models and research methods

... TREES, CROPS AND SOIL FERTILITY CONCEPTS AND RESEARCH METHODS Trees, Crops and Soil Fertility Concepts and Research Methods Edited by G Schroth Biological Dynamics ... Understanding of Farmers’ Constraints 2.4 Anatomy of a Decision at the Farm Scale and Economic Methods for Understanding such Decisions 2.5 Landscape and Global Scales: Soil Fertility and Agroforestry ... established methods texts, such as Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility: a Handbook of Methods (Anderson and Ingram, 1993), by furnishing a broader discussion of the scientific background of soils research...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:33

... binh (ECE, NUS), and many others Last but not least, I’ll like to thank my family (Dad, Mom and Sister), friends and loved ones for their support Without their consideration and endless supports, ... surgery The motivation of this thesis is to understand the science of RF ablation - to be able to understand, model and simulate RF ablation, and to relate physical properties changes with RF ... effects of varying perfusion, and electrical and thermal conductivity on RF heating The varying electrical and thermal conductivities are used to represent tissue, fats and saline injection The different...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 18:21

... Nodes Q, I, and E) and nodes in I1 ∪ I2 [1, 0, 0, 0] and [0, 0, 0, 1] (i.e., (i.e., Nodes R, T, U, and W) Among the nodes, only cases (a), (b), (d), and (f ) pass the feasibility and optimality ... updates and/ or innovations occurred in the eld of quayside operations and develop a more generic solution method (see the work in Chapter 5); • Propose new models (integration models) and ecient ... analytical models for BAP, simulation techniques have also been applied to handle the problem, such as the works by Legato and Mazza (2001) and Henesey et al (2004) 2.2 Literature on the QCAP and the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:48

... (local and global) in terms of adaptability to new and diverse occupational and professional opportunities, and also mobility-mediated joint and 28 New Research on Knowledge Management Models and Methods ... the recent research topics in knowledge management, it is titled “New Research on Knowledge Management Models and Methods   and includes 19 chapters The focus is on the exploration and coverage ... people heads, and their abilities to utilize them and to generate new knowledge at the same 16 New Research on Knowledge Management Models and Methods time The information technologies and the tangible...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2014, 23:20

... selecting methods and statistical treatments for practical work and for structured questions on research examples, but also for dealing with general issues of scientific and research methods Higher ... planning research Chanter Variables and definitions Psychological variables and constructs; operational definitions; independent and dependent variables; extraneous variables; random and constant ... ERROR and RANDOM ERROR are dealt with in research Random error (or random variable) Maybe your answers to question 1included some of the following: I the way you were feeling on the day high random...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 16:20

... marketing research to analyze consumer preferences for products and services See Green and Rao (1971) and Green and Wind (1975) for early introductions to conjoint analysis and Green and Srinivasan ... phase of the moon, and so on), and the %MktEx and %ChoicEff macros are no exception They will find the same design if you specify a random number seed and run the same macro over and over again on ... answer these questions using both standard data analysis methods, such as descriptive statistics and crosstabulations, and more specialized marketing research methods This chapter discusses two...

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Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... 0-471-49089-X (PB) RESEARCH METHODS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Second Edition RESEARCH METHODS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY An Introduction for Students and Practitioners Second Edition Chris Barker and Nancy Pistrang ... 1948– Research methods in clinical psychology : an introduction for students and practitioners / Chris Barker and Nancy Pistrang and Robert Elliott.– 2nd ed p cm First ed published under title : Research ... psychology Research Methodology Counselling Research Methodology Psychotherapy Research Methodology I Pistrang, Nancy II Elliott, Robert, 1950– III Barker, Chris, 1948– Research methods in clinical and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 05:20

... Jr and the Apple LISA This is not to say that the adherence to methods and models put forth in this book or any other will guarantee success or even the absence of failure Rather the methods and ... them Three separate models must be developed to be complete: data, process, and behavior models The functional architecture includes the first two (data and process) models and the initial behavioral ... starting in the top left of Figure 1.9 and moving clockwise: design, evaluation and risk analysis, development and testing, and planning with stakeholder interaction and approval These four processes...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:22

... 70 µL stock solution I to tubes A and B and 70 µL stock solution II to C and D, 10 µL 50 mM PIPES to A and C and 10 µL substrate solution to tubes B and D, and 10 µL of mM [γ-32P]ATP/ATP to A–D ... single-strand, or double-strand DNA probe and oligonucleotide probe We prefer using double-strand probes mainly because its template can be easily obtained from the plasmid clones or PCR A double-strand ... W.-B., Ma, L., and Pei G (1999) Endogenous delta-opioid and ORL1 receptors couple to phosphorylation and activation of p38 MAPK in NG108-15 cells and this is regulated by protein kinase A and protein...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2014, 10:00

... conditions and models It is meant to be self contained Thermal effects, which often accompany friction are presented Recent models for wear and adhesion are described fully, and so are models for ... temperature, and QA and R are additional parameters More elaborate expressions can be found in [101], and we refer the reader there and the references therein, and also to [60] and the references ... static problem with nonlocal friction law was considered in Demkowicz and Oden [16] and in Oden and Pires [17] Andersson [18] and Klarbring et al [19] were the first to obtain existence results for...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 16:49

... 2.2 and 3.1 to the case where A to get the conclusions in a and b ∇ϕ and B I is the identity operator Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to the anonymous referees for their comments and ... and A Maugeri, Variational Inequalities and Network Equilibrium Problems, Plenum Press, New York, NY, USA, 1995 D Kinderlehrer and G Stampacchia, An Introduction to Variational Inequalities and ... Ceng, Q H Ansari, and J.-C Yao, “Mann-type steepest-descent and modified hybrid steepestdescent methods for variational inequalities in Banach spaces,” Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... http://www.tbiomed.com/content/1/1/11 among receptor binding models or to analyse the parameters by traditional analytical methods Materials and methods Let us write the law of mass action for each ligand-receptor interaction scheme ... graphic methods are inapplicable for definition of the cooperative binding parameters and for analysis of non-equilibrium binding Regression methods can be found for the measurement of ligand-receptor ... constants [11] As a matter of fact, these procedures computerize the graphic methods Therefore, both regression methods and graphic methods are of limited applicability The present paper argues that it...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:22

... both researcher and researched Second, and related to this, the interaction demands that the researcher switches roles from being a distant observer characteristic of the use of quantitative methods ... the approach to research and research methods Rather than traditional quantitative methods, MELM students were expected to use interactive, qualitative methods to conduct their research Together ... stage and the creative dialectic which connects them Finally, the qualitative methods and the necessary interaction moved both researcher and researched into being personal, exploratory and reflective,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2015, 10:21

... which included 68 patients with brucellosis and 70 control group, sensitivity and specificity were found to be 45.5 % and 97.1 % for Ig M and 79 % and 100 % for Ig G respectively (10) When the ... tests, immuncapture agglutination and ELISA Ig M and Ig G tests, which are based on sandwich ELISA system, are standardized tests that have high diagnostic value and can be used interchangeably ... of the antibodies and blocking antibodies that form against brucella, the titers that it has determined were higher in number than STA and Coombs methods has higher sensitivity and specificity...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... transfer, subscripts F and P indicate system fuel and system product, respectively, NK is the number of system components, and NP and NF are the numbers of system products and fuels, respectively ... books, and proceedings His main research interests are optimization of thermal systems and exergoeconomics Dr Vieira currently works as an Advanced Researcher at the Electrical Energy Research ... function OF is the same, and the process steam and process hot water demands are assumed constant Here, the larger problem OP11 is considered for both mathematical optimization and exergoeconomic improvement...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:30

... students and researchers It is hoped that this book will provide a reference to students, researchers and practitioners in both introducing the topic of data streams and understanding the practical and ... different researchers, the topics and content will be organized in such a way so as to present the most important models, algorithms, and applications in the data mining field in a structured and concise ... On-Demand Stream Classification Other Applications of Micro-clustering and Research Directions Performance Study and Experimental Results Discussion References A Survey of Classification Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... remove this watermark 36 DATA STREAMS: MODELS AND ALGORITHMS Discussion In this paper, we have discussed effective and efficient methods for clustering and classification of data streams The ... environments with limited bandwidth such as sensor networks and handheld devices Thus knowledge structure representation is an important issue After extracting models and patterns locally from ... on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 18 DATA STREAMS: MODELS AND ALGORITHMS widely researched in the database, data mining and statistics communities [I 2, 18,22,20,21,24] because of its...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15