... 1905, and the US and Canada after 1815 Today, the EU, US-Canada, and Australia -New Zealand are generally agreed to constitute regional security communities They are also liberal-democracies In ... the ASEAN Way, has led to the rise of a ‘we feeling’ within ASEAN 69 Acharya has argued that since 1967, there have not been any interstate wars in Southeast Asia among the ASEAN members because ... Strategic and International Studies, CSIS) 81 Indonesia’s ASC proposal was, as pointed out by Amitav Acharya, partly motivated by Jakarta’s desire to reaffirm its leadership of ASEAN, which had...
... Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2008 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: The Health and Welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres ... Published: October 2010 References Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: Population Characteristics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians (Cat 4713.0) Canberra: Australian Institute ... Strait Islander Peoples 2008 (Cat 4704.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2008 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health...
... negative valence and neutral arousal After checking the posts, we have learned that it is because the Japanese volcano Mount Asama has continued to erupt Some users are worried and discussed about ... recognition We also integrate the sentiment-detection system with a real-time rule-based harmonic music and animation generator to display streams of messages in an audiovisual format Conceptually, ... automatic piano playing Animation Generation In this final stage, our system produces real-time animation for visualization The streams of messages are designed to flow as if they were playing a...
... spray foam to seal leaks Attic/Crawl Space/Basement Use spray foam to seal irregular gaps around pipe and wire penetrations Caulk is effective for small holes In attics, crawlspaces and basements ... stick or candle todetect air leaks ■ Flashlight ■ Ladder ■ ■ Safety Crawl spaces may contain a variety of dusts and animal droppings You will want to wear appropriate clothing and safety equipment ... temperatures using infrared cameras and creates a visual image of heat loss The cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum Typically, warmer surfaces appear brighter,...
... stem has a direct impact on the number of parsing hypotheses (in the worst case leads to an exponential increase), it would be a good idea to have a cheap mechanism at hand that helps to limit ... To overcome this disadvantage, our approach focuses on partial analyses which are combined in a later stage to form total analyses without giving up the correctness of the overall deep grammar ... rule schemata Since all rule schemata in our system bear a unique number, this filter can be realized as a three dimensional boolean array Thus, access costs are minimized and no additional memory...
... The aim of this paper is to robustify the Kalman-based detector toa non-Gaussian observation noise in order to obtain a robust multiuser detector able to jointly cancel the MAI and ISI and take ... − 1) are the corresponding error covariance matrices K(k) is the so-called Kalman gain [33] 2.2.2 Non-Gaussian state noise Many works based on an approximate DS-CDMA state-space representation ... pA is minimized according toa desired criterion APPENDIX GAUSSIAN SUM APPROXIMATION The Gaussian sum representation pA [25] of a density function associated with a random m-dimensional vector...
... approach attempts to provide automated development tools (e.g., the User Interface Management System) and rapid prototyping tools (e.g., HyperCard and Multimedia Toolkit) The cognitive approach ... criteria are provided to systematically evaluate both the instruction and user interface system As the evaluation process, Dick & Carey’s (1996) evaluation approach may be the best candidate, because ... Method Participants: Anew pool of four participants participated in the second session of the One-toOne Evaluation There were male and female participants (Mean hereafter M = 23.0 years, Standard...
... grid box faces as half levels with Nhl = Nml + levels The model variables are staggered on an Arakawa-C-grid (Arakawa and Lamb, 1981; Arakawa and Lamb, 1977) where all scalar variables Ψ are defined ... Daily mean averages of hourly aggregated and area-averaged analysis increments for temperature 4.2 Daily mean averages of hourly aggregated and area-averaged analysis ... with all available observations assimilated in the model Most reanalyses are available for a global domain such as ERA40 (Uppala et al., 2005) and ERA-Interim (Dee et al., 2011) by the European...
... Margareth MacDonald, Petra Skalicka and Hana Kostalova – who have been for several years steadily contributing to the quality of PIN’s educational programs and the value of this training manual ... with a selected letter For example with letter A (Awassa, Addis, Alaba, A , Athens, Asore ); Several animals that start with the same letter (hen, horse, hyena ); Towns in Africa with names starting ... the last six paragraphs cut off on separate pieces of paper The task for the participants is to arrange the paragraphs in a logical sequence and glue them to the paper (Realization of meaning)...
... apart to provide signal resolution adequate for interpretation Discard and replace the reference standard when erroneous signals are produced from mechanical, metallurgical, or other damage to ... A 1012 – 02 tubes that conform to one of the following ASTM specifications: A 213 /A 213M, A 249 /A 249M, A 268 /A 268M, A 269/ A 269M, A 688 /A 688M, A 789 /A 789M, A 803 /A 803M Temper ... this standard or for additional standards and should be addressed to ASTM International Headquarters Your comments will receive careful consideration at a meeting of the responsible technical committee,...
... into account, we may safely say that mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle, but that, as a factor of evolution, it most probably has a far greater importance, inasmuch as ... inundations on a scale which is only known in America and in Eastern Asia, and swamping, on the plateaus, areas as wide as European States; and finally, the heavy snowfalls, early in October, ... ("Mutual Aid among Animals," in September and November 1890; "Mutual Aid among Savages," in April 1891; "Mutual Aid among the Barbarians," in January 1892; "Mutual Aid in the Medieval City," in August...
... Eastern Asia, and swamping, on the plateaus, areas as wide as European States; and finally, the heavy snowfalls, early in October, which eventually render a territory as large as France and Germany, ... "harsh, pitiless struggle for life," which was said to be carried on by every animal against all other animals, every "savage" against all other "savages," and every civilized man against all ... only as an argument in favour of a pre-human origin of moral instincts, but also as a law of Nature and a factor of evolution Espinas devoted his main attention to such animal societies (ants,...
... same period Christian Aid estimated that if tax was raised on this capital, China would have had an additional £20.2bn, Mexico would have had an additional £10.5bn and India would have had an ... Settlementsdoesnotprovide a fulllocationalbreakdown ofdata–onlyconsolidatedstatistics Forexample,an Ethiopianmaking a depositinto a branchof a Swissbank inAddisAbabawillberecordedasanEthiopianclaimon a ... Inaddition,SouthAfricais to becometheheadquartersof a new AfricanTaxAdministrationForumfollowingagreement between25AfricantaxadministrationsinKampala,Uganda, latelastyear.68 Bettertaxadministration,itwasagreed,wouldhelp...
... malignant and stromal samples Table Univariate and multivariate linear regression analysis between various clinicopathological variables and RIN for 186 prostate samples1 Multivariate2 Univariate ... robot-assisted radical prostatectomy Scand J Surg 2009, 98:76-88 Tewari AK, Srivastava A, Mudaliar K, Tan GY, Grover S, El Douaihy Y, Peters D, Leung R, Yadav R, John M, et al: Anatomical retro-apical ... Figure 2) RNA was isolated from 186 samples and analyzed using the Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100 Two stromal samples were excluded from analysis for failing to generate any RIN values, likely as a result...
... malignant and stromal samples Table Univariate and multivariate linear regression analysis between various clinicopathological variables and RIN for 186 prostate samples1 Multivariate2 Univariate ... robot-assisted radical prostatectomy Scand J Surg 2009, 98:76-88 Tewari AK, Srivastava A, Mudaliar K, Tan GY, Grover S, El Douaihy Y, Peters D, Leung R, Yadav R, John M, et al: Anatomical retro-apical ... Figure 2) RNA was isolated from 186 samples and analyzed using the Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100 Two stromal samples were excluded from analysis for failing to generate any RIN values, likely as a result...
... Indicators to Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Data for the Fifth (2007) National Healthcare Disparities Report Book Methods Applying AHRQ Quality Indicators to Healthcare Cost and ... clustering patient diagnoses and procedures into a manageable number of clinically meaningful categories [15] The Mental Health Substance Abuse Clinical Classification Software (CCS-MHSA) tool was integrated ... West [11] Our data go beyond the earlier analysis by using the hospitalization data to calculate population based rates Other aspects of mental health care utilization have been examined by region,...
... graph G(V,E), a non-negative total cost of a path c(p) and a total delay of a path d(p), a source node s, a destination node t, and a positive delay constraint ∆delay The constrained minimization ... that any link with an available bandwidth less than ∆b are not parts of the path we want Therefore, we eliminate any link with the available bandwidth less than ∆b so that we could construct a ... chapter 3, we discuss Delay and Bandwidth Constrained Least Cost path problem and present Utilization and Lagrange Relaxation based Aggregated Cost (ULARAC) path algorithm to solve this problem We...
... • You may have to eat less salt Your medications may cause your body to retain sodium, leading tohigh blood pressure Pros and Cons Kidney transplantation has advantages and disadvantages (See ... Sheets • Vascular Access for Hemodialysis • Hemodialysis Dose and Adequacy • Peritoneal Dialysis Dose and Adequacy • Amyloidosis and Kidney Disease • Anemia in Kidney Disease and Dialysis • Renal Osteodystrophy ... you would want to refuse treatment You may state that you want your health care team to use all available means to sustain your life Or you may direct that you be withdrawn from dialysis if you...
... Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 cal analyses in the future, and they are highly motivated to use, for instance, multi-factorial analysis ... able to create meaningful data valid in large scale analyses (across herds and veterinary practices) Such veterinarians would generally want to focus on possibilities for across-herd data analyses ... scores as a 'diagnostic tool' related to each individual treatment decision rather than being part of a collaborative data collection For example, they could add rectal temperature and other parameters...
... is a particular trick, stratagem, or contrivance used to accomplish an immediate objective in a classroom Amethod is an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material An approach ... this method that the language laboratory became so popular 5 • The Functional-Notional Approach In the 1970s teachers of the Functional-Notional Approach stopped teaching grammar and started teaching ... Approximately half the teachers surveyed have access toa cassette player at school, one quarter toa DVD/CD player and one-fifth toa computer Access to materials for preparing visual aids (cards,...