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... is also associated with both smok- ing and cancer deaths, was not measured in this study, and the separate calculation of risk patterns in urban and rural areas was used as a surrogate analy- sis ... rare cancer death rates are too low to be stable; (2) a difference in the accuracy of certificated cause of death between urban and rural counties; (3) large fluctuations in Chinese social ... smoking was greater for urban males than rural males, both study groups revealed a con- sistent pattern of the effect of smoking on risk of can- cer deaths. TABLE 1. Characteristics of cases and...

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... 114 Data Management 115 Management of Name, Name2 and Name3 Information 115 Management of Incident-Level Data 115 Individual versus Incident Level Data 116 Aggregating Incident-Level Data for Each ... situation, many professional medical organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Medical Association, advocate ... enough cases to conduct separate profiles of the three racial/ethnic groups (African/American/Black, Latina/Hispanic and white or other); and to sample enough expectant mothers to be able to analyze...

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... lexicai lookup, syntactic parsing, semantic analysis, and pragmatic analysis. Each stage has been designed to use linguistic data such as the lexicon and grammar, which are maintained separately ... large scale linguistic resources into our natural language understanding system. Client- server architecture was used to make a large volume of lexical information and a large knowledge base ... semantic structure of concepts associated with English words, particularly verbs. For example, the verb abridge has an associated case frame consisting of an agent doing the abridging and an...

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... data available 120 95 Montana 29,768 16,529 16,855 Nebraska 6,943 3,794 2,779 Nevada No data available 1,342 553 New Mexico 78,530 64,508 67,041 New York No data available 304 165 North Dakota ... 30,993 Ohio No data available 8,258 6,004 Oklahoma 162,739 87,491 66,642 Pennsylvania No data available 1,939 2,233 South Dakota 1,596 1,344 1,214 Tennessee No data available 382 275 Texas 867,122 ... 1999 based on an analysis of Minerals Management Service data. In that year, there were 2,399 offshore oil wells and 1,228 offshore gas wells that produced water. A very large percentage of these...

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... The Ashanti are an AKAN-speaking people of central Ghana and neighboring regions of Togo and Ivory Coast, numbering more than 900,000. They subsist primarily by farming cacao, a major cash ... relative clauses, not all full clauses can be reduced to participial adjectives. 2. The characteristics of the available attachment points, especiafly the grammatical constraints that they ... to a clause, another sentence add,~cl tO a paragraph, and so on. Which attachment points exist at any moment is a function of the surface structure's configuration at that moment and...

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... detailed borrower/bank matched data set, we also use a bank level data set that includes the savings banks and as a control group all other banks in Germany for which we could obtain data in Bankscope. ... total assets is equal to 51%. To control for savings bank characteristics, we also use annual balance sheets for the 452 savings banks. The savings bank data is also from the German Savings Banks Association. ... Market Signals as Leading Indicators of Bank Fragility,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 38, 399 – 428. Hackethal, A. (2004): “German Banks and Banking Structure,” in The German Fi- nancial...

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... random variables V 0 1 , V 0 2 and W, where V 0 1 and V 0 2 have a Gamma distribution with scale parameter λ and shape parameter k 0 , and W has a Gamma distribution with scale parameter λ and ... in areas where both are not lacking. These may capture a separate long-run effect of nu- trition and a separate long-run effect of sanitation and health care. In any case, these effects are smaller ... Genetic analysis of cause of death in a mixture model of bivariate lifetime data, Statistical Modelling 2, 1–14. Wienke, A. , K. Arbeev, I. Locatelli and A. I. Yashin (2005), A comparison of different...

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... hypoxia for 36 h, with sense primer 5Â-GA GAATTC TCG CAG AGC GGG GAG GAG AAC-3Â and antisense primer 5 Â-AT GGATCC TCA AAA GGT ACT AGT GGA AGT TG-3Â. The PCR product was ligated to pGEM-T (Promega) ... glutamate or N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA). NMDA and glutamate significantly increased neuronal cell death (P < 0.01). z-VAD-FMK alone did not prevent cell death caused by glutamate or NMDA. Coapplication ... (RNAi) and expression of a domi- nant negative form of BNIP3 that lacks the functional transmembrane domain protected against glutamate- induced neuronal cell death. Thus, BNIP3 activation and expression...

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... considerations place greater demands on a generation system. Most natural language generation systems generate in a single pass with no revision. A drawback of this approach is that the information ... text. What follows is an example of the incremental revision of a summary paragraph. The discussion at each step gives an indication of the character of information needed and the types of decisions ... initial generation of the summary, the overall organization is guided by a default paragraph organization for a case summary. The first sentence functions to introduce the case and place it as...

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... Formal Semantics in the Study of Natural language I, 1981 57 A PROLOG IMPLEMENTATION OF LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AS A BASE FOR A NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Werner Frey and Uwe ... Department of Llngulstlcs University of Stuttgart W-Germany O. ABSIRACr ~ne aim of this paper is to present parts of our system [2], which is to construct a database out of a narrative natural ... logical relations? Recall that each clause has a unique head end that the functional features of each phrase are identified with those of its head. For (3) the head of S -~> NPVP is the VP and...

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... & Bolen DW (1998) Osmolyte-driven contraction of a random coil protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95, 9268–9273. 51 Arakawa T & Timasheff SN (1984) The mechanism of action of Na glutamate, ... effects of two natural osmolytes namely TMAO and monoso- dium glutamate against the denaturing effects of urea on the bacterial cell division protein, FtsZ. TMAO was chosen because of its ability ... trimethylamine N-oxide stimulates tubulin polymerization and reverses urea inhibition. Am J Physiol 273, 669–676. 22 Mandal AK, Samaddar S, Banerjee R, Lahiri S, Bhatta- charyya A & Roy S...

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... 2-place-relation is the body of a 2-place lambda whose variables, P and A, are associated with values obtained from a parameter and an argument against which a comparison is being made. Some example ... A General Computational Treatment of Comparatives for Natural Language Question Answering Bruce W. Ballard AT&T Bell Laborotories 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 Abstract ... some arbitrary constant. In general, comparativizing a one-place predicate takes place as follows. 1. Find (a) an appropriate one-place function and (b) an associated relational operator...

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... you have to say that Archimedes' estimate wasn't all that bad. This is a spectacular application of the Greek insight that the world afar can be grasped by analogy to the ... flexibility was the greatest advantage of this notation. Whoever it was, in the latter days of Babylon, that first gave to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, has left ... magnitudes as these from the infinite? As a mathema- tician I know said recently, 'Large numbers are actually very large.' Or are we seeing here that play we have already watched between ...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:23

... because of the very lean mixture of gaseous-fuel and air at part load, and the associated poor fuel utilization efficiency. In such a case, large portion of natural gas escapes ... because at low loads, a small amount of natural gas is being utilized, and as the diesel pilot amount is quantifie d as a percentage of its rated value at conventional diesel operation, ... n m a n Combustion and emission characteristics of a natural gas-fueled diesel engine with EGR M.M. Abdelaal, A. H. Hegab ⇑ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Al-Azhar University,...

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