... Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, pages 879–887,Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLPComparing Objectiveand Subjective Measures of Usabilityin ... under a range of conditions and then completed a user-satisfaction ques-tionnaire. The results of this study pro-vide a wide range of subjective and ob-jective measures of the quality of the in-teractions. ... the system.3.3.1 Objective MeasuresWe collected a range ofobjective measures fromthe log files and videos of the interactions. LikeLitman and Pan (2002), we divided our objective measures...
... Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods byJacquier, Polson and Rossi (1994) and Kim, Shephard and Chib (1998) to name afew, and the Efficient Methodof Moments (EMM) by Gallant and Tauchen (1996).While ... the dispersion of relative biases of the modelprices. The difference between MARE and MRE suggests the direction of the bias of the model prices, namely when MARE and MRE are of the same absolute ... the models share similar patterns of mispricing as the Black-Scholesmodel, i.e. underpricing of short-term deep ITM and OTM options and overpricing of long-term and short-term ATM options. While...
... E22K, E22Q and D23N), and the availability of a rapid and simpleexpression and purification protocol will facilitatelarge-scale investigations of the molecular determinants of aggregation and fibrillation. ... suppliedwith the enzyme, and contained Aba, Abb and Abcat40 nm each, and the start and stop primers Abstart and Abstop at 600 nm each, and 200 lm each of dATP, dCTP,dGTP and dTTP. The product ... Ab(1–40) and Ab(M1–40) are at least 97%pure. In the lanes containing Ab(1–42) and Ab(M1–42), there were prominent bands at approximately4 kDa and faint bands at approximately 14 kDa. Theband at...
... Demand Price and Quantity Demanded: The Law of Demand Other Determinants of Household Demand Shift of Demand versus Movement Along the Demand Curve From Household Demand to Market Demand ... variable, p. 11 Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium 3 Chapters 1 and 2 introduced the discipline, methodology, and sub-ject matter of economics. We now begin the taskof analyzing how ... mismanagement of the economy instead of misman-agement of individual private firms. Suppose, for example, that the land and climate in Ohio are best suited for corn production and that the land and climate...
... overview of international life cycle development, see: “Evolution and Development of the Conceptual Framework and Methodology of Life-A Report to California’s Sustainable Building Task Force ... University of California; the Department of the Navy; the federal General Services Administration; and the states of Oregon, New York and Maryland have all adopted green building policies and clean ... Diego,49 the city of Santa Monica,50 San Mateo County,51 and Los Angeles city and county52 have all made commitments to LEED. The city of Oakland53 and Alameda County54 and have developed...
... percentage of after-tax profits of the previous year, percentage of after tax profits after adjustment for dividends paid, percentage of pre-tax profits for the previous year, percentage of division’s ... H1: The purpose of work of managers and accountants is mainly due to money and they are motivated on performance by monetary incentive. H0: The purpose of work of managers and accountants is ... objectives of this study: Firstly, this study will provide a theoretical framework on the basic concepts and theories involved in monetary incentive in taskand effort performance of managers and...
... upgrade, and comprehension of infrastructure and the changing of land use. Base on the research of rainfall-runoff, drainage is affected by surface area. The research of rainfall- runoff is ... change of land used D.N. Hanh / VNU Journal of Science, Earth Sciences 26 (2010) 121-127 126 mostly form cultivation land and pond or lake land, that is one of big reasons to incresingly of ... water and describing by run-off coefficient. The conception of run-off coefficient is calculated by the ratio between suface water (mm) by rainfall and the amount of water (mm) σRoff = Y/P,...
... comprises US$85-million of subordinated debt from development finance institutions (FMO of the Netherlands, Development Bank of Southern Africa and DEG of Germany) and US$120-million of senior debt ... use of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in teacher training and in-service professional development, and through educational management information systems e.g. software for timetabling and budgeting. Contacts ... flow of information and knowledge, increasing access to a range of information and communication technologies (from traditional to the most advanced) and enhancing the variety and quality of...
... non-verbal. If you are afraid of asking for billing information, your guest will sense it and will not be willing to use EFT as their methodof payment. Many of these prospects may have had ... of interview or series of questions, these seven steps, and the various closing methods mentioned in later pages, will not be nearly as effective for you. ALWAYS take the time to sit down and ... The Seven Steps to Closing More Membership Sales 1. Close too often and too early rather than too seldom and too late! You need to take advantage of any opportunity you have to gain commitment...
... Creative ResearchGroup of National Science Foundation of China (Grant no.50721003), the Foundation of the Ministry of Education of Chinafor Returned Scholars (Grant no. 2005383) and the National ... ratio of Si/C/O of the nanowires is about3:2:2, which corresponds well to the standard SiC and SiO2.The small quantity of oxygen may come from the resident oxidelayer. The IR spectrum of the ... composition of the sample wasanalyzed through the EDS data recorded from several purenanowires (Fig. 5b). The presence of peaks demonstrates thatthe nanowires are composed of Si, C and small amount of...
... Small) consisting of EK-S, ET-S, ER-S, and EH-S and group L (for Large) consisting of EK-L and ET-L. Corpora in group S are relatively small in size, and contain pairs of articles that have ... second stage of the MINT method works on each pair of articles (DS, DT) in the collection AS,T and produces a set PS,T of NETEs. Each pair (εS, εT) in PS,T consists of an NE εS ... the accuracy of their transliterations is shown to correlate highly with the performance of the CLIR systems (Mandl and Womser-Hacker, 2005, Xu and Weischedel, 2005). Traditional methods for...
... ceases to be capable of exercising its functions. The regularity of the action of the brain and the sanity and completeness of the thought which is one of the functions of its activity depend ... system of nerves, which can produce, without the consciousness of the individual and automatically, a series of muscular contractions. And remember that the coats of the arteries are muscular and ... the evolution of thought, and is related to the quickening or the abolition of consciousness, and to the activity or abeyance of function in the will centers and upper convolutions of the brain,...
... advantages of a manual method; an automated method is essential to handle such large quantities of data. However, the method should be sufficient for a databasedesigned to provide best estimates of interannual ... without introducing inhomogeneities. The method developed offers a number of improvements:1. It is an iterative method, in which a subsection of a candidate may be checked if the full record ... on a number of decisions, including the proportion of thecandidate record that must be matched, the trust placed in weakly correlated neighbours, and the benefits of a larger number of parallels.An...
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