nonscientific influences on the choice of models

... fraction of strategic defaults 3.3 Caveats In the model, I focus on the 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 of the firm’s choice of debt instrument from the corporate finance literature to the case of emerging market debt The model suggests that the choice of 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 of the choice of debt instrument — of the choice between bonds...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... gold standard of hand-constructed verb classes requires to assess the similarity between two partitions on the set of n verbs The evaluation is performed by an adjusted version of the Rand index ... most of the 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 choice of verb features with respect to the specific properties of the desired verb classification We could think of either (i) performing several cluster analyses on the same set of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... editing of the manuscript PC contributed to the conception, theory, and design of the study, and aided substantially in the development of the manuscript MLZ helped with the coding of the data and the ... interventions Throughout the discussion of the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... compounds by water ozonation relies strongly on the oxidative capability of ozone and · OH The contribution of ubiquitous NOM on the ozone decomposition and the formation/consumption of · OH plays an ... 4.4 Conclusions 73 CHAPTER MODELING THE INFLUENCES OF NOM ON THE REMOVAL OF IBUPROFEN DURING WATER OZONATION 74 5.1 Modeling the influences of NOM on the degradation of ibuprofen ... within ± pH unit 0.1 2.4.3 The influences of NOM on the degradation of ibuprofen by ozonation In the experiments of ibuprofen degradation, an initial ibuprofen concentration of approximately 0.5 µM...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:08

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... For the considered environment, it is rare to find a connection of length more than hops Moreover, node speeds have a minimal effect on the length of the TCP connection in terms of number of hops ... Conclusions and Future Work Accurate evaluation of mobility impact on the 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 on the performance of the Bypass-AODV as well as the original...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... inhomogeneity of the emotion-related states within one turn can be observed The emotional homogeneity is defined as the proportion of raw labels, that is, the decisions of the five human labellers on the ... unbalanced (cf the subsets Mont M, Mont N, Mont E, and Mont A in Table 3) Mont N makes up more than 80% of the test set; consequently, almost all words of Mont are contained in the vocabulary of Mont N ... Statistics of the various subsets of the FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus: training on the balanced subsets of Ohm, testing on the unbalanced subsets of Mont Number of chunks Avg number of frames Avg number of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 of the further training on the TIMIT models Either the boundaries of the 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 of the longer-length models on the recognition performance,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... in the Monte-Carlo model The sensitivity of the models to deviations from the basic situation was then evaluated The comparison criterion was the ratio between genetic variances at generation ... the simulation The analytical models of Verrier et al [14] and Chevalet [3] will then be described, each corresponding to a different choice of hypotheses for the algebraic formalization of the ... simulations This comparison concerns essentially their sensitivity to the characteristics of the genome The genetic models underlying the Monte-Carlo simulations and the two analytical models...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... 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 of the 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 of the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... combinations, consisting of 4, or more TFBS The false positive rate depended on the number of applied pairs; when we used all of them together, they gave only 1.7% of FP (i e., only 1.7% of the sequences ... iterations of the permutation test with the parameters used for the "real" (not permuted) model construction These results suggest that the success of the model construction based on the search ... (f) of the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:22

... mentioned issues:  The journal articles introduce the strategic expansion of the store brand strength in Vietnam  Magazine articles about the changing trends of the consumption habits of the ... 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 of the ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2016, 17:44

... compared to the β-TCP Also, at four weeks, the healing of these defects was similar to that of the control group On the 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 of the similar process under hyperbaric environment Conclusion ... 41,3±5,4 Electron microscopy observations In the ultrastructural evaluation of the periosteum in one and two week specimens in the control groups without HBOT, there were numerous chondroblasts...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... contamination PCR reaction triplicates showed no major differences among them and expression levels of the internal control were similar in the different experiments The expression levels of csp ... deviation of the 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 on the comparison of the critical threshold cycle (Ct) of an unknown sample against a standard curve of known quantities Ct is the amplification cycle at which the fluorescence...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:14

... 2009, presence of interactions with the metabolism of folic acid Folinic acid therapy is given three times a week to avoid leukopenia Discontinuation of the 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 of the different strains towards pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine or atovaquone therapy A correlation was observed between IC50 of pyrimethamine and strain growth rate In conclusion,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:01

... Table of contents Acknowledgement I Table of contents II Abbreviations III Part I: Introduction Rationale of the study Scope of the study Aims of the study Methods of the study Design of the 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 on the translation of economic terms...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:12

... (register) is the second aspect of social context that influences the linguistic realization of the genre This context of An investigation into the role of metaphor in description of emotion in poetic ... refers to the consideration of meaning in an incongruent way at the level of the organization of the discourse The most congruent form of joining two ideas is An investigation into the role of metaphor ... and the results of the study were presented An investigation into the role of metaphor in description of emotion in poetic discourse • Part is the conclusion of the study which summarized the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44