... appearance and development ofthe motor apparatus in animals Plants and animals differ fundamentally in the way they obtain energy With a given level of illumination the intensity of absorption of ... walk tothe bus stop, ride tothe necessary stop, and so on These are goals with an index of —1 To leave the building you must leave the apartment, take the elevator down, and go out the entrance ... book Plans andthe Structure of Behavior American psychologists G Miller, E Galanter, and K Pribram take the concept ofthe plan as the basis for describing the behavior of humans and animals They...
... be changed by a law The law cannot changethe rules of that grand game It can only change human expectation and beliefs about the thought and behavior of other human beings The mammoth power of ... ofthe law What the focal point approachto law and economics does is to take on the full game ofthe economy, including the police andthe judge, and then tries to explain how and why the law ... approachto law and economics treats all enforcers ofthe law, those I refer to as functionaries, as part ofthe game, but it does not treat the act of creating the law as part ofthe game and leaves...
... a tale of two fathers.” The father of Sylvia Karasu suffered from morbid obesity all of his life, together with other risk factors for coronary heart disease, and lived tothe age of 91 The father ... neurolinguistic programming, gestalt therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy Although the authors relate each ofthe therapies to its potential use in the treatment of obesity, ... to animals that not have the advanced cortical brains we have We can limit an animal’s food intake, for example, and give it regular exercise, andthe animal will lose weight and maintain that...
... attributes at a national level, and they are aggregated first under each attribute and then into a single Approximated Sustainability Index But the indicators of each attribute appear to be assigned ... framework and apply it equally to environmental, social, and economic variables.24 In their approach, the links in this chain are natural events and human activities; causes ofchange (both positive and ... somewhat arbitrarily andthe attributes themselves may overlap (Resilience and stability, for instance, are similar.) Theapproach has been applied in an illustrative way to calculate an overall...
... Karolina Palucka to evaluate current approaches tothe validation of known immune response biomarkers andthe standardization ofthe respective assays to enhance the likelihood of obtaining informative ... make the task of consolidating clinical trials results even more daunting vii Standardization, Centralization, Validation Although the principles of standardization and validation of assays are the ... centralization of analyses in core laboratories, establishment of ad hoc tissue and data banks and development of easy to access data repositories Competing interests The authors declare that they...
... y, and z store or hold the place of numbers In JavaScript and other programming languages, variables also store other kinds of information Syntax of Variables The syntax of variables (the set of ... need to know to create Ajax applications Chapter 15: XML in JavaScript and Ajax The X in Ajax stands for XML This chapter describes how to represent information using the XML data-sharing standard ... Macromedia While some people consider Flash and JavaScript to be competitors, that’s not thecase In fact, you can call JavaScript programs from Flash, and you can manipulate Flash animations using JavaScript...
... prints the month, day, and year tothe Web page, inserting a space between the month andthe day anda comma and space between the day andthe year Voilà—you’ve written a date tothe page Some ... it’s easy to tell JavaScript to swap it with a new one Let’s say you have an image named my_image To create an image swap, tell JavaScript you want tochangethe src of that image to another GIF: ... mouse over an image, andthe image changes You mouse off the image, andthe image changes back to its original state Rollovers are an easy way to make your site more interactive This chapter will...
... measurement is tothe real value Systematic error Values that are either all higher or all lower than the actual value Random Error In the absence ofsystematic error, some values that are higher and some ... retained andto 5.4 if two significant figures are retained For addition and subtraction The answer has the same number of decimal places as there are in the measurement with the fewest decimal places ... Precision and accuracy in the laboratory Figure 1.16 Precision Refers to reproducibility or how close the measurements are to each other precise and accurate Accuracy Refers to how close a measurement...
... vector q for the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems Full Op mode Addr Data in Data out Block Block ··· Block n − Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data ··· ··· ··· ··· Data k − Data k − Data ... execute the code ofthe function describing the behavior ofthe actor (accessing the data in the container ofthe actor) and (iii) release: close the production ofthe output tokens andthe consumption ... number of tokens can change periodically resulting in a cyclo-static behavior The data-driven operation ofa CSDF graph allows for an automatic synchronization between the actors: an actor cannot...
... (19), (A. 2), (A. 4), and applying a mathematical induction argument similar tothe one used in the proof of Proposition A. 3 in the appendix, the PB MAP algorithm can be further simplified and reformulated ... Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, in 1986 andthe M .A. S and Ph.D degrees from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 1990 and 1996, all in electrical engineering His Master and Doctorate degree theses have been ... simply called the DSBGT algorithm) Using (19), (A. 2), (A. 4), and applying a mathematical induction argument similar tothe one used in the proof of Proposition A. 3 in the appendix, the DSBGT MAP algorithm...
... influence the operation of research and development activities and automation ofthe company 13 All matters related to weather and climate changing are analyzed under environmental factors The impacts ... strategic management and analysis tools for internal and external investigation The next chapter will show the process of examination of factors that influence Nam A Company operation in the market ... related to strategic management This case relies on these theoretic foundations to expand the general research into particular application 1.1 Strategy and strategic management Below presents the...
... via the following aspects: (1) brand awareness; (2) brand associations; (3) attitudes toward the brand; (4) brand attachment; and, (5) brand-related purchases and post-purchase behaviors Brand ... Brand association Brand association is defined as anything linked in memory toa brand and brand image as a set of associations, usually in some meaningful way (Aaker, 1991) Moreover, brand association ... consumer based brand equity as asset of four dimensions, viz Brand awareness, brand associations, perceived quality and brand loyalty Sinha et al (2000) and Sinha and Pappu (1998), measured the consumer...
... Psychological Association anda Phi Beta Kappa national lecturer He is a Fellow of two divisions ofthe American Psychological Association and has received a number of teaching and research awards ... ofthe American Nurses Association, the American Psychological Association, and Sigma Theta Tau International She is a board member ofthe International Council on Women's Health Issues anda ... identify the man as a nurse and Ginger as a physician, whereas still other reactions identify the man as a nurse and Ginger as a patient You don't have to be a philosopher of language or a communications...
... value was intended But initializing variables at least avoids the introduction of truly garbage data, data that can be any arbitrary value Here is a far more dangerous use of uninitialized variables: ... andthe program, taking care of such tasks as transferring command-line arguments (see Chapter 5) to main and main’s return value back tothe operating system We are finally ready to treat program ... onto the stack and pop data (plates) off the stack In both cases, the operations a ect only the top ofthe stack Similarly, stack frames are pushed onto and popped off the stack as their corresponding...
... formal, iterative approachto design and tuning It allows us to reason explicitly about particular design goals, andto anticipate how changes will impact each aspect ofthe framework andthe ... differences tothe player? How will they track internal state, reason about the world, other babies, andthe player? What kinds of tasks and actions will the player be asked to perform? Third Pass Finally, ... distribution ofthe random variable D6 Mechanics are the various actions, behaviors and control mechanisms afforded tothe player within a game context Together with the game’s content (levels, assets and...
... language, the number of POS tags, the sizes of training and test data, andthe splitting methods of them1 We used the following scoring measures to evaluate performance of word segmentation and ... corpora showed that the hybrid method had high accuracy in Chinese and Japanese 220 References Taku Kudo, Kaoru Yamamoto, and Yuji Matsumoto 2004 Applying Conditional Random Fields to Japanese ... Chinese and Japanese data, and confirmed that the hybrid method performed well on the Japanese data as well as the Chinese data Experiments We used five word-segmented and POS-tagged corpora; the Penn...
... project management positions The project manager is actually a general manager and gets to know the total operation ofthe company In fact, project managers get to know more about Page 12 the total ... the line manager because additional re1 Here we are assuming that the line manager and project manager are not the same individual Page sources are almost always required to alleviate the problems ... team andthe customer's organization, whether an internal or external organization Organizational restraints have a tendency to develop into organizational conflict, often requiring that top management...
... and translated to multidimensional signals These travel along the visual pathways forward and backward, in parallel and serially, thanks toa fascinating chain of chemical and electrical processes ... from a physical surface changes greatly as a function ofthe time ofthe day, the viewing angle, the age ofthe viewer, , etc., and yet humans have developed a code that they attach to surfaces, ... motion, depth, and shape analysis, when the rest ofthe brain has no access tothe original signal The exact qualities that establish each type andthe role of these are still debated The most commonly...