... task than factual question answering, andthey point out that traditional fact-based QA ap-proaches may have difficulty on opinion QA tasksif unchanged. (Somasundaran et al., 2007) arguesthat ... question answering usingthe opqa corpus. In HLT/EMNLP.Vasudeva Varma, Prasad Pingali, Rahul Katragadda,and et al. 2008. Iiit hyderabad at tac 2008. In TextAnalysis Conference.X. Wan and J Yang. ... factors.Acknowledgments: Special thanks to DerekHao Hu and Qiang Yang for their valuablecomments and great help on paper prepara-tion. We also thank Hongning Wang, MinZhang, Xiaojun Wan and...
... ammann@iecn.u-nancy.frUniversităat Mainz, Mainz, GermanyE-mail address : lauter@mathematik.uni-mainz.dePennsylvania State University, University Park, PAE-mail address : nistor@math.psu.eduReferences[1]B. Ammann, A. ... previoussections remain valid, with the appropriate modifications. In particular, we ob-tain the following definition of the algebra of G-equivariant pseudodifferentialoperators associated to (A, M, ... we have fixed a manifold M0, a Lie structure at infinity (M ,A) on M0, and a metric g onAwith injectivity radius r0> 0. Also, recall thatany X ∈ Γ (A) ⊂Vbgenerates a global ow X: R...
... lacUV5 wasamplified. TEHA3: ACACAGATCTCTGCAGTGAAATG-AGCTGTTGACAATTA and TEHA4: ACACCCATGGT-CTGTTTCCTGTG were used for trc amplification. Theexact nucleotide sequence of each promoter region is ... promoters lacUV5 and trcwere amplified by PCR from vectors including the relevantgenes. By using primers TEHA1: ACACAGATCTCTGCA-GGGCACCCCAGGCTTTACA and TEHA2: ACACCC-ATGGAGCTTTCCTGTGTGAAATTGT, lacUV5 ... GGGATGTTGAAACGCTTGTTG and GFP6_R: CGGTCACGAACTCCAGCAG,respectively. The input of total RNA was 2 lg. A mixturecontaining total RNA, dNTPs (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA,USA) and 5 pmol of each...
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... wild-type a1 AT in a manner that wascomparable with inhibition of cationic and anionictrypsins, demonstrating that Arg198 is the criticaldeterminant of resistance against a1 AT (Fig. 2A, B).Figure 2A ... associ-ation indicated that, after correction for SI, mesotrypsinassociated with a1 AT Pittsburgh almost as rapidly ascationic or anionic trypsin (Table 1). Notably, associ-ation rates for cationic ... fromQiagen (Valencia, CA). Anti-(mouse) IgG HRP conjugatewas from Promega (Madison, WI). Human a1 AT purifiedfrom plasma was purchased from Calbiochem (San Diego,CA) and Sigma. Recombinant human...
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... operation, the fluctua-data. We thus obtained the early-stage growth ratetions were accompanied by mechanical vibrationsby using the range of voltage pulse durations atwhich H was between 0 and ... (a) Early- and late-stage growth rates, and (b) early-tip–sample interaction. When the mobile siliconstage growth rate as a function of the tunneling current foratoms on the surface have a ... islands at a biasFig. 2. Island height as a function of the duration of bias volt-voltage of −10 V and a tunneling current ofage. Islands were grown at a negative tip bias voltage of −10 Vand...