... guidelines and criteria
of acceptance for the CRS consolidation test had been introduced by many
researchers. The aim of this research is to establish new criteria ofacceptance for the
CRS ...
CRITERIA OFACCEPTANCE FOR CONSTANT RATE OF STRAIN
CONSOLIDATION TEST FOR COHESIVE SOIL
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... women in the form of the right to an abortion as
an instrument of care-giving not to the fetus, of course, but to others. We can
see a good example of the use of a traditional model of motherhood ... with
homicide of the inhabitants of the farm house, he can rightly point out that the object
of the law of homicide is to save life, and that by his conduct he has eVected a net
saving of innocent ... model of motherhood and abortion rights
Underlying the problem deWnition of abortion rights is a traditional view of
motherhood – one that rests upon a relational view of women, deWned in
terms of...
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mode of inheritance, account for < 2% of all AD
cases. Onset is most often before 65 years of age, and
the penetrance is nearly always complete. The purifica-
tion and partial sequencing of Ab ... 120–130.
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Transgenic animal models
Models devoid of any ... Tg2576
[54]. A substantial amount of CAA is often found in
transgenic mice with the Swedish mutation, which is
likely to be because of the high rate of synthesis and
accumulation of Ab1-40.
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... modelsof the yield curve. Many of these mod-
els are arbitrage-free latent factor models. Unfortunately, there are many technical difficulties
involved with the estimation of AF latent factor models, ... Economics Discussion Series, No. 48,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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1 Introduction
The evolution of economic ideas and models has often been altered by economic events. The
Great ... Journal of
Monetary Economics, Vol. 12, 383–398.
Campbell, John and John Cochrane, 1999, “By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based
Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior,” Journal of Political...
... In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the
ACL.
Julia Hockenmaier. 2003. Data and Models for Statistical
Parsing with CCG. Ph.D. thesis, School of Informatics, Uni-
versity of Edinburgh.
Adwait ... (Hockenmaier and Steedman, 2002b),
include modelsof bilexical dependencies defined
in terms of local trees. However, this paper
demonstrates that such models would be inadequate
for languages with ... th argument of the lexical
functor
in question, divided by the number
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B. Probability distribution of TNR based on 14 radiologists
Figure 14 Probability distribution of estimations of TNR of ... often associated with enhanced blood vessel
supply. An important application of this technology includes breast cancer visualization. The proof of
principle of PA imaging in the detection of ... Nevertheless, in an early stage of development,
developers are often too optimistic about the performance of their product and are often tended to
estimate the value of their device to be higher...
... Bal
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Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Poland;
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Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland
A comparative study of thermodynamic and kinetic aspects
of ... wavelength of 420 nm, and sampling interval of
5 s . For control purposes the spectra were also recorded in
the range of 300–900 nm before and after reaction. In a
separate experiment, a titration of ... studies of the Ni(II)
complex of HSA [6].
Due to different protonation patterns, the stability
constants of particular complexes of model peptides
cannot be compared d irectly. There are two ways of
circumventing...
... reason is the existence of the Mozart Programming System.
Panorama of computation models
This book presents a broad overview of many of the most useful computation mod-
els. The models are designed ... (including improved versions of Java).
The kernel language approach
Practical programming languages scale up to programs of millions of lines of code.
They provide a rich set of abstractions and syntax. ... semantics of a program can be given in
terms of an abstract machine.
• The logic-based approach presents programming as a branch of mathemat-
ical logic. Logic does not speak of execution but of program...
... applications of topic models.
Section 3 describes the models used in our exper-
iments. Section 4 provides details of the experi-
mental design. Section 5 presents results for our
models on the task of ... top-
ical structure of documents can be adapted to
learn probabilistic modelsof selectional prefer ence.
These models are especially effective for estimat-
ing plausibility of low-frequency items, ... given by inspection of the DUAL-LDA
model is that it has problems with mixing and does
not manage to learn a good model; we have tried
a number of solutions (e.g., blocked sampling of
argument and...
... underlying word space models; e.g.,
the modelsof Widdows (2008) and Giesbrecht
(2009) feature dimensionality reduction while that
of Mitchell and Lapata (2008) does not. In the
light of these findings, ... combine
a variety of distributional and symbolic aspects of
natural language. This nourishes the hope that ma-
trix models can serve as a kind of lingua franca for
compositional models.
This having ... a vector v
of numerical values; one might, e.g., think of the
level of excitation of neurons. Then, an external
stimulus or signal, such as a perceived word, will
result in a change of the mental...
... efficiency
of parameter-setting acquisition models.
We have recently run experiments of seven
parameter-setting (P&P) modelsof acquisition on
the domain. What follows is a brief discussion of ... comprehensive study of
parameter-setting algorithms or acquisition
algorithms in general. There is a large number of
models that are omitted; some of which are targets
of current investigation. ... LDD without its derivation.
3.1 A Measure of Feasibility
As a simple example of a learning strategy and
of our simulation approach, consider a domain of 4
binary parameters and a memoryless...
... these techniques are capable of
relatively high levels of performance.
While hidden understanding models are based primarily on
the concepts of hidden Markov models, we have also shown
their ... states of each of the two
models are unseen and must be inferred from the words.
The problem of language understanding, then, is to recover
the most likely meaning structure given a sequence of ... techniques.
Empirical results, including the results of an ARPA
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HIDDEN UNDERSTANDING MODELS
OF NATURAL LANGUAGE
Scott
Miller
College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Boston,...
... features of credit risk models;
from a practical point of view a link be tween the different types ofmodels enables us to apply
numerical and statistical techniques for s olving and calibrating the models, ... maximum likelihoo d fitting of Bernoulli mixture models is a feasible method
of obtaining estimates of model parameters and the precise choice of the mixing distribution
is of lesser importance. Moreover, ... denote C
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Dependent Defaults in Modelsof Portfolio Credit Risk
R¨udiger Frey
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Department of Mathematics
University of Leipzig
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... understanding
of disease mechanism. In this minireview, we discuss the contributions of
animal models to our growing understanding of the biology of cavernous
malformations, including the elucidation of ... developing animal models of
CCM disease. Classically, a CCM consists of a cluster
of dilated blood vessels [12,13]. Each vessel in the clus-
ter is grossly dilated, earning the name of a cavern; each
vessel ... equivalents of human disease
[35–38].
An important role for mouse modelsof genetic dis-
ease is to identify essential roles for protein function
in vivo, especially in development where the proof of
essential...