... withdrawal resistance under low loads and relatively low dynamic with- very good Subcutaneous closure, and closure of punch biopsies Subcutaneous closure Subcutaneous closure, and vessel ligature ... Abdominal and cutaneous surgeries, tendon repair, orthopedics, and neurosurgery Skin closure, blood vessel ligature, and plastic and ophthalmic surgeries Skin closure, general, cardiovascular, and ... in each group (25 polypropylene, 25 polyurethane, and 25 polyamide) was tested with a dynamometer (Mecmesin, Corsico Milanese, Milano), and the mean within each group was then calculated Briefly,...
... economic solution than installing an only system In 1986, Anderson tested an air conditioning system using a direct and an indirect evaporative cooler combined with an expansion battery, and compared ... pp.69-96 85 4.4.2 Advantages and disadvantages The main advantages of evaporative coolers are their low cost and high effectiveness, permitting a wide range of applications and versatility in the ... advantages and disadvantages and indicating and establishing some basis about their design, was developed by Dr John R Watt, who worked for the Research Laboratory of the U.S Navy He built and...
... all industries and by a more demanding customer base 06/11/96 Page Agile Manufacturing Group Case Western Reserve University 10/4/95 Published in the IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, ... manner of C/C++, standard data structures and a welldeveloped shell script language 06/11/96 Page 12 Agile Manufacturing Group Case Western Reserve University 10/4/95 Published in the IIE Transactions ... programming, and extensive error detection and recovery 06/11/96 Page 16 Agile Manufacturing Group Case Western Reserve University 10/4/95 Published in the IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing,...
... [e] Can we combine them, or switch between them at run time? Two ad-hoc solutions: Approach I and II 24 Approach I We can (roughly) measure the overestimations in the parallelepiped and QR methods ... II Let βmax be the largest angle among the angles between every two columns of C Let βmin be the smallest such angle Let θ, < θ π, be a constant Select: if βmin > θ and βmax < π − θ H = C, [r] ... combination of the parallelepiped and QR-factorization methods may be necessary • When to switch from one method to the other? • An eigenvalue, or stability type analysis of a combined approach...
... thank Brett Coleman, Nimal Fernando, Roger Thomas Moyes, Sununtar Setboonsarng,Vo Van Cuong, and Xianbin Yao from the Asian Development Bank for useful comments and, the Asian Development Bank ... for animal husbandry) Animals, in particular, are often used as savings devices in many cultures Finally, land holdings can be more readily valued and quantified (area), and should be asked in any ... Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle: Theory to Practice Edited by Myo Thant and Min Tang, 1996 $15.00 (paperback) 44 Emerging Asia: Changes and Challenges Asian Development Bank, 1997 $30.00 (paperback) Asian...
... WWW ’01 Andrew McCallum and Kamal Nigam, 1998 Employing EM and pool-based active learning for text classification ICML ’98 Dan Moldovan, Christine Clark, Sanda Harabagiu and Steve Maiorano, 2003 ... Attardi, Antonio Cisternino, Francesco Formica, Maria Simi and Alessandro Tommasi, 2001 PiQASso: Pisa question answering system TREC ’01 Markus Becker and Miles Osborne, 2005 A two-stage method ... natural language parsing Ph.D thesis, University of Pennsylvania Daniel Gildea, 2001 Corpus variation and parser performance EMNLP ’01 John C Henderson and Eric Brill, 2000 Bagging and boosting...
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... this method is between zero and 0.5 If the score is less than zero, it is changed to zero and if greater than 0.5 it is changed to 0.5 Exp-4: Comparison of Yasuda’s method and other automatic methods ... number and variety of pooled summaries We also investigated an automatic method based on Yasuda’s method and found that the method using ROUGE-2 and -3 could accurately estimate manual scores, and ... those of ROUGE and cosine distance Exp-3: An experiment for Point based on Yasuda’s methodAn arbitrary system was selected from the 10 systems, and Yasuda’s method estimated its manual score from...
... NSC-862-745E007-009 and NSC-862-213-E007-049 And we would like to thank Ling-ling Wang and Jyh-shing Jang for their valuable comments and suggestions References Brown, P F., J C Lai and R L Mercer, ... Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-92), 67-81, Montreal, Canada 18 Simard, Michel and Pierre Plamondon (1996), Bilingual Sentence Alignment: Balancing Robustness and Accuracy, ... source and target words is estimated using an outside source, example sentences and translation in the Longman EnglishChinese Dictionary of Contemporary English (LecDOCE, Longman Group, 1992) An...
... Subramaniam and Andy Hunt All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, ... here, and no one knows how it works.” There’s no clarity The code is opaque, and no one can understand it You can’t possibly be agile with that kind of baggage But some agile techniques can help ... explain what we mean by that and how to begin with anagile mind-set and good personal practices as a firm foundation for the remainder of the book Chapter 3: Feeding Agility Anagile project doesn’t...
... they are widespread This method also has none of the advantages of a manual method; an automated method is essential to handle such large quantities of data However, the method should be sufficient ... inhomogeneities, rather than annual series, since some inhomogeneities may have opposite effects in different seasons and so be undetectable in the annual mean (The GHCN method uses annual series for ... misleading changes in the seasonal cycle This risk was ameliorated by smoothing the set of 12 correction values using a Gaussian filter and adjusting to preserve the original mean and standard deviation...
... transitions ε,ε ε,ε P → P1 and P → P2 , where P1 and P2 are new a,b stack symbols, and replace transitions P → P Q a,b a,b a,b and P → Q by P1 → P1 Q and P1 → Q, and a,b a,b replace transitions Q P → R ... is an LR state and X is a grammar symbol, and symbols of the form (p, A, m), where p is an LR state, A is the left-hand side of some rule, and m is the length of some prefix of the right-hand ... that: pinit is an LR state; and if p is an LR state and goto(p, X) = q = ∅, for some X ∈ Σ ∪ N , then q is an LR state We will assume that PDTs consist of three types a,b of transitions, of the...
... by the European Community under the ESPRIT project number 30268 (EuTrans) Franz Josef Och and Hans Weber 1998 Improving statistical natural language translation with categories and rules In Proceedings ... performance of the translation system was optimal The CPU time for optimization of bilingual word classes on an Alpha workstation was under 20 seconds for EUTRANS-I and less than two hours for EUTRANS-II ... classes for the target language (English) and afterwards optimizing classes for the source language (Eq (11) and Eq (12)) For EUTRANS-I we used 60 classes and for EUTRANS-II we used 500 classes...
... Empowered Teams Transform the Organization (Current Trend) With a foundation of understanding that people provide the muscle and intelligence of an organization and that an organization cannot exist ... necessary for positive change to occur An unhealthy company cannot tweak a few things here and there and expect significant improvement The works of this period caused organizations to recognize ... individuals and interactions on anagile software project The illustrations, examples, and exercises are all specifically tailored to address the needs of anagile team The Agile Manifesto begins...
... coronal and sagittal deformity and vertebral wedging were measured using standard Cobb angle technique Statistical analysis Statistical analyses were performed using t student test, and the level ... access for contralateral cranial and caudal pedicle screws implantation and ipsilateral rib resection A prebending stainless steel rod was then passed subcutaneously and submuscularly between ... requires a precise and delicate mechanical balance of equilibrium and postural tone Disturbances in primary structures, supporting structures, growth centers, position of the spine, and related neural...
... shown that the Rayleigh fading channel can be seen as an additive noise channel whose noise is modeled as the ratio between a Gaussian random variable (r.v.) and a Rayleigh r.v The cumulative ... between a Gaussian random variable and a Nakagamim random variable Exact and closed-form expressions were obtained for the BEP of the modulation schemes square M-QAM, M-PAM, and rectangular I × J-QAM, ... J C.-I Chuang, and M L Liou, “M-PSK and M-QAM BER computation using signal-space concepts,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol 47, no 2, pp 181– 184, 1999 [3] L.-L Yang and L Hanzo, “Recursive...