simulation models for the prediction of soil temperatures

... month of the year exceeds the maximum of the other years 136 Figure 6.6 The cumulative amount by which the horizontal global radiation for each month of the year falls below the minimum of the ... the minimum of the other years 134 Figure 6.2 The number of hourly instances that the horizontal global radiation for each month of the year exceeds the maximum or falls below the minimum of ... minimum of the other year 134 Figure 6.3 The cumulative amount by which the dry bulb temperature for each month of the year exceeds the maximum of the other years 135 Figure 6.4 The cumulative...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 13:58

... Jersey, the first asphaltic roadway was constructed (Microsoft Encarta, 2004) The use of asphalt and the popularity of the automobile triggered the dawn of design methods The aim of these design ... thickness of subgrade soil support in flexible pavement This is well noticeable when the soil support values are low, especially in the case of the Illinois soils “Recognition of the importance of the ... fulfillment of the requirements for The Master of Science Degree in Civil Engineering The University of Toledo December 2004 Subgrade soil plays a very important role in the construction of roadways Before...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2016, 17:20

... accounted for in the simulation The analytical models of Verrier et al [14] and Chevalet [3] will then be described, each corresponding to a different choice of hypotheses for the algebraic formalization ... used for the MC simulations 4.1 Effect of number of loci Table I presents the values of RV[30] provided by the three models when ] [30 decreasing the number of loci L (with multiallelic loci in the ... in the case of 1000, 100 and 10 multiallelic loci controlling the selected trait, in order to check the effect of linkage on the prediction of genetic variance over time in the FFM The effect of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... allow for the level of adherence to drug therapy regimes to be monitored Additionally, such an analysis would facilitate a more accurate assessment of the progression of the patient in terms of their ... physicians The utilisation of VL data, with knowledge of the presence (or lack) of drug resistant mutations, should allow clinicians to form a more accurate picture of the adherence levels of their ... although there is some concern over the long term efficacy when the information content is low Page of (page number not for citation purposes) AIDS Research and Therapy 2009, 6:9 The ability of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... due to the developmental stage of the embryos rather than the number of embryos (Horne et al 1983) A practical consequence might be to sample animals on a specified number of days from the last ... relation to the onset of oestrus Acknowledgements The authors wish to express their gratitude to the owners and employees for valuable help during collection of blood and data, as well as to the satellite ... Multivariate models were run with the values of E1S on days 24 and 28, respectively, as response variables In these models the explanatory variables were the fixed effect of parity and regression on...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... ∪ σint to denote the partition of the base pairs of the first sequence, σ1, the base pairs of the second sequence, σ2, and the interacting base pairs, σint Furthermore, for the partial structure ... details, see [25] The PETfold score is the sum of the evolutionary accuracy values plus the average sum of the thermodynamic accuracy values For the evolutionary part, we compute the expected accuracy ... secondary structure prediction of the OxyS-fhlA complex, i.e., the secondary structures of OxyS and fhlA and the interaction between them, as predicted by our algorithm The result of the prediction without...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... development over the past 30 years The bottom half of the timeline denotes the emergence of key humanized mouse models The top half of the timeline denotes the application of the models to HIV-1 ... model Here, we focus on the development of each of these models for the study of human retroviral infection, i.e., with HIV-1 and HTLV-1 The comparison of all of these models in historical context, ... Comparison of animal models for the study of retroviral infection The identification of HIV-1 as the causative agent of AIDS was followed only a year later by the recruitment of chimpanzees for the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... results highlight the utility of a new panel of biochemical markers (ST) for the prediction of steatosis of different origins A cut-off of 0.30 had 90% sensibility and a cut-off of 0.72 had 90% ... Rufat P, Degos F: Practices of liver biopsy in France: Results of a prospective nationwide survey For the Group of Epidemiology of the French Association for the Study of the Liver (AFEF) Hepatology ... the severity of steatosis, is illustrated in Figure for the training and validation groups The diagnostic values of ST, GGT and ALT according to cutoffs are shown in Table For the diagnosis of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... detailed description of the procedure for the validation of the model Click here File model model A detailed description of the procedure for the validation of the Additionalfor file Acknowledgements ... understanding the regulation of the expression and release of these mediators is crucial for understanding the course of the inflammation process Here we propose models that derive the responses of seven ... list of all significant predictors) During this phase, it is also required that the signs of the coefficients of the predictors in the minimal model be the same as the sign of the coefficients of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 16:21

... to the matrix X L (L being the iteration number), in the order of the highest to the lowest sensitivity To make the adjustment of the net influence of each of the remaining parameters on the ... represents the actual value of the parameter as determined in [12] The remaining bars represent the estimated values of the corresponding parameter, from left to right, for the UKF, the GA and the NLSQ ... based on the model structure and the measurement data One of the benefits in integrating estimation and identifiability is the reuse of the variance generated by the UKF for the step size in the calculation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... uniformly from (0, Vmax ] Table shows the values of all parameters used in the simulation The following metrics are computed to evaluate the impact of each mobility model on the performance of the ... estimate the cost of introducing the new protocol (2) The goodput of the TCP is the number of sequenced bits that a TCP receiver receives per unit of time This measure will show the effectiveness of the ... in terms of number of hops for RPGM because of the strict movements of nodes On the other hand, for FRW and MAN, the higher the node speed, the higher the tendency for short connection (≤3) This...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... is the number of cells strictly left of c in the diagram of λ (3) The leg of c, denoted l(c), is the number of cells strictly below c in the diagram of λ (4) The coleg of c, denoted l (c), is the ... invalid in the other.) This lemma, together with the discussion preceding it, completes the proof of formula (18) We leave to the reader the task of showing that this formula reduces to formula ... journal of combinatorics 11 (2004), #R68 c Figure 1: Diagram of a partition (1) The arm of c, denoted a(c), is the number of cells strictly right of c in the diagram of λ (2) The coarm of c, denoted...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:20

... represent 1% of the population, have a risk of 30% to develop prostate cancer over the next years The incidence of disease in the population of 60-year-old men is about 2% Thus, the size of the group ... supported by the Centre for Medical Systems Biology (CMSB) in the framework of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) Furthermore, this project was sponsored by the VIDI grant of the Netherlands ... the impact of genotype frequencies and ORs on the overall discriminative accuracy of genetic risk models, we assessed the AUC [18] Next, to assess the predictive performance of genetic risk models...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... procedures, the Institutional Board on the Ethics of Clinical Studies waived the need for informed consent Further details on the setting of the study are described elsewhere [9,10] Analysis of risk ... the ICU Overall, in 214 of the 1,876 admissions (11.4%) the patient died in the ICU More details of risk factors and outcomes are shown in Table Analysis of risk factors for the acquisition of ... risk of dying (model 2) However, these patients stay longer in the ICU There are two possible explanations for this: firstly, there is an effect independent of whether they acquire NP during their...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... accuracy of prognostic models for the early care of trauma patients Conclusions This systematic review located and appraised the quality of five prognostic models for the early care of trauma ... care of trauma patients The majority of models were developed in cohorts of trauma patients from the 80’s All except one of the models were developed in populations from high-income countries The ... the clinical credibility of the model remained unevaluated, and none of the models were tested in a randomised clinical trial Discussion This systematic review located prognostic models for the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... densities or products thereof may be specified for the prior density p(ϕ) on ϕ, depending, again, on the number of sets of random effects and whether there are any covariances thereof [21] Finally, ... The objectives of this study were to validate MCMC inference of the CT generalized linear mixed (sire) model via a simulation study and to compare the fit of this model with the CP model for the ... al The generation of individual elements θj , j = 1, 2, , p + q or blocks thereof of θ from their respective FCD is straightforward using the strategy presented by Wang et al [48] The FCD of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... is the range of the amorphous Pearson profile Rpb is the range of the channeled Pearson profile σ a is the standard deviation of the amorphous Pearson profile σ b is the standard deviation of the ... channeled Pearson profile γ a is the skewness of the amorphous Pearson profile γ b is the skewness of the channeled Pearson profile β a is the kurtosis of the amorphous Pearson profile - 28 - b β ... amorphous Pearson profiles, respectively, ratio is the ratio of the dose of the amorphous profile to the total dose and u is the coordinate along the depth A final profile will take the shape as illustrated...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 16:45

... on the prevalence in the population, and more reflective of the test itself, lessening the impact of any unique features of the VA population Moreover, we might expect that the PPV and NPV of the ... NC) Results The characteristics of the VARA participants measured at the start of each treatment episode were evaluated Because the characteristics of VARA patients at the start of non-biologic ... contrast to other RA therapies where the drugs are typically discontinued if they are not effective Because of similarities in both the descriptive characteristics of the study populations of biologic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... attempted for three SPT patients in whom the mass was located in the portion of body or tail of the pancreas For tumors of SPT located in the neck and body of the pancreas, resection of the midportion ... midportion of the pancreas and the mass with preserving the rim of the head and tail portion can be achieved However, for the patient in whom the mass was located within the head of the pancreas, ... 311 Fig The CT scan indicated the typical internal or capsular calcification in the SPT Once the diagnosis of SPT is made, surgery is the first choice of treatment, since other adjuvant therapies,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... 100% relief of their pain in 86% of the patients with a median relief period of months The range of relief varied from zero days to up to 13 months for the facet injection group None of the lumbar ... median period of pain relief being months The range of relief for the radiofrequency group was from zero days to 16 months for all 26 patients who underwent the radiofrequency procedure Of the 14 patients ... that the direct visualization of the joint allows better de-innervation of the joint and removal of the entire end-plate receptors that adhere to the bone and capsular tissue Limitations of the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32