... land is zero. The 2006 IPCC Guidelines provide estimates for dead wood/litter (C o ) for forest land only. For other land classes, the estimates for C o is zero. The estimates for A on are based on the same information used for the biomass pool. ... of electricity used by a household for lighting, relative to total household electricity use, is applied to the total energy used by the residential sector for lighting and other household appliances. The total energy used by the residential sector for lighting is approximately 0.24 quadrillion Btu, which means ... http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usinventoryreport.html. Emissions from U.S. territories are categorized as a separate sector, totaling 1% of total U.S. emissions; because these emissions are not allocated to economic sectors, they are not described here. U.S. EPA. 2008. Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 – 2006. Executive ...
... rate (a scalar) for all weights, we extend the learning rate scalar to a learning rate vector, which has the same dimension of the weight vector w The learning rate vector is automatically adapted ... et Data MSR Method Baseline + New features + New word detection + ADF training Baseline + New features + New word detection + ADF training Baseline + New features + New word detection + ADF training ... idea is to exploit word features for node features of CRFs Note that, although our model is a Markov CRF model, we can still use word features to learn word information in the training data To derive...
... stable mediatorless electrochemical glucose biosensing strategies forbloodglucose monitoring Some of the strategies are proved to be suitable for continuous glucose monitoring owing to their high ... ATR-FTIR attenuated total reflectance fourier transform infrared BCA bicinchoninic acid BGM bloodglucose monitoring BGMD bloodglucose monitoring device CGMS continuous glucose monitoring systems ... were performed at -0.45 V 50 mM PBS was used as the electrolyte for all measurements 2.1.2.1 Detection of glucose and bloodglucoseGlucose stock solution (1 M) was stored overnight at RT for complete...
... the stored glucose (i.e glucagon) into the blood stream to maintain the glucose concentration in the normoglycemic range (Glucose Concentration of 70-100 mg/dl) Secondly, when the bloodglucose ... pancreas to release insulin Insulin acts as a funnel forglucoseto enter cells, and glucose is taken up by cells to return to normoglycemic range Malfunctioning of pancreas is the cause for diabetes ... respectively forbloodglucose control Chee et al (2003) have developed a PI controller to specify the amount of insulin to be injected based on glucose measurement in a real time manner by continuous glucose...
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... Thior I, Lockman S, Smeaton LM, et al Breastfeeding plus infant zidovudine prophylaxis for months vs formula feeding plus infant zidovudine for month toreduce mother -to- child HIV transmission ... risk factors for perinatal transmission of HIV, strategies toreduce those risks, potential effects of HIV or of ARV drugs given either for treatment or solely for prevention of mother -to- child ... with lopinavir/ritonavir, because of increased information on safety in pregnancy - Darunavir moved from insufficient data to recommend use to an alternative protease inhibitor for use in antiretroviral-naive...
... well equipped for the conduct of innovative and bold research • Streamlining, regulatory reform, and standardization are needed Any steps to encourage investigators to initiate new protocols and ... researchers A driving factor in the need to recruit women into the clinical research workforce is that they are likely to be the majority of M.D recipients in the future and therefore the pool from ... clinical research information, better information technology, and ways to enhance the workforce Within NIH itself, a panel to examine intramural clinical research has been established to provide guidance...
... $0.81 Total monetized $120 to $280 $110 to $250 benefitsb Net benefits $120 to $280 $110 to $250 (benefits-costs) a All estimates are for 2014, and are rounded to two significant figures b The total ... Plans ToReduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone: Revisions to Emission Inventories (75 FR 66055; October 27, 2010) This NODA provided additional information relevant to ... emission inventory data for 2005, 2012 and 2014 for several stationary and mobile source inventory components • Notice of Data Availability for Federal Implementation Plans ToReduce Interstate...
... percent Best performance on a test set for each model is highlighted in bold curacies, in percent Best performance on a test set for each model is highlighted in bold does not perform to the state-of-the-art, ... a dataset relating to one topic and tested that model using the other topics Figure shows the results of this experiment The tendency seems to be that performance in a given topic is best if the ... perform further tests to determine the nature of dependency in machine learning techniques for sentiment classification One way of evaluating the ‘ice-axe’ effect could be to build a ‘pseudo-ontology’...
... -2.0 for rice, -1.2 for wheat flour, -1.3 for pork and -1.6 for edible oils The own-price elasticities for the amount of foods consumed were: -0.12 for rice, -0.16 for wheat flour, -0.38 for pork ... elasticities with respect to pork for consuming foods were: 0.21 for wheat flour, 0.36 for coarse grains and 0.33 for edible oils; however, they were: -0.93 for rice and -0.32 for eggs What is known ... eds Tobacco control in developing countries Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000 26 Tobacco control at a glance Washington, World Bank, 2003 (http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/pdf/AAG%20Tobacco%206-03.pdf,...
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... than laboratory monitoring) As willingness -to- pay levels rose above that of early cART initiation, the greatest Table Value of alternative laboratory monitoring strategies compared to earlier ... laboratory expenditures towards drugs allowing for earlier initiation of cART (Figure 5) These results suggest that the WHO conditional recommendation to use viral load testing every six months to ... frontier confer the greatest benefit for a specified budget Strategies outside this frontier are unable to deliver the greatest benefit regardless of budget, and therefore are not preferred choices...
... earlier (eg, organize labour for harvesting etc) This is expected to impact to the farmers decision to determine the harvesting time In some rice varieties this is expected toreduce the losses substantially, ... factors contributing to the losses There are other factors which can contribute to the post-harvest losses These possible factors are: Threshing method- hand or machine Shattering of grain due to ... intervention methods: • Shattering loss due to harvesting method and also due to time of harvesting (particularly late harvesting) is an important factor to consider toreduce the grain losses during harvesting...
... flow through to discharge The factor is evidence-based and linked to a hospital's ability to manage change activities related to the patient flow intervention A final score for each factor was derived ... designs (e.g., before-after) that are vulnerable to confounding and offer relative uncertainty with regard to understanding the true impact of transformative efforts to improve system performance, accountability, ... four factors to be used in a minimization algorithm to guide the allocation of hospitals to the ED-PIP intervention This structured panel process reduced 33 initial candidate factors to four,...
... of the information modules, the participants are invited to participate in a weekly quiz to evaluate their information knowledge Methods/Design Aims of the trial This study aims totest the effectiveness ... trial totest the effectiveness of a web-based self-help therapy toreduce or abstain from cocaine use in problematic cocaine users It will also be the first study to explore the predictors of ... who intend toreduce or stop consuming and have access to the Internet was developed in 2010 Snow Control is based on methods of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) that have been tested on cocaine...
... flow through to discharge The factor is evidence-based and linked to a hospital's ability to manage change activities related to the patient flow intervention A final score for each factor was derived ... designs (e.g., before-after) that are vulnerable to confounding and offer relative uncertainty with regard to understanding the true impact of transformative efforts to improve system performance, accountability, ... four factors to be used in a minimization algorithm to guide the allocation of hospitals to the ED-PIP intervention This structured panel process reduced 33 initial candidate factors to four,...
... effectiveness of nutrition education for mothers toreduce malnutrition for children under 24 months of age in Soc Son District, Ha Noi” has been conducted Study objectives: To describe status of malnourished ... effective index to decrease child malnutrition after 12 months for all forms had positive values: highest for wasting (74.2%), followed by underweight (41.6%) and the lowest for stunting (32.8%) ... programs’ activities found to be a "long-term" and feasibility solution needs to be considered to comprehensively coordinate with other interventions to apply and expand to other similar socio-economic...
... used for agriculture (67.3 % of the total area) Of this 219,811 (6.6 % of total area) is used for rice, 230,541 (6.9 % of total area) for other annual crops, 137,499 (4.1 % of total area) for ... referring to water use for agriculture but is usually translated to “irrigation” For official purposes, the term “thủy lợi” is applied to refer to management of surface water resources for irrigation ... utilises contour trenches, dug to 1.5 m depth and 800 m length and positioned at 20 m intervals for a total of km The trenches are intended to capture runoff, allowing time for the runoff water to percolate...
... great opportunities; new industries and employment opportunities, new ways toreduce dependency on fuel imports and for providing electricity to poor remote areas, and new ways toreduce air pollution ... about food security, as up to million ha, or 9% of the total area under cultivation, would need to be used for feedstock production to reach the government’s targets for 2025 Biogas, however, ... cooperation in renewable energy development and use, • ensure fair access to the grid network for renewable energy projects, • facilitate access to the revolving fund for renewable energy programs,...