Theoretically: To analyse and clarify the rationale of TFEL (systemrelated concepts, to clarify the nature and processes) - In practice: Thesis ... training the experimental group andthe control group at the same time Class is splited into two groups so teachers may teach the control group today andthe experimental group on the next day and...
... position andthe lengths of the major and minor axes, i.e the paper assumed that the ellipse is horizontal The particle filter uses the contour andthe histogram of the objects to differentiate the ... method to generate the ball candidates for each frame Section 3.4 presents the method to generate the candidate trajectories Section 3.5 explains the measures and procedures to process the candidate ... H0 be the diameter of the physical ball, (i c , j c ) be the center of the frame and b(i, j ) the height of the ball at the location (i, j ) in the frame (i and j are the row and column of the...
... ‘asthma’ (top), and its conversion to a DAG (bottom) Figure 4: The roots of the entailment graph for the ‘asthma’ query 3.2 Exploration Scheme The objective of the exploration scheme is to support ... as the roots of the DAG As a starting point, only the roots of the DAG are displayed tothe user Figure shows the five roots for the ‘asthma’ query Exploration process The user selects one of the ... service handles the logic of the entailment relations (for both the entailment graph andthe taxonomy) The index server applies periodic indexing of new texts, andthe exploration server serves the...
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... instants andto low -to- medium sagittal speed from seat-off tothe end of the task The patterns found may be considered as typical rules of the sit-tostand motor task and could constitute the basis ... two actuators acting in the sagittal (SA) and frontal (FA) plane, respectively The kinematics of, andthe dynamic actions on, the CM of the modelled portion of the body involved in the movement ... needed as model inputs The outputs of the TIPs are the kinematic and kinetic variables associated with the actuators During BSO the TIP is applied tothe upper part of the body with its base...
... to study the performance of MIMO by varying the NR and NT numbers andthe SNR variable σ To that purpose, we first consider the simple case NR = NT = 1, h ≡ H as a matter to fix the ideas andto ... |e and called ket The outcoming vector r, belonging tothe dual Hilbert space H, is represented by r | and is called bra The latter is just the adjoint vector of the ket |r , ( r | = (|r )† ) The ... space endowed with the inner product H × H → C which associates tothe two vectors f ∈ H ∗ and g ∈ H the scalar f | g The ket and bra notations satisfy the usual properties of the Hilbert space...