... fraction of strategic defaults 3.3 Caveats In the model, I focus onthe lender’s decision of whether or not to monitor If monitoring is not profitable, then lending will take the form of bonds: the ... a theory ofthe firm’s choiceof debt instrument from the corporate finance literature to the case of emerging market debt The model suggests that thechoiceof debt instrument is a function of ... attention Although both the bond market and the syndicated loan market have been treated in isolation,3 there has been little analysis ofthechoiceof debt instrument — ofthechoice between bonds...
... gold standard of hand-constructed verb classes requires to assess the similarity between two partitions onthe set of n verbs The evaluation is performed by an adjusted version ofthe Rand index ... most ofthe verbs into one existence class lactfen fits into the cluster with its sense of `to function' Cluster (d) contains most verbs of Quantum Change, together with one verb of Production ... concern a choiceof verb features with respect to the specific properties ofthe desired verb classification We could think of either (i) performing several cluster analyses onthe same set of...
... editing ofthe manuscript PC contributed to the conception, theory, and design ofthe study, and aided substantially in the development ofthe manuscript MLZ helped with the coding ofthe data and the ... interventions Throughout the discussion ofthe role of culture in the acceptance and feasibility of harm reduction, the most salient factors to emerge concerned the influence of religion and politics on ... to decrease the circulation of contaminated injection equipment and transmission of bloodborne infections [7,9] Beyond the provision of sterile syringes, both NEPs and SIFs provide the opportunity...
... compounds by water ozonation relies strongly onthe oxidative capability of ozone and · OH The contribution of ubiquitous NOM onthe ozone decomposition and the formation/consumption of · OH plays an ... 4.4 Conclusions 73 CHAPTER MODELING THEINFLUENCESOF NOM ONTHE REMOVAL OF IBUPROFEN DURING WATER OZONATION 74 5.1 Modeling theinfluencesof NOM onthe degradation of ibuprofen ... within ± pH unit 0.1 2.4.3 Theinfluencesof NOM onthe degradation of ibuprofen by ozonation In the experiments of ibuprofen degradation, an initial ibuprofen concentration of approximately 0.5 µM...
... For the considered environment, it is rare to find a connection of length more than hops Moreover, node speeds have a minimal effect onthe length ofthe TCP connection in terms of number of hops ... Conclusions and Future Work Accurate evaluation of mobility impact onthe routing protocols requires the testing of different mobility patterns Otherwise, the observations made and the conclusions ... shows the values of all parameters used in the simulation The following metrics are computed to evaluate the impact of each mobility model onthe performance ofthe Bypass-AODV as well as the original...
... inhomogeneity ofthe emotion-related states within one turn can be observed The emotional homogeneity is defined as the proportion of raw labels, that is, the decisions ofthe five human labellers onthe ... unbalanced (cf the subsets Mont M, Mont N, Mont E, and Mont A in Table 3) Mont N makes up more than 80% ofthe test set; consequently, almost all words of Mont are contained in the vocabulary of Mont N ... Statistics ofthe various subsets ofthe FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus: training onthe balanced subsets of Ohm, testing onthe unbalanced subsets of Mont Number of chunks Avg number of frames Avg number of...
... transcriptions yield more accurate acoustic models, the advantage of these models can only be reaped if the recognition lexicon contains a corresponding level of information about the pronunciation variation ... this is what one would expect There were two possible reasons for the larger impact ofthe further training onthe TIMIT models Either the boundaries ofthe syllable models with the largest KLDs ... higher in the case of TIMIT This implies that the further training affected the TIMIT models more than the CGN models Given the greater impact ofthe longer-length modelsonthe recognition performance,...
... in the Monte-Carlo model The sensitivity ofthemodels to deviations from the basic situation was then evaluated The comparison criterion was the ratio between genetic variances at generation ... the simulation The analytical modelsof Verrier et al [14] and Chevalet [3] will then be described, each corresponding to a different choiceof hypotheses for the algebraic formalization ofthe ... simulations This comparison concerns essentially their sensitivity to the characteristics ofthe genome The genetic models underlying the Monte-Carlo simulations and the two analytical models...
... resource utilization is also increased, as there is a Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Authors’ contributions WAL was primarily responsible for the conception and design ofthe present ... cardiovascular response to sepsis in the neonate are additional morbidities, including reopening of a patent ductus arteriosus and the development of persistent pulmonary hypertension ofthe newborn ... crystalloids, but there is currently no strong evidence supporting the superiority of either fluid agent in the resuscitation of septic shock [13,65-68] The underlying importance is the maintenance of preload...
... combinations, consisting of 4, or more TFBS The false positive rate depended onthe number of applied pairs; when we used all of them together, they gave only 1.7% of FP (i e., only 1.7% ofthe sequences ... iterations ofthe permutation test with the parameters used for the "real" (not permuted) model construction These results suggest that the success ofthe model construction based onthe search ... (f) ofthe TFs included in the model and the frequencies of all possible pairs (F), constructed of these sites If the frequencies of single sites and the pairs of them satisfy the equation Fij...
... mentioned issues: The journal articles introduce the strategic expansion ofthe store brand strength in Vietnam Magazine articles about the changing trends ofthe consumption habits ofthe ... about the dummies in the construction of statistical functions to test the problem posed Therefore, I did not use mathematical formulas to present statistics in my research The accuracy ofthe ... lease times/month Higher age, higher income, well educated, good career will option factors in consumption of fast food often or not Amount of money spent on fast food per month There was not...
... compared to the β-TCP Also, at four weeks, the healing of these defects was similar to that ofthe control group Onthe other hand, our ultrastructural investigation revealed that the CPCBB caused ... that the successful interaction of a bone graft substitute with the host tissue under normobaric conditions may not be indicative ofthe similar process under hyperbaric environment Conclusion ... 41,3±5,4 Electron microscopy observations In the ultrastructural evaluation ofthe periosteum in one and two week specimens in the control groups without HBOT, there were numerous chondroblasts...
... contamination PCR reaction triplicates showed no major differences among them and expression levels ofthe internal control were similar in the different experiments The expression levels of csp ... deviation ofthe mean No amplification was observed when cDNA controls, that lack the reverse transcriptase enzyme, were used in the real time PCR reactions, demonstrating that there was no gDNA contamination ... Quantification relies onthe comparison ofthe critical threshold cycle (Ct) of an unknown sample against a standard curve of known quantities Ct is the amplification cycle at which the fluorescence...
... 2009, presence of interactions with the metabolism of folic acid Folinic acid therapy is given three times a week to avoid leukopenia Discontinuation ofthe therapy is recommended if the leukocytes ... prove the advantage of one drug toward the other These studies should be completed by strains analyses and comparison of potential resistance toward the antitoxoplasmic drugs Prophylaxy of recurrence ... observed in the IC50 ofthe different strains towards pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine or atovaquone therapy A correlation was observed between IC50 of pyrimethamine and strain growth rate In conclusion,...
... Table of contents Acknowledgement I Table of contents II Abbreviations III Part I: Introduction Rationale ofthe study Scope ofthe study Aims ofthe study Methods ofthe study Design ofthe study ... unfamiliar association of ideas In conclusion, we have discussed the variety of neologism and the translation which are of common use in the economic textbook With the revision of theoretical background, ... proportion and contribute essential information on definitions, concepts and processes The classification of these terms will be of great importance as we move onthe translation of economic terms...
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