the essential link with an application to health care

... that in the commodity transportation sector the value of one hour is equal to 0.0000848 times the value of the goods transported The VOT is thus found to be proportional to the value of the goods ... consists of analyzing the consequences of the change in emissioils due to the additional car-km If the emissions of the transport sector arc larger than in the initial situation, emissions have to decrease ... allows us to compute the marginal change in the noise level due to an additional PCU The total effect on noise is not necessarily larger than the direct effect and can even become negative In the cases...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... values on the one hand, and the same prior expectations and variances (formulae 13a and b) on the other hand Probability values for methods II and III are shown in Tables II and III The agreement ... that k can be interpreted as in selection index theory as the ratio of a within sire to a sire variance, since p(l - p)/(p2(.) is the asymptotic variance of the normit transformation of the frequency ... where T is the value of the threshold, a the within sire standard deviation and 4)(.) the normal CDF evaluated at (r -1}i)/ae’ It is convenient to put the origin at the threshold and set u to unity,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... 1.6) Topology and Geology Topologically and geologically, the mainland of the study area can be separated into two regions: the lowlands in the Western part and highlands in the Eastern part The ... the order of importance of the factors/processes provided by the model and to compare them with the experts’ experiences Therefore, the total BOD load to the coastal sea and the living coral area ... represents the degree of confidence that the analyst associates with the answers of the expert i, to a certain set of questions related to an objective variable; xi is the ranking of a factor/process with...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... guaranteed to have found this edge, and can use it to construct the copied conjunct over spans to and therefore the whole co-ordinated NP from spans to To simplify the implementation of the copying ... general mechanism, and that the copy mechanism is not needed This conclusion is strengthened when we turn to consider the performance of the parser on the standard Penn Treebank test set: the Within ... explains the difference in performance between the Between and Within models and the Copy model when beam search was used We therefore also state the performance for Between and Within models with...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... this median9 We choose the iteration with the best smoothed score as the stopping point for the filtering process In our tests, the median9 heuristic indicated an iteration close to the optimal ... we want to optimize the transliteration performance for test data Secondly, it is easy to use a large language model (LM) with Moses We build the LM on the target word types in the data to be ... these gold standards with the paper They are available to the research community In the following sections, we describe the median9 heuristic and the splitting method of Algorithm The splitting...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... to steal work from the victim’s agenda A thief will steal half of the work on the agenda This balances the load between the two threads and minimizes the chance that either thread will have to ... Critical path analysis for type and type task graphs (average and worst case) the path The critical path length T∞ can be defined as the longest path between any two nodes in the graph The presented ... case, and T∞ is the critical path Furthermore, to effectively ¯ use P processors, the average parallelism P = T1 /T∞ should be larger than P The first step of the analysis is to find an appropriate...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... overall performance of the sectors themselves Then the two strategies are compared to each other and performance of the two groups of managers with respect to their own strategies can be compared Exhaustive ... produces the principal policies and plans for achieving those goals, and defines the range of business the company is to pursue, the kind of economic and human organization it is or intends to be, and ... military manpower, with the commitment of 10 million men to the European theater and only million to the Pacific until the defeat of Germany permitted a reallocation Today, however, the term “strategy”...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:55

... in I, and where μL(E) = (1/N) N L Ei ) denotes the average luminance of i= the mean-offset distortions E The quantities L Ii ) and L Ei ) correspond to the luminance of the ith pixel of the image ... computed with respect to the mean luminance of the background-image patch (mask) Let I and I denote an original and distorted image patch, respectively, and, let E = I − I + (1/N) N Ii denote the mean-offset ... curves We too have left g as a free parameter 3.1.2 The Excitatory and Inhibitory Exponents p and q, and the Semisaturation Constant b The parameters p and q, when used with (1), are designed to account...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... this the covariance structure does not need to be estimated Provided that p,, and known, the method can be used to estimate the additive genetic covariance between the quantitative traits and the ... solution, and work with (48) The cycle finishes when the solutions y stabilize (VAN NORTON, 1960) Then, Another possibility would be gradient method (B 1960) , ECKMAN to carry out nested In the context ... increases with increased birth vector T and v were then weight and decreases with increased pelvic opening The B Conditional covariance Given 6, the variance-covariance matrix of birth weight and pelvic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... 1.6) Topology and Geology Topologically and geologically, the mainland of the study area can be separated into two regions: the lowlands in the Western part and highlands in the Eastern part The ... complexity and the nature of the questions the analysis needs to answer Following the guidelines given by Morgan and Henrion (1990), the present study adopts the Morris method (Morris, 1991) for the analysis ... represents the degree of confidence that the analyst associates with the answers of the expert i, to a certain set of questions related to an objective variable; xi is the ranking of a factor/process with...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... effects The two models were extended further to include a random residual in the regression, aimed to capture overdispersion other than that due to extra zeros Two of the models were selected and ... where kk in the numerator is the mean, and kk in the denominator is the standard deviation; for the ZIP model, the mean and standard deviation were replaced by their corresponding values 2.5 Field ... medians were 0.25 and 0.17 for the Ze and Pe model, respectively, but the distribution was very skewed due to the few rams (19) used in the study DISCUSSION While easier to measure than the number...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... all nuisance parameters, these being the fixed effects, all the random effects other than the one of interest, and the variance and covariance components This integration is difficult by analytical ... value of the appropriate variance Joint and s!(s!) can be thought of as a posterior density be 0’ without z Further, let be the vector of variance components other than the residual; and be the sets ... closer to the marginal mode than to the mean or median A naive 95% ’confidence interval’ for U2based on the mean and variance of the posterior distribution and asymptotic theory would be (-0.052,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... unimportant or questionable b) The records required to compute the selection index are not always available simul- taneously and/or their cost does not justify their collection for all the candidates ... Solution Using the general result of Jain and Amble (1962) we have: Since Q(c c is to be equal to a constant P, the maximization of Ep (u) is tanta, ) 1n mount to the maximization of N(c c The constraint ... ) i The size of the system of equations to be solved can be easily reduced by absorption of the Lagrange multiplier For example, we have: = is equivalent to: Derivatives with respect to the c...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:23

... In fact, the smaller the cell size (n and the smaller CV, the the shrinkage of the sample estimates (6 toward the ) f mean variance since the regression coefficient toward this mean in the equation ... from the 25th to the 14th place since the corresponding Classi and Condsc levels have low residual variance (for the other factor levels represented, the variances were at the average) For the ... was supported by an INRA Thomas Sutherland grant The authors are grateful to D Waldron (Ruakura, New Zealand) for the English revision of the manuscript and to A Valais (Maine-Anjou breeders association)...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... providing the local maritime data for analysis Additional thanks to my friends, Dr.Yi Jiangtao, Mr Wang Shanquan, Ms Zhang Nan and Mr Wang Li, for all the great time we spent together Last but not the ... To assess the performance of TLRN based on different predictors in the model residue prediction and to analyze the influence of different predictors 6    Chapter Introduction (b) To enhance the ... Singapore Island is surrounded by the South China Sea on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, and Java Sea on the southeast As the complexity of its location, the water motion in the Singapore...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:56

... low-interest loan to build a motor raceway and a further loan to pay out Victorian creditors of the Australian Motor Cycle Grand Prix promoter, so that NSW could bid for the race In September 1989, the ... role, with use of advertising and other promotional devices, to draw both farmers and town dwellers to new land releases and townships The second stage was the selling of the tourist resort or the ... Cycle Grand Prix (the Australian round of the 500cc GP series), issued new anti-tobacco promotion laws These laws did not allow tobacco companies to advertise without health warnings, and tobacco...

Ngày tải lên: 19/12/2016, 12:14

... practices: Covered health plans, doctors and other health care providers must provide a notice to their patients on how their personal medical information will be used and their rights under the privacy ... beneficiary Managed care A system combining the functions of health insurance, delivery and administration to promote cost-effective health care Medicare Supplement Policy (Medigap) Health insurance ... who contract to offer health services in a particular health plan Primary Care Provider (PCP) Health professional serving as the initial interface between the enrollees and the health care system;...

Ngày tải lên: 15/05/2017, 10:49

... Keyword Tool or HubSpot’s Keyword tool Another important factor for picking keywords is their relevance to your business While some obscure terms might be easy to rank for, they might not be relevant ... blogging analytics to see which articles resonated the most with your audience If two or three of the posts received a significantly higher number of views and inbound links, try to expand on the topics ... and blog posts, within offers, etc They are the key trigger behind lead generation On the landing page, a visitor is prompted to complete the form by entering their contact information and other...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... beside these the greatest names in Venetian art, the Vivarini, the Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and Tintoret The difference is striking The significance of the Venetian names is exhausted with their ... line, the significant light and shade, the significant look up or down, and the significant gesture, with means technically of the simplest, and, be it remembered, with no knowledge of anatomy, ... themselves to work upon the specific problems of the art of figure-painting, and have neglected, more than any other school, to call to their aid the secondary pleasures of association With them...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20