serialization and relational databases

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Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 15:41

... Management." and Second Edition, Revised andExpanded, Michael Vasu,Debra Stewart ,and G DavidGarson L W of and Public Administration, edited by 41 Handbook Comparative Development Ali Farazmand 42 Public ... Garnettand L 63 Handbook AdministrativeCommunication, AlexanderKouzmin 64 Public Budgeting and Finance: Fourth Edition, Revisedand Expanded, edited by Robert Golembiewski JackRabin T and of Edition, ... Handbook Public Quality Management, of edited by Ronald Stupakand J PeterM.Leitner Handbook Crisis andEmergency of Management, edited by Ali Farazmand Handbook Public Management of Practice and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 06:22

... a confusion matrix algorithm (Vucetic and Obradovic, 2001) and an EM based algorithm (Saerens et al., 2002) in (Chan and Ng, 2005b) Our results in (Chan and Ng, 2005b) indicate that the EM based ... nouns and verbs which had different predominant senses between the BC and WSJ parts of the corpus This gave us a set of 37 nouns and 28 verbs For experiments involving the nouns of SENSEVAL-2 and ... maximization Mstep, and N represents the number of instances in D Note that the probabilities and in Equation (2) will stay the same throughout the iterations for each particular instance and class ...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... annotations and arrive at a mutually-acceptable gold-standard annotation for each NC The Brown, WSJ and BNC data was pre-parsed with RASP, and sentences were extracted which contained the head noun and ... method (WUP, Wu and Palmer (1994)), one content-information based method (JCN, Jiang and Conrath (1998)) and two semantic relatedness methods (LESK, Banerjee and Pedersen (2003), and VECTOR, (Patwardhan, ... Islands Paul Buitelaar 1998 CoreLex: Systematic Polysemy and Underspecification Ph.D thesis, Brandeis University, USA Yunbo Cao and Hang Li 2002 Base noun phrase translation using web data and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... a text classification problem and propose and compare two classifiers: a Naive Bayes classifier and a relational learning algorithm This is a two-way classification, and again there is no mention ... through hand-built rules Feldman et al (2002) use hand-built rules that make use of syntactic and lexical features and semantic constraints to find relations between genes, proteins, drugs and diseases ... entities and relations In Ray and Craven (2001), Hidden Markov Models are applied to MEDLINE text to extract the entities PROTEINS and LOCATIONS in the relationship subcellular-location and the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... introduces the general framework and applies it to interpretation; Oberlander and Lascaxides (1992) and Lascarides and Oberlander (1992b) use the framework for generation t e m p o r a l order ... 4-6 April, 1991 Grosz, Barbara and Sidner, Candy [1986] Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse Computational Linguistics, 12, 175-204 Thompson, Sandra and Mann, William [1987] Rhetorical ... Edinburgh Lascarides, Alex and Oberlander,.:ion [1992a] Temporal Coherence and Defensible Knowledge Theoretical Linguistics, 18 Lascarides, Alex and Oberlander, Jon [1992b] Abducing Temporal...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... the Internet: The Public Sphere in Transnational Times Asserting Citizenship: The Public Sphere and Civil Society in the Internet Era From Voice via Web to Civil Society Action? Conclusions ...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... that-but but-the he-but they-but it-but the-it* to-it* said-in of-in a -and to -and and -and to-the in -and a-the to-to the-the of -and in-of Executives at Time Inc Magazine Co., a subsidiary of of-the ... Expansion, and Temporal Using just these four relations allows us to be theory-neutral; while different frameworks (Hobbs, 1979; McKeown, 1985; Mann and Thompson, 1988; Knott and Sanders, 1998; Asher and ... Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt), and AdaBoost (Freund and Schapire, 1996) classifiers implemented in MALLET and last words of Arg2, the pair of the first words of Arg1 and Arg2, and the pair of the last...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... combined In the following examples we see actions being combined and ordered in different ways: (5a) Remove the handset from the base and lay it on its side (exc) 319 REFERENCES (5b) Listen for dial ... Benson, James D., Freedle, Roy O., and Greaves, William S., editors, Systemic Perspectives on Discourse, volume 1, pages 84-95 Ablex Mann, William C and Thompson, Sandra A (1988) Rhetorical structure ... University of Colorado Vander Linden, Keith, Cumming, Susanna, and Martin, James (1992b) Using system networks to build rhetorical structures In Dale, R., Hovy, E., RSesner, D., and Stock, O., editors,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 06:20

... me to understand the women during this time much more To see their lives on a much more personal level, and how they socialized really creates a deeper and more personal understanding of women ... After reading this, I wonder what the men did all day and if they had relationships like this with their friends and male kin It is a great essay and does show vividly the lives of women during this ... friends and relatives were present through the entire process.VII Conclusion The relationships between women during this era was core to their lives and survival Without the love, support, and rituals...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:59

... Skin Color and Its Application in Image and Video Databases, ” Proc SPIE: Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII, vol 3656, pp 458-466, 1999 [175] M.-H Yang, N Ahuja, and D Kriegman, ... face candidate For verification, eye-eyebrow and nose-mouth features are extracted from a face candidate using horizontal edges Sobottka and Pitas proposed a method for face localization and facial ... most methods sufficiently and appropriately FACE IMAGE DATABASES EVALUATION AND PERFORMANCE Most face detection methods require a training data set of face images and the databases originally developed...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 12:34

... Liaoning Ji-Lu Mandarin Hebei, Shandong Central Plains Mandarin Lan-Yin Mandarin Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong Gansu, Ningxia South-eastern Mandarin Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou Jiang-Huai Mandarin Jiangsu, ... Language Name Mandarin Approximate Number of Speakers (in Millions) Major Areas 660 Beijing Mandarin Beijing North-eastern Mandarin Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning Jiao-Liao Mandarin Shandong, Liaoning ... southeast and southwest the Pearl River separates the island from Haizu and Fangcun districts respectively (Garrett 1995:125-8) Today the island has been swallowed up by urban spread and is near...

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2014, 13:14

... of original and restored images, σr and σx are standard deviations of original and restored images, r p and x p are the image contents of pth local window, and G is the number of local windows ... image, and ni j is the corrupted image The Structural SIMilarity index between the original image and restored image is given by SSIM [21] where μr and μx are mean intensities of original and restored ... the input image and identifies pixels corrupted by salt and pepper noise Salt and pepper noise produces two-level pixels, namely, and 255 and, therefore, identification is straightforward Stage...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... filter and Lin’s algorithm cause blur in the images and not remove the degradations (Figures 2(c) and 2(d)–Figures 6(c) and 6(d)) The Gonzalez adaptive algorithm removes the strip lines and drop ... Figures 9(c) and 9(d) show the corrupted and restored frames from the film Lesa Lesa Similarly, Figures 10(a) and 10(c) show blotches and impulse noise corrupted frame from the mannathi mannan and lesa ... technique and temporal median technique S Manikandan and D Ebenezer Table 1: PSNR, IEF, and MSE for various filters for lena.gif image at different noise densities + degradation (SMF: standard median...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... a stand Romero [36] and Manzano and Návar [23] recorded on average 22 shrub species in 0.1 plots and more than 5000 shrubs per in 0.025 plots Medium and small shrubs are common life forms, and ... use stand attributes to inventory aboveground standing biomass are scarce Fang et al [11] reported stand biomass-volume relationships for Chinese forests and calculated the carbon stock in standing ... individuals are disappearing because of land-use changes and selective harvesting for fuel wood and timber The understory is composed of annual and perennial herbs and grasses, but it is inconspicuous...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... of sandy soil which was about 50 cm thick in the healthy stand, but only ca 30 cm thick in the declining stand In Sprakensehl, small clay layers were scattered in the sandy subsoil of both stands ... tensiometers placed in 15 and 40 cm soil depth of both the healthy and the declining stand The lowest median values in 100 cm soil depth were -744 hPa for the healthy stand (mid-September) and -764 hPa for ... below -560 hPa (healthy stand) and -420 hPa (declining stand) in 15 cm soil depth, and -620 hPa (healthy stand) and -515 hPa (declining stand) in 40 cm depth, respectively The lowest (most negative)...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... 100% for the LP-M and almost 80% for the HP-M was near seedlings seedlings (Fig f) Discussion and Conclusions Mycorrhizal development in seedlings grown ... originally suggested by the biochemical evidence of Harley and McCready (1952) The similarity of the photosynthetic rates of LP-M plants with HP-N and HP-M plants, without a concomitant increase in dry ... phosphorus fertilizer ) only a small increase in phosphorus content and concentration within the plant; 2) no change in photosynthetic rate; and 3) an actual 12% grown with the regime caused: decrease...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... the grand parental origins are known, progeny p may have received alleles from both its grand sires (T(Msl) = and T(Mdl) = 1, thus T(Ml) = 11), from its paternal grand sire and maternal grand dam ... its paternal grand dam and maternal grand sire (T(Ml) = 21), or from both its grand dams (T(Ml) = 22) The probabilities of the transmission events, given the marker phenotypes and parental phases ... = {Pilk}, for loci l = to L, giving Gi = {Gilk} where k = means the grand sire allele and k = the grand dam allele If grand parental origins cannot be built, one of the alleles of the first heterozygous...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... (Ring and Van de Van, 1992; pg 490) and rewards and sanctions are used without discretion (Canon and Perrault, 1999; Reeves, 2008) In relational governance, a transaction is governed through relational ... accountability and transparency requirement in public sector but they are managed in a relational style 16 (Poppo and Zenger, 2002; Goo and Huang, 2008; Van Slyke, 2006, 2007; Lamothe and Lamothe, ... services (Romzek and Johnston, 2005; Guinness, 2011; Davis, 2007) and contracting in social services (Chen, 2010; Aamirkhanyan, 2012; Selden, Sowa and Sandfort, 2006; Thomson, 2001; Myhr and Sperkman,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 15:29