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... representation of QMF bank [14, 15], the constrained optimization problem (31) is converted into an unconstrained one The use of lattice QMF representation for converting the constrained optimization ... compression based on models of human perception,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 81, no 10, pp 1385–1422, 1993 [2] N Virag, “Single channel speech enhancement based on masking properties of the human ... The QMF lattice structure of H(z) and G(z) can now be expressed as a function of θ0 to θJ −1 , and the optimization problem can be posed as an unconstrained global optimization problem as θ0...

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... POINT CLOUD OF AN ELEVATION SURFACE BASED ON 2D DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of MASTER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT By NHAN Ba Cong ID: ... triangulation of this surface based on Delaunay triangulation Delaunay triangulation is one of the most popular methods used to generate a triangular mesh In fact, we base on the advantage of ... Triangulation Algorithm 2.2.1 Delaunay triangulation using a uniform grid T.P Fang [12] presented an algorithm based on Delaunay triangulation, providing a theoretical analysis and implementation...

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... ov´ and Kuˇ erov´ (2002) anac a c a lyzed the connection between LCS and PropBank roles, and showed that the mapping between LCS and PropBank roles was many to many correspondence and roles can ... concrete structural relations A semantic relation construction of frames based on structural relationships is another possible application of LCS approaches that connects traditional LCS theories with ... PropBank In Proceedings of LREC-2002, pages 1989–1993 Karin Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, and Martha Palmer 2000 Class -based construction of a verb lexicon In Proceedings of the National Conference on...

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... default/non-default - Consolidation of internal data and external information - Construction and estimation of a statistical credit scoring model - Determination of cut-off value(s) on the default ... definition of default, depending on the nature of the loans and the company’s internal calculation, its marketing strategy and credit policy Consequently, the lack of information on any concrete ... identifying, analyzing and monitoring customer credit risk is an integrative part of a company’s risk management: on the one hand such a system depends on historical accounting data, on the other hand...

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... hence evaluate in this section the impact of this parameter on the mean and on the variance of J y (Nb ) under both assumptions NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCES OF THE PROPOSED ALGORITHMS ... of cyclostationarity,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol 42, no 9, pp 2355–2369, 1994 ¨ [13] M Oner and F Jondral, On the extraction of the channel allocation information in spectrum ... SNR of −12 dB CONCLUSION In this paper, we have proposed a detection algorithm based on a cost function testing the cyclostationary property of the OFDM signals The noise and multipath channel...

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... possess pitch, roll, and yaw motions simultaneously, in addition to a translational motion at any given instant of time These motions all contribute to a resultant rotation of the target with respect ... ω0 is the constant rotational rate of the target in the absence of any extraneous fluctuation in the rotational motion, T is the ISAR imaging period and an , bn can be considered as random variables ... variation of the target’s motion in its angular rotational rate That is to say, the angular rotation is described as a function of time (i.e., ω(t)) so that an instantaneous Doppler motion can be...

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... production of PHLAME information, program benefits, and participant testimonials The International Association of Fire Fighters is a strong union, and contacting the union president is an Elliot ... goal of mediation analysis is to determine which aspects of an intervention are contributing to change, and it defines means for their modification and improvement Qualitative data Interviews and ... checks, including establishing redundancy, respondent validation, and clear exposition of methods Triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data The quantitative and qualitative data paradigms...

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... Application of the recombinant Theileria annulata surface Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission • Thorough peer review • No space constraints ... and drafted the manuscript YC and JW carried out the MNT and established indirect ELISA YS participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis XL conceived of the study, ... Poxviridae In Virus taxonomy: Classification and Nomenclature Of Viruses.Eighth Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Edited by: Fauquet CM, Mayo MA, Maniloff J, Desselberger...

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... using only Ip, and so on) Estimation of cutoff for the available information An algorithm for estimation of the optimum quantity of available information was implemented and integrated into MPSA and ... are ranked by the strength of the simultaneous occurrence of manifestations rather than individual manifestations Additionally, N%-cutoff is based on the hypothesis of optimum information for ... cutoff values) depending on characteristics such as the quantity of patterns and manifestations, use of specific or general terms to describe the manifestations and co-occurrence of manifestations...

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... 19 16 II 5-30% 10 14 III 30-80% 2 28 30 Nodal status N Metastasis M* CD68 II: 5-30% III: 30-80% Gas6 Cox2 II: 5-30% III: 30-80% MMP2 * II: 5-30% 15 III: 30-80% 16 27 Notch3 II: 5-30% III: 30-80% ... immunhistochemistry UK Conceived and designed the research, worked on the interpretation of data and introduced the conception of ISIR All authors read and approved the final manuscript Declaration of competing ... a consequence, the expression of biomarkers and clinical information requires integration into comprehensive translational assessments of the patient’s risk constellation The ISIR algorithm and...

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... sicula and A m ruttneri) in the Mediterranean islands is a consequence of successive colonisation events during the Pleistocene glaciations 4.3 Conservation of Balearic honeybees The conclusions ... origin of the Balearic honeybee populations The presence of African haplotypes in other Mediterranean islands [15,19,35,36], as well as in Iberian and Balearic honeybee populations suggests colonisation ... purpose of this study was to determine the genetic structure of Balearic honeybee populations through the analysis of microsatellites, and to assess their evolutionary relationships to Iberian and...

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... contributions All authors made substantial contributions to conception and design, and to the analysis and interpretation of the data TRM and GWC handled acquisition of data All authors contributed ... standard criteria were, the most common reasons were an increase in the dose of oral glucocorticoids and addition of new non-biologic DMARDs The extent of bias resulting from misclassification ... day or within month of biologic initiation The date of initiation of the biologic defined the start of a one year ‘treatment episode’, which began on the ‘index date’ In order to confirm that patients...

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... Vietnam national University, Hanoi College of Foreign Languages Department of Postgraduate Studies A study oF An alternative approach to teaching essay writing ... pháp dạy viết Luận cho học viên chứng ToefL) By: Nguyen Thi Chung Mien Supervisor: Do Ba Quy, MA Hanoi, 2005 ...

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... Body and one for the Conclusion In summary, logical division, cause and effect, and compare and contrast are common patterns of essay organization Learners of TWE can apply these flexibly on each ... Longman 14 Harmer, J 1990 The practice of English Language Teaching, Longman handbooks for language teacher: Longman group, ltd 15 Heaton, J B.1989 Writing English test, Longman handbooks for language ... efficiency of the checklist: content, clarity and mechanics (punctuation and spelling) Analysis of the strong and weak points of the experimental approach was drawn from the comparison of 10 initial...

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... parents insist on passing what they think is right on their children, there must be a conflict between the two generations In conclusion, I must accept that parents are important teachers when ... that the teacher fire on them during the lesson Second, friends inside or outside school have to some extent, a great affect on them They interact and play with each other and can give them advice ... house and good friends; and they always give their kids better advice Parents are good so their children can follow Firstly, parents are old and experienced people They know many things in life and...

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... 5700} Based on the operators defined in (7) and (8), the universal generating function of the branches can be obtained, and then the universal generating function of the power system can be computed ... multistate monotone coherent systems IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 1994, Vol 43, No.2, pp.242– 250 J Huang, M J Zuo, and Y Wu, “Generalized multi-state k-out -of- n:G systems,” IEEE Transactions on ... Journal of Jilin University (Engineering and Technology Edition), 2007, Vol.37, No.3, pp 672–674 G Levitin, The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization, London: Springer,...

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... participated had an average age of 28.0 years, and none were over 35 years old None had a limb length discrepancy larger than l&m, and all Table 1: Mean Values of the Demographic Information and of the ... developed of the Yl family in the (A) sagittal, is overlaid in bold distance of 8.7 and 13.7, respectively They form one family of 10 trials, El, and a smaller one, E2, of 6, all consisting of elderly ... mark on the gait cycle These peak powers are respectively associated with a hip and knee abduction moment and an ankle eversion moment They counterbalance the frontal-plane displacement of the...

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... unification at parse time mation in the PoS tags and by the need to balance depth of analysis against the size of the derivation space On the Susanne corpus, the geometric mean of the number of analyses ... intuitions of the annotators and errors of commission or omission on both sides can only be uncovered by manual comparison of output (e.g xmod vs xcomp for limit efforts above) Thus we reannotated ... informational redundancies to avoid double47 Conclusions Conf on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Las Palmas, Gran Canaria 1499–1504 Carroll, J and E.J Briscoe 2002 High precision extraction...

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... as context vectors in Concept Space A context vector is the sum of the vectors of concepts that occur in a context window If many of the concepts in a window have a strong component for one of ... disambiguation methods In Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, pages 101–112 Rada Mihalcea and Dan I Moldovan 1999 An automatic ... Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Rada Mihalcea 2003 The role of non-ambiguous words in natural language disambiguation In Proceedings of the Conference...

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